The less the Three Gorges, the hometown that can't go back

Cover Map ｜ Li Feng

Master Dharma:

The hometown underwater has become the lack of life. Despite the eternal miss, too many old people in the mountains and rivers have become children of the rivers and lakes.

"Long drought and Ganlin", one of the four great events in ancient times, has really experienced it in these days.

The heat is too long, there has been no rain, and the electricity is overload. Since Sichuan, many cities along the Yangtze River are still in power limit. The mountain fire in Chongqing was finally extinguished, and Hubei finally waited until the belated rain ...

As soon as there is a large range of extreme weather, the Three Gorges often be said. This huge project has an impact on the climate, and the academic community has its own conclusion.

It's just that the same Three Gorges, the same Chongqing Hubei, the same suffering people and the lost home ... Suddenly remind people of a photo, a man carrying a tree peach blossom, he is a Three Gorges immigrant, from Hubei Guigui County.

Dark faces, gray jackets, a pair of liberated shoes, a basket ... at that time many Three Gorges immigrants looked like this. Basketball was used to memorize old furniture, but because it was really reluctant to be at the door of the door, it dug it from the soil, put it into the back basket, and planned to plant a new home.

A netizen with a word for the photo, "I memorized my hometown, I assume that every footprint has roots."

Immigration Li Feng-Photo

In ancient times, the Three Gorges did not become the Three Gorges. In the narrow sense, the Three Gorges, including Qutang Gorge, Wu Gorge, and Xiling Gorge Three Gorges.

It wasn't until the Northern Wei Dynasty's Taoist Yuan that for the first time, let us see the bright and clear Three Gorges. "Chaofa Bai Emperor, the tomb to Jiangling", which is reminiscent of Li Bai's "Qianli Jiangling One Day".

On the way he was exiled, he suddenly got the news that he was forgiven. He no longer had to be exiled to the remote Yelang. He was surprised and wrote a brisk poem.

Baidi City in Fengjie County, Chongqing is the starting point of the Three Gorges. The gate of the gate stands thousands of crickets, the Qutang gorge is short and narrow, the river is tightened, and the water flow becomes urgent. Coincidentally, corresponding to Shixian's mood, it opened the magnificence of the Three Gorges.

Go down and come to Wuxia. The fog here is obsessed with the ancient poems, shrouded for thousands of years.

Compared to the ape crying that Li Bai heard, the high apes he heard by Daodao Yuan turned long; Lu You saw "Chaoyun Twilight Rain" and heard the ape crying in the moon; and the clouds and mist here fluttered, causing Yuan Yan to sigh. "Except Wushan is not cloud."

Most of the time, Wuxia looks beautiful, melancholy and romantic.

Go forward and come to Xiling Gorge. I remember San Su's father and son left Meishan's hometown and visited the east. After watching the scenery of Qutang Gorge and Wuxia, 20 -year -old Su Shi couldn't help but sigh: "The flat boat turns to the mountains, and it is shocked before.

Nearby, there is a small town called "Gui Gui". It was the hometown of Qu Yuan. According to legend, after Qu Yuan was exiled by King Chu, his sister rushed back to comfort him, so he was named "Sister Gui" and then returned.

Qu Yuan looked forward to his sister's return, but the people later could not return.

The Three Gorges is Shigxia. The poem is still there, but the magnificent city in the poem, the blurred cloud, has changed.

There is a student of a water conservancy engineering major when recalling the classical Chinese of the Three Gorges. Thinking of the Chinese teacher with a smile, "learning this article is not significant, and the Three Gorges are gone."

Like Liu Yuxi, Bashan Chushui has become a bleak place for a group of people.

From 1993 to the end of 2010, the Three Gorges Engineering Migrant immigrants lasted for 18 years and spanned for two centuries.

The land of more than 600 square kilometers has become the Three Gorges Reservoir area. Wushan, Fengjie in Chongqing ... Hubei, Hubei, Badong ... Many counties and town have been flooded or half of them were drowned. More than 1.3 million immigrants need to leave their homeland and move to Shandong, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Anhui, Hunan, Sichuan, Fujian ...

There are banners and slogans everywhere. People "give up the small family, support everyone, and support the construction of the Three Gorges as a country."

In August 2000, 639 immigrants from Yunyang County boarded passenger ships to Shanghai to Li Feng, Chongming Island,

Photographer Li Feng, a half of Yichang, wants to take all this. Since 1995, people who have shot the Three Gorges have been shot for 30 years.

Just like the beginning of many photos, as the movie "The Three Gorges", plants and soil can often be seen in the arms of immigrants.

Immigration in Yunyang County moved out of Shanghai and held a yellow cricket seedlings. The girl who moved to Anhui, holding a pepper.

In April 1991, the local villagers dug the river sand from the river beach Lifeng-Photo

In 1997, the immigrants took all their own homes to take a small boat to relocate Li Feng-Photo

Other people put the soil plastic bags in their hometown and wrap them with cloth. There are also people who bring agricultural gear and stone mills. Maybe the new family may not be used, but it still takes it.

After all, flowers, trees, dirt ... all nostalgia.

In 2009, the three new families of immigrants and a large number of passengers on the ferry Li Feng-Photo

I remember in 2000, another group of immigrants went to "Oriental Red". The routing ship came up and stopped beside them without driving. The sailor on the barreal is watching a TV series, just after the episode was broadcast, and the ending song was released.

This song is called "Long Song Xing" "Looking back at the hometown, you are far thousands of miles, and how many deep feelings you have taken away; the breeze blows through the land under your feet, and your loved ones are in your heart ..."

Listening to the lyrics, the immigrants on the entire boat cried all. The crew was also infected and cried together.

There are more than 800 immigrants, two ships, and the emotions of rushing. There is no expected coincidence. They just leave their homeland and just put the song "Looking back at the hometown". In 2002, he heard "Long Song" who cried on the ship Li Feng-Photo

This is his favorite one in all the photos of all Three Gorges immigrants taken by Li Feng.

For the people at that time, the parting was painful and sad. Traffic is closed, and it is difficult to contact. I wonder if I can still come back?

In 2015, I returned to Lanlingxi Town, and immigrants lived in Li Feng in the new home-Photo

Walking on the road of parting, surrounded by disturbance and confusion. Some people came to an end and saw a new direction, which was more firm and brave than the family -go home.

Twenty years ago, Li Feng patted a family of three in Wushan and immigrated to Huizhou, Guangdong with his newborn son. In less than a year, they left Huizhou and returned to Wushan. In the next few years, 23 immigrants moved with his family, 17 households returned to Wushan, and even two of the resettlement houses and homesteads were sold, and they were willing to return to their hometown.

In 2002, babies who were just born for more than a month, immigrated to adults to Lifeng, Guangdong-Photo

Some good people in the Three Gorges have begun to have a new life, but some move away and return. In any case, everyone is a child of water. There are always people who can't forget the old Three Gorges, and the hometown of the former.

Just like Li Feng's couple took the photo, after moving to Fengjie New City, he opened a restaurant. On the wall of the restaurant is a picture of the old city of Fengjie.

The couple who moved to Fengjie New Town opened a restaurant hung a full area of ​​Fengjie Old Town, Li Feng-Photo

The whole area is very large, but it can't be pretended to be at home. As a result, someone walked into the part and recorded the details.

A photographer took a picture of the old Three Gorges, the ancient trees of the gate, the old temple, and the wall gap growing, the murals in the temple were mottled ... His name was "Yan Yangtze River", born in the back of the name, even the name is like the name. I miss the Yangtze River.

Since 2002, he has been shooting the Three Gorges for seven years.

Demolition 归 归 2002 Yan Yangtze River-Photo

Xiayan Temple 2003 Yan Yangtze River, Xiayan Temple, Wang Weisu, Shuangjiang Town, Yunyang County-Photo

Wangye Temple, Fancun Village, Changshou District 2005 Yan Yangtze River-Photo

But after more than a year, he watched these beautiful scenery and humanities disappear, which was still painful.

He felt that "photography is no longer important, and I must save myself by expressing it." In addition to "rescue" to shoot those places that are about to be overwhelmed and blast, I must do something else.

Wanzhou District Mogan Beach Hai'an Bridge 2006 Yan Yangtze River-Photo

Liji Bridge Zhao Yan Yangtze-Photo

He decided to launch black boxes in many parts of the Three Gorges, Badong, Fengjie, Langmen, Maoping, Fanbao ...

Because after thinking of the plane crash, you must first find the black box, which records the secret of the aircraft. And his black box was pretended to be culture, history and memory.

Perhaps a few hundred years later, a certain archeologist or diving player will find them.

On May 27, 2003, Qutangxia West Estuary Reef, the background is the Three Gorges Logo, the Gate Yan Yangtze River-Photo

Fengjie City Site 2004 Yan Yangtze River-Photo

Changshou District Fancun River Border Quotations 2006 Yan Yangtze River-Photo

By September 2006, he rose again, and his pain and anxiety were still very strong.

He wanted to do something more "radical", so he hung himself here, and wanted to be with the landscape forever. As he returned to Ren Qu Yuan, he "lived with heaven and earth, and light with the sun and the moon."

Yunyang Shuangjiang Xiayan Temple September 25, 2006 Yan Yangtze River-Photo

Changshou Fan Wangye Temple, September 23, 2006, at 19:00 Yan Yangtze River-Photo

After shooting the Three Gorges Photography Topics, he got a lot of exhibition opportunities, and his career was "smooth and smooth." Later, because of the exhibition, he came to Yibin, Sichuan. After many years, we officially came to the Yangtze River again.

"When I walked to the river, I even kneeled down naturally, hoeing this river, that was my river. Photo is a ritual, and the hoe is also a ritual. This is between me and this big river. matter."

Li Feng-Photo

Thinking of a summer vacation in elementary school, I took a boat to see the "Three Gorges Dam" with my parents. The tour guide said that if the ship is going to go upstream from the downstream, it must be drove to the first -class vessels, and then the gate is closed. The water level is high and the water level becomes high. ... After the 5 -level ship lock, the boat can drive out and go upstream.

I waited excitedly that I wanted to see how the water I released like a waterfall, and I wanted to see how a behemoth could go upstream. I never thought that every time the water rose, the hometown underwater was drowned again, and it was washed once.

At that time, I only knew the spectacular water, I didn't know the feelings of people, or I didn't know the feelings of the old mountains and rivers.

Thinking of a word: blood is thicker than water, it was said that people with blood relationships were more intimate than people who had no blood relationship.

If it is changed to "blood dissolved in water", it seems to be close to those unclear emotions. The blood of the Chinese seems to be dissolved in the water. The Yellow River and the Yangtze River gave birth to us. We are all children of water.

The hometown underwater has become the lack of life. Despite the eternal miss, too many old people in the mountains and rivers have become children of the rivers and lakes.

Maybe today we are the immigrants who carry peach blossoms. Reference materials:

Eternal Psalm reflection of the Three Gorges. Museum

The peach blossoms on the back, the hometown underwater, the Three Gorges 30 years.

Li Feng: Thirty years after a million Three Gorges immigrants. Aurora Photo

There is a Three Gorges Dam in Hubei, why is Wuhan restricted power? . Today Wuhan

He spent 7 years taking a giant change in the Three Gorges, one by one is a picture: Farewell, my home. One

· To my dear object, the people ·

There is a taste of autumn in the wind,

Taking tea as a bone, with flowers as a soul.

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