The Yangtze River disappeared mysteriouslyIt returns to normal after hours.
The Yangtze River, the Great Wall, the Yellow Mountain, and the Yellow River are the irreplaceable four heavens in my heart, and the feelings in my heart will never change anytime and anywhere. "In 1983, Zhang Mingmin sang the deep love of countless descendants of Yan and Huang for the motherland with "My Chinese Heart".
Regardless of age, the words Yangtze River and Yellow River are familiar to us. However, in the long river of history, the 100-year life of human beings is only a drop in the ocean, and no one can fully witness the change of years.
In the face of nature's miraculous workmanship, human beings still have endless room for exploration in their cognition of nature. However, there are still some incidents, such as the Yangtze River shut-off in 1954, for which there is still no complete and definite answer.
Is the Yangtze River breaking incident really a mysterious folklore? Is it the legendary "Jiaolong" in the catastrophe? Or is this just what we call a "vision"?
The Yellow River is known as the "Mother River". This is because more than 6,000 years ago, there were tribes such as "Huaxia", "Jiuyi", "Zhurong", "Qunzhai" and "Sanmiao" in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River.
These tribes relied on the Yellow River to survive, manage floods, develop agriculture, and eventually lay the foundation of Chinese civilization. Similarly, the Yangtze River is also our "mother river". We all know that water is the source of life, and both the Yangtze River and the Yellow River have made indelible contributions to the prosperity of our nation.
They all originate from the "roof of the world" - the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
From the southwest side of the Geladan Winter Peak in the Tanggula Mountains, the source of the Yangtze River gushes out, passing through 11 provincial-level administrative regions such as Qinghai, Anhui, Jiangsu, and Shanghai, and the main stream of the Yangtze River flows from west to east, running through central China, and finally joining the East China Sea east of Chongming Island, with a total length of 6,397 kilometers.
Hundreds of tributaries of the Yangtze River spread north-south, covering eight provinces, including Guizhou, Gansu, Shaanxi, Henan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Zhejiang, and Fujian, and were also nourished by the Yangtze River.
The Yangtze River basin covers an area of 1.8 million square kilometers and nourishes one-fifth of China's total land area. If the earth is compared to the ** body, then the rivers, lakes and seas in it are undoubtedly the static arteries of this body.
Just like the human body, although the earth as a whole does not change much, the internal structure has undergone many changes over time.
In ancient times, the formation of the ancient Yangtze River made people feel mysterious and profound. Although we know a lot about the Triassic period, there are still many unsolved mysteries.
At that time, Qinghai, Yunnan, western Guizhou and western Hubei were all marine domains, and even the middle of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River was also part of the seabed.
These changes could not be more appropriate to describe as "vicissitudes of life".
1.800 million years ago, the Indochinese orogeny triggered the rise of mountain ranges such as Kunlun Mountain and Hoh Xili Mountain, and the southern part of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River also uplifted to form the original Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau.
At this time, the Yangtze River flowed in the opposite direction to what it is today. During the Jurassic period, the Yanshan movement gradually formed the Tanggula Mountains, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau began to rise, the ancient Mediterranean Sea retreated westward, the Sichuan Basin began to sink, and the outline of the Yangtze River basin began to appear.
Subsequently, the Sichuan Basin began to rise slowly, the Yunmeng and Dongting Lake basins continued to sink, and the topography of the Yangtze River Basin changed again. Eventually, the strong uplift of the Himalayas raised the western part of the Yangtze River basin again, and the Yangtze River formed its current eastward flow due to the topography.
The source of the Yangtze River, the Tuotuo River, is covered with snow all year round and has a thickness of tens of meters, providing the source of living water for the Yangtze River. As the main stream of the Yangtze River, the Tongtian River is 828 kilometers long, nourishing the entire Yangtze River basin and providing an important water source for the survival of local humans, animals and plants.
The Jinsha River is 2,290 kilometers long from the mouth of the Batang River to the Minjiang River in Yibin, Sichuan, which is rich in water resources and makes people marvel at the generosity of nature.
The river basin sections of the Yangtze River, such as the Sichuan River, the Upper and Lower Jing River, and the Yangtze River, also show the magnificence and majesty of the Yangtze River.
In 1954, the Yangtze River was broken in Taixing County, Jiangsu Province, on the north bank of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. At that time, because our country was in the early stage of development and the level of science and technology was limited, it was impossible to make accurate judgments on many events, and some rumors also appeared.
At around 4 p.m. on January 1, 1954, residents along the Yangtze River in Taixing County, Jiangsu Province, were living and working normally, when someone suddenly exclaimed: "The Yangtze River has disappeared!" ”
Since ancient times, the Yangtze River has been cut off from the flow of the Yangtze River is not new. As early as the second year of the Yuan Dynasty, the ancestors of the local people experienced it once. It is said that the Yangtze River was cut off for two days.
At that time, people generally believed in gods and Buddhas, and any natural disaster was regarded as a warning of providence, whether it was ** or heavy rain. Even though there were no other disasters that day, the local residents were nervous and prayed to Heaven to calm their wrath.
However, by the next day, some of the residents began to shift their minds.
Seeing that the river gradually dried up, and the fish and shrimp in it had nowhere to escape, some people began to think about making a fortune. So, some people walked into the dry riverbed and soon discovered more surprising discoveries.
It turns out that for thousands of years, many shipwrecks have been sleeping at the bottom of the river, and seeing those shining gold and silver treasures, some people think that this time may not be a disaster, but a gift from heaven.
More and more people are desperate to dig for treasure in the dry riverbed, catch fish and shrimp, and the smell of greed gradually permeates the entire region. However, the good times did not last long, just when some people were greedily collecting money, the river suddenly surged, and countless people did not have time to dodge, so they were buried in the river.
Although the historical documents describe this in detail, some scholars speculate that the drought occurred in the area was rare, given that the ancients were often emotional about natural disasters and that there may have been exaggerations in the accounts.
The Yangtze River is not completely cut off, but the amount of water is decreasing. In contrast, the 1954 Yangtze River outage is more accurate because of its proximity to the present day and the large number of eyewitnesses.
The interruption did not last for two days like the Yuan Dynasty, but only lasted for about two hours. The sudden break caused the boats on the river to run aground, and the fish and shrimp on the riverbed were exposed.
There were not many people who had planned to take advantage of God's bounty, and most of them, although they did not know the cause of the river drying up, also knew that such a dangerous place should not be easily set in.
Those who are a little more courageous also understand the truth of moderation, and do not always indulge in this good thing full of risks. It was this caution that prevented a repeat of the tragedy of the Yuan Dynasty.
Most of these people have only recently come ashore and have seen the Yangtze River return to its former glory. Many residents were surprised to see the water level of the Yangtze River gradually drop and then suddenly return to normal.
In just two hours, local residents witnessed an unusual piece of history. Although we have entered the modern society, there are still people who blame it on "metaphysics" due to the limited level of education of people at that time.
Some people even speculate that this may be the result of the "Jiaolong" tragedy. In our country's mythological system, the dragon is a creature that can go through calamities and eventually turn into a dragon.
Therefore, some people think of the huge animal skeletons that were dug up in the Yangtze River basin in Sichuan in the twenties and thirties of the last century. Some people believe that this is the skeleton of a giant python, and some people believe that this is a giant python turned into a dragon, or a dragon turned into a dragon, which led to the interruption of the flow of the Yangtze River basin in Taixing County.
Despite the many loopholes in these claims, many people still believe in them. So, is the breaking of the Yangtze River really related to the so-called "metaphysics"? Although there are different opinions, we know that the Yangtze River is 6,397 kilometers long, and its main stream flows through 11 provincial-level administrative regions in China.
The Yangtze River, the third largest river in the world, after the Ronnie River in Africa and the Amazon River in South America, is abundantly watered. Although animal bones of pythons or other creatures have been found in the Yangtze River basin in Sichuan, these insignificant discoveries do not affect the water level of the Yangtze River.
As for the legend of Jiaodu's robbery and transformation of the dragon, science has not found any evidence at present. Unfortunately, scholars have put forward a variety of reasons for the Yangtze River outage, but so far they have not been able to find a completely correct explanation.
Originally, it was believed that the sudden interruption of the Yangtze River was due to the disappearance of this part of the water source, but this theory is not true. Some scholars have proposed that the river bottom** caused the displacement of the underground plates, thus forming a crack under the lowered riverbed, and the disappeared river water was actually suddenly absorbed into this crack.
However, after investigation, it was found that there was no ** in the Taixing area and nearby at that time, and if the bottom of the river could really cause the river to break off, then there should be aftershocks, but no local records on ** were found on that day.
Therefore, this view can be ruled out.
One suggestion is that underground rivers could lead to the drying up of the Yangtze River, as has happened in Zhuan Lake in Guangxi. The water of Zhuan Lake suddenly disappeared within two months, and then suddenly reappeared, which many scholars have explained as the drying up of the Yangtze River caused by an underground river.
However, it is still debatable whether the amount of water in the Yangtze River is completely affected by underground rivers. So, is this strange phenomenon really unexplainable from a scientific point of view? What we are going to introduce next is the explanation that is currently less controversial and most likely.
Perhaps, the Yangtze River suddenly stopped flowing because it entered the "Yangtze River Dry Period". Before explaining this concept, we need to understand the "dry period of the Yangtze River".
Although the Yangtze River does not dry up as often as the Yellow River, there are still "dry periods". Every year from November to April of the following year is the "dry season" of the Yangtze River, due to the guarantee of the basic water volume, only the water level drops.
The "Yangtze River Breaking Incident" of that year occurred during the "dry season". Perhaps due to weather and upstream influences, the area may experience a brief interruption in water flow** during the "dry season", resulting in a flow interruption.
Some people are skeptical, arguing that the bottom of the Taixing River is below sea level, so it is extremely unlikely that the flow will be cut off. However, although the probability is small, there is still a certain possibility.
While short-term depletion may resume when upstream water volume recovers, we all hope that such outages will not be repeated. Because water is the source of life, the depletion of water sources will directly affect the survival and development of human beings.
In addition, we should pay attention to the views of some netizens on the "Yangtze River Breaking Incident", who emphasized that human beings should maintain a sense of reverence for nature. Neither the phenomena that science can explain, nor the things that science cannot answer to at present, cannot be a reason for us to ignore the changes in the natural ecological environment.
In today's ever-changing human society, people's awe for those "gods and Buddhas" that cannot be verified is no longer as deep as that of the ancients. From a scientific point of view, this is undoubtedly a manifestation of the progress of human civilization.
However, this has also led to a gradual decline in the reverence for nature for some people. No longer fearing the so-called "curse", they have no scruples about exploiting and even wasting natural resources, which has led to too many human tragedies.
While pursuing development, we should pay more attention to the balance of protecting the ecological environment and find a way for human beings to live in harmony with nature, which may be more meaningful than arguing about whether the "Yangtze River Breaking Incident" decades ago was "heaven's curse" or science, isn't it?