Dear tourists
Hello and welcome to Fuling Baiheliang underwater Museum. I'm your tourguide this time. You can call me Xiao Huang. I'm very glad to have theopportunity to serve you. I hope the charming white crane beam and my servicecan bring you an easy booking journey.
Now I'd like to introduce the general situation of Baiheliang. FulingBaiheliang is located in the north of Fuling District, Chongqing, on the Bank ofthe Yangtze River. It is a national key cultural relic protection unit, ahistorical and cultural cultural cultural scenic spot, and a natural rock andsand beam in the vast river. The total length of the stone beam is 1600 meters,with an average width of 15 meters. There are 165 inscriptions, 18 stone fish,two Guanyin statues and a pair of white cranes. They are mainly distributed onthe middle stone beam with a length of 220 meters. Known as "the world's firstancient hydrological station", underwater stele forest. The inscriptions are notunderwater all the year round. They only come out of the water when the river isdry in winter and spring. However, due to the high water storage of the ThreeGorges, in order to prevent Baiheliang from submerging in the water, theunderwater museum was built in February 20__ to protect the inscription, and wascompleted at the end of 20__.
Baiheliang is called baziliang. As for the origin of its name, it is saidthat the white crane group gathered on the beam and got its name. It is alsosaid that the immortal Er Zhu of the Tang Dynasty practiced here, and later gotthe way and went west by crane, so it was named white crane beam. The stonecarvings on Liang are not underwater all the year round. They only come out ofthe water when the river is dry in winter and spring. In ancient times, stonefish were carved as low water mark. Whenever the river water recedes and thestone fish meet, it means that a dry season with less rain has passed and a goodharvest year is coming. Therefore, there is another saying that "the stone fishcome out, and it is a good harvest year".
Baiheliang recorded 72 years of low water data from the Tang Dynasty to thepresent. Among them, the most famous ones are the Tang Dynasty fish and the QingDynasty heavy pickaxe Pisces, which are used as the original low water mark.According to modern survey, "the abdominal height of the fish in the TangDynasty is equivalent to the average of the lowest water level in Fulinghydrological station over the years; the eye height of the Qing Dynasty doublecarp is roughly equal to the zero point of the water level in Fuling area ofSichuan river shipping department.". It has been used for more than 1200 years,and the ancient ancestors have long known, observed and mastered the law of lowwater change through long-term understanding of the low water cycle. The stonefish water mark has a small exposure every three or five years, a severe droughtevery ten years, and an extremely low water level in 600 years. Many carefulpeople measured the time when the stone fish came out of the water, the name andnative place of the fish watcher, and the distance between the stone fishexposed to the river and the dry water line with ruler, and engraved it on thestone beam. Over time, it has formed an extremely precious hydrological recordof more than 1200 years. It is the earliest well preserved ancient hydrologicalstation in China and even in the world with "stone fish" as the symbol of lowwater.
Baiheliang inscription also has important artistic value. The inscriptionson the Liang Dynasty are crisscross, with seal, Li, Xing, Kai and Cao allavailable. Yan, Liu, Su and Huang are all available. There are also inscriptionsin minority languages, most of which are made by famous artists of pastdynasties. Huang Tingjian, a famous litterateur, calligrapher and great poet inthe Northern Song Dynasty, is the most precious. In addition, there are morethan 700 inscriptions of officials, scholars and poets in the past dynasties,such as Zhu ang, Wu Ge, Chao Gongwu, Liu Zhongshun, Pang Gongsun, Liu Shiwen andWang Shizhen. They are a collection of literature, calligraphy, painting andinscription art. They can be regarded as the great achievements of calligraphersin the past dynasties and are known as the "forest of Steles in the water" .
With the construction of the Three Gorges project, the world-famousBaiheliang inscription will sink underwater forever. In order to protect thisprecious cultural site, a creative protection scheme of "no pressure vessel" isadopted, and an underwater museum is built on the original site to effectivelyprotect the inscription. In 20__, the underwater Museum of White Crane RidgeInscription was built and opened to the public. Baiheliang museum is composed ofthree parts: underwater protection body, visiting corridor and traffic corridor,and ground exhibition hall. From the ground exhibition hall, people can go downto the horizontal traffic corridor through the ramp of the slope shaped trafficcorridor, and then enter the visiting corridor to view the inscription throughthe special window. They can also transmit the image to the demonstration hallof the ground exhibition hall in real time through the underwater camera systemfor all-round viewing. This innovative idea has become a unique underwaterMuseum in the world.
Well, I'll introduce the basic situation of Baiheliang to you first, andthen let me lead you to experience the unique charm of Baiheliang. Please besafe and follow me.