The color of the sea
Wen Lu Zhiyan.
Presumably, most people think that the sea is blue, a dazzling blue, and an eternal blue. That's what I thought at first.
My hometown is an inland city in southwest Shandong that is a third-tier city with housing prices exceeding the second-tier. It is almost 300 kilometers away from the nearest coastal city, Rizhao. When I was a child, I had never seen the sea at all, and my rough impression of the sea was formed from a few songs. One is the campus song "Grandma's Penghu Bay", one is Zheng Zhihua's "Sailor", and the other is "I Love the Blue Ocean". The intuitive impression of the sea is obtained from the screen. Looking at the vast blue ocean in film and television works, the surging waves, and the elf-like petrels flying high, they began to yearn for the ocean.
Unexpectedly, a few years later, this yearning has become a reality and a dream has come true.
On February 13, 2023, I boarded the "Liangxiang 8" from Xiamen. This is a 1The 80,000-ton container ship was also the first ship I boarded as a seafarer. I really saw the sea from zero distance and really felt the charm of the blue ocean. After a busy day, I would pace to the deck or the bow of the boat, and use my phone to take pictures of the blue ocean, white waves, blue sky, and white clouds, happy and excited. At the same time, I also learned that the color of the sea is not always blue.
From Xiamen, Fujian Province to Baoshan Port in Shanghai, it has to pass through the waters of Taiwan, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and other regional provinces. The color of the sea in the Taiwan Strait is a deep blue, so blue that it makes you dizzy, like a sapphire shining in the sun. It should be a complete victory over the "blue Danube". The color of the inland sea in Zhejiang is light blue. When there is no wind, the waves are not too big, and they roll in waves smoothly and smoothly, which can calm the restless hearts of tide watchers in an instant. The color of the sea in Jiangsu is light blue. Especially on the surface of the sea near the Yangtze River, the current is turbulent, and there is a brown and yellow rolling and surging under the blue, and the invisible tentacles are stretched out with teeth and claws. This scene is like a person who has just stopped his heart and suddenly sees a charming and touching little girl, and his heart is like numbness.
The most beautiful sea area I have ever seen is the blue of Weihai Rongcheng in Shandong. It's so blue that you can't bear to look at it. Like a New Zealand beauty with big blue eyes, it is seductive, fascinating, and has an endless aftertaste. The waves stirred up by the propellers are blue, and flocks of seagulls will follow them for a long, long time, circling up and down and chirping. The artistic conception is very beautiful and beautiful, which makes people forget whether it is in heaven or on earth.
The color of the Bohai Bay Sea is also very beautiful, it is a peacock blue that makes people look very comfortable, so blue that it makes your heart itch, and it is more pleasing to the eye than seeing your first love.
In fact, the color change of the sea is caused by a variety of factors. For example, the depth of the sea, the shallow water is clear, the water is deep, the water is blue, the deep is the abyss, and the deepest is black. For example, the thickness of the clouds is azure when there are no clouds or thin clouds, and grayish blue when the clouds are thick or dark. For example, the strength of sunlight, when the sun shines directly, it is blue, and when the sun sets, it is "half blue and half red".
The color of the sea in Southeast Asia is not always blue. Some are pleasing to the eye, and some are not pleasing to the eye.
Economists and environmentalists say that the more developed the economy, the worse the environment, and that economic development is based on the destruction of the pristine environment and the plundering of pristine resources. I disagree with this statement of "brick family". Malaysia is much more economically developed than the Philippines, but the seawater in Malaysia is better in terms of water quality and port environment, so I can't wait to find a Malaysian bride to live there for a long time. The water quality of the waters in the Philippines, especially in the port areas, is not satisfactory. In some places, patches of dark green seaweed float on the surface of the sea, and some plastic waste and foam blocks can often be seen "drifting with the current". I once treated a seagull on such a sea. That morning, I was "hiking" on the deck and saw a seagull in the bow of the boat. It didn't fly away in horror when it saw me, but flickered its wings and kept wailing at me. When I got closer and took a closer look, I realized that its left leg was wrapped in a thin fishing line, which had been struggled into the flesh. I took it back to the bedroom and looked for scissors to break the cord. The deep recess had begun to fester, and there were still red blood stains. I flipped out a piece of anti-inflammatory, rolled it into foam and applied it to the injured area, fed it carefully for a few days, and when it healed, it was released over the blue ocean.
The garbage floating on the sea surface is like a piece of dog skin plaster sticking to the blue ** of the goddess of the sea, which makes people very uncomfortable to look at. The people who threw garbage into the sea included sea anglers, fishermen, and crews. It is reported that there are nearly 20,000 large and small merchant ships registered in the world that shuttle through the sea and ocean, and there are 1.89 million registered seafarers in the world. According to conservative statistics, each crew member produces 1 kilogram of household waste per day, which is a very terrifying number. If the garbage is not sorted and stored and thrown directly into the ocean without treatment, the ocean will no longer be blue one day.
What is even more infuriating and disturbing is that Japan, in defiance of the concerns and reactions of the international community, has discharged more than 2 batches directly into the ocean in four consecutive batchesThe 30,000-ton Fukushima nuclear contaminated water is passing on the risk of contamination to the world. It has seriously damaged the ecological environment of the ocean, a large number of marine life has been affected, and patches of fish have died in shallow waters or on beaches. Japan's irresponsible practice deserves to be condemned and condemned by the whole world.
The earth is the common home of all mankind, and the ocean is the common wealth of all mankind. The ocean is not only the lungs of the earth, but also provides a large amount of food for humans. Caring for the ocean and protecting the marine environment is the responsibility and obligation of every person in the global village.
For the eternal blue of the ocean, for the common home of mankind, let's take action, everyone starts from now, from me.
About the author] Lu Zhiyan, screen name: Poetry Road. The body of a man, the name of a woman, was born in Zoucheng, Shandong, and is already the age of knowing the destiny of heaven. I have worked as a hawker, and I have been a boss and have planted green onions. The article has been published in the main **, and the trace tabloid has been written**. Ocean-going seafarer, now the seafarer chef of Guangzhou Kwai Fung Shipping *** Huaxia No. 5.