The arrangement of the tour on Sunday is still to visit, and the place to visit is the Longyangxia Hydropower Station in the upper reaches of the Yellow River.
Longyang Gorge is about 150 kilometers away from Xining.
Not far from Xining, you can occasionally see a group of sheep eating grass on the thin sandy grass. Walking out, the way is deserted. When you are bored, there is a large desert on both sides of the car. We have never been to the desert before. We were very surprised for a moment and insisted on stopping and taking a look.
Standing barefoot in the desert, looking at it, except for the occasional bulging unknown plants, it is full of rolling sand oceans, and there is silence everywhere. We were about to marvel at the power of nature, but the driver Lao Li said that the desert here is nothing serious at all. On the way to Haixizhou, he drove to Haixizhou, all the deserts were deserts and no one could see along the way. That was called a big desert. As for the Takramagan Desert, let alone.
After hearing Lao Li's words, I remembered the legend of the Taklamakan Desert, and the Peng Jiamu had a fever and overestimated his ability to break into the desert alone, and he felt a little heavy: the desert is indeed shocking, but if there were shocking deserts everywhere, we humans would probably become endangered animals.
After playing in the desert for a while, after getting on the bus, we went down. There were almost all the sand or gray mountain bags along the way. I didn't know how many similar monotonous and boring scenery had passed on the van. They were drowsy. Lao Li told us that we were about to enter the Longyangxia Power Station area, and we were active like hibernating bugs.
The car climbed up a mountain bag and then drove down into Longyang Gorge.
From a distance, in a wide and flat basin, a green lake water was particularly conspicuous at the foot of the gray mountains. When I was used to the yellow eyes, I suddenly saw the green area. It was a bit unbelievable: the water in the upper reaches of the Yellow River was actually green?
When the car entered the reservoir area, he saw a tall stone tablet with three magnificent characters written on it. When passing by the stone tablet, we have entered Longyang Gorge.
Longyang Gorge is the first gorge when the Yellow River enters the Yellow River Canyon area. A majestic reservoir dam locks the Yellow River at the mouth of the gorge. So a large artificial reservoir in China rose up on the canyon of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Seeing the reservoir on this plateau, I remembered the great man’s poem that the Gaoxiao came out of the flat lake. In fact, Gezhouba and even the Three Gorges Reservoir cannot reflect the wonderful realm of the Gaoxiao Pinghu. Only this Longyang Gorge Reservoir can truly reveal the shock that the large lake built in the flat ground in the Gaoxiao was shocking.
Standing on the dam and looking towards the reservoir area, under the sky, the edge of the loess (there are gray everywhere, and it seems that it cannot be called loess), but seeing the vast water and the blue waves reflect the sun, it makes people feel refreshed.
There are also several fishing boats on the lake in the distance, and there are fishermen busy fishing there.
Occasionally, birds flew up and down on the lake, sometimes hovering high altitude and sometimes foraging in the water. According to Lao Li, a driver who was traveling with him, some of the birds were seagulls (it was more appropriate to call river gulls), while others were cormorants or red horse ducks. With these birds in the quiet lake, there was a hint of confusion about the world beyond the world.
Unfortunately, except for the clear water in the reservoir and the scattered trees in the residential area, the rest of the reservoir area is almost bare. There seems to be a layer of thin green on the top of the mountain, but the main thing that is exposed is a gray sandy and soil color. In this way, there is only green water, no green mountains, only the sky and no green fields. Compared with the green trees by the Jiangnan Lake, the spring rippling color is always a bit less sensational. Of course, this scenery can also reflect a kind of beauty, but it is a helpless and incomplete beauty. This beauty looks a bit desolate.
I really don’t understand. With such a large area of lake water, why can’t we plant some trees on the bare mountains nearby?
Why no one cares about these things?
It is always at the foot of a bare mountain, and there is a lot of wind and sand in Qinghai. I am afraid that in a few years, I will never see the rippling blue waves of today again.
Looking down from the guardrail at the entrance of the gorge, I saw a steep cliff, with the distance between the two banks being only twenty or thirty meters. The clear Yellow River water spewed out from the gate at a hundred meters, like a wild horse roaring down, and it was like a long-bound green dragon. Once it escaped, it rushed across the steep walls of the peak cliff, and crashed into the mountains. The green dragon jumped into the canyons in the distance, merged into the loess and could no longer be seen.
At that time, Longyang Gorge was probably all like this kind of landscape. It is not easy for us humans to build such a majestic dam in this deserted place. This reminds us of the Tibetans who sincerely worshiped at Ta'er Temple yesterday. Tibetans are sincere enough to be with Buddha. But after so many years of worshipping Buddha, can the Buddha give such a majestic dam to believers out of thin air in the Grand Canyon on the Yellow River?
It seems that nothing else is trustworthy, but the human beings themselves are trustworthy.
After visiting the dam, we went to Longyang Town for lunch. There were empty shops, residential areas and factories all the way. According to the driver Lao Li, during the heyday of Longyang Gorge construction, the population of Longyang Town reached more than 100,000. For a while, it was still a center of hundreds of miles around, with schools, hospitals, shops, and catering facilities available.
After the project was completed, the construction unit withdrew from Longyang Gorge, leaving only some of the management personnel of the construction unit. Most of the homes of these management personnel were resettled in Xining. Now the town has a permanent population of less than 1,000, and a large number of houses are vacant, which is completely different from a few years ago.
I heard that there are still many farmers and herdsmen living on the top of a mountain where life is extremely inconvenient. I said that these houses are useless anyway, so why not place these people in Longyang Town?
This not only solves the living problems of farmers and herdsmen, but also makes Longyang Town look more like a town.
Old Li laughed when he heard me. He said Section Chief Chen (when Director Deng introduced us to Qinghai Branch, he was praised as Section Chief). If only you were in charge of this matter, nowadays, people are better off than having more things. What does it have to do with farmers and herdsmen live in good or bad places?
Idle here is also idle, anyway, it is the property of the country.
Although I feel a little heartbroken, when I think that I can't even control my own affairs now, I still want to manage other people's affairs, I feel that I am worrying about being unhappy for myself.
I had mutton for lunch and some rainbow trout marsh fish produced in the reservoir. Although it was not very good, I felt very satisfied with the specialties here. I even drank a bottle of barley wine with Lao Li.
After drinking, I was refreshed. When the car drove to the high ground, several people wanted to get off the car and take a long view. I took advantage of the wine to take a photo with the four ladies. When I took photos with Li Jing, I suddenly hugged her thick waist. Although I didn't feel very ecstatic, I was better than nothing after all.
Before getting in the car, I took a look at Longyangxia for the last time. At this time, I felt that the scene looked like a burly man holding a slender woman, but he wanted to play basketball. Yao Ming hugged a female gymnast. I wonder if there would be such beauty?
After getting in the car, I told the doubts to several ladies, which led to a lot of perverts scolding.
Longyang Gorge is about 150 kilometers away from Xining.
Not far from Xining, you can occasionally see a group of sheep eating grass on the thin sandy grass. Walking out, the way is deserted. When you are bored, there is a large desert on both sides of the car. We have never been to the desert before. We were very surprised for a moment and insisted on stopping and taking a look.
Standing barefoot in the desert, looking at it, except for the occasional bulging unknown plants, it is full of rolling sand oceans, and there is silence everywhere. We were about to marvel at the power of nature, but the driver Lao Li said that the desert here is nothing serious at all. On the way to Haixizhou, he drove to Haixizhou, all the deserts were deserts and no one could see along the way. That was called a big desert. As for the Takramagan Desert, let alone.
After hearing Lao Li's words, I remembered the legend of the Taklamakan Desert, and the Peng Jiamu had a fever and overestimated his ability to break into the desert alone, and he felt a little heavy: the desert is indeed shocking, but if there were shocking deserts everywhere, we humans would probably become endangered animals.
After playing in the desert for a while, after getting on the bus, we went down. There were almost all the sand or gray mountain bags along the way. I didn't know how many similar monotonous and boring scenery had passed on the van. They were drowsy. Lao Li told us that we were about to enter the Longyangxia Power Station area, and we were active like hibernating bugs.
The car climbed up a mountain bag and then drove down into Longyang Gorge.
From a distance, in a wide and flat basin, a green lake water was particularly conspicuous at the foot of the gray mountains. When I was used to the yellow eyes, I suddenly saw the green area. It was a bit unbelievable: the water in the upper reaches of the Yellow River was actually green?
When the car entered the reservoir area, he saw a tall stone tablet with three magnificent characters written on it. When passing by the stone tablet, we have entered Longyang Gorge.
Longyang Gorge is the first gorge when the Yellow River enters the Yellow River Canyon area. A majestic reservoir dam locks the Yellow River at the mouth of the gorge. So a large artificial reservoir in China rose up on the canyon of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Seeing the reservoir on this plateau, I remembered the great man’s poem that the Gaoxiao came out of the flat lake. In fact, Gezhouba and even the Three Gorges Reservoir cannot reflect the wonderful realm of the Gaoxiao Pinghu. Only this Longyang Gorge Reservoir can truly reveal the shock that the large lake built in the flat ground in the Gaoxiao was shocking.
Standing on the dam and looking towards the reservoir area, under the sky, the edge of the loess (there are gray everywhere, and it seems that it cannot be called loess), but seeing the vast water and the blue waves reflect the sun, it makes people feel refreshed.
There are also several fishing boats on the lake in the distance, and there are fishermen busy fishing there.
Occasionally, birds flew up and down on the lake, sometimes hovering high altitude and sometimes foraging in the water. According to Lao Li, a driver who was traveling with him, some of the birds were seagulls (it was more appropriate to call river gulls), while others were cormorants or red horse ducks. With these birds in the quiet lake, there was a hint of confusion about the world beyond the world.
Unfortunately, except for the clear water in the reservoir and the scattered trees in the residential area, the rest of the reservoir area is almost bare. There seems to be a layer of thin green on the top of the mountain, but the main thing that is exposed is a gray sandy and soil color. In this way, there is only green water, no green mountains, only the sky and no green fields. Compared with the green trees by the Jiangnan Lake, the spring rippling color is always a bit less sensational. Of course, this scenery can also reflect a kind of beauty, but it is a helpless and incomplete beauty. This beauty looks a bit desolate.
I really don’t understand. With such a large area of lake water, why can’t we plant some trees on the bare mountains nearby?
Why no one cares about these things?
It is always at the foot of a bare mountain, and there is a lot of wind and sand in Qinghai. I am afraid that in a few years, I will never see the rippling blue waves of today again.
Looking down from the guardrail at the entrance of the gorge, I saw a steep cliff, with the distance between the two banks being only twenty or thirty meters. The clear Yellow River water spewed out from the gate at a hundred meters, like a wild horse roaring down, and it was like a long-bound green dragon. Once it escaped, it rushed across the steep walls of the peak cliff, and crashed into the mountains. The green dragon jumped into the canyons in the distance, merged into the loess and could no longer be seen.
At that time, Longyang Gorge was probably all like this kind of landscape. It is not easy for us humans to build such a majestic dam in this deserted place. This reminds us of the Tibetans who sincerely worshiped at Ta'er Temple yesterday. Tibetans are sincere enough to be with Buddha. But after so many years of worshipping Buddha, can the Buddha give such a majestic dam to believers out of thin air in the Grand Canyon on the Yellow River?
It seems that nothing else is trustworthy, but the human beings themselves are trustworthy.
After visiting the dam, we went to Longyang Town for lunch. There were empty shops, residential areas and factories all the way. According to the driver Lao Li, during the heyday of Longyang Gorge construction, the population of Longyang Town reached more than 100,000. For a while, it was still a center of hundreds of miles around, with schools, hospitals, shops, and catering facilities available.
After the project was completed, the construction unit withdrew from Longyang Gorge, leaving only some of the management personnel of the construction unit. Most of the homes of these management personnel were resettled in Xining. Now the town has a permanent population of less than 1,000, and a large number of houses are vacant, which is completely different from a few years ago.
I heard that there are still many farmers and herdsmen living on the top of a mountain where life is extremely inconvenient. I said that these houses are useless anyway, so why not place these people in Longyang Town?
This not only solves the living problems of farmers and herdsmen, but also makes Longyang Town look more like a town.
Old Li laughed when he heard me. He said Section Chief Chen (when Director Deng introduced us to Qinghai Branch, he was praised as Section Chief). If only you were in charge of this matter, nowadays, people are better off than having more things. What does it have to do with farmers and herdsmen live in good or bad places?
Idle here is also idle, anyway, it is the property of the country.
Although I feel a little heartbroken, when I think that I can't even control my own affairs now, I still want to manage other people's affairs, I feel that I am worrying about being unhappy for myself.
I had mutton for lunch and some rainbow trout marsh fish produced in the reservoir. Although it was not very good, I felt very satisfied with the specialties here. I even drank a bottle of barley wine with Lao Li.
After drinking, I was refreshed. When the car drove to the high ground, several people wanted to get off the car and take a long view. I took advantage of the wine to take a photo with the four ladies. When I took photos with Li Jing, I suddenly hugged her thick waist. Although I didn't feel very ecstatic, I was better than nothing after all.
Before getting in the car, I took a look at Longyangxia for the last time. At this time, I felt that the scene looked like a burly man holding a slender woman, but he wanted to play basketball. Yao Ming hugged a female gymnast. I wonder if there would be such beauty?
After getting in the car, I told the doubts to several ladies, which led to a lot of perverts scolding.