The mainstay is located in the rapids below Sanmenxia Dam. The ferryman on the Yellow River is also called "Come towards me", which is about 30 kilometers away from the city. In winter, when the water is shallow, it is more than two feet above the water surface; In the flood season, it only shows a spire, which seems to be swallowed up by the flood immediately, which is extremely thrilling. For thousands of years, regardless of storms or stormy waves, it has always turned the tide and stood proudly in the Yellow River, as an angry lion, strong and fearless, and has been hailed as a symbol of the Chinese national spirit since ancient times. In 638 AD, Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong, came here and wrote a poem "Looking up at the stone pillars, looking up at the Longmen in the north, looking at the ruins of jade and looking at the vast Changchun", and ordered Wei Zhi to lie in the shadow of the stone pillars. Liu Gongquan, a famous calligrapher, also wrote a long poem for it, including "a lonely peak floating in the water, a pillar floating in the sky." Withstand three dangers, the root is connected with nine bends. The column is abrupt and the waves are ups and downs.
According to legend, it is the pillar left by Dayu when he was controlling water, and some people say it is the embodiment of the old ferryman of the Yellow River. A long time ago, an old ferryman led several cargo ships downstream and sailed to the mouth of Shenmen River. Suddenly, the weather changed suddenly, the wind continued and the rain poured down. In a flash, the canyon was filled with white waves and fog. I couldn't see the clear water and I couldn't tell the direction. The old ferryman sailed the boat through the Divine Gate and saw that the boat was about to be pushed to the rocks by the wind and waves. The old ferryman shouted, "Take the helm and come to me". He jumped into the waves. The boatmen didn't know what was going on, but they heard someone shouting "Come towards me, come towards me". It turned out that the old ferryman was standing in the middle of the rapids to guide the ship. The boatmen drove ahead and were about to pull him aboard when a wave pushed the boat downstream and left the dangerous place. The boatmen tied the boat downstream and went back to find the old ferryman. He saw himself turned into a stone island, holding his head high in the rapids, guiding the passing ships. Therefore, people call this stone island-the mainstay to come to me.
Since then, the mainstay has become a beacon in the canyon. After three passes, the ship went straight to the mainstay. When the ship was about to hit the mainstay, the backwater in front of the mainstay just pushed the ship to the safe channel next to it, avoiding the Ming Dow Reef and sailing out of the canyon smoothly.
At the confluence of the two rivers, there is a huge stone protruding in the middle of the river, about 100 feet high. It can play the role of a mainstay and turn the tide when it is about to fall. Only this boulder can be well deserved. Cai Chao, a member of the Senate of the Ming Dynasty, built a pavilion on this boulder, named it the Cross-Aoting Pavilion, and inscribed the words "mainstay" on it.
The Children's Eye Crossing Aoting Pavilion was built in the Zheng De period of Ming Dynasty. In the forty-ninth year of Kangxi, Bosuji County built two pavilions, renamed Xiaojinshan, and inscribed the words "Two pavilions swing in the sea of clouds, one column of wind and waves" between the cliff walls.