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Dear friends, we have now entered the largest heaveenly-created fairyland on water—the Thousand-Island Lake of Xiao Langdi on the Yellow River. Looking eastward, the dyke we see is the Xiao Langdi main dam, named after Xiao Langdi village of Mengjin Country where it is built.
The original name of the village was Danyang. It is said that when Da Yu was controlling floods, one day when he passed by this village, all villagers were willing to sacrifice their own home to help control the flood. In memory of them, the village was renamed from Danyang to Xiao Langdi.
The Xiao Langdi yellow River Water Conservancy Hinge Project is located in Mengjin County of Henan province. It is a super control project with integrated benefits of flood controlling, water logging controlling, silt reduction, irrigation, water supply, and electricity generation. The total height of the dam is 281 meters; the length of it is 16, 667 meters. Stretching from Mang Mountain in south, to Wangwu Mountain in north, it is the biggest soil-based dam built on the rivers of our country. The storage capacity of the project is 1256.5 billion stere, water area 296 square meters, normal water storage line 250 meters, the highest water storage line 275 meters, and electricity capacity 1,800 thousand kilowatt with a yearly average of 51 billion kilowatt. A total investment of 337 billion Yuan has been completed. The total controlled drainage area takes 92.3% after its completion, of which the flood-control threat to the lower reaches. Not only can the quantity of water supply be increased by 40
billion stere, but also industrial and agricultural production and people’s daily water supply condition along the Yellow River banks can be improved a lot. Protected anti-drought area can reach 25 million mu; 2.1 million tons of coal can be saved in generating electricity yearly. This is a miracle in the history of and invites international bidding with three bidding stages, involving 51 countries and areas, 700 foreign business representatives and thousand s of Chinese constructors. So many countries’ participation in a single project is rare in the world, so it also has a nick name ―mini United Nation‖.
The project structure is exceptionally complicated and the difficulty level for construction is unusually high as well. Only the soil dug out of the main body of the project comes to 88.11 million stere. The flood discharge and sand drainage and water guiding tunnels total 16 main channels and nearly a hundred branch channels, all gather in the body of a thin mountain. Among them are there huge diversion tunnels, 3,480 meters long in total with a 14.5-meter diameter each, big enough to hold two four-story buildings standing side by side. The water-intake tower of the flood discharge system has multiple layers; its bee-hive -shaped room is so huge and complex that it can be ranked No.1 in the world. The new style indoor multi-hole energy-consuming device is rarely seen in either domestic or foreign water conservancy projects. The world’s largest force-scattering dyke is built up at the entrance of the three flood-discharge holes. The
body of the mountain consists of gently obliquitous gritstone and argillaceous dusty gritstone with more than 20 layers, just like a
―thousand-layer pie.‖ It is quite difficult to co nstruct in the mountain. The \reinforcement and the support of the rocks at the entrance to the outside tunnels of the mountain alone costs 3,224 pieces of 12-meter anchor stocks, 578pieces of 30~40 –meter anchor cables, and drilling
12-meter-deep scuppers with a number of 1,382 on the rock wall. Actually the wall was so densely drilled that it was described vividly as
―sewing-densely-the-bottom-of-shoes project‖. At the foot of the dam, there are 70-12 meters thick, 81.9 meters deep, has been built to prevent leakage, and it is the deepest leakage-proof wall in our country presently.
It is well known that the Yellow River is the Mother River of China, whereas the huge amount of mud and sand dashing out of it is said to able to circle around the earth three times if piled up in a 1-meter high and
1-meter wide wall, which makes it harnessing of the Yellow River had long been a dream of Chinese people and it was the Communist party of China that really solved the problem. Not long after the People’s Rep ublic of China was founded, Mao Zedong looked at the muddy water in the river and gave an instruction: ―Things concerning the Yellow River must be handled well. ― During the 40 years ever since then, thousands of experts participating in harnessing the Yellow River have conducted elaborated exploration designs. The sluice and electricity-generation dam project
that started from 1990 has been completed ahead of schedule, taking more than ten years. The building of the dam not only chains up the obstinate and unruly yellow dragon and exerts fully its integrated effects such as flood control, water logging control, silt reduction, water supply and electricity generatio0n, but also adds up an attractive scenic spot to our country.
According to the Zhengzhou-Luoyang center tourism route setup by the central government of China, the Xiao Langdi beauty spot on the Yellow River, with a total area of 1,262 square kilometers, is divided into four grand areas, which are Xiao Langdi Dam, Zijin Mountain, and Sanmen Gorge. There are 13 sightseeing districts and 113 scenic spots. Each spot has its own historical stories; therefore, we can appreciate the scenic glamour of large mountains with lakes featured by the middle-lower reaches of the yellow river hydro-junction-project, gorges and rivers, which embodies the Yellow River culture and natural view.
One kilometer ahead under the water there is an ancient battlefield called ―Red River Beachhead‖, where Cao’s army fought against Yuan Shao’s at the late years of Jianghan.
Now please look to the right, you can see a place in the middle of the mountainside. It is the Big Mountain Stockade Village, where Yuan Shao once garrisoned. Look to the left, the mountain you see is the Yellow Deer Mountain; the valley at the mountain foot is called Cao Camp Valley, where
Cao Cao’s army garrisoned. The Red River Bottomland is below the place we are at.
There were totally 215 people of 41 families at the Red River Bottomland, and now they have moved to Songzhuang Town in Mengjin Coun try. As the story goes that Cao Cao’s army garrisoned in the valley, so the valley was named after this. Official outer gate was built in front of the camp; horses were depastured at the place called Fruit-eating Bottomland and watered along the Yellow River. The valley where Cao Cao feasted his meritorious were buried is called Tomb Slope Village at the other side of the Yellow River. Before an ancient battle, there would always be a written-challenge-to war. When during the battle, Yuan’s soldiers would get to the place below us by boats, and then returned to their camp across the river by boats again. A time consuming war had been on between the two sides. There were severe deaths on both sides and blood flowed like a river, which dyed the whole Fruit-eating Bottomland into deep red. The original 300-mu fruit trees were destroyed completely. Since then, it was named Red River Bottomland.
The Fruit-eating Bottomland Valley belongs to the Yellow Deer Mountain. Talking about the Yellow River Mountain, there is a legendary story. It took place during the years of Li Shimin, Emperor Tang Tai. He once came to Mengjin to hunt, protected by a large group of his men. He suddenly caught sight of a white deer, so he spurred his horse to chase it.
When he rode to the last valley of the Yellow River, which was on the southern bank, southwest to the Xiao Langdi Valley, he found the white deer had turned into a yellow one! He exclaimed:‖what a divine deer!‖ And he ordered all his men to kneel down to apologize for their offence.
Next, we are going to reach the Yellow River Eight-li Gorge, whose original name was Eight-li Bystreet and which was regarded as the ―last gorge on the Yellow River ‖. The gorge is named this because of its eight-li length. It is the least gorge at the joint point of the middle and the lower reaches of the 5,464-kilometer-long Yellow River . Tall mountains stand high on both the south and the north side of the gorge, with steep cliffs and steady flowing water, peaceful and mild. The torrential Yellow River flows down vigorously, and is spectaculars. It was said that there are‖ eight scenic spots within eight li‖ in ancient times. According to ―Mountain and Ocean Classics‖ , the story about this gorge goes like this: ‖Emperor Yu’s father was killed by Shun after nine years harnessing floods without success. But his father’s will to harness the Yellow River never died, and he turned into Danzhu Island to help his son Yu to control the flood finally. ―We now have arrived at the Gu Mountain Gorge scenic spot. It lies the middle area of the Eight-li gorge. The south end of the gorge starts form the Qing Hekou and Fuzi Cliff, and stretches all the way to north Fengshi Lack, finally reaches the highest point, about 230 to 275 meters high.
However, it is just a start point of the beautiful sceneries at Xiao Langdi. When you get to the Shizu Mountain , you will see: the place was surrounded by a high mountain at one side and by water at the other three sides，Which forms the biggest peninsula beside the lake in the Wanshan Island and the biggest island in the middle of the lake. And this is the golden area of the whole Xiao Langdi tourism fairyland on water.
Dear friends, when Xiao Langdi dam’s water storage reaches the highest point, the water area will stretch to where it is only one kilometer away from the Sanmen Gorge Dam. How spectacular it will be when the project is completed in 2005! We are expecting to see much more attractive scenes here! Thank you!。