Chapter 22 Chapter 21: Stories of Dujiangyan

The highest goodness is like water, it should be a philosophical proposition.Although Lao Tzu said "Water is good for all things and does not fight, and it is evil for everyone, so it is more than Tao", on the surface it is talking about water, but later it is undoubtedly a metaphor Human, warn people that they should settle down, and people should be like water, be at ease with the situation, be good at living in low-lying places, and be as calm as water. The highest kindness, of course, is not the general kindness, but the highest kindness. Water is good at nourishing all things and making them grow, and never competes with all things to judge their own merits. Therefore, Li Er believes that this kind of character is close to the character in his mind. The highest and most holy "Tao".

Maybe it’s because people don’t do good deeds nowadays, people are calling for the return of kindness. TV screens and city advertisements are flocking to them. It is often used in conjunction with "good morals carry things", sometimes it makes people confused, and I don't know what to think. During this trip to Dujiangyan, as soon as we entered the Chengguan Expressway, there was also a giant banner of "Shangshan Rushui" rushing towards us.I'm trying to guess, does it actually refer to water?Are you praising Dujiangyan?Or use water as a metaphor to carry forward a water culture spirit?I think both.This time, there was no feeling of being fooled or blasphemed.

Since my last visit to Dujiangyan, 26 springs and autumns have passed through the waves of history.I have an unusual relationship with Dujiangyan.The Changchun Film Studio, which I worked for, shot the movie "Li Bing" in 1983. In addition to art, it was also a spiritual tribute to Li Bing from Changying people. The Minjiang River staggered all the way from the snow-capped mountains, with its footsteps spanning thousands of years, bearing the high hopes of Li and Shu, accompanied by the vicissitudes of history. Standing on Yuzui, Feishayan, on the swaying Anlan Cable Bridge, or overlooking the torrent gushing down from the mouth of Baoping in Fulong Temple, you will feel as if you have been separated from the world.The water of the Minjiang River has been rushing down like a day for thousands of years. The sound of the water is magnificent and the roar is like thunder, just like in the past.But I know that it is no longer the water of the past. It is impossible for people to ford the same river at different times. It is probably this kind of thinking with a sense of philosophical games that makes people feel frequently.

In front of Lidui, which is spewing snow waves, on the water mist screen that scatters rainbow light, I seem to see the shadows of historical celebrities overlapping, such as Du Fu, Li Bai, Cen Shen, Liu Yuxi, Lu You...they are very important to Dujiangyan Water Conservancy. The chanting of the project has lasted for thousands of years. For example, the Yulei Mountain is not a majestic peak. It is famous all over the world because of the two lines of poems handed down by the poets: "The spring scenery of the Jinjiang River comes to the world, and the floating clouds on the Yulei Mountain change the past and the present." , and more than 2,200 years ago, Li Bing, the governor of Shu County, who "built a weir at a low level and scoured the beach deep", split mountains and diverted water, and built it to benefit the future and create a land of abundance, is the carrier of famous poems and sentences.

If it is said that literati's poems and essays are inevitably full of beautiful words, then historians are serious.Sima Qian's "Historical Records" must not be taken lightly. Except for the Moshui and the Minjiang Zhang Guanli, the rest of his words are accurate: "Li Bing, the governor of Shu County, chiseled the pile...through the middle of the two rivers, Chengdu, this canal can be traveled by boat. If there is any surplus, it is used for irrigation, and the common people enjoy it. As for what is passed, it is often diverted to benefit, and there are trillions of canals to irrigate the fields, but there are not enough to count."

With the development of science and advanced technology, we may disdain the primitive methods of Li Bing's era today. Relying on fire and water to crack rocks, cut off Yulei Mountain, chisel away piles, and build flying sand weirs will be regarded as "primitive" by today's people. .Primitive has the advantages of being primitive. It never pollutes the environment and does not endanger the ecology. It will not be as amazing as modern reservoirs with hundreds of meters high dams, but it is also faintly disturbing.Dujiangyan will not cut off the fish's migratory route, and there is no need to pick up the fish and send them to the reservoir above the dam to lay eggs, and then pick up the hatched juvenile fish and send them back downstream to grow up.

This savage project can not only prevent floods, but also irrigate. It has never submerged cultural relics underground, and there is no need to worry that it will change the climate or induce earthquakes. It is an ecological masterpiece! In recent years, the slogan of "Culture sets up the stage, economy plays opera" has become very fashionable. The frenzy of worshiping the ancients has swept across China. Year after year.They are neither sincerely inheriting cultural traditions nor protecting cultural heritage. The utilitarian purpose of the hype is extremely strong. Under the banner of retro and revival, they are only driven by profit.I worry that after the frenzy passes, garbage will be left everywhere.

Fortunately, the Water Release Festival in Dujiangyan is not like this.They are not purely worshiping ancestors, not rushing to register the hometown of celebrities, but the Dujiangyan project left to us by our ancestors for more than 2,000 years, which is still benefiting the people, is actually there, and it is still ensuring the food and clothing of the people in western Sichuan. week.This is the unique "living cultural relic" and "the grace of historical continuation" in the world. The original ecology may not be advanced, but it is clean and long-lasting. Dujiangyan's scientific water control concept of "dividing into four and six, leveling the drought" makes it run in an orderly and calm manner like a perpetual motion machine, benefiting the people. The life nectar of millions of people.This spring of life has been rolling in for 2,264 years. It has watered 800,000 mu in the western Sichuan plain at the beginning, and now it has moistened 13.3 million mu in 37 counties. It is amazing.Zhuge Liang said that "Yizhou is a dangerous fortress, with thousands of miles of fertile fields, a land of abundance, and Gao Zu became an emperor because of it", which is true.Therefore, the remembrance and gratitude to the ancestors reflected in the Dujiangyan Water Release Festival is different from the "hype" that is eager for quick success.It is just the embodiment of the Chinese people's heart of not forgetting their roots and repaying their roots, which is heart-pounding.

History has gone so long, and we are still eating and sheltered by our ancestors. You can’t say too much about Li Bing’s masterpiece in the Minjiang River. It is said that in the rare flood in 1981, a two-ton boulder was destroyed. It rushed like a light ball rolling, but the Feishayan that people were worried about was as stable as Mount Tai. Li Bing is definitely not a utilitarian. There are rumors that he was already an octogenarian when he took office as the governor of Shu County, which is not credible.But if this is the case, he is even more remarkable. He is definitely not making "political achievements", and it is impossible to talk about seeking promotion through this.Dujiangyan is not owned by Li Bing alone. Many of his successors, parents and officials, no matter what dynasty or generation, have followed Li Bing’s footsteps, managing, dredging and repairing the Dujiangyan project day after day and year after year. Jian, Liu Xigu, Lu Yi, Shi Qianyang, Altai, Ding Baozhen... These officials who repaired Dujiangyan and ensured the good weather of the land of abundance may not have erected a stele of virtue and government during their lifetime, but the descendants are affectionate. Now, their full-body statues are Standing on both sides of the Weir Gong Road in front of Fulong Temple, they are for people to look up to. Their names are as glorious as Dujiangyan.

I have the honor to attend the annual Dujiangyan Water Release Festival. Of course, there is no longer the original concept of worshiping water. It is more of a commemoration, gratitude, and publicity.As a means of Everbright’s regional civilization, Dujiangyan City’s annual tourism income is as high as 3 billion because of Dujiangyan and Qingcheng Mountain. It also bestows glory and dreams on the people of Shu. People in Dujiangyan regard water as their life, and the connotation of this life is the deep water cultural characteristics.According to prehistoric legends, people are afraid of floods and cannot leave for a moment. From Gun to Dayu to Li Bing, probably the most successful person to tame the water monster is Li Bing.

The Minjiang River, originating from the Siguniang Mountain at an altitude of more than 6,200 meters, roars down like a wild horse that is hard to tame. The floods are frequent, and the Shu people have long been plagued by floods.It was Li Bing who locked the raging dragon.Li Bing abandoned the traditional method of building dams to retain water, and adopted the three supporting projects of Yuzui water diversion, Feishayan overflow and sand discharge, and Baopingkou water diversion for irrigation. Even today's water conservancy scientists cannot Do not admire his superb wisdom, he is the master of water diversion without dams since Pangu opened the sky. Therefore, people have reason to turn water offerings into offering sacrifices to Li Bing and make them deified, which also reflects people's gratitude. This year's Qingming Water Release Festival is essentially different from the ancient ones.In ancient times, on the day of the Kaishui Festival, 杩槎 was cut down to release water, which was intended for irrigation.But now, Baoping's saliva is surging, even in the current dry season, the amount of water is huge, and the downstream can divert water to irrigate the fields at any time.Therefore, the weir workers cut the scorpion, pulled the rope, shouted the song of releasing the water, and beat the head of the water, all of which became a symbol, and the ceremony of releasing the water became ritualized. However, the ritualized water festival still has a powerful charm. Let’s take a look at Dujiangyan, a small town with a population of only 230,000 in the urban area. During the Qingming Festival, it was overcrowded. According to rough statistics, there were as many as 200,000 tourists from all over the world who came to watch the Water Release Festival. Most of them are beneficiaries from the plains of western Sichuan, drinking water and remembering the source. Their trip is not only the first Qingming "small long holiday", but also praying for blessings and gratitude. As soon as you enter Dujiangyan, you seem to be brought into a natural "oxygen bar". When you are suddenly released from the depressed, noisy, tense, and confinement cans in the big city, you will feel drunk when you arrive in Dujiangyan. I would like to stand by the water for a long time, listening to the deafening sound of the waves, looking at the quiet water jumping and rushing, I feel that my heart is rhythmic with the waves, my body and mind are melted by the cold and clear water, and crystal clear Combined with transparency. How many such pure rivers are there in China? When the Yellow River became a mud river, the Yangtze River became a Yellow River, and the Huaihe River became a black water river with a water quality inferior to the fifth grade. When many coastal seas and large lakes that we rely on for our lives frequently had blue-green algae and turned into stagnant water, I seemed to be the one who was polluted by mercury and heavy metals. Fish that are about to suffocate have nowhere to go.Where is the fountain of life?How many oases do we have that can breathe freely and sleep peacefully? Dujiangyan has it!This is the greatest contribution of Dujiangyan people to mankind, and they have reason to be proud. There is only one Ministry of Environmental Protection shouting and paying attention to ecological protection, and this voice is too weak.What's more, environmental protection officials in some places are also guarding against themselves and cooperating with those who endanger the ecology, just for a little profit.Local officials who clamor for environmental protection tend to pay more attention to hard indicators, GDP, or political achievements. This is the ladder for him to get promoted. The quality of the environment has nothing to do with me. The fundamental crux of the problem. I might as well say that this chronic disease can be cured only by giving up food because of choking, and no longer linking economic benefits and per capita income indicators with official luck, God will return us to the blue sky, the sun, the pure land and the water, and we are the ones who punish us. In comparison, the leaders of Dujiangyan are wise. During the few days I lingered here, I felt "drunk oxygen" and was reluctant to leave.I want to find some factories that pollute the environment, but there are none.Even the residents don’t have the bad habit of throwing away rubbish anywhere. I observed with my picky eyes that there are no garbage bags and wastes all over China in the rivers and canals. The ancients said that "there is no fish when the water is clear". In the Minjiang River and the canals How many wild fish there are!That night we ate delicious seafood in the county mansion building near the river and listened to the chords of the waves. It was really a long-lost happiness. In this sense, the achievement of keeping pollution away from modern civilization is far greater than the amount of profit created. It destroys the earth on which we live and live. So what if each of us is so rich! Dujiangyan is a relic of history and a myth of human beings transforming nature. When Zheng Guoqu at the same time has already become a relic that needs to be verified by historians, Dujiangyan is still vigorously nourishing generations of people in western Sichuan. , the land of abundance has become the backing of the whole country without famine. No wonder Taoism respects Li Bing as the "Miaoyuan Qingjun" to worship. This also coincides with the essence of Lao Tzu's "the best is like water", right? It is no exaggeration to say that Dujiangyan is a treasure in the history of human civilization, the lucky water that will always irrigate the state of Chinese civilization, the harmony of mountains and rivers, the harmony of heaven and earth, and the unity of heaven and man. Then, let me flatter Li Bing with Lao Tzu's "goodness is like water" And his Dujiangyan, it couldn't be more appropriate. In Dujiangyan, there are two rivers flowing, the Ming River is the inner and outer rivers of the Minjiang River, and the dark river is the spiritual river bred by water culture.The latter is more valuable. "The highest kindness is like water" is definitely not about water. Some people say that although Li Bing is an official, he is also a scientist, a hydrologist, and an engineer.That's right.But I thought it was the prefect of Nashu County who made a great career. At that time, the prefect was a silver seal, a green ribbon, and two thousand stones.Equivalent to Lang Zhong Ling, Wei Wei, and Tai Pu of the central government, they are the chiefs of a county, and their official rank is not low. The sheriff is selected from the people in the county, and his strategy for governing the county can give full play to his personal talents without the imperial court interfering.Only in this way can he have the power and prestige to dig mountains and divert water to create the great cause of Dujiangyan. If Li Bing is just a scholar or an expert in water conservancy, no matter how ambitious he is, he can only talk about it on paper. From here to there, today's officials also play a pivotal role in safeguarding Dujiangyan for generations to come and ensuring the ecological sustainability here. How can anyone else replace it! For this reason, let’s look at what Lao Tzu said, “The best kindness is like water.” Here, Lao Tzu, the originator of Taoism, clearly tells people that when communicating with others, one should have a broad mind like water, benevolent and loving, speaking should be as punctual and trustworthy as water in the flood season, governing politics should be as quiet as water, and doing things should be like water. It is natural that water is good at exerting its effects, and its behavior is as good at grasping the weather as water. It should be like water and has no competition with things, so that there will be no mistakes and deviations. Do you think this seems to be a motto for Li Bing and all future officials in charge of western Sichuan? The reporter of Dujiangyan TV station hoped that I would leave a testimonial for the people of Dujiangyan.Almost without thinking, I said this: Dujiangyan is the last legacy left to us by human beings, let us protect it well. This is for each of us. [Zhang Xiaotian: Representative of the 16th and 7th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Member of the Presidium of the Chinese Writers Association, Chairman of the Jilin Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Chairman of the Jilin Provincial Writers Association]