Hello, fellow passengers. I'm the tour guide responsible for explaining toyou. You can call me Xiao Fan. First of all, thank you and welcome you for thistour. I'll serve you sincerely and let you have a wonderful and unforgettableexperience. Before starting this tour, I'd like to briefly introduce Baiheliangto you.
Baiheliang is located on the Bank of the Yangtze River in the center ofFuling District, Chongqing. It is a national key cultural relic protection unit.It is a historical and cultural cultural cultural scenic spot. It is a naturalrocky and sandy stone beam in the vast river water. It extends from the west tothe East, parallel to the river, with a slope of 14.5 degrees to the center ofthe river. It submerges in the river all the year round. Only at the turn ofwinter and spring each year, when the water level is low, part of it will comeout of the water. There are more than 160 stone inscriptions on the beam (someinscriptions are submerged in the water). The calligraphy of the inscriptions ishighly accomplished and the carving is exquisite. However, due to the high waterstorage of the Three Gorges, an underwater museum was built to protect theinscriptions. It was started in February 20__ and completed at the end of20__.
Baiheliang was called baziliang in ancient times. There is a saying aboutthe origin of his name, because the white crane group gathered on the beam, itwas named Baiheliang,. There is also a beautiful legend about Baiheliang. Asearly as the Northern Wei Dynasty, there was a Hezhou (now Hechuan) man namedErzhu who was an official in the imperial court. Because he lost the throne withhis brother, he hated the emperor's evil identity and decided to abandon hisofficial position and go to folk Alchemy to sell in Hezhou. Erzhu's Dan wasfinally bought by the state officials, and the price was increased by 10 times.After finding out the details, Houzhou official was very angry. He stabbed Erzhuto death with his sword and threw the corpse into Jialing River in a bamboobasket. Because Erzhu daogao was able to bring the dead back to life, he driftedto the edge of Fuzhou City on the Yangtze River like a sleepwalker after hisdeath. Fortunately, a fisherman found him, rescued him and put him on the stonebeam to guard him. The next day, he was awakened by the roaring bell from FuzhouCity. He was very grateful to the fishermen, so he gave him the elixir, and theybecame brothers from then on. After drinking, he walked hand in hand on thestone beam and told his life experience. One day, a silver crane came to thebeam and lifted Er Zhu's camel to the sky. There was no trace of pengque.
Although it's a legend, it's still more mysterious. It is a natural stonebeam in the Yangtze River in Fuling City, 1600 meters long and 15 meters wide onaverage. Since the first year of Guangde in Tang Dynasty, many poems andpatterns and low water level of the Yangtze River have been inscribed on thestone beams. It has a history of more than 1200 years. It is known as "theworld's first ancient hydrological station" and "underwater forest of Steles".The stone fish carved on the stone is the symbol of ancient hydrologicalobservation, and the inscription on the stone is the record of ancienthydrological observation, which is an extremely important hydrologicalhistorical data. Its inscriptions and images record the historical low waterlevel of 72 years in more than 1200 years, which is of great historical valuefor the study of low water law, shipping and production in the middle and upperreaches of the Yangtze River. At the International Conference on hydrology heldin Paris in 1974, the Chinese delegation submitted a report entitled"inscription on Fuling stone fish" to the conference, and the scientific valueof Baiheliang was recognized by the world. On Baiheliang, there are many poemsand inscriptions written by Huang Tingjian, Zhu Xi, Pang Gongsun, Zhu ang, WangShizhen and other poets in the past dynasties. Seal, official script, line andgrass are all available. Yan, Liu, Huang and Su are presented together. Thereare also low relief, deep relief, line carving, ah pattern, lace, etc One of theworld's underwater wonders.
Due to the construction of the Three Gorges project, the inscription onBaiheliang, which is located under the submerged water level, will sink at thebottom of the river forever. In order to protect this underwater treasure, theunderwater protection project of Baiheliang inscription was approved by theState Administration of cultural relics to build an underwater Museum. Theproject consists of four parts: "underwater Museum", "connecting trafficcorridor", "underwater anti-collision pier", and "on shore exhibition hall". Theengineering design of the protective cover of the underwater museum is called"dome", which is located directly above the inscription and is oval in shape tocover the whole inscription plane. There are three ways for visitors to visit:through the glass of the corridor, through the underwater camera and wearingdiving suit.
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