The first bay of the Yangtze River

--After shigu town was blocked by Hailuo cliff, the Yangtze River turned into a V-shaped curve and turned to the northeast, forming the famous first bay of the Yangtze River.

--Here you can see the Yangtze River, Lancang River and Nujiang river passing through the high mountains and deep valleys of Hengduan Mountains, forming a magnificent landscape of "Three Parallel Rivers".

--During the rainy season, the river is turbid. If you want to see clear blue water, you'd better come from December to march of the next year.

--There is a free scenic spot on the road from Lijiang to Shangri La to shigu Town, but the best place to take photos is on the back mountain of the photography house on the roadside of Shigu town. You can ask the shopkeeper to lead you up the mountain.

The first bay of the Yangtze River

The first bay of the Yangtze River (the first bend of the Yangtze River and the first bay of the Yangtze River): it is located between shigu town of Lijiang City in the northwest of Yunnan Province and shasongbi village in the south of Shangri La County. It is 1850 meters above sea level and 130 kilometers away from Shangri La County. There is a direct highway. It is said that during the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang "crossed Lu in May" after calming down nanzhong. In 1253 ad, Kublai Khan was here again to "cross the river".

From the "roof of the world" - the Qinghai Tibet Plateau, Wanli Yangtze River rushes down. Batang County enters Yunnan, and passes through the high mountains and deep valleys of Hengduan Mountains together with Lancang River and Nujiang River, forming a magnificent landscape of "Three Parallel Rivers". When we arrived at shasongbi village in Shangri La County, we suddenly made a sharp turn of more than 100 degrees, turning to the northeast, forming a rare "V" shaped curve. "The river turned back here and ran into the Grand View of the Central Plains." people call this wonder "the first bay of the Yangtze River.".

Difference: the first bend of Jinsha River (different name and location).

history

There is a poem of predecessors: "the river has turned into a reversal here, running into the Grand View of the Central Plains." Shigu ferry has a wide river surface and mild water potential, which is suitable for ferry. It has always been a must for military strategists. It is said that during the period of the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang pacified nanzhong and "crossed Lu River in May" (Jinsha River was called Lushui in ancient times); in 1253 ad, Kublai Khan "crossed the river with his own bag". In April 1936, led by he long, Ren Bishi and Xiao Ke, the second front army of the Chinese workers' and peasants' Red Army crossed the river from here and went north to resist Japan. After liberation, on the high slope behind the stone drum stele, the "Red Army Long March ferry monument" with a height of 8.1 meters was built. Standing on the abrupt high slope, it is majestic, solemn and solemn, overlooking the "first bay", which can make you suddenly revere and become a key cultural relic protection unit in Yunnan Province. The archway in front of the monument is the Red Army Crossing River Memorial Hall. The relics of the Red Army's Long March displayed in the "exhibition room" will give you a more vivid understanding of this great army more than half a century ago. On the right side of the Jiangwan Bank of the stone drum tablet, there is a willow forest protecting the dike; on the left side of the tablet, there is the Chongjiang river flowing into the river. There is an iron Rainbow Bridge on the river, 17 meters long, with wooden boards on the iron chain and iron chains on both sides. The bridge was built by Zhou Lanping, a stone drum builder in the late Qing Dynasty.

legend

About the origin of Jiangwan, folklore: three sisters of Nujiang River, Lancang River and Jinshajiang river travel together. They quarrel on the way. The elder sister and the second sister stubbornly go south. Jinsha girl is determined to go to the East where the sun rises to find light and love. After arriving at Gugu, she says goodbye to her two sisters and resolutely turns East. Jinsha girl turned around and formed the first bay of the Yangtze River.

Another version is: three sisters, Nujiang, Lancang and Jinshajiang, who do not want to marry in the west, sneak out of their homes without telling their parents. The beautiful and intelligent Jinsha girl invites her two sisters to go to Donghai. When their parents learned that the three girls had escaped, they were very angry and sent Yulong and Haba brothers to block their way to Donghai. Nujiang River and Lancang River saw two brothers blocking the road in shasongbi village. They thought they could not defeat them and did not dare to go forward. So they changed their mind and did not go to the East China Sea. They chose the way to the south, but they couldn't persuade Jinsha girl, so they had to rush away in anger. Jinsha girl looked at the two sisters away, and her heart was still determined to go to the East China Sea. She resolutely turned and rushed to her brother's block. Finally, she broke through the block and merged into the East China Sea. The place where she turned around formed the famous landscape of "the first bay of the Yangtze River".

Shigu town

It is a famous town in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in ancient and modern times. The town is named after a drum shaped stele carved with white marble. The stone tablet is 1.5 meters in diameter and 0.7 meters in thickness, protected by a stele Pavilion. It is said that during the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang crossed Lu in May near shigu. After calming down nanzhong, he built this monument to subdue Zhuyi. There is a crack on the side of the drum. According to folklore, the world is in turmoil. The drum splits itself, is peaceful and stable, and the drum closes itself. In 1936, the long march of the Red Army also crossed the north of the river. About 3 kilometers up the river from shigu town is shimenguan, which has always been famous for its dangers.

Shigu town is 70 kilometers away from Lijiang County. On the hill at the corner of the Jinsha River, there is a drum shaped stele carved with white marble, so the stone drum is named after it. The stone tablet, with a diameter of 1.5 meters, is a memorial tablet carved with inscriptions on both sides of the tablet. It was built between the 27th and 40th years of Jiajing reign (1548-1561) in Ming Dynasty when local magistrate Mu Gao of Lijiang marched northward into tulei and won the victory.

Shigu ferry, the first bay of the Yangtze River, has a broad surface and mild water potential, which is suitable for ferry. It has always been a place for military strategists. It is said that during the period of the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang pacified nanzhong and "crossed Lu River in May" (Jinsha River was called Lushui in ancient times); in 1253 ad, Kublai Khan "crossed the river with his own bag". In April 1936, led by he long, Ren Bishi and Xiao Ke, the second front army of the Chinese workers' and peasants' Red Army crossed the river from here and went north to resist Japan. After liberation, the Red Army "Long March ferry monument" was built on the high slope behind the stone drum monument. The monument is 8.1 meters high, majestic and solemn. It is a key cultural relic protection unit in Yunnan Province. The archway in front of the monument is the Red Army Crossing River memorial hall, which displays the cultural relics of the Red Army's long march in Yunnan.

On the right side of the Jiangwan Bank of the stone drum tablet, there is a willow forest protecting the dike; on the left side of the tablet, there is the Chongjiang river flowing into the river. There is an iron Rainbow Bridge on the river, 17 meters long, with wooden boards on the iron chain and iron chains on both sides. The bridge was built by Zhou Lanping, a stone drum builder in the late Qing Dynasty.

Located at the corner of Jiangwan, Lijiang shigu town is named after the drum shaped Hanyang stone carved by the prefect of Lijiang in 1548. It is called "Ciba" in Naxi language, which means the place where the tiger roars or the flower of the tiger nationality. "Luopo" is written in historical books such as the geographical records of the Yuan Dynasty. It is the earliest residence of chahanzhang, the official in charge of the people, and the Xuanfu Department of Lijiang road in the Yuan Dynasty. It is also a strategic important place for ancient people to go south to Dali and north to Tibet. In 253, Kublai Khan divided his troops to attack the rear area of the Southern Song Dynasty in three ways. In the west, Wu Liang joined Taiwan all the way, that is, he crossed the river in Judian and shigu. In April 1936, he long led the second front army of the Red Army to cross the river northward. Now there are Red Army long march Monument, cultural relics exhibition room and stone drum Red Army Long March sculpture. It is listed as Yunnan provincial cultural relics protection unit and patriotic education base.

The Chongjiang River, which originates from Laojunshan, also flows into Jinsha River here. On the river, there is a Tiesuo bridge built in 1887, which is called "Tiehong bridge" because it looks like a rainbow lying in waves. The bridge is one Zhang wide and five Zhang long. There are gatehouses on both sides of the bridge. There are two pieces of cards: "shangxiatianmen" and "huihuiqingxing". The bridge was first built by Zhou Lanping, a scholar of shiguju in the Qing Dynasty. In 1933, the bridge was destroyed by floods and was rebuilt by Lai yaocai, a gentleman of Lijiang. In 1985, the local people's government carried out a comprehensive renovation of the Tiehong bridge. Zhou Shanfu, a famous calligrapher in Lijiang, and Wang Shen, a native of Lijiang, respectively wrote couplets to vividly depict the scenery of the Tiehong bridge: "the Hongqiao bridge lies on the green waves, the Tiesuo connects the thin willows" and "the two lines of willows are clear, the water and the sky are bright".

Legend of Yu Jiangshi

Overlooking the first bay of the Yangtze River, a stone pillar about 10 meters high stands beside the bridge. People call it "Yu Jiangshi". Behind it is said that there is a place where Dayu stopped his ship. It is said that in ancient times, the Yangtze River flowed to shigu and was blocked by mountains, causing disasters on the river. It happened that Dayu came here to control the flood. He stopped his boat at the top of Wangjiang River and looked at the mountain. He saw that there were two big snow mountains in the northeast corner, which were inhabited by people. He decided to dredge the river and channel water from there, so he sent his general to dig the mountain. But the rock was hard, and he worked hard for three days and three nights, but it was still not opened. In order to save the people, the general bumped his head against the rock, and the river began to open. The people turned out to be safe, but the general turned into a stone without a head. In memory of him, Dayu made a head like round stone embedded in the stone. Although this is a legend, a geographer proposed that "gonggongzhitai" and the relics of Dayu's flood control were found in the shigu area of Lijiang, which attracted the attention of scholars at home and abroad.

Natural scenery

Shigu area is not only a place of people and culture, but also a place of beautiful scenery and rich products, known as the "little Jiangnan" of the plateau. Here, the river is gentle, the valley is open, the terraced fields are layer upon layer, the spring is pink and white, the wheat waves are blue, the rape is golden, the autumn is fragrant with rice, the melons and fruits are full of garden, and the village tile houses complement each other. The willow forest along the river is like a belt, the trees are straight and straight, the tree crown is dense, and the river beach under the trees is very cool. It was the camp of the Red Army in those days, and now it has become an ideal place for people to spend summer. Three kilometers up the river is Shimen pass, which has always been famous for its precipitousness. It is said that Shi Wansui, the general of Sui Dynasty, opened this pass when he was in Yunnan Province. In the yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were garrisons in this pass, which was a place for military strategists. As a folk saying goes, "the stone gate is opposite to the stone drum, and there are thousands of gold and silver in it. "This is a vivid reminder of Shigu's strategic significance to Lijiang.

The first bay of the Yangtze River is 50 kilometers away from Lijiang County, which is not only the important part of Lijiang