Chapter 1449 The Mainstay
Starting from the inscription of Baiheliang, a one-kilometer area on both sides of the counties and towns along the river will become a flooded area. Therefore, the official data for the area within two kilometers is more than 600 square meters. Kilometers, the valuable relics and ruins here need to be rescued and excavated; the famous and important monuments here need to be protected and relocated.
Today's water journey is to first go to Baiheliang for inspection, and then stop for the night in Zhenxi Town downstream of Baiheliang.
Now that there is nothing to do on the road, Zhou Zhi, Lin Wanqiu and Li Lexui discussed the inspection plan to Yichang. There was a huge waterway map on the big table in the middle of the conference room, and a red line was drawn outside the two sides of the strait. In the future flooded area, there are countless small red triangles of various sizes in the middle, indicating places that need work. The friends were all stunned when they saw it.
Before they came to this conference room, they never imagined that there were so many places that needed to be rescued!
"Sister Lin, Brother Li San, you are amazing!" Liang Hong's eyes were full of caution: "You have to do so many things?!"
"The most important thing is that the country is doing it. "Li Laosan said: "What our foundation has to do is mainly to do two tasks. One is to provide the country with urgently needed funds and manpower. organize their own efforts to provide support; the second is the key point, which is to carry out demolition and protection within their capabilities for those relics that do not meet the national protection level but are of great cultural value.”
“This. There are several principles for this kind of protection." Zhou Zhi introduced: "For example, in tombs and mosaics. For ruins such as cliff statues that are fixed on the rock base, we mainly take pictures and make rubbings without touching them. We only record the places and let them be flooded. "
"As for the brick and wood buildings, We try our best to move the stages, temples, wooden statues, clay sculptures, etc. and transport them to other places for safekeeping.”
< br>“For buildings where some components are valuable but most of the structures are of little value, we only retain the images by taking photos, and then remove the valuable parts such as exquisite brick carvings, painted beams, window lattice, foundation headers and other key parts. The rest of the worthless parts were left to be submerged in the water.”
Lin Wanqiu sighed and said: "This is all our foundation can do. Although the work we do is not as important as the country, the workload is very huge."
"Yes, huge. It’s unimaginable,” Zhou Zhi added: “Take Zhenxi, which we are going to stop at today, as an example. It is a little-known riverside town below Fuling.”
“But its name, But it comes from the Han Dynasty, because there is a place to the west of the town. It is named after the Clamshell Creek that is rich in pearls. "
"In such a small place, last year, an ancient tomb from the Western Han Dynasty was excavated at the second group of large stone plates in Fangjia Village, and 73 cultural relics were unearthed. Among them are the garlic pot of the Western Han Dynasty, the ancestors of Cuba Second-level cultural relics such as bronze tripods and bronze daggers.”
“Beside Zhenxi River, there is a village called Wan’an Village, which was built in the Ming Dynasty. There are many stone inscriptions in the village and beams made of precious wood. Column, door panel.”
"In addition, there is a Taoist Wantian Palace, a Qing Dynasty courtyard, and the Shi family ancestral hall that has been used by three generations of Hanlin officials. In these two places, the wood carvings, brick carvings, and stone carvings inside are quite exquisite."
" Look, there are so many things in a small town that the state does not care about, but we think it is worth using private power to save them." Zhou Zhi said. A hand was spread out on the map: "Therefore, we can only do another screening based on the results of the previous inspection team. We will follow the process of water storage, from downstream to upstream, from near the water to far away from the important work sites. The next step is to work out a rough rescue schedule. How many people can be saved?"
"Can we do anything to help?" Ye Xin asked eagerly.
"Everyone can help take photos along the way, record the team's preliminary opinions, and organize information." Li Laosan said: "There are still many temporary chores. If we really talk about things, there are too many to finish. "Since we boarded this research ship, it's not my sister-in-law's fault."
"It's all your old classmates' fault." Lin Wanqiu pointed at Zhou Zhi: "It's all his fault." Find it out.”
Everyone laughed. This job was very meaningful and actually what they wanted. The research ship sailed down the river very fast, and it didn't take long to cover a hundred kilometers of water. Near noon, the ship arrived at Baiheliang.
The water level is still high now, and there is only a small place to stop on Baiheliang, but there are many stone carvings and stone fish and white cranes that can be seen.
Now is the hottest time of the day, and there is actually a small volunteer inspection team here. Three seniors from the Department of Archeology of Shu University, led by a teacher, are rubbing the inscriptions under the scorching sun.
Just looking at the dark and shiny skin of a few people, you can tell how hard this job is.
Zhou Zhi took his friends for a general tour, and then invited everyone from the work team to the expedition ship. There is air conditioning here, so everyone can be comfortable and have a good meal together.
The teacher also brought some rubbings to the ship as a return gift to Zhou Zhi and his party, and then introduced the results of the inspection here to everyone.
Although the country is discussing the protection plan of the underwater museum, everyone knows that this plan is almost impossible with today's technological power, so the teacher's tone is full of pessimism: "These stone fish, In fact, it was carved according to the usual water level of the Yangtze River in different historical periods. ”
“‘Stone fish came out, "Feng Nian Zu" is a local folk song. Different stone fish mark different historical periods and the best water levels in good years, which is of great significance for studying the historical hydrological conditions in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. "
"It's a pity that when the project is actually completed, these important historical relics will never be seen again."
"Teacher Li, there is no need to be too anxious. The underwater museum plan is not feasible now, but it does not mean that it will not be feasible in five or ten years." Zhou Zhi quickly comforted: "The development of the country is changing with each passing day. Shenzhen's speed is one every three days. A building can be completed in more than a month. When the tight economic construction situation eases, it may be necessary to Think about this."
Teacher Li glanced at Zhou Zhi, suddenly smiled, and said to Li Laosan and Lin Wanqiu: "That's right, if nothing else, we have raised more than one for the Three Gorges Cultural Protection Fund. Saving cultural relics worth 100 million yuan would have been unimaginable a few years ago. This shows that at least things are developing in a good direction in recent years. "We still need to be realistic about this."
"Baiheliang is a national key project, and we can't help." Li Laosan said, "But we are destined to meet each other. We can only bring a few teachers together." Classmates, please come to the boat for a meal and express our respect for you.”
Teacher Li smiled. Said: "Thank you so much. We don't have much to offer. This rubbing of 'The Mainstay' is just right for you." The big character "mainstay" in vertical cursive script is rich and tough, solemn and heroic. It is indeed very beautiful.
Teacher Li pointed to the inscription on the rubbing and said: "We don't know much about Xian Zhenbin who wrote this. We have to wait until BJ consults an expert."
(End of Chapter)
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