People may not know, chengdu person once lived in water edge, it is modern only the massive campaign that build a wall changed original water city view.
Chengdu is surrounded by 2 rivers from of old, this is government office river is mixed south river, still have the Jin He from inside the city is traversed eastwards on the west, the drive river of circumfluent emperor city, and river of the river that wear a bottom, Sha He, dry river, water-powered roller, Xiao Jiahe, Jie Yuxi... incomputable river is in emerge move, riparian weeping willow, two sides bridges.
Chengdu life lives in the bank, in the commerce on corridor bridge, fore dicker, in riparian Bian Guanjing. Wadi is not before every family door it is pond, at least the street alley of oneself medium or there also is well in courtyard dam. The subterranean water level of Chengdu is very high, went up now the old Chengdu of age knows, once Chengdu is " dig the ground 3 feet have water " . Of countless street name with the well, for example: Well of street of well of alley of alley of well of cool well street, well street, copper, Jing Hangzi, big well, cramp, double look... what name with the river is street have water-powered roller river street of street of street, Jin He, brook, suitable river street, drive, drought and Chengdu not relevant, consequently dry thing always stays in no less than coming in Chengdu.
The Jie Yuxi inside city of Tang Dynasty Chengdu sheds Jing Daci temple to southeast by city north on the west side, water amount is very large. In those days the river austral government office also is the river with water abundant quantity. The Min Jiang Zhishui that Jiang Yan draws besides irrigate besides basically use as the city uses water, among them the effect of shipping is very main. At plain the Chengdu of region of Campagna a network of rivers made full use of on the west its distinctive water resources, this is very commendable.
Jin He, on the domain that appears in Chengdu in Tang Dynasty when it when from the city on the west outside pilot a ship into a harbour of the river that wear a bottom enters little town, in city of inclined be linked together of classics gold beautiful bridge, half bridge, big An Qiao, give city north next at outside the government office river east. Arrived today, whole Jin He has a paragraph except people park memory outside disappear already. Jin He is not a small stream, in those days Jin He is river of a traffic, it is the main artery in a city, carry goods and materials and grain salt, can blowdown, fire fighting, water supply, adjust air, it is a green landscape. There are 22 bridges on Jin He, have famed half bridge and bluestone bridge among them. Each bridge on Jin He has a paragraph of fokelore, each bridge has a paragraph of story, each bridge has its individual nature, they formed Chengdu jointly again the disposition of this city. The river is shown because of the bridge, the bridge established solid culture figure because of the river again.
There still is pool in city of the Chengdu when clear minor details more than 20, this rises by countless wadi series connection. When pond is allegedly most have more than 50, some pool are very big still, it is a lakelet almost. Civilian house is all round pond, plant not only in pond lotus root having lotus, still have bulrush and piscine shrimp. Go up lotus pool, Zhong Lianchi, pool issueing lotus is this kind of pattern, still store water measures very big Qing Yuntang. The Home Wang pond of classics of the brook that solve jade, white home pond also scene is infinite. But the life setting with these general poems was deleted on the domain of Chengdu forever. Disappear together still have the pool of a thousand years, dragon bank pool, courtyard pool, Liu Chi, Mo Chi, Fang Chi, pool that wash a horse...
A city has on 10 thousand big banyan of a few more than 200 ten wadi, bridges, pond, thousands of individual plant, weeping willow and incomputable ginkgo, come-and-go of boat having a boat, fisherman's song sings the beautiful image in late, water, Yu Xiang paddle of goose of low end, duck... this is celestial Cheng Jing simply, it is city of some of the ability in the dream. This is not a dream, however Chengdu in those days what is actually happening, but now condition of keep Yu Meng, it is already grey flying smoke destroys, the acting building with matchbox type.
