The second paragraph of Three Gorges , the first paragraph of Three Gorges .

This is one of the difficulties of this article. The first sentence is to summarize the danger of the river in summer, under normal circumstances, the ship will not venture out because of the rapid flow of the river, but in the case of the "king's order is urgent", once the ship sets sail, it can "send the white emperor in the morning and reach Jiangling at dusk". It is through the comparative narration of the general and the special that the author shows that the Yangtze River has a large water potential and a fast flow speed in summer.

The combination of frontal and side depictions highlights the characteristics of many mountains, mountains and high mountains.

The Three Gorges is an essay written by the Northern Wei Dynasty geographer and essayist Li Daoyuan. This essay is a bright and fresh landscape prose, which describes the majesty and steepness of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, depicts the four seasons of the Three Gorges, and shows a tall and beautiful ink landscape painting in the map of the Yangtze River.

Translations

In the Three Gorges of 700 miles, both sides of the river are continuous high mountains, and there is no place to break at all; Layers of cliffs, rows of cliffs, obscured the sky and the sun. If it's not noon, you can't see the sun; If it's not the middle of the night, you can't see the moon.

In the summer, the river floods the mountains, blocking both the upward and downward routes. Sometimes the emperor's orders had to be conveyed urgently, and at this time, as long as he set out from the White Emperor City in the morning, he arrived at Gangneung in the evening, a distance of 1,200 miles, and even if he rode a galloping horse and rode the wind, it was not as fast as a ship.

In spring and winter, you can see the white rapids swirling and the turquoise water reflecting the scenery. Most of the peaks are filled with strange-shaped pines and cypresses, and the Hanging Springs Waterfall rushes between the peaks. The water is clear, the trees are glorious, the mountains are steep, and the grass is abundant, which is indeed infinitely interesting.

In autumn, when the day is just clear or in the morning when the frost falls, the woods and mountain streams appear cool and silent, and there are often apes in high places with long voices chirping, and the sound is continuous, which seems very miserable and desolate, and in the empty valley there is an echo of the ape's cry, the voice is sad and tactful, and it disappears for a long time. Therefore, the song of the fishermen in the Three Gorges sang: "The chief of the Wuxia of the Three Gorges of Badong, the ape screamed three times and shed tears." ”

The Three Gorges is selected from the "Water Scripture Note".

Writing background: Li Daoyuan (466 or 472-527), who lived in the Northern and Southern Dynasties and Northern Wei Dynasty, was born in Fanyang County (now Gaobeidian City, Hebei Province) into a family of eunuchs, hereditary Marquis of Yongning. I loved to visit when I was a teenager.

Later, when he became an official, he traveled to various places, and in addition to visiting places of interest and historic sites, he also carefully surveyed the topography of the water flow to understand the coastal geography, landform, soil resistance, climate, people's life and respect for the elderly, and regional changes. He found that although there is a lack of accurate records of the ins and outs of large and small rivers, due to the change of times, the rise and fall of cities, some rivers have been diverted and their names have changed, but the book has not been supplemented and explained. Li Daoyuan then personally annotated the "Water Classic" and wrote the famous "Water Classic Notes", which recorded hundreds of large and small rivers, including the Three Gorges.