A river of youth and romance

Text/Xiao Liang

Between heaven and earth, there are clouds and mists. The beautiful bearded fairy, with her left hand holding a brocade robe high, her right hand holding a peach, falls from the sky across the deer...

is located by the Jiangshan Port, where the source of the Qiantang River, stands a sculpture of "Xujiang Goddess", which is vaguely told The love story of "Jiang Lang and Beard Girl". The ending of the story is poignant: Jiang Lang turned into a giant stone peak, creating the famous Jianglang Mountain on the right bank of Jiangshan Port; Fairy Beard wailed day and night, and her tears flowed into a river - this is Jiangshan Port, also known as Jiangshan Port. Xu Nujiang, commonly referred to as Xujiang .

Rivers are alive, and rivers are almost ancient. However, today, this ancient mother river of more than 600,000 people in Jiangshan City seems to be rejuvenating and rejuvenating. The riverbank, the riverbed, the spray, the sound of the waves, and the romantic atmosphere that pervades the entire river are all full of youthful breath and vitality.

This "magic change" made my heart drunk. Goddess Xujiang, did you also surprise your eyes?

△Jiangshan Port "Daze Yuanfei" Wetland Park Yang Zhirong, the old county magistrate, roams on the embankment of Jiangshan Port today. Facing the beautiful river and the beautiful scenery on both sides of the river, Yang Lao, who is leaning on crutches, has a very rich expression when he speaks, and his smile is also very meaningful.

"In the past, I was most afraid of floods." He described to me an astonishing scene of the flooding of the river in the 1950s: inside and outside the county, there was a vast ocean, some people climbed tall trees, some people climbed the roof, and rescuers rowed wooden boats for adventure Save people...

Beard Fairy is lively and active, and Beard River is naughty and unruly. The color of the water changes when you say it changes; the smell comes when it comes; the riverbed is shallow when it is said to be shallow; the river surface is wide when it is said to be wide. On a sunny day, it was originally a trickle; a heavy rain would cause surging waves, flooding Jinshan...

Alas, ancient rivers, naughty! At the source of important tributaries, three large and medium-sized reservoirs, namely Xiakou, Wanyao and Baishuikeng, were built successively, which relieved the pressure of flood control to a certain extent, and can also be regarded as an indirect "training".

In people's memory, the first lesson of directly "tuning" Jiangshangang can be traced back to the late 1970s. The "class teacher" is Yang Zhirong, who shoulders the title of commander-in-chief of the construction of the flood control levee.

"It was manpower at that time!" Recalling the popular scenes of wielding hoes and shovels, raising shoulders and raising hands, digging high and filling lows, and building stones to protect slopes, Yang Lao's voice was like a bell, and he seemed to be much younger all of a sudden. "The People's Liberation Army, government officials, school teachers and students, all come to do volunteer work."

After working for a year, the 1,200-meter-long flood control levee in the urban area is just beginning to emerge.

"Guess what, how much did it cost in total?" Mr. Yang said to me with a smile, "It only cost 180,000! But at that time, it was not easy to come up with this amount of money."

appreciated the scenery of poetry and painting in front of him, and Mr. Yang sighed again: "I didn't expect that the current Jiangshan Port has become so beautiful! In the past, dykes were built for flood control..."

That's right, in the past Ah, thinking too much about anything other than flood control!

The historic inflection point occurred in 2016 AD. At the end of this year, in front of a small building by the Jiangshan Port, a sign was quietly hung up with the "Jiangshan Port Watershed Comprehensive Management Project Construction Headquarters". Over forty. The funds "directed" were much more than 10,000 times more than what Yang Lao "directed" at the beginning.

Maybe, this headquarters and that headquarters are not uncommon, I don't know how many, not many people paid attention to this brand at first; and no one thought that after a few years, the ancient river, the life returned to youth, the personality was benign and publicized, and it was naughty. so waveDiffuse and cute!

△The Jiangshan port that welcomes the dawn Photo by Qiu Zhaoxi

The exquisite spray

stepped into the command headquarters hidden by the green trees, beforehand, the deputy director of the office, Xiao Mao, handed me a copy of "Romantic Jiangshan" Hong Kong" promotional leaflet, and then, he gave me a mobile hard disk - ho ho, more than 400 GB of capacity, enough to feed my eyes. However, Xiao Mao seemed to have handed in an unfinished paper, and said coyly: "There are videos, pictures and texts in it, but the information is still not comprehensive enough."

too. The "command" for 6 years has been non-stop, fighting the wind and the rain, like the waves stirred up by Jiangshan Port, which can't fit any kind of hard drive.

However, these real records made me go back in time, seeing the lights of the headquarters meeting from 6:00 am to 12:00 late at night, and hearing that "a river of clear water will be sent to Qiantang." "'s sonorous oath, I felt the sincere feeling of "governing the river and love the river more"...

is a wonderful blueprint of "Baili Xujiang·Beautiful Promenade", full of hard work, carrying dreams, and containing " "Make a plan and act later" command strategy. Behind the blueprint of

, nearly 600 households have been demolished and nearly 7,000 mu of land have been requisitioned. The water for demolition and land acquisition has never been crystal clear. Throughout the process, they were "very particular" about the minutiae. Therefore, although they encountered the whirlpool and choked the water, they all passed through as they wished, and they are as good as a mirror so far.

"What should be paid attention to, we must pay attention to." This is the common voice of the command team.

This river dredging, in my opinion, is not just digging silt? But the key words that linger in their minds are environmental protection and ecology: dredging in water, "fishing in muddy water, fishing out of it", "fishing" out It is mud with water again. Will this "feel" new damage and "fish out" new pollution? The scene that pays attention to is that a 7-kilometer-long mud discharge pipe is connected to an environmentally friendly cutter suction On the dredger, the "fished" sludge is directly pumped to the place where it should go.

Jiangshan Port is the source of the Qiantang River, but there is a source beyond the source! To send a river of clear water out of the country, it is indispensable to trace the source. As a result, the headquarters drew a blueprint for the six tributaries one by one.

"The most important thing is quality." They say that quality is the bottom line for the realization of the blueprint. The eyes of the headquarters are staring at 45 points of interest in dozens of construction sites; It is not the solo performance of the headquarters, but the chorus of the whole river basin that pays attention to the "good show".

Downstream of Jiangshan Port, I saw a "fountain" on the water, splashing with crystal water. When I inquired at random, I found out that it was the outlet of the sewage treatment plant, so I "break into" the plant. An executive led me to watch the whole process of changing from sewage to clean water, and then told me: In the past, I only managed the urban area, but now I also manage the sewage treatment of nearly 300 villages along both sides of the river; Dozens of kilometers of dedicated pipelines separate rainwater and sewage... Such "specialty" is to "prevent a drop of sewage from flowing directly into the river".

walked out of the sewage treatment plant and heard a message: "For the sake of clear water, thousands of pig farms of all sizes have been closed in the whole city!" Thousands? I couldn't believe my ears. However, the director of Jiangshan Municipal Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau authoritatively confirmed on WeChat: "Yes, about 9,100 pig farms have been shut down in total."

walking on the embankment, suddenly came across a blue hut with a book "Small Water Quality Automatic Monitoring Station". "In Jiangshan Port, there are a total of 23 such monitoring stations." The head of the Jiangshan Ecological Environment Monitoring Station in Quzhou City pointed to the blue hut and said to me, "The station is located at the junction of the township and the street, which section has the water quality. Anyway, the data inside has the final say." Behind the

data is a heavy responsibility. Such segmented and divided responsibility monitoring can be described as homely.

It took almost 5 years for the water quality standard of Jiangshan Port to jump from Category 4 to Category 2. Of course, the efforts of the whole basin,Still on the way.

The clear waves of Jiangshan Port, each one is produced by countless people and countless days and nights, and each one is a "special wave"! clusters. Standing on this bank and looking at the other bank, there is a waterfront greenway that stretches for more than 100 kilometers. Under the shade of trees and flowers on the embankment of Jiangshan Port, it is half-light and half-dark, looming, just like a shy look. As soon as

came across this greenway, a desire and urge to ride suddenly surged in my heart. It just so happened that Mao Zidong, the executive deputy commander of the headquarters, was going to patrol the embankment on the weekend, so I became a companion.

Mao Zidong, who was born in the military, has been the company commander of the automobile company for several years, and has a soft spot for playing with cars. Today, however, riding on greenways is particularly enjoyable. Every inch of the greenway has footprints and sweat shed by him and his partners, which makes him feel different from ordinary cyclists.

This waterfront greenway, to put it bluntly, is a flood control embankment dressed up, "the causeway is integrated, and the road is on the embankment". The pavement is paved with colored asphalt or colored pervious concrete . Looking up, it was as if there was an ever-extending welcome carpet among the luxuriant vegetation. The road is about 4 meters wide. If there are no other cyclists, the two ride slowly side by side and chat while riding, which is not in the way at all.

△Greenway Photo by Mao Jiayong

Along the way, people fishing, playing in the water, walking, shooting, riding, and moving shots kept flashing before my eyes. Mao Zidong said to me with a smug smile, "Have you noticed that Greenway is competing with mobile phones, TVs, and chess and card rooms for people's leisure time."

Indeed, greenways are changing the way many people live. More and more people are willing to give more leisure time to greenways.

"This greenway is not good-looking, but also needs to be durable." Mao Zidong said in the tone of a builder, "For example, for this roadbed, we use sand and gravel to roll it in layers, and roll a layer every 50 cm. , not at all ambiguous."

Facing a 10-kilometer long road, the headquarters and the construction unit were more motivated. One said that it didn't meet the requirements, and the other said "that's it" and "it's fine". The dispute continued for half a year, and the contractor finally gritted his teeth and spent a lot of money. More than 5 million yuan to rework and redo. Mao Zidong said this with a heavy voice.

One side of the greenway is the water-facing slope of the river embankment. In my impression, the flood control embankments are all made of cement and stone, or built like a dam, or upright like a cut, and no grass grows. The embankment seen here is a world of flowers.

However, how can flowers resist the flood? There must be a mystery.

ho ho, the golden big flower coreopsis , some frantically surrounded the greenway, it is almost impossible for people not to be tempted. We stopped moving forward and walked towards the waterfront slope. The slope was also covered with coreopsis , but they all grew out of the holes in the protective bricks. Mao Zidong pointed and said, "This is a chain block slope protection." I took a closer look and saw that the chain guard bricks were shoulder-to-shoulder and arm-in-hand, leaving space for flowers and plants.

The secret is not all in the chain lock block, as well as the concrete frame, ecological net pad, etc. However, Mao Zidong said that wherever the water flow is gentle, the slope is directly protected with suitable grass and trees.

It's no wonder that many embankments that have been "engineered" in recent years have almost no traces of man-made, but exudes the natural flavor of the original ecology.

people walk on the greenway, and they are all paintings. Baili Greenway, nestled with more than 60 kinds of trees, such as maple poplar, weeping willow, peach, hairy cuckoo, red-leaf heather, etc., dotted with iris, Ophiopogon japonicus, drunk butterfly, canna, More than 100 kinds of flowers such as verbena , light makeup and heavy wiping, complement the elegant and the common, seductive for the eyes and heart, enough to "drive loneliness and sadness to the sky".

Look, one line of egrets , another line of egrets flying across the river. A middle-aged recreational person who lives by the river, listens to us talking about birdsThere are too many birds and few birds, and I even scolded the birds: "There are too many birds, and they wake me up early in the morning, hahaha..."

"scolding" well! Forestry Bureau A friend told me that in recent years, the number of "bird visitors" on the water surface of Jiangshan Port and on both sides of the strait has increased sharply, and at least 110 species of birds are active: "regular visitors" include egrets, chongbirds, tits, mallards, Small shrikes, shrikes, etc. "guests" include colorful ibis, mandarin ducks, peregrine falcons, little swans, Chinese mergansers, etc., especially the colorful ibis and Chinese mergansers, known as "" The reputations of "Giant Panda in Birds" and "Giant Panda in Water" are both "VIP guests" and "rare guests". When the colorful ibis made a stunning appearance on the banks of Jiangshan Port, bird photographers from all over the country heard the news and were crowded for a while. A local hotel is hard to come by.

walks on the greenway, and it is common for birds to fly when they fall, like a "pioneer".

Greenway is shy, and the birds are romantic. In the early morning, I don’t know how many people’s dreams have drifted into the morning song of birds!

A park that understands water

Doctor sailing, Ying’an Qiu Ming, lotus fish fun… Holding Xiaomao in hand, gave me the “Romantic Jiangshan Port” promotional leaflet , carefully savoring more than ten waterscapes on paper with rich pictures and texts, can not help but think of the ten scenes of West Lake in Hangzhou, full of poetry and painting, smart and romantic.

However, when I asked Xiao Mao, I was told that most of the water features on the folded pages had just come out of the album, and some were only half-finished products at best. Although the club will go up to the sky—one day it will fall, but in my heart, there is still a trace of regret for not being able to enjoy it.

"Semi-finished products, there are also semi-finished products to watch!" Mao Zidong saw through my thoughts, so he took the opportunity of the construction site and took me by the way.

"This is the Daze Yuanfei node, with an area of ​​1,372 mu." Mao Zidong's words were full of heroic spirit, "Soon, this place will become a very desirable wetland park."

This is the downstream of Jiangshan Port. I glanced at it with my eyes, but I saw the broad beach, the potholes, the water and the land, and the "islands" densely covered; the forklifts that shuttled back and forth, the roaring excavators, diffused the thick construction site atmosphere ...

"We must carry out ecological restoration." Mao Zidong pointed to the beach far and near and said, "In the past, on the beach, some people used sand to build houses, some people cultivated vegetables, some people dug ponds to raise fish... Hundred holes, scarred."

Indeed, the former Jiangshan Port is very beautiful in a big way, but it hurts under closer inspection.

"We want to develop several wetland functional areas here, such as root purification area, shrub and grass interception area... Like the construction of plant community , we also need to make great efforts to do it, for example, the theme landscape is 'Kite'. If you want to fly, then you should consider planting more tree species that are more conducive to the survival of birds..." Facing the budding wetland park, Mao Zidong talked about what he was doing and about to do, and his words were full of right and wrong. Vision for the future. However, Ruoshui Sanqian, I seem to only take a scoop to drink: "What does this... have to do with river water?"

Actually, what I want to ask in my heart is: "Even the future of birds has been thought of, the water's Where is happiness?”

△Photo by Qiu Zhaohua

The answer is gratifying: the water in Jiangshan Port can enter the wetland park soothingly for a few hours; no rush, no turbulence, leisurely, romantic, along the way Just mess with the flowers, as much as you can with reeds, cattails, reli flower , barracuda , yellow flower water dragon, etc., take the opportunity to remove some sundries attached to the surface, and try to degrade nitrogen, phosphorus, etc. The dirt in the body flows to the front in a more elegant image...

Life needs a station, and a river needs a harbor! To control water, you must first understand water!

talked about the topic of understanding water, Mao Zidong proposed to visit Jiangshan Port together "Bali Fengyang" in the middle reaches. He said that although the area of ​​"Bali Fengyang" is only about one-tenth of that of "Daze Yuanfei", it can better reflect theUnderstanding and respect for river water.

"Eight Miles of Maple Poplars" does indeed have towering maple poplars, lush and green, and contiguous forests, as if they were specially set up for the 140-plus acres of river beaches. When encountering such a treasured feng shui place, anyone may "think about it": if a flood control embankment is built, and the river beach is surrounded by a piece of land, it can be used as a homestay, wild luxury, campsite, barbecue... You can sway it with you!

to the river It was a splendid dream to use the land!

However, the reality is that we have not seen such a flood control levee, but a group of "constructors" in yellow vests are planting flowers and plants. The entire beach is divided into sections, and almost covered with water-resistant and shade-resistant flowers such as iris, iris, chrysanthemum, hydrangeas, and hydrangea.

"Indeed, we heard many voices 'to make good use of this treasure land'. We had planned to build a large-scale playground here with an investment of tens of millions of yuan." Speaking of his mental journey, Mao Zidong's face Filled with a gratified smile, "Fortunately, after frequent stepping and weighing, we finally stood on the side of respecting the river ecology."

Standing on the side of the river, "Bali Fengyang" has become an ecological park that "dances with water": when the water rises, the right becomes the riverbed; when the water falls, the garden is full of flowers and plants.

Like human beings, river water also has its own personality. Even if it is trickling for a hundred days, it will be emptied by turbid waves. Do you understand?

understand!

Fish Road with love

Get in touch with Jiangshan Port, and you will be intoxicated by the romantic scenery frequently. The green road shrouded in morning mist, the park with misty rain and misty rain, and the river view of the moon and gauze will bring you a dreamlike "romantic touch".

However, what touched my heart the most was the barrages lying across the river in various romantic gestures.

Barrages are commonplace. Weirs and dams on Jiangshan Port should also have existed since ancient times. However, with the transformation of the entire Jiangshan Port and the reappearance of youth, the barrage has ushered in its own golden youth and has its own romantic time.

Looking up from the heights, the barrage is like a white train, tied in the middle of the river, adding a bit of beauty to the green river level; close to the microscopic view, the barrage is like a special stage, skillfully placed on the river, The water sings a unique tune, constantly rolling snow-white waves, and continuously dancing the graceful "step waterfall dance". The green trees on both sides of the river sway and applaud, and the long white clouds are also reflected in the water to enjoy...

A barrage is just A romantic landscape.

△ A unique barrage Photo by Qiu Zhaoxi

In Jiangshan Port, there should be 32 such scenery lines. "7 are newly built, and 25 are new ones based on the old weirs." Mao Zidong, who was addicted to the weirs with me, said, "At present, 29 have become scenic spots, and the other 3 will soon be From the map to the river".

Judging from the data taken earlier, the "old weir" of Jiangshan Port in the past has been eroded by the years, destroyed by flowing water, withered in appearance, and "the weir does not become a weir". Even though the "Old Weirs" came from a young age, after all, they were born at an untimely time, with congenital deficiencies and low appearance, and they have never been as beautiful as today's "New Weirs".

"Our design unit is really attentive." Talking about the past and present life of the barrage, Mao Zidong gave a thumbs up to the design team of Jiangshan Port Governance, "Since the day the partnership was established, they have been Accompanying us, we have gone through a journey of 6 years." The

design team comes from the design institute of Zhejiang Guangchuan Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd. Because of Jiangshan Port and fate, I met Lan Liwei, the vice president of the Design Institute, who just came from Hangzhou. This is a senior engineer who came out of Hohai University, the highest institution of water conservancy in China.

visited a number of weirs together and we were all very interested in what we were talking about. However, facing my frequentWhen he asked questions, he often hesitated, as if he had a thousand words in his chest, but he didn't know where to start.

"When it comes to understanding Jiangshan Port, ordinary locals, even those who are new to the local headquarters, are not necessarily as good as me..." He laughed, "I see the weirs and dams here. The green road, and even the flowers and grasses, are extraordinarily cordial and reluctant to leave.”

seems to have been in Jiangshan Port for 6 years. This handsome guy who is not confused has indeed lost a lot of hair, but he also has a lot of love.

"There are 32 weirs and dams, of course, they all have the same features as weirs and dams, but they also have different personalities, and strive to have one weir and one scene." Standing in the weir and talking about the weir, Lan Liwei showed his professional level, "Look at the dam. This weir surface, some use pebbles, some use pebble stone , some use strip stone, large stone... The shape is also curved and straight, each with its own merits, such as S-shaped, snake-shaped, fan-shaped, step-shaped , fish scale shape..."

"This place is called Longqingyan." In front of an "old weir" that is about to be rebuilt, Lan Liwei pointed to the riverbed of water and rocks and said, "In order to echo the name of the weir, our The design makes full use of the water and stone environment here, setting up multi-step steps on the downstream slope to drop water, and the plane of the steps is arranged with many natural meandering curves, like a few blue dragons swimming in the water..."

Different water environments , make a different barrage! I think.

"What is this?" On the side of the barrage next to the upstream slope, I saw a "water ladder" with a slightly curved bottom. Slow and flowing, it forms a sharp contrast with the waterfall group of the barrage.

"This is the fishway !" Lan Liwei replied with a smile, "It is a channel for fish to migrate. The water in the barrage is too fast, like a waterfall, which is not conducive to the migration of fish. Therefore, we specially designed this fish way".

△The fishway when the water is dry, love is flowing Photo by Qiu Zhaoxi Then consider designing the corresponding flow rate, and repeatedly carry out experiments with physical models and mathematical models." Alan's words seemed to flash with mysterious colors, "In order for the fishway to be born here, we have worked hard for 4 years! "

I stood in front of the fishway for a long time, staring at the water, eager to meet the fish, but unfortunately, until I left, there was no trace of their migration. However, I saw the shadow of love in the water, yes, there is love swimming happily in the fishway.

In the days when humans live with rivers, human love is the source of life for rivers. Jiangshan Port rejuvenates with love, flows romantically with love, and sends a river of beautiful water, together with her romantic youth, to the Qiantang River in love. (" Green China " 2022.8A)