Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1449 The mainstay

Starting from the Baiheliang inscription, a one-kilometer area on both sides of the counties and towns along the river will become a flooded area. Therefore, the official data for the area within two kilometers is more than 600 square kilometers. There are valuable relics and ruins here. , need to be rescued and excavated; the famous and important monuments here need to be protected and relocated.

Today's water journey is to go to Baiheliang for inspection first, and then to anchor for the night in Zhenxi Town downstream of Baiheliang.

Now that there is nothing to do on the road, Zhou Zhi, Lin Wanqiu and Li Leshui discussed the inspection plan to Yichang together. There was a huge waterway map on the big table in the middle of the conference room. A red line was drawn outside the two banks to indicate the future inundation area. In the middle There were countless small red triangles, large and small, indicating places that needed work. The friends were all a little stunned when they saw them.

Before they came to this conference room, they never imagined that there were so many places that needed to be rescued!

"Sister Lin, Brother Li San, you are so amazing!" Liang Hong's eyes were full of caution: "You have to do so many things?!"

“The most important thing is what the country is doing.” Li Laosan said: “What our foundation has to do is mainly to do two tasks. One is to organize its own strength to provide support to places where the country is in urgent need of funds and manpower; The key point is to carry out demolition and protection to the best of our ability for those relics that do not meet the national protection level but have great cultural value."

"There are several principles for this kind of protection." Zhou Zhi introduced: "For sites such as tombs and cliff statues that are fixed on the rock base, we mainly take pictures and make rubbings without touching them. We only record the places and leave them at will. Flooded by its back.”

"As for brick and wood buildings, such as stages, temples, wooden statues, and clay sculptures, we try to remove them as much as possible and transport them to other places for safekeeping."

“For buildings where some components are valuable but most of the structures are of little value, we only take photos to preserve the images, and then remove the valuable parts such as exquisite brick carvings, painted beams, window lattice, foundation headers and other key parts, leaving the rest untouched. The valuable part is left to be submerged in water.”

Lin Wanqiu sighed and said: "This is all our foundation can do. Although the work we do is not as important as the country, the workload is still very huge."

"Yes, it's so huge that it's unimaginable," Zhou Zhi added, "Take Zhenxi, where we're going to stop today, for example. It's a little-known riverside town below Fuling."

"But its name comes from the Han Dynasty. It was named after a clamshell stream rich in pearls to the west of Changzhang Town."

"In such a small place, last year, an ancient tomb from the Western Han Dynasty was excavated at the second group of large stone plates in Fangjia Village. Seventy-three cultural relics were unearthed, including second-level cultural relics such as the garlic pot of the Western Han Dynasty, the Cuban ancestral bronze tripod, and the copper dagger. "

"Beside Zhenxi River, there is a village called Wan'an Village that was built in the Ming Dynasty. There are many stone inscriptions in the village, as well as beams, columns and door panels made of precious wood."

"In addition, there is a Taoist Wantian Palace, a courtyard from the Qing Dynasty, and the Shi family ancestral hall where three generations of Hanlins were built. In these two places, the wood carvings, brick carvings and stone carvings inside are quite exquisite."

"Look, everyone, there are so many things in a small town. These are things that the country does not care about, but we think it is worth using private power to rescue." Zhou Zhi spread his hands on the map: "So we just Based on the inspection results of the previous inspection team, we can conduct another screening and roughly plan the rescue time for key work locations according to the process of water storage, from downstream to upstream, from near water to far water, from important to secondary. "How much can be saved?"

"Then what can we do to help?" Ye Xin asked eagerly.

"Everyone can help take photos along the way, record the work team's preliminary opinions, and organize information." Li Laosan said: "There are still many temporary chores. If we really talk about things, there are too many to finish. Since we are on this trip Research ship, then my sister-in-law and I are not to blame.”

"It's your fault. Your old classmates have to be blamed for this." Lin Wanqiu pointed at Zhou Zhi: "He was the one who found out everything."

Everyone laughed. This job was very meaningful and actually what they wanted. The research ship sailed down the river very fast, and it didn't take long to cover a hundred kilometers of water. Near noon, the ship arrived at Baiheliang.

The water level is still high now, and there is only a small place to stop on Baiheliang, but there are still many stone inscriptions, stone fish and white cranes to see.

Now is the hottest time of the day, and there is actually a small volunteer inspection team here. Three senior students from the Department of Archeology of Shu University, led by a teacher, are rubbing the inscriptions under the scorching sun.

Just looking at the dark and shiny skin of a few people, you can tell how hard this job is.

Zhou Zhi took his friends for a general tour, and then invited everyone from the work team to the expedition ship. There is air conditioning here, so everyone can be comfortable and have a good meal together.

The teacher also brought some rubbings to the ship as a return gift to Zhou Zhi and his party, and then introduced the results of the inspection to everyone.

Although the country is discussing the protection plan of the underwater museum, everyone knows that this plan is almost impossible with today's technological power. Therefore, the teacher's tone is full of pessimism: "These stone fish are actually from different histories. Period, carved based on the usual water level of the Yangtze River."

"'When stone fish come out, there will be plenty of good years'," is a local folk song. Different stone fish mark different historical periods and the best water levels in good years, which is of great significance for studying the historical hydrological conditions in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. "

"It's a pity that by the time the project is actually completed, these important historical sites will never be seen again."

"Teacher Li, there is no need to be too anxious. The underwater museum plan is not feasible now, but it does not mean that it will not be feasible in five or ten years." Zhou Zhi quickly comforted: "The development of the country is changing with each passing day. Shenzhen's speed is one every three days. One floor can be completed in more than a month. When the economic construction crisis eases, we may have to consider these things.”

Teacher Li glanced at Zhou Zhi, suddenly smiled, and said to Li Laosan and Lin Wanqiu: "That's right. If nothing else, we, the Three Gorges Cultural Preservation Fund, raised more than 100 million to save cultural relics. A few years ago, they would have been This is something that is absolutely unimaginable, and it shows that we are at least developing in a good direction in these years. We still need to be realistic about this.”

"Baiheliang is a national key project, and we can't help much." Li Laosan said: "But we are destined to meet each other. We can only invite a few teachers and classmates to have a meal on the ship to express our appreciation for you. A feeling of reverence.”

Teacher Li smiled and said, "Thank you so much. We don't have much to offer, so this rubbing of 'The Mainstay' is just right for you."

Everyone unfolded the rubbings, and the four vertically arranged running script characters "mainstay" with ink rubbings and white text were rich and tough, solemn and heroic, which was indeed very beautiful.

Teacher Li pointed to the inscription on the rubbing and said, "It's Xian Zangbin who wrote this. We don't know much about it yet. We have to wait until BJ consults an expert."

(End of this chapter)