The origin of the name of the river and the historical origin of the river horn

The Jinsha River in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River entered the Sichuan Basin, and after the confluence of Yibin and the Minjiang River, the Yangtze River began to be named. The section of the river from Yibin to Yichang, Hubei Province, is often called the "Sichuan River" because most of it flows through the Sichuan Basin (or the former Sichuan Provincial Administrative Region before Chongqing was directly under the central government). The Sichuan River, also known as the river, the river or the great river in ancient times, since the Tang Dynasty, or the Shu River, the Han River.

Among them, 370 kilometers above Chongqing are the Shangchuan River, and 660 kilometers below Chongqing are called the Xiachuan River. The Three Gorges area, through which the Xiachuan River flows, is also known as the "Gorge River" because of the mountains on both sides of the river, and the water flow is turbulent. The river near Jiangjin District of Chongqing is in the shape of "several", also known as "several" river.

There are two theories about the scope of the Sichuan River: one says that it refers to the section of the Yangtze River that flows through Sichuan Province below Yibin in Sichuan Province, which is 892 kilometers long, and the other is that it refers to the section of the Yangtze River between Yibin in Sichuan Province and Yichang in Hubei Province, which is 1020 kilometers long (one says 1030 kilometers), and the latter is generally used to maintain the integrity of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River.

In the territory of Bashu, the mountains overlap, the rivers are vertical and horizontal, the traffic is inconvenient, the circulation of goods, the passenger traffic, all need wooden boats to carry passengers and goods, so the cypress sailing ship has become the main means of transportation, the small boat has a few boatmen, the big one has twenty or thirty boatmen. The captain, also known as the captain, is the master of a ship, and all the shipwrights obey the captain's command. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, it was the captain who beat the drum as the horn to direct the ship's line, and unified the rhythm of the beam.

It was only in the middle of the Qing Dynasty that the trumpet gradually arose, and a special trumpet head was produced.

According to the different water potential and water characteristics of the rivers and the danger of the open beach and reef to the boat, the trumpet head has created some trumpets with different rhythms, different tones and different emotions according to the labor rhythm of the swaying and wrenching. For example, when the boat is launched or flattened, it is necessary to sing the Moyo trumpet, the trumpet, the second-rate rocking trumpet, the dragon boat trumpet, etc., such trumpets have a melodious tone and are not fast, which is suitable for the slow motion of the wrench, and it is also the work and rest adjustment of the physical strength and energy of the boatmen after the intense labor of crossing the beach and reef; When crossing the beach, sing the lazy big trumpet, the rising and recovering trumpets, and the chicken pecking rice trumpets, the tone of this kind of horn is majestic and intense, and it has the characteristics of strong labor rhythm, so as to adapt to the needs of the boat that breaks the beach; When the ship is on the water to pull the fiber, it is necessary to sing the big turtledove trumpet, the second or third trumpet, the grasp of the trumpet, the wilting bubble trumpet, this kind of trumpet is generally melodic, the shipwright is very tired when pulling the fiber, in order to relieve the tension, unify the pace and the need to concentrate the force point and form the first characteristic; When crossing the treacherous shoal, it is necessary to sing the winch trumpet, the interchange trumpet, which is characterized by a fierce and majestic tone.

The Sichuan River is a tributary of the Lijiang River, a tributary of the Xijiang River in the upper reaches of the Pearl River, originating in the northwest of Huajiang Yao Township, Xing'an County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and the second peak south of Dazhushan at the southwest foot of Yuecheng Ridge. The rivers that come from the east first have the Baizhan Di River flowing in from the Yuejiang River, and then the Yanli River and the Pingshui River flowing in the upper and lower reaches of the cave respectively, and then go south to the mouth of the Zhujiang River, and there are small rivers coming from the west.