Chapter 8 Chapter 7
Five years ago, I published a group of essays on Literary Revolution, Ouyang Xiu, and I proposed a general title: "Dongyi Notes".Since then, whenever such articles are submitted in groups, I will use this general topic.I didn't just take a topic at random, nor did I just take its meaning of "Yi Fang" to show the remoteness of my residence, and I didn't mean to express the meaning of "Huawai" to show that I was out of date.In modern history, it has been over a hundred years since Yantai was opened as a port. Since the new era, Yantai has become one of the first coastal cities to open to the outside world. The economy is developed here, and the wind of modern civilization is blowing. The land under my feet is by no means a barbarian land .My notes are titled "Dongyi", just to show that its voice is marginalized and unfashionable, so as to distinguish it from mainstream discourse and mainstream voices.
Then, when I faced the billowing rivers and thousands of miles of mountains and rivers in front of me, and wanted to leave a written record for the millennium hydrology and the flood control of the hundred generations, I was full of thoughts and emotions. Dongyi", is it still the "Dongyi" in my literary essays?No, not quite. "Dongyi" should return to its original meaning, like going back to the source of rivers and rivers to see where it is.
Where is Dongyi?
According to the classic explanation, "Dongyi" has three meanings:
People from the East, the collective name for all ethnic groups in the east in ancient my country.Its most famous tribal leaders are Xihe, Dijun, Taihao, Chiyou, Shaohao, Taishun, Bogai, etc. that we often see in ancient books.During the Yin and Shang Dynasties, they were distributed in present-day Shandong and Jiangsu provinces.
After the Dongyi people were Huahua, they were called foreign countries or foreigners.That is to say, with our country as the coordinate, it is called the east of our country, such as Japan, North Korea and other countries.
The word "Yi" later derogated to refer to ethnic groups outside the Central Plains, and the word "Dongyi" also had a derogatory meaning.It is the same as "Southern Man" and "Xi Rong" and so on, with the contempt of "Si Yi" in the Central Plains of China.
Tracing back to the source, the meaning of the word carries the unique information in the evolution of human civilization, telling us that "Dongyi" is a general term for tribe, location, and uncivilized, it is the outside of "Huaxia", and it is a barbarian in "Central Plains". It is the backward branch in the progress of civilization, the party whose dominion arrives late.From the perspective of geography, no matter how numerous and varied the various classics are, Dongyi refers to the many tribes and kingdoms that lived in the present-day Shandong and Huaihe regions in prehistoric China, and were active around the present-day Mount Tai. This generalization is roughly correct.In the process of historical development, it will evolve, and the geographical boundaries will change. However, no matter how it changes, the later "Jiaodong" and today's "Yantai" are the centers of "Dongyi".
"Dongyi" in ancient times, "Jiaodong" in modern times, and "Yantai" today, the evolution of names has recorded the steps of the development of human society.Foreignization, port opening, and opening up, every step forward is accompanied by great hardships. "Jiaodong" is more related to revolution and bloodshed.It's not just a concept in geography anymore.From a geographical point of view, "Jiaodong" refers to the area east of the Jiaolai Valley.From a large scale, it includes the three cities of Qingdao, Yantai, and Weihai, as well as the three counties of Gaomi, Changyi, and Anqiu in the east of Weifang City.The Jiaolai Valley formed by the alluvial deposits of the Wei River, Bailang River, Jiaolai River, and Dagu River, also known as the Jiaolai Plain, gave the concept of "Jiaodong" to geography. "Jiaodong Peninsula" marks a cape stretching out to the sea in China's vast land.
The Bohai Sea, the inland sea of China, and the Yellow Sea, the marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean, are surrounded on three sides, embracing the Jiaodong Peninsula.On the border between the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea, in the sea area of Changdao, the clear water and the yellow water collide, like two giant dragons loving each other and fighting each other. For tens of thousands of years, they have never changed their habits and appearance. , Bi's self-bi, until the end of time.The Jiaodong Peninsula surrounded by the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea, Laoshan in the south, Yashan and Aishan in Qixia in the north-central part, Kunyu Mountain in Wendeng, and Luoshan in Zhaoyuan are the highest peaks in the Jiaodong Peninsula.Jiaodong—the main river in Yantai area—the water of Dongyi—the Dagujia River, Qingyang River, Huangshui River, Wulong River, Wang River, Jie River, Zhuliu River and more than 4,300 other large and small rivers, or from these Originate on the mountains, or flow through their valleys, forming a river network with an average density of 0.3 km/km2.The water of Dongyi, which is of mountain stream type, monsoon rain source type, short source and rapid flow, and sharp fluctuations, constitutes the independent sea system of Jiaodong Peninsula.Taking Kunyu Mountain, Yashan Mountain, Aishan Mountain, Luoshan Mountain and other peninsula roofs as the watershed, the north and south diverge, and all rivers rush to the sea and flow into the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea.The Wulong River and Huanglei River flow into the Yellow Sea to the south, the Dagu Jia River and Xin'an River flow into the Yellow Sea to the north, and the Wang River, Jie River and Huangshui River flow to the Bohai Sea to the north, with a total drainage area of 7,205 square kilometers.The water control of the ancestors of Dongyi and the people of Jiaodong for a hundred generations will be carried out on such a land and in such a water system.
The concept of Dongyi not only comes from the explanation and delineation of ancient books, but also from the field evidence.Walk into every ancient village in Jiaodong, and ask those Haoshou old people where their hometown is. Most of them will say that it was "moved from under the big locust tree in the year when the flood occurred", and to be more specific, it will be It is said that it was moved from Sichuan, or from Hongdong County, Shanxi.They say they come from Sichuan, which means that their ancestors broke the law and were exiled into the army and exiled to Dongyi far away.In this way, there is another physical characteristic inherited from generation to generation: the end of the nail of our little toe is split. A legacy that lasted through the ages.
Is Bashan Shushui our ancestral home? "The night rain in Bashan rises the autumn pond", the flood is surging, is it the hometown of our dreams?Zhuge Wuhou set out from Chengdu to conquer the barbarians. The Nanman and Dongyi were both alien lands and did not enter the mainstream of civilization at that time.Hongdong County in Shanxi has a bad reputation, because of a play about a son's heart and a prostitute's love, we don't want to admit that it is our hometown.
Where is our ancestral home?In the long history of mankind, civilization progress and barbaric backwardness cannot be determined solely by location.From an archaeological point of view, Dongyi also coincides with the Haidai Jiaohua area. In terms of time, it roughly includes the currently known Neolithic and Bronze Ages.The Sanxingdui culture in Sichuan can almost be compared with it.However, on the Chengdu Plain, it is still difficult to figure out what ethnic group the original inhabitants were.
The origin of human beings, the origin of the earth, and the origin of the universe, these three major problems still plague us today and cannot be definitively solved.In the early days of the primordial world, the universe is prehistoric, just water, water, a big water, we often just guess in which waters the seeds of human beings germinate and land on land.
There is a legend that seems to connect us Dongyi people and Shu people.According to the legend, Fuxi's mother, girl Huaxu, was born in Huayang, and Fuxi was born. Then, the "reborn ancestor" of Chinese mankind also lived in Sichuan.And Fuxi lived in the early Neolithic Age, and is the humanistic ancestor of our Chinese nation.He created gossip, which became the origin of Chinese characters and ended the history of "knotting events".He has a snake head and a human body, and is the earliest descendant of the dragon. The Emperor of Heaven entrusted him and his sister Nuwa with the task of multiplying human beings. "We are all descendants of the dragon", we have a common ancestor.Whether it is the Central Plains or the Yi, whether it is Bashan Shushui or Jiaodong Shanshui, thousands of mountains and rivers all come from the same vein.From the map, mountains are connected to mountains, and water is connected to water. There is no absolute Hengduan Mountains, and Hengduan River.In the orogeny of the earth, extrusion and collision, mountain peaks bulge, valleys break, great rivers flow through the valleys, hundreds of rivers flow toward the sea, and the whole of China and the whole earth are connected in this way.
Water control, in essence, should not be a matter of one state, one county, one region, but a collective activity of human beings on the earth, for the survival, continuation and development of human beings as a whole.
Thinking about it, maybe there was no country that suffered from severe floods like China in ancient times. Therefore, they did not have a great Yu who controlled the water, so that future generations would worship and worship.From historical records, it can be seen that Dayu never came to Dongyi to control the water.The main areas where he controlled the water are in today's eastern Hebei, eastern Henan, northern Huaihe, and western and southern Shandong.He worked hard to control the water, his shin hair was worn out, and his feet were hurt. Yu walked almost all the mountains and rivers of the Central Plains, but he still didn't come to Dongyi.
Governing the country and managing water have never been two separate things. What connects the two is not only the concept, but also the practical relationship.Dayu became the emperor after Yao and Shun because of his meritorious service in water control.In ancient China, where floods were raging, he dredged the river and calmed the water, so that people's livelihood was safe and secure, and there was a basic guarantee.In this way, he changed from the abdication system of the Chinese emperor to the hereditary system, and he did not expect that it would bring many disadvantages to the subsequent governance of the country.
Dayu was good at water control, and he had three magic weapons: the sea chart, the mountain axe, and the sea-fixing needle.From the perspective of today's scientific and technological progress, the mountain ax is at best something similar to an excavator. At that time, there was no oil combustion to provide power, so it may be fake.There is definitely no Dinghai magic needle, and now when the typhoon hits the sea and the waves are turbulent, there is no such thing as a magic needle thrown into the sea to stabilize the storm.However, there are nautical charts, and it must be a map that shows the river systems on the land of China. Dayu had a plan in his chest, and planned one by one to divert the raging waves and torrents into the sea.
There is a well-known person who once assisted Dayu in water control. His name was Gao Tao, also known as Jiuyou.Where did Gao Tao come from? Like most ancient celebrities, there are different opinions.One is said to be a native of Qufu, Shandong, a descendant of Shaohao, and the leader of the Dongyi tribe.One is said to be from Lu'an, Anhui. There are Gaotao's tomb and Gaotao's temple in Lu'an.
Gao Tao was respected by the shrine not only because he had assisted Dayu in water control, but more importantly because he was the founder of China.He was the first person to combine the law of water control and the law of man.Water control must follow the way, and people must be governed according to the law.He served as Dali, also known as the judge, that is, the president of the country's highest court, and formulated the "five punishments" law.
Like the characters in ancient China, Gao Tao is also a demigod, with a horse face and mouth, like a peeled cucumber.When he tried suspicious cases, if it was difficult to distinguish between green and white, straight and straight, he would bring in a sheep with one horn. If he was guilty, the sheep would use its horn to attack.This kind of sheep can be regarded as a god sheep.Gao Tao's death from prison is clear and bright, thanks to the help of gods.In some places in China, floods are raging, and stone-carved cows will be erected on the rivers and seasides to control the water. Some of the cows also have one horn, and they use this horn to calm the raging waves.The god sheep breaks the prison, the god cow suppresses the water, and when the water nature and human nature do not follow the law, they all need divine help.Water control and state governance in ancient times followed the way of thinking of the unity of man and god.Dayu's mountain-breaking ax and sea-fixing needle should also be understood in the same way.
Of course, we know very well that a one-horned sheep will not decide who is guilty, and the one-horned cow standing by the river has never calmed the waves. will be overwhelmed.Dayu had never split the river with an axe. He still had to pay the selfless hard work of "passing the house three times without entering" when he controlled the water.Gao Yao, who assisted Dayu in water control, just applied the law of governing people and the country to water control rationally and rationally.
However, Gao Tao's identity raises another question for us. If Gao Tao had really been the leader of the Dongyi tribe, then when Dayu controlled the floods, Gao Tao abandoned the flood of Dongyi and ran to Dayu. Where did the aid go?Because we know that Dayu never came to Dongyi to control the flood.If this is the case, then Gaotao is the earliest "internationalist" in the history of water control, and the tribe is the country.
This kind of conjecture is actually based on a solid foundation for governing the country.Rivers flow without borders.When the earth was formed, there were no boundary markers standing on national boundaries to block the flow of water.The most effective water control requires breaking boundaries, overall arrangements, and comprehensive planning. The idiom "beggar your neighbor" came into being in the midst of flood control disasters, diverting the water disaster from one's own house and leaking it into the neighbor's house.There is a theory that one of the most important reasons for the formation of China's unified country is water control. Only when the country is united can it be possible to plan ravines and flood discharges on the entire country's territory. , Gouging out the flesh to mend the sore.
Using this theory, it may really be able to explain the formation of China's unified country. China has the Yellow River and Yangtze River running through it from east to west, and no small vassal state has the ability to manage such a vast water, not to mention the countless rivers and lakes entrenched in it. .However, this theory cannot explain the national form of the European continent. In the history there, there have been small states for a long time. Didn’t they consider the establishment of a unified country for the benefit of water control?Or, is it God's intention to favor that continent, so that the water there will not be happy?
Mainland China has established a unified country, which is indeed conducive to water control and easy to control.Dayu's water control was a large-scale water control movement in ancient China, and the order for water control came directly from Emperor Yao.After the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, the chaos of the Spring and Autumn Period, and the disputes of the Warring States Period, Qin Shihuang swept the Liuhe, unified the world, and reintegrated the separated territories.Some books say that when Qin Shihuang built the Zhengguo Canal, his national power prospered, he destroyed the six kingdoms, and became hegemony, and he put water control over the country.Perhaps this is the case. The construction of the Zhengguo Canal started in 246 BC and was completed in ten years.With this canal, the fertile fields can be irrigated, so "Guanzhong is a fertile field, and when there is no evil year, Qin is prosperous and strong, and he dies and merges with the princes."Another famous water conservancy project in Qin State is Dujiangyan.It is more eye-catching than the Zhengguo Canal. It has been playing the role of flood control and irrigation since it was built two thousand years ago.As of 1998, Dujiangyan has irrigated more than 40 counties, with an irrigated area of 668,700 hectares.Since ancient times, which water conservancy project in the world can be compared with Dujiangyan?
Dujiangyan was not built in the era of Qin Shihuang.The most important relic left by Qin Shihuang on the land of China is not the water conservancy project, but the Great Wall.Zhengguo Canal and Dujiangyan are still playing the role of flood control and irrigation, while the Great Wall has only become a tourist attraction, people caressing the thousand-year-old bricks, sighing what kind of miracles will be created by the huge labor put in by human beings.As a military defense project, the Great Wall probably cannot be regarded as an effective means for Qin Shihuang in terms of governing the country.The Great Wall originally intended to prevent the Xiongnu from going south to graze horses. This purpose has not been realized since the Qin Dynasty and even later generations.There is a view that if the Great Wall is not built, the Xiongnu can cross the border anywhere and go south to graze horses. With the Great Wall, the Huns need to break through the pass to enter the pass to graze horses.Well, let the weeping women cry into rivers, and cry to collapse the Shanhaiguan Pass, so that it will be easier for the Huns to enter the pass.The will of the people, the emperor who does not support his own country, but helps foreigners to take over the country, it must be that the brutal rule makes the people unbearable.
The old leading Great Wall, facing Shanhaiguan across the waves, stands on the promontory, and the raging tide beats its foundation stone and ancient bricks, making loud noises.Eight years ago, a few friends and I stood there, looking to the north, and could not see the smoke cloud of history drifting over there, giving us a clear answer: Is there a basic law for the rise and fall of a country, like the tide rises and falls? Can it be grasped?
"Water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it" is probably the most incisive statement in the policy of governing the country.Water is complex, and human nature is more complicated than water; water is vast and turbulent, and human power is more difficult to grasp than water potential.Water governance is closely related to governance of the country. Water is similar to human nature, and water conditions are integrated with human emotions. Hydrology cannot be separated from humanities. This should be a truth that good governance should not forget.Standing on the old Longtou Great Wall, looking at the sky, we couldn’t see which side of the Meng Jiangnv Temple was shooting the sky and sea tide. We finally failed to see the incense there, and seriously examined the wishes of the people of the Great Qin Empire, as well as the generation of women Qianli I only wrote a poem to remember my husband's life and death love:
"Building the Great Wall in the Ming Dynasty and repairing the temple in the Qing Dynasty", the emperors of the Qing Dynasty who defeated Shanhaiguan and broke through the customs knew deeply that the Great Wall could not stop gold and iron horses, but the statues in the temple could help them maintain their rule.Imprisoning the mind, enslaving the people spiritually, "preventing the mouth of the people is better than preventing Sichuan", these principles of governing the country are well understood.Emperor Qianlong did not do much in water control, but his grandfather Emperor Kangxi regarded "San Francisco, river affairs and water transportation" as three major events in parallel at the beginning of his reign when all businesses were waiting to be promoted, and the book was hung in the palace. On the center column.The so-called "river affairs" refers to the flood control of the Yellow River, "water transportation" refers to the transfer of grain from the south to the north through the canal, and the "San Francisco" refers to Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, Shang Kexi, the king of Pingnan, and Geng Zhongming, the king of Jingnan.Wu Sangui turned on the thief and led the Manchus into the customs. Together with King Pingnan and King Jingnan, the Empress Feng became the confidant of the Qing government. Along with "river affairs" and "water transportation", they became the three major tasks of Emperor Kangxi's administration. One of the big things.
The Central Plains compete for the throne, and the one who wins dominates the world.Far away from the Central Plains, Dongyi has never been a place where all the heroes in the world compete.Only in modern times, when Japanese pirates came from the sea from the east, would they land at Dongyi Cape and shake the pillars of the imperial capital.In modern times, it has also become a battlefield for armies to fight.
In May of this year, I went to Yimeng Mountain to collect wind.On that gloomy morning, I first visited the Menglianggu Battle Memorial Hall, and then climbed to Menglianggu. The great battle 62 years ago seemed to unfold before my eyes.
It was a battle to the death, a bloody battle.The People's Liberation Army wiped out more than 30,000 enemies, the People's Liberation Army also sacrificed more than 2,000 people, injured more than 9,000 people, and lost more than 800 people.Every rock and every inch of land in Meng Lianggu was soaked in blood.The casualties of the People's Liberation Army were carried off by stretchers for treatment; the corpses of Kuomintang soldiers were scattered all over the mountains.The fierce fighting ended on the afternoon of May 16, and it rained heavily immediately.The People's Liberation Army moved urgently to Jiaodong.Mountain torrents broke out, floods flowed across the river, and the river below the mountain was completely red.That is the Yi River, the Yi River that is sung in the song "Mengshan is high and Yishui is long".
It was almost noon when we came down from Menglianggu that day, and we went to a village at the foot of the mountain for dinner.That village has become rich in recent years by cultivating sweet-scented osmanthus.Outside the sweet-scented osmanthus nursery, a sign was erected, pointing to the mountain in the south, and wrote:
It turns out that this place also belongs to Dongyi.
The water of Yihe River is also my "Water of Dongyi".
That was the water that once flowed red blood!
In the past few days, I drove around in Yimeng area, walking around, and often walked beside a big river.Ask a local friend what kind of river it is, and the answer is Yihe, Yihe, or Yihe.The Yihe River was originally such a river. It flows through Yiyuan, Yishui, Yinan, Hedong, Lanshan, Luozhuang, Cangshan, Tancheng and other counties in the Yimeng area. Xinyi City, Jiangsu Province enters Luoma Lake, with a drainage area of 17,325 square kilometers. The main tributaries include Wen River, Meng River, Liuqing River, Yan River, and Su River.No wonder walking in Yimeng territory, always walking beside it!
The Yihe River is naturally not the Yihe River 60 years ago. The Yihe River during the construction period in peacetime presents a different style.Its most striking landscape is a newly built rubber dam.On its main stream, Xiaobudong Rubber Dam, Taoyuan Rubber Dam, and Liuhang Rubber Dam have been built successively in recent years, and Jiaoyi Rubber Dam, Huayuan Rubber Dam, and Gezhuang Rubber Dam have been built on the main stream of the Li River.These rubber dams form cascades, which can maximize the storage of transit water and provide water for urban groundwater recharge, industrial and agricultural water supply, and riverside landscape projects.Rubber dam, a new type of water conservancy project, was born in Los Angeles, USA in 1957. In the second half of 1965, my country began to develop and build, and it developed rapidly in the 1990s.It uses high-strength synthetic fiber fabric as the force-bearing skeleton, and the inside and outside are coated with rubber as a protective layer, processed into rubber, and then fixed on the bottom plate to form a closed dam bag, which is filled with water [air] through the filling and discharging pipeline. Inflated to form a pocket dam.The dam crest can overflow, and the dam height can be adjusted according to the needs, and the upstream water level can be controlled to exert benefits such as irrigation, power generation, shipping, flood control, and tide protection.On the Yi River, the largest rubber dam in Asia has been built in recent years.
It is true that today is not what it used to be. The Yihe River is no longer the Yihe River it was 60 years ago, nor is it the Yihe River in that play.
In the mid-1960s, there was a newly written Lv drama "Both Banks of the Yi River" staged, telling the story of the people on both sides of the Yi River wanting to turn the Yimeng mountainous area into the south of the Yangtze River and overcoming difficulties to grow rice.The amateur theater troupe in our village was rehearsing in the middle of the "Cultural Revolution", that is, in the early 1970s.I was 19 years old that year, holding a piano, playing the piano accompaniment on the earthen corner of the village, watching the heroes and heroines on the stage frown at the difficulties they faced, but I didn’t know that the hero and heroine had entered a practical game. In love, the heroine will become my cousin and accompany my elder brother for the rest of his life.
The virtuous wife has a tender heart, persuading her husband affectionately, helping the outdated "uncle", keep up with the pace of the revolution, and win the battle of diverting water for irrigation and planting rice.
The play about growing rice was created on the eve of the "Cultural Revolution" and was premiered by the Lu Opera Troupe of Shandong Province. The script was printed with stills and score, and was officially published by the publishing house.Our village's amateur troupe [Mao Zedong Thought Propaganda Team] rehearsed in the winter of 1971, the fifth year of the "Cultural Revolution".Literary history works since the new era always say that during the "Cultural Revolution" period, the 600 million people in the country only watched eight model operas, which is not accurate.In the theaters in the cities, it is true that only the eight model plays occupy the stage. In the countryside, at least in the Dongyi countryside far from the center, there are other plays being rehearsed.Since 1968, the amateur theater troupe in our village has continuously rehearsed "Huaishuzhuang", "Jiangjie" and "Red Coral".That was also a happy time when I held a pendant piano, sat in a corner of the stage, and accompanied the folk actors.My youthful enthusiasm and youthful yearning lie in the ups and downs of the silk strings.
The rice planting play "Both Banks of the Yi River" is the last big play rehearsed in our village.From the perspective of the "uncle" in the play and ordinary farmers, planting rice in the Yimeng mountainous area is undoubtedly whimsical.The secretary of the party branch wants to draw water from the Yi River to irrigate the rice and turn the north of the Jiangnan into the south of the Yangtze River. It is inevitable to encounter difficulties and failures.At the critical moment, the "uncle" - he served as the captain of the production team - retreated and had a fierce conflict with the secretary of the party branch.The secretary of the party branch was worried and didn't know how to help the "uncle" keep up with the team.After all, the "uncle" is still the leader of the party branch secretary: "Follow the uncle to make a revolution, he equipped me with a red-tasseled gun", "fight the enemy to protect my hometown, he haunts the green gauze tent day and night, fighting the landlords to divide the fields, he supports the front line to fight In the Quartet".Thinking about it, in the famous battle of Menglianggu, the uncle should be a stretcher member who carried the wounded PLA soldiers off the battlefield. Today’s branch secretary, holding a red-tasseled gun, stood at the head of the village on the bank of the Yi River to check the road. Don't let bad guys into the village.Compared with the past and the present, the vicissitudes of life have changed dramatically. It is not only the mountains and rivers that have changed, but people are more important. People change the mountains and rivers. "If the sky has love, the sky will be old, and the right way in the world is vicissitudes." The vicissitudes of life change in the world.
Needless to say, rice cultivation on both sides of the Yi River must have been a success.My cousin and cousin's love will also enter the palace of marriage.But they are about to part, a big river will separate them, thousands of miles away.My cousin is going to the south of the Yangtze River to work with his father in the geological team, and my future cousin will stay in our small village, her household registration will be tied to the rural land and she will not be able to move away.At that time, many people thought that my cousin would end this relationship and find someone else.They don't know that the love watered by water on the stage and the love sung in a melodious voice will not be cut off easily.
Bai Xue Piao Piao has deep affection, that is the spirit of rain.The cousin and the cousin sister-in-law got married as scheduled in winter, and they were deeply affectionate.Then began a life of separation in the two places.The two sides of the river are facing each other from a distance.Wind morning rain evening, leisurely care.Every Spring Festival, my cousin came across the river to meet his sister-in-law. After the holidays, when he returned to Jiangnan, his eyes were red from crying.What is said that "when the golden wind and jade dew meet, they will win but there are countless people in the world", if they can get their wish, they would rather stay together day and night, even if they will quarrel over the hardships of life and the hardships of life together. "The love of revolution is as deep as the sea, and it is difficult to separate when the wind blows and the waves hit." In the days when the two places are separated and miss every night, will the sister-in-law hum in a low voice, so that her heart can be relieved a little?
The cousin was transferred from Jiangnan to Jiangbei, who knows how much effort it took!He was transferred to his hometown in Zhaoyuan, where the Sixth Geological Team of Shandong Province is located. The geological team was also thrown into the economic tide and experienced turbulence, division and reorganization.The economic benefits are not good. For a few years, my cousin went with the team to dig wells in the Weihai area in the east. Taking advantage of the geological team's drilling advantages, they dug wells for people to fetch water and subsidized the geological team's expenses.While loading and unloading a drilling rig, my cousin fell off the car and broke a leg.I went to the hospital to see him that day.The cousin sister-in-law was at the bedside, her black hair was already grey.Thinking of their youth and their affectionate singing on the stage, I couldn't help getting tears in my eyes. "The sentiment of revolution is as deep as the sea", they will not think of what I miss.
After the cousin recovered from his injury, he left the post [not retired] early.
My cousin went with the team to dig wells in Weihai. He has reached the "end of the sky", a headland at the easternmost end of the earth's land extending to the sea.In ancient times, a branch of the Dongyi tribe lived there.Qin Shihuang longed for the elixir of life, so he sent the alchemist Xu Fu to go to the sea to find the fairy mountains. At the same time, Qin Shihuang personally visited the east to visit the gods, and he went to the end of the sky.Qin Shihuang also came to the end of his political career, wealth and life. He never met immortals, and died in the sand dunes on his return journey.It is an area with few water resources.In Rongcheng at the end of the sky, there are 106 large and small rivers, all of which are intermittent rivers of seasonal rainfall, with a total length of 513.84 kilometers.The largest rivers in the territory, such as Gu River and Shijia River, are only 30 kilometers long.At the turn of the 1980s and 1990s, the problem of water shortage has become increasingly serious for the local people.My cousin went there with the team to drill wells, and the professional drilling rigs of the geological team drilled deep into the formation to get water.The cousin, who was operating the rig at the time, had no idea of the bad luck that would ensue.It was not the "uncle" in the play who was carrying a stretcher on the battlefield and was injured by stray bullets, but that he had an accident in peacetime and broke a leg.
The cousin who left the post earlier has long lived in the village. The husband and wife ended their separated life in two places separated by a big river, and they stayed together forever.My cousin is over sixty years old, and my sister-in-law has gray hair on her temples. She can't sing a song of affectionate and soft love anymore.The cousin dragged a broken leg, and she tended the apple trees in the orchard, and the cousin was far less capable than her.She is a native farmer's daughter, strong and strong, and has never left the crops.My cousin went to the geological team and worked as a worker for more than 20 years. He injured his leg and often seemed unable to do crop work.My cousin had back pain and leg pain under the apple tree. He sat down and looked around in a daze. Behind him was a big water. It was the reservoir in our village, named Chagou Reservoir, which was a small reservoir in the water conservancy project.
During the few days of collecting wind in the Yihe area, I drove vertically and horizontally, turned around, and came to the bank of the Yihe River again.Looking at the water of the Haohao Yi River and the rubber dam on the river, I thought of the Lu Opera "Both Banks of the Yi River" we had rehearsed, the love that my cousin and sister-in-law associated with that play, and the youth of our generation, Can't help but be filled with emotion.I didn't ask my local friends whether rice cultivation on both sides of the Yi River was a success. What village on the bank of the Yi River was the background of the play more than 30 years ago.There is no need to ask these questions.During the Kangxi era of the Qing Dynasty, Kangxi also considered "water transport" to transport grain as one of the three major events, and relied on waterways to transport grain.Now the price of grain has been liberalized, and the grain market can be found in any small grain store in urban and rural areas. Not only can you buy white rice from the south of the Yangtze River, but you don’t have to travel far to buy red rice and black rice. Just go.
Water, water, with water, we can grow any kind of rice.
Long, long ago, there was a time when heavy rain was very willing, and everything on the earth had not yet been arranged, and all access and obstacles could only be planned and laid out after heavy rain after another.The world is still in its infancy, and the beginning and end of life seem very sloppy and indifferent. After countless ages, the people in the small village have turned from superstition to science, and believe that the reproduction of the He family is probably related to that heavy rain...
In my novel "Sinking Bell", I began to describe the origin of the aborigines in a small village by the Zhongliu River in this way.Next, I wrote about a big clock coming downstream in the torrent, and a woman was sitting in the big clock.After the big clock stopped, she walked up to the river bank, and felt a ray of light condensed into a grape-like light ball, falling into her mouth.She conceived and gave birth, and became the ancestor of the He surnamed family.The ancestors surnamed He found the connection and difference between the flow of life and the flow of water, and made their surnames from "he" to "he".
It is not a myth, I am writing about the origin of human beings with serious pen and ink.
We are from the water.
Opened up by Hongmeng, when the earth was formed, it was just water, water, without any sign of life.Just about 530 million years ago, Yunnan worms appeared.This kind of back is composed of 22-24 skeletal sarcomeres, and the sarcomeres are separated by approximately flat muscle septa, which has become the most ancient ancestor of vertebrates.It is rippling with the waves in the big water, and it has been the same for hundreds of millions of years.It evolves slowly, and we cannot describe its history in detail. It is too long, too boring, and too "people" can't wait.During the evolution of hundreds of millions of years, a branch of Yunnan worms evolved into amphioxus and stopped evolving, while the other branch, Haikou worms [a few centimeters long], went through hundreds of millions of years of evolution and finally bid farewell to the fins. And cheeks, grew lungs to breathe freely and legs to walk flexibly, developed advanced intelligence, and became human beings... This is how we came from the water.
In the human world, I am afraid that there is no ethnic group that has such an intimate relationship with water like the ethnic minorities in Yunnan. During their Songkran Festival, in the splashing water, in the wet bodies , Will we see the distant shadow of human beings?Although it went into the forest and walked out of the big forest, Songkran is still a festival for human beings to celebrate his first birthday.
In recent years, the issue of human origin has aroused people's attention again.There is a view that the Chinese originated in Africa and immigrated to China about 100,000 years ago. The evidence is that the vast majority of Chinese, especially males, have a special gene that is unique to ancient Africans .Then, it can also be further concluded from this that the ancestors of Africans were also Yunnan worms, which evolved into a branch of Haikou worms, swaying in the ocean, passing through the South China Sea, entering the Indian Ocean, and in Somalia [now there Pirates are rampant] Landing on the seashore, after hundreds of millions of years of evolution, they evolved into primitive Africans.The African continent is a place where water resources are scarce.A group of primitive Africans, nostalgic for their wetness in the waters of the "homeland", drifted back along the same route.According to professional human origin books, it may have taken 3 million years for primitive humans to tentatively take the first steps out of Africa.
That's it, in ancient history, we can only guess, it is difficult to obtain evidence.Rare paleontological fossils, carrying ancient marine information and paleontological information, send us clues of evidence, and we will trace back and expand our imagination on it.Yunnan worm, probably the oldest vertebrate fossil we have found so far, lived in the shallow sea in the early Cambrian period, allowing us to see the figure of our distant ancestors who depended on water.
However, there is one fact that we can still see with our own eyes: Africa today is the driest continent.Although the world's largest river, the Nile, originates from the Burundi Highlands on the East African Plateau in the south of the equator, with a total length of 6,670 kilometers. Its main stream flows through Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Sudan and Egypt. One-ninth of the total area of the African continent, however, still cannot fundamentally change the drought situation of the African continent.The Sahara Desert, the largest desert in the world, is also there.In this way, the Creator concentrated the two poles that are incompatible with ice and coal on the same continent, torturing and testing human beings.Today, women in many parts of Africa still carry water tanks on their heads and draw water from far away places to maintain the most basic needs of life for water.The women in the Bayoda desert drew water from the well with their hands on the pump, poured it into sheepskin bags, and carried it away on a donkey. They probably never had the luxury of turning on the tap to release the water.
云南虫——海口虫演化而来的人类，他告别了海水，走进森林，又从森林里走出，他就不能够适应海水的咸涩了。来自水中的人类，他告别了大海，走上陆地，水，令他须臾不可离开，水，又时常造成灾难，令他恐惧不安。细究起来，洪水神话中，不是深藏着人类对水无比的恐惧吗？
治水的大禹，是在人类对水的恐惧和依赖中，建起了人们对他的敬畏和崇拜。
大禹治水，没有来过东夷。东夷非逐鹿之中原，治国者不到这偏远的夷方来治水。有个人来到此地，原本有望在知府任上，治人与治水同步，建立业绩，在东夷的史册上留下一笔。可惜他到任时间太短【正史说是五月，传说是五日】，还是无所作为地走了。他是苏轼，大诗人苏东坡。宋元丰八年，宋神宗皇帝驾崩，因“鸟台诗案”遭贬，流放到岭南的苏轼，被重新起用，到登州任知府。登州府设在今天的蓬莱。
又浪漫又务实的苏轼，在登州任上短短的时间里，写诗作文，向仙境表达他求而不得的向往，条陈奏请，向皇帝禀报他的治世设想。他在同一天，向朝廷连上二状，一为榷盐：《乞罢登莱榷盐状》，一为水军：《登州召还议水军状》。苏轼已经预见了东夷海防的隐患：“登州地近北虏，虽为极边，虏中山川，隐约可见，便风一帆，奄及城下。”到了明代，戚继光在蓬莱建水城，治水军，抵御倭寇，证明了苏轼绝不是“百无一用”的书生。假以时日，苏轼如能在登州为官时间长一些，东夷治水的历史，或许就会由东坡的如椽大笔亲自写下。
无奈，远古的大禹不来东夷治水，中古的良臣好官无暇在东夷治水，东夷水患便长期得不到治理，这方偏远之地的人民，便留下了深深的对于水的恐惧，这种恐惧形成了集体无意识，深潜在他们的种系繁衍中。东夷人说，他们的祖先是“发大水那年从大槐树底下搬来的”，谁知道发的那场大水，到底是“大槐树底下”的大水，还是东夷的大水呢？
东夷水患不止，单单大沽夹河有历史记载的440年间，就发生洪灾40余起。据《福山区志》记载，仅大沽夹河清阳河段，就发生过10次大的水患灾害。当地流传着这样的歌谣：
“两夹”指的是大沽夹河的外夹河和内夹河。
门楼水库是在内夹河中游建起来的。这座大【二】型水库，总库容1.48亿立方米，控制流域1077平方公里。1958年11月开工兴建，1960年5月建成。高峰时，福山、牟平、乳山的民工，再加上烟台市的驻军，共2万多人参加建设。开工不久，即进入冬季。那时候没有挖掘机，挖“导流沟”全凭民工一锨一镐刨挖。冬天的早晨，水面结了一层冰，温度降到零下五六度。民工们谁也不讲条件，跳进冰水里，挥镐便刨。“打板桩”也没有现在的器械条件，1000多斤重的板桩，需要30个民工一齐举起，才能将板桩打进地里。其时劳动强度大，生活条件艰苦。民工们晚上就睡在用草席搭起的四面透风的工棚里，下雪天草棚内外都是雪。民工每天每人的生活费仅有3毛钱，粮食每天每人自带1斤，国家补助1斤，其中细粮只有10％，主粮就是地瓜干。水库建成以后，有人说门楼水库大坝是烟台民工用地瓜干垒起来的，令人想起陈毅元帅的一句话：
“淮海战役的胜利是山东人民用小车推出来的。”
战争，建设，治水，治国，需要付出的是同样的代价，那就是人民的血肉之躯、忘我激情。
不错，1958年，大跃进，浮夸风，大炼钢铁，随后而来的自然灾害，大饥饿，让我们对那个年代的感情复杂难言，但是，有一点，无论到什么时候都不该否定，那就是人民的建设热情。你可以批评浮夸，批评极“左”，批评冒进，然而你就是不能嘲弄崇高，不能嘲弄牺牲，不能嘲弄人民的建设热情。人民群众被极“左”路线瞎指挥号令着，把铁锅砸了，去大炼钢铁，他们是无奈盲从；他们千百年来遭受水患灾害，要从根本上治水，变水害为水利，他们是发自内心的建设热情。1958年的大修水利应如是看待，后来的学大寨，大搞农田基本建设，也应该如是看待。1958年大修水利，我们而今还在受惠。学大寨大搞农田基本建设，整修了那么多土地，把薄地改造成良田。土地承包到户以后，农民也是在这样的土地上获得了丰收。回首历史，总结历史的时候，全部肯定、全部否定的态度都不足取。本着对历史负责任的态度说一句话，应该说：东夷之水，是在1958年从根本上改变了面貌。
烟台市的水利工程，还有好多是1958年修建的。大型水库王屋水库、沐浴水库，中型水库勾山水库、里店水库、龙门口水库、城子水库等，都是修建于1958年。
古东夷这块土地，远离中心，偏居一隅，非古代统治者治国安邦的注目之地，大禹治水未到，有识之士偶尔一过，匆匆来去，无暇治理。只是到了20世纪中叶，人民群众的建设热情蓬勃生发的年代，才兴起了治水热潮。那个年代兴建的水利，便惠及后代，让后辈人溉沐其中。来自水中的我们，对于大水，不再只是恐惧了，也有了依赖和依恋。
水啊，那是我们严厉暴烈的父亲，也是我们慈爱温柔的母亲，它教训我们，也哺养我们。
在我的长篇小说和中短篇小说中，“三河”是人物活动的背景，也是我倾心描述的领域。“三河流域”是我构筑的文学世界，建立在坚实的现实土地上，并不是凭空虚构。我小说中的三河：中流河、东流河、西流河，如果要还原，那么，它们就是我的家乡招远境内的钟离河、城东河、诸流河。
实在是家乡河流注入我心中的那种深远的情感，才让我构筑了文学中的水系。无论我写到了什么样的故事，它们都是在家乡的河边发生，无论我写到了什么样的人物，他们在哪块田地里耕作，都是家乡的水库放水，浇灌着他们的庄稼。
我家乡的水库也是修建在1958年。
钟离河上游的金岭水库，只能算是一座小型水库，离我老家的东店村只有五里远。老家人不叫它金岭水库，只叫它大河水库。在家乡人的心目中，它是个大水库，钟离河也是条大河。钟离河原本也该是条大河吧。我在《沉钟》里，写当地土著居民的先祖，在下大雨的年代乘大钟而来，繁衍下何姓的祖先，就应该是钟离河大水浩淼的时代。
大河水库的修建，动员了全公社乃至邻近公社的民工。钟离河下游的农民尽管出工，但他们不相信会受益，理由很简单：大河水库的水流不到钟离河两岸的坡地里，因为地比水高。大河水库竣工以后，开始挖渠，从山间挖一条大渠20多公里长，准备引水。大家更不相信了。尽管测量员架了三条腿的架子，眼睛对到镜子上瞄过，农民们还是不相信大河水库的水会流过来，他们言之凿凿断定，那是挖战壕，盘踞在台湾岛上的蒋介石不是正叫嚣着要窜返大陆吗？人民公社的干部急匆匆到村里来开会，安定民心，告诉大家，人民解放军已经打败了国民党的八百万大军；现在国民党那些胡子兵，来个十万八万当蜜儿吃了；山间挖的还是大渠要流水，不是战壕准备打仗。
事实证明人民公社的干部不骗人，大渠真的放水了。大河水库的水流过20公里大渠，大渠环绕内的土地都可以灌溉。在大渠相应的位置，修了小小的水闸，用石头水泥砌好。打开水闸，水从启了盖的闸门流出。开启关闭都要打开铁锁，钥匙在管水员那里管着，一个水闸一把钥匙，串成一串，挂在管水员的腰带上。
大河水库的管水员，在干旱的日子里，掌握着庄稼的生死命脉，是人民公社社员“大旱之望甘霖”的小龙王。他骑着自行车，沿着大渠巡逻。20多公里的大渠，自然要“遇山开路遇沟造桥”。横跨山沟之间的大渠，渠沿只能容一人通过。我们村赶牛沟上的大渠修起时，我刚上小学三年级，大胆的伙伴敢从渠沿上走过。我壮着胆子硬走一趟，走到中间，根本不敢斜眼往沟里看，只是紧紧地盯着脚下水泥抹光的两脚宽的渠沿。如此危险，管水员竟敢骑着自行车骑过去，令人称奇。
我们村应该算是由大河水库最得益的村子之一。也是在1958年，我们村修起了岔沟小水库。大河水库的大渠从小水库上面通过，修起大坝，又形成了一个大水库。大河水库放水，先要把大水库放满，才能流出去顺流而下。大水库放满了水，溢洪道还会流出水来，放满小水库。岔沟的大小水库，只我们村子受益。后来，大约是大河水库主管部门察觉到这个问题了吧，那一年又调集民工，再修一道副坝，在岔沟大水库外面修起独立的水渠。大渠放水，再也不必放满大水库，再顺流而下了。
我一直没有机会去大河水库看看，那是一片怎样的大水，它荡漾着，荡漾着，从水闸门放出来，沿着那么宽那么深的大渠，流淌40里，浇灌万亩土地，又突然暴虐起来，冲决大堤，毁掉粮田。夏天里，去我们村的岔沟水库游泳，在小水库游上两个来回，在大水库游到南头，不歇气又游到北岸。领袖的诗词还未普及，还没有那份“不管风吹浪打，胜似闲庭信步”的豪迈。听说大河水库岸边的村子，有人能从大河水库南岸一直游到大河水库北岸，如果东西横游，能够把衣服顶在头顶，游上岸来，衣服上不沾水星。
那一年，终于有机会从大河水库的大坝上走过了，不禁惊得久久说不出话来，这么大的水库，竟能够纵横畅游，那是什么样的水性和胆量啊！我那时如果知道，大河水库只被水利工程专家列为小型水库，我会急得跟人争吵的：这还算小型水库，那么大型水库什么样子？你给我个大型水库看看！
不管大河水库属于大型还是小型，反正，它保证了控制流域36平方公里以内的土地能够浇灌。天只要干旱起来，就盼着大河水库放水。上山干活，从大渠旁走过，看看大渠里还没有水流过来，就顺着大渠延伸过来的方向往南看，嘴里喃喃着：“大河水库还不放水呀？”哪一天看到大渠里满满当当的大水流过来，便欣喜地念叨：“大河水库放水了，大河水库放水了……”大河水库，它积蓄了那个时代农民丰收的希望、生活的保障。
记忆中，大河水库的大渠道放水总是满满当当的，大渠大水，可以在里面游泳。大河水库似乎从来不会干涸，它永远有大河奔流而来，大坝拦洪蓄水。
应该是1967年吧，那一年奇旱，我们村的岔沟水库大的小的全部干了，水闸门晒在外面，不再能放出水来，抽水机也抽不上水来了。晚上渗一宿，第二天从水库湾底挖一道小水沟，引过水来，引到岸边，再用水桶戽起来，顺着开放的闸门放出去，浇灌快要干死的玉米苗。大河水库放下来的水，不再是原来的大渠道满满当当地流了，只是在渠道底一股小小的水流。管水员严把水闸钥匙，轮到哪个村浇，才把水闸打开。可是上游的人会“偷水”“抢水”，把水截去。于是，一场夺水护水的战争打响了。
我们的确是准备了要打仗的。轮到我们村浇地的时段，到了傍晚，革命委员会主任亲自带领我们护水。我们拿着铁锨，有一位还拿了一把抓钩。我那一年十五岁，刚刚成为人民公社正式社员。要参加那样一场护水战争，我难免心头恐惧，又不敢让人看出我在害怕。沿着大渠道往上走，我不时想到，如果真的争水打起来，我真的要挥动铁锨去朝人的身上铲吗？我还未成年，少年的身体像一株没有长起来的玉米苗；我经得住对方的打击吗？听说大河水库岸边的村子草沟头大队，有一个六队队长很捣蛋，不管是轮到下游哪个村子浇地，他都要偷水抢水。我不知道那个六队队长是不是能从大河水库的这岸游到那岸、头顶衣服湿不了衣服的人。我只是盼着，这个晚上不要遇上六队队长。可是，还不到半夜，六队队长就来了。
听着大渠那边啪嗒啪嗒的脚步声，有人穿着木屐走过来，认识他的人就小声说“就是他，六队队长”。
六队队长果然是个捣蛋的人。他像《水浒》里的泼皮牛二，蛮不讲理。他不跟人拼命，却让人把他打死。他扛着大木板而来，下到大渠里，把大木板挡上，用身体抵住木板，阻住水流，升起水位，从撬开的闸门流出去。我们村的革命委员会主任跟他讲理，说轮到了我们浇地，他不应该把水截去。他说，得让人吃饭吧，总不能光你们吃饭，把人饿死吧。我们当中拿了抓钩的人，不跟他讲吃饭问题，硬叫他起来，把木板撤出，他就叫我们拿铁锨铲死他，铲死他，他就起来了。简直胡闹嘛！简直不讲理嘛！铲死他，他还怎么起来？我们的人笑不出来，可是也不敢铲死他。他死赖在水里不出来，不跳起来跟我们打架，这一场护水战争终于也没有打起来。我们村的革命委员会主任咋呼着：去找公社革委，去找公社革委！我们就离开了六队队长。
公社驻地在我们村北面的中村，我们村的革命委员会主任带我们往南走，我就知道他说去找公社革委是瞎咋呼。天快亮时，我们沿着大渠道，走到了大河水库岸边，这才看到了大河水库可怜巴巴的样子。它没有了浩淼的大水，也是在水库底剩下了一湾水。只不过它原来比我们村的岔沟水库大，湾底也大一些罢了。就从它的湾底再挖渠，引水出来，抽水机抽出，放进水闸。抽水机自然也比我们村的大，用拖拉机带动，三台拖拉机带动着三台抽水机，给大旱之年的农民送去希望和失望，小水难解大旱。
即便不是旱天，大河水库的大渠道也早已暴露出它的弊端了。20多公里长的大渠道，两米多宽，两米多深，除了穿山过沟用石头砌，石缝抹了水泥，其余全是在泥沙山地里开挖出来的。每一次放水，需要浪费多少水，才能把大渠道润透，再流到下游去啊！
过去了整整一个时代，大河水库的水不知道浪费了多少，才终于把大渠道完成了一个改造，全部石砌，用水泥灌浆。大河水库的管理，也纳入了新的体制。原来骑着车子顺着大渠道沿巡视的管水员，换了新的人员，骑摩托车，沿着中流河东岸的大道，一直驰到大河水库管理处去上班。大河水库的管理设备，也进入了现代化，备有16千瓦备用发电机组一台，探照灯两个，沙土袋10000条，砂石1000方，碎石400方，沙1000方，土1500方，木材10方，铁丝20吨。这是为防汛抢险准备的。大河水库自1958年动工兴建，1960年3月竣工以来，至今未经过较大的考验。建库以来，最大的一次洪水考验，是1996年8月1日，最高水位达到100.51米，泄流量达到40立方米/秒。但是，水库管理仍不敢懈怠，不同时期，都对水库进行了除险加固工程改造。现在的大河水库，经严格检查核定，在百年一遇的洪水条件下，经水库调控，可削减洪峰58％，保护下游3个镇、30个自然村、0.6万亩土地免受洪水灾害。水库灌区总长24.8公里的干渠，12.5公里的支渠，可以灌溉1.32万亩土地。
像大河水库一样，招远境内的二百余座小型水库，近年来都进行了不同程度的工程改造。自2001年起，招远市组织专业技术人员，对境内的全部水库作了全面细致的调查，其中有52座属于病险水库。针对现实情况，按照“先急后缓，先重后轻，分期实施”的原则，用了三年时间，投工48万个，投资860多万元，完成工程量66万立方米，通过加高增厚大坝、坝前护坡、坝基防渗反滤、更换启闭设备、加深拓宽溢洪道等措施，全部完成了病险水库的除险加固工作。
水库安澜，洪峰削减，大旱灌溉，大涝防汛。我的“三河”，我的乡亲，不再有洪水肆虐，也不必再在旱天的日子里，为争水抢水，准备打一场护水的战争了吧。
由我家乡的钟离河边启程，向东走，过了城东河，继续东行，坡路越来越陡，越来越高，就进入了胶东屋脊栖霞。那差不多是东夷的腹地了。境内的牙山北麓，是清水河和五龙河的发源地。境内河流114条，源高流急，所有河道均流向境外，真的如屋脊上的流水泻向四檐。白洋河，境内流长50公里，涌向福山，注入渤海；清水河，境内流长40.5公里，汇入莱阳的五龙河，流入黄海；清阳河，境内流长35公里，流入渤海；漩河，境内流长34.5公里，流入莱阳；黄水河，蜿蜒曲折，流入黄县……栖霞像胶东的青藏高原喜马拉雅山，是东夷之水的主要源头。
那个冬天，我还没有结婚，和未婚的妻子从她们学校出发，去她的老家见我的岳父母。骑上自行车向东，走向栖霞东部，一种独特的景观出现在眼前，那是渡槽，凌空飞架的渡槽，不是一座，而是骑自行车走不远就会看见一座。我惊奇，甚至有一些震惊。我问未婚的妻子，栖霞怎么会有这么多渡槽？她告诉我说，文化大革命爆发，停产闹革命，好多地方原本设计的水利工程下马了。栖霞县有人在水利部工作，就把工程款拨给了家乡，修建了这么多渡槽。
像一个轶闻传说，在后来的三十多年中，有意无意地翻阅多种资料，我没有见到关于栖霞渡槽工程款的记载。那位往家乡拨了水利工程款的栖霞人，想必是真实存在的吧。那个年代，这种事情是会发生的。在要害部门掌握了一点权力的家乡“赤子”，即便他不能主动地想起乡梓，为家乡作点贡献，家乡人也会带一点土特产找上门去，求他们支援一下父老乡亲。那些“正史”不载的史实，是需要口述实录，记入“野史”的。历史的一些真相，倒往往藏在野史中。因为娶了栖霞的女儿为妻，栖霞也该算我的家乡了，那么，我就代栖霞父老，向那位正史不载的栖霞老乡道一声感谢了！在那个“全国山河一片红”的年代，他为家乡拨来水利工程款，建起了一座座渡槽，引来了滚滚碧水。
看栖霞渡槽的规模和数量，也可断定，我妻子的话说的是事实；那个年代，单凭栖霞自己的财政力量，决然修不起那么多渡槽。栖霞共有渡槽190座，总长度17000米。其中石砌渡槽2000米，桁架渡槽3000米，薄壳渡槽12000米。就在沿烟青公路从福山进入栖霞境内不远，在公路右侧，就有一座1200米长的钢丝薄壳渡槽，这是栖霞最长的朱家渡槽。这座渡槽结构轻巧，节省水泥，方便施工。渡槽流量1立方米/秒，可以从40公里以外，把庵里水库的水引来。在栖霞至蓬莱的公路线上，寨里乡北边，还有几座像铁路桥梁般的下承式桁架拱渡槽。33年前，我的妻子在寨里中学教学，我和她从她们学校出发去她家，看见的第一座渡槽就是这座。在观里镇北部，月牙河和漩河的交叉口处，还有一座跨度居全省第一的复式桁架拱渡槽，它净跨50米，过水流量3.5立方米/秒。通过它，可以把龙门口水库的水送到下游，灌溉良田4万余亩。那里，就与我家乡的招远南乡为邻了。
“造福桑梓”，我们从最狭义的角度上，来评价那位不入正史的栖霞老乡的作为吧。当全国都在停产闹革命的时候，原来准备兴修水利的水泥钢筋闲置不用，他乘机划拨到家乡，造福桑梓，实在是功德无量。那些钢筋水泥不用来兴修水利，难道要让造反派拿去修碉堡打派仗吗？
栖霞实在是块钟灵毓秀之地，那里出过大地主牟二黑子