In October 1952, Chairman Mao listened to the work report of the Yellow River Conservancy Commission Director Wang Huayun. Chairman Mao Zedong said at that time: there is a lot of water in the south and little water in the north, so if possible, it is possible to borrow a little water. It was Chairman Mao Zedong's witty, humorous language that formed the initial blueprint for the south-to-north water transfer.
It was also in this year that Chairman Mao Zedong had inspected the Yangtze River on a Yangtze ship, accompanied by Lin Yishan, then director of the Yangtze River Basin Planning Office. In front of a map of the Yangtze River basin, Mao pointed to the confluence of the Han and Dan rivers. Originating southwest of Shaanxi Province and flowing through Hubei to join the Yangtze at Wuhan, the river is the Yangtze's longest tributary; the Dan River, also originating in Shaanxi Province, flows through Henan and joins the Han River in northwestern Hubei Province.
On both sides of the river above the confluence of the Han and Dan rivers are rolling hills, and if a dam is built here, relying on the abundant water sources of the two rivers and the favorable terrain, a huge reservoir can be formed. Relying on this reservoir, not only can be a fundamental solution to the lower Han River, "three years, two collapse" to the Han River Plain disaster, but also can store water for power generation, irrigation of farmland. Moreover, it can also be used as a water source for the future South-to-North Water Diversion, because the elevation of the water level here is much higher than the elevation of Beijing, theoretically speaking, no need for irrigation through the power can be self-flowing to Beijing. The implementation of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project has witnessed the correctness and wisdom of this decision. On March 25, 1958, the Chengdu meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee made a formal decision to build Danjiangkou reservoir. The central government decided to set up the Danjiangkou Water Conservancy Hub Project General Command, Premier Zhou Enlai personally named the governor of Hubei Province, Zhang Tixue as the commander-in-chief.
The construction of this giant reservoir, it is inevitable to submerge a large area of territory, including Hubei and Henan provinces, the ancient city of Junzhou belongs to the center of the reservoir, Junzhou is not guaranteed, the Jingle Palace, not to mention.
In order to rescue and protect the cultural relics and monuments of the Danjiang reservoir area, in 1956, the relevant departments of Hubei Province, organized by a team of experts on the ancient city of Junzhou, especially the Jingle Palace of cultural relics to carry out a serious investigation and register, and then submitted to the State Council submitted a report on the details of cultural relics to relocate the matter and the cost required.
In accordance with the instructions of the State Council, Hubei Province in 1958 set up a "Danjiangkou reservoir area of cultural relics relocation leading group". Governor of Hubei Province, Danjiangkou project director Zhang Tixue as head of the group.
Zhang Tixue's thinking is very clear, the first of the Jingle Palace of cultural relics to move, the second to be rebuilt in the future. But at that time, the time is tight, the shortage of funds, first of all to sort out an idea, such a big building, which move, which do not move? How to move?
According to the actual situation at that time, Danjiangkou reservoir area of cultural relics relocation of the leading group after many careful study, made a net relocation of the Palace to the inclusion of the Register of exquisite cultural relics, in addition to some of the particularly exquisite building components, general housing and construction and the Palace wall can not move the decision.
September 1, 1958, in the deafening sound of artillery, Danjiangkou Reservoir project began, from all sides of the 100,000 construction troops into the project construction. With the opening of the reservoir project, the relocation of cultural relics of the Jingle Palace has gradually entered the implementation stage.
In accordance with the plan, the important cultural relics should first be transported out of the city, and then loaded on a boat to take the waterway, and ultimately relocated to 40 kilometers away from the city of Junzhou, Junxian County, the new site, that is, today's Danjiangkou City. From the historical photos taken during the relocation of cultural relics in those years, the tall gates of the ancient city of Junzhou are clearly visible, and a huge stone turtle is leaving the city.
This big stone turtle is the Jingle Palace of the town of the Palace, in the Jingle Palace has two East and West Pavilion, the two big stone turtles were carrying two giant stone tablets, tablets engraved with the Yongle Emperor that year for the construction of the Jingle Palace of the imperial decree, due to the emperor himself, so the value of the natural is the supreme.
Jingle Palace turtle pack monument 8.5 meters high, each weighing about 102 tons, of which the monument cap weighs 8.5 tons, the monument plate weighs 17 tons, the heaviest to be counted in the stone turtle itself, there are 76 tons. Such a weight, to move it to dozens of kilometers away, not to mention in the 1950s and 1960s, even now, is not an easy thing, and the equipment conditions are indeed out of reach.
After many inquiries, we are more than 300 kilometers away from Danjiangkou City, Yichang City, Hubei Province, to find three have personally participated in the relocation of cultural relics of the old man, they were drawn from the Anhui Huaihe River Commission to participate in the Danjiangkou Reservoir project construction, belonging to the lifting regiment of the third company. In addition, we also found in Yichang at that time the person in charge of the relocation of cultural relics - Gao Yingqin, in 1959, as the Hubei Provincial Bureau of Culture Cultural Relics Task Force second detachment of the captain, he was ordered to even County responsible for the relocation of cultural relics.
Several elderly **** with the memories, making the relocation of cultural relics of the Jingle Palace of the true picture gradually clear up.
1960, April and May, Jingle Palace relocation of cultural relics officially began, lifting regiment, the third company undertook this task. At that time, their equipment conditions are very backward, not even a crane, the difficulties of relocation far beyond everyone's expectations.
In the face of difficult emotions and practical difficulties in the relocation of cultural relics, Danjiangkou project director, Hubei Governor Zhang Tixue said to the workers: "500 years ago, the ancients can move it, I do not believe that today there is no way to move it away?" Through layers of mobilization, a set of programs using primitive methods to move the large stone turtle was determined. First of all, from Yunnan to buy a dozen thick fir pole, in the turtle monument above the three sets of brackets, with large wire rope bundled, with more than one group of commonly known as "gourd" pulley and hand crank car will be the turtle monument slowly separated from the hoisting, at the same time, take the steel hammer to slowly dope its connection parts.
Stone tortoise hoisted, at its bottom first put two rows of sleepers vertically, and then horizontally put logs and seamless steel pipe, and then vertically on top of a few rows of sleepers, so that it is placed on the sleepers, dozens of people before and after the push, little by little to move forward. In the meantime, also have to constantly put the back of the boards and logs and steel pipe vacated to the front. Marching, from time to time, some people shouted out a high horn, to give everyone a boost, from a distance, the scene is spectacular.
Transportation of these big guys really like ants gnawing bones, from the net music Palace out of the East City Gate and then to the Hanjiang River terminal, a **** seven or eight hundred meters of the journey to more than 20 days, and in the middle of the road to pass a few difficult passes.
Junzhou city terrain is relatively high, out of the city gate is about seven or eight meters high slope, with what way to send down more than 70 tons of things? We use wire rope string "gourd", a dead head hit on a large log, the log on the horizontal gate, the live head on the winch, slowly sent it down.
The other difficult part of the handling is getting on and off the ship, which has to find a way of connecting the ground to the hull and be extra careful, and can go badly wrong if you don't get it right.
In addition to the two huge tortoise monument, relocation of the other main event is the Jiele Palace in front of the large stone memorial hall, in order to relocate it, but also happened a very unexpected thing. A stone memorial hall named "latticework door", for six columns and five floors and five rooms in the cupola style, from the architectural form of latticework door system stone chiseled mortise and tenon joints imitation wooden structure of the cupola, architectural art is exquisite, is the Ming Dynasty built in the stone memorial hall in the very best.
The entire pagoda consists of more than 200 large and small stone components, people are still using the method of lifting the large stone turtles one by one to dismantle, and then loaded onto a flatbed trailer with a tractor to drag away on the ship. Relocation team before and after nearly a year's time, finally the original 830 pieces of large and small cultural relics to Danjiangkou.
The relocation of cultural relics over the beginning of the temporary reservoir dam on the side of the material station, since then, Danjiangkou deputy director of the project, Xiangyang Commissioner Xiake led the relevant personnel, ready for the future restoration of the Palace of net music to choose a suitable location. When walking to the reservoir dam not far from the north slope of the Jin Gang Mountain, Xiake found here three sides of the mountains, a face to face the water, the whole shape of a skip more like a chair, we have a plan, they will determine this place.
So, a large number of cultural relics by the site engineering machinery corps moved here one after another, in 1967, the dam down the floodgates, the ancient city of Junzhou along with the Jingle Palace then all submerged underwater.
According to the original plan, the net music Palace restoration project in 1965 by the Danjiangkou Engineering Bureau gradually began. In the fall of this year, the two pedestal foundation project is completed, the huge turtle pack monument is also ready to restore the fall. At this time, the "Cultural Revolution" began, the net music Palace restoration project was interrupted. In the meantime, a lot of cultural relics were pulled away by the local people as building materials, and even built pigsties and toilets.
In 1983, all counties into Danjiangkou City, in the years since then, people on the net music Palace relocation of cultural relics for the protection and restoration of the call is increasingly strong, the news media at all levels have paid great attention to this.
From 1987 onwards, still belongs to the national poverty-stricken county of Danjiangkou City in the State Planning Commission, the Hubei Provincial Cultural Relics Department of the support, the use of limited grants and self-financing gradually began to rebuild a number of basic work.
January 5, 1987, the net music Palace two huge tortoise monument began to hoist the restoration, in accordance with the standards of the year the tortoise pack monument installation, under the guidance of the provincial cultural relics experts, bought several hundred pounds of glutinous rice and lime, and then put together to simmer, with the simmering of the glutinous rice lime slurry bonding monument, the use of two machines together to hoist the approach to the monument was successfully completed the installation.
Subsequently, the municipal government announced the protection scope of the Jingle Palace and the construction of the control zone, completed the construction of more than 1,000 meters of the palace wall, and the "Cultural Revolution" in the majority of scattered cultural relics to find back, focused on the palace wall in order to facilitate the protection.