The first time is the rainy season. When leaving, someone warned: "It is most dangerous to look at the hukou at this time. Don't go to the beach. It rains upstream, a flood peak comes down, and it is too late to go ashore. " Sure enough, the car was still halfway up the mountain, and we heard the faint sound of the waves and the fog filled the valley. We boldly went down to the seaside, and the river was like a pot of boiling water. Hukou Waterfall does not fall from a height, which makes people look up at the hanging water curtain, but falls from the flat to a lower ditch, which makes people look down at the water that has been sucked away in a hurry. At that time, it was the official rainy season, and the ditch had been submerged by the waves, but the water on it was still pouring in, pouring in ... I was looking for an imaginary waterfall in the fog, but the bank of the ditch was flooded and the fog covered the rocks. I can't see or hear anything except the steam and the deafening sound of the waves, only a terrible alarm: it seems that a flood peak will suddenly engulf me. So, I only took a quick look and fled in a hurry. When I got to the shore, I looked back at the white smoke, and my heart was still beating. ...
The dry season was chosen for the second time. Just after the cold of late spring, the mountains are not green, and the bottom of the valley is extremely open. We walked underground to the bottom of the ditch. At this time, the Yellow River is like a huge stone bed covered with a layer of soft fine sand, which is firm and soft when we step on it. I walked all the way to the middle of the river. It turns out that there is another river in the middle of the river, which is a deep ditch that suddenly sinks. Locals call it "dragon trough", and the entrance of the trough is unfathomable, which is called "hukou". I leaned against a big stone and looked upstream. The dragon trough is facing the wide river, just forming a T-shape. The river flows in rows from the 500-meter-wide river, like tribes, squeezing, colliding with each other, pushing and shoving, crowding round and bumping into the stone wall, and the yellow waves suddenly break into piles of accumulated snow. The mountains are cold gray and the sky is silent blue. It seems that there is only this piece of water in the universe. When the river was rushing so freely and quickly, suddenly a deep ditch with a width of more than 40 meters appeared at the foot. Before I could think about it, I fell in, more turbulent, more crowded and more urgent. Swirls danced at the bottom of the ditch. The locals said that once a black pig fell in and floated up again, but all his hair was pulled out. I shivered as soon as I heard it.
The Yellow River is wide and narrow here, from high to low. I saw that the flat water surface seemed to be absorbed by an invisible hole, and suddenly gathered into a bunch and rushed to the dragon trough. First I fell on a stone, then I turned over and fell again, three times and four times. In this way, a stream of water was smashed, broken into dots and broken into fog. A rainbow rises from the bottom of the ditch, passes through the dragon trough, passes through the mist and disappears in the blue background of the distant mountains. Of course, such a narrow spout can't hold so much water for a while, so the torrent rushed to both sides and crashed down along the edge of the dragon trough. It is flat, big and energetic, as heavy as a flying carpet. No, it's like a roll of steel plate. It's really majestic and fierce. Despite this, Hukou still can't capture all the yellow waves in Sichuan, so some of them go their own way, turn around and spread out on the beach walls on both sides of Longgou, or find gaps in diamonds, gurgling like springs; Or trickle through the slate and gurgle into a stream; Or sandwiched between stones, wailing. There is one hanging on the wall, shining like a line ... and all this is hidden in the wet mist, covered in a seven-color rainbow, like a symphony and a freehand painting. I suddenly lost in thought. How does this little gushing in front of me contain all forms of sea, river, waterfall, spring and fog, and all kinds of emotions such as happiness, anger, sadness, resentment and sorrow. Does the creator want to condense a world in this spout?
Looking at the water, I will look at the stones under my feet. These steel-hard objects were chiseled like honeycombs by water, and some places were spun out of bare pits, so the whole dragon ditch was cut down by water and cut into a deep ditch. People often compare tenderness to water, but the gentlest water will be so angry once it is oppressed. It turns out that there is only generosity in this softness, not weakness. When she is patient to a certain extent, she will struggle with strength. According to Xu Xiake's travel notes, the location of Hukou is still downstream1500m. You see, day and night, soft water will chop up hard stones inch by inch.
The Yellow River is broad and generous, soft and firm; Reluctant, under pressure, not bent; If it's unfair, shout. If you are strong, you will resist. Death is life, go forward bravely. Just like a person, after hardships, he has his own personality; The Yellow River is driven up and down by the mountains and underground stones on both sides of the river, and it also forms its own great character when turning left and right. This greatness just flashed in the spout and was seen by us.
[Appreciation]
Hukou Waterfall is a travelogue describing water. Author Liang Heng described the situation and situation of Hukou Waterfall in detail with vivid brushstrokes, and enthusiastically praised the magnificent rivers and mountains of the motherland.
The full text describes the delicate scenery, mainly using rhetorical devices such as metaphor, personification and parallelism to grasp the characteristics of things and write the sound, shape, posture and strength of the waterfall, giving people the feeling of being there. Writing scenery is not about writing scenery in isolation, but expressing one's feelings in writing scenery. One is to skillfully integrate into the specific description, and the other is to skillfully associate. From the small Hukou Waterfall, we can see the magnificence of the Yellow River, and from the character of the Yellow River, we can associate it with the spirit of hard work, perseverance and courage. These should be firmly grasped and carefully understood.
Brief introduction of Liang Heng
Liang Heng is a famous news theorist, essayist, popular science writer and political commentator. He has won many honorary titles such as National Youth Literature Award, Zhao Shuli Literature Award, National Excellent Popular Science Works Award and "Five Ones" Project Award of the Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China. He has served as a reporter of Guangming Daily and deputy director of the State Press and Publication Administration. He is currently the deputy editor-in-chief of People's Daily, a member of the National Committee of Chinese Writers Association, the executive director of the National Committee of China Journalists Association, and the general consultant of primary and secondary school textbooks published by People's Education Publishing House.
The main works are the novel "Popular Romance of Mathematics and Physics" written by Zhang Hui in the history of science; News trilogy "Corner without News", "The Vein of News Green Leaves" and "Reflections on News Principles"; Prose Collection: Summer Feelings and Qiu Si, Looking for a New Place, Perceptions and Thoughts of Famous Mountains and Rivers, Outstanding People, Liang Hengjuan and Excellent Library of Contemporary Prose Masters.
In the past twenty years, he has won the tradition of classical landscape articles by focusing on landscape prose. His writing is herbaceous and vivid, and the water stone has rhyme. In recent years, he has devoted himself to character prose, especially the writing of great historical figures and celebrities, "Find a ferry, find a ferry, and where to cross?" , "Red Hair, Miki Sayaka" and so on have aroused great repercussions in the society. Baidu Maps