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, Emperor Taizong came here and wrote the poem "Looking at the pillar in the back, looking at the Longmen in the north, the ruins of the vast universe, the vast Changchun", and let him lie in the shadow of the pillar. 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.