Water can carry a boat and overturn it, which is an unavoidable topic in human history. On the one hand, it generously gives the source of human life, on the other hand, it cruelly destroys human life and happy home. Up to now, people have both awe and fear of water; Appreciate it and guard against it. If you tame it, you will silently serve mankind, otherwise, it will be as fierce as a tiger.
Hugo, a great French writer, said: "As long as you are good at distinguishing, even a mallet can reveal the spirit of a certain era and the face of a king."
When you open the dusty history of Yutai for a century and a half, you will understand how unbearable pain and sadness this beautiful water has brought to generations.
Since Kangxi, water has been a "tragicomedy" for people living in Yutai. In the long river of history, it carries the hope of generations of Yutai, and it is also ruthlessly submerged; For more than a century, this water area and this waterlogged land not only gave birth to Yutai's life, but also mercilessly destroyed countless innocent creatures. It is a knot that grandparents who grew up here will never untie. At that time, people looked at the water and sighed, looked at the water and looked at the water.
The Yellow River, which is long in Wan Li, has been roaring eastward for many years, carrying desert smoke and dust from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and sediment from the high loess slope. The river bed is raised year after year, hanging into a daunting and frightening "Tianhe". In the flood season, the lower reaches of the river burst from time to time, and beautiful homes are often destroyed during the day. The Yellow River often bursts, and it always pours sediment to the upper reaches without stint. After the water passed, Chengwo created "ten thousand images" there. But it is not so generous to the fishing platform downstream. It always flows the trickle of love into Yutai people's home, into the bowl that has been poor because of it, and into the sad hearts of villagers like "forgetful water"!
Happy lives are all similar, and unhappy lives are unhappy in their own way. Because the breach in the upper reaches of the Yellow River is getting thicker and thicker, Yutai is originally a low-lying land in Shui Ze, so the "basin" is more obvious. It never rains but it pours. Not only does the Yellow River break here, but more than 20 counties and cities bordering Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan and Anhui also rush here when it rains heavily. This makes Yutai people worse. When the flood is serious, the water depth is high. When the house collapsed, there was little left.
According to the textual research of Yutai County Records, there have been more than 140 floods since Yutai's history, and there are countless small floods. Land will not be expropriated for ten years. Every time the Yellow River bursts, ten families are empty and hungry. The villagers filled their hunger with leaves and grass roots. When people die, they secretly eat it, so that all the trees are eaten up and the edible grass roots are rummaged. The tragic scene is unbearable to witness. How many villagers starved to death during this period, due to its historical reasons, can not be accurately counted.
The water damage pushed this once beautiful place into the abyss of pain. From the reign of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty to 1963 after liberation, although the government took various measures to control the flooding in Yutai, it had little effect because of the wrong way or economic difficulties. The villagers are still suffering from floods and floods. People's eyes, painful, sad, dull, dry and sunken, look forward to the future day year after year.
Floods, sufferings, poverty and hunger devour the tired hearts of the Lebanese people like the devil. They prayed for mercy from God and the water god, but they still despaired.