Taohe

Taohe

Taohe River runs through Yangquan City, Shanxi Province. Its drainage area is second only to Hutuo River and Wenhe river. From the west of Xindian Village in the suburb of Yangquan City, it flows from west to East through the suburb of Yangquan City and the mining area of Yangquan City. The urban area of Yangquan City and Pingding County merge with Wenhe River in the west of Hetan village to form Mianhe river. Taohe River is 91.4 kilometers long in Yangquan City, with a drainage area of 1086 square kilometers (about a quarter of the total area). There are nine main tributaries in Yangquan: Baoan River, Luhu River, Majiapo River, Mengcun River, Hongcheng River and Wudu River on the north bank, sangzhang River, Yijing River and Nanchuan River on the south bank.

brief introduction

Taohe River is the longest river in Yangquan City, Shanxi Province. Its drainage area is second only to Hutuo River and Wenhe river. According to Yangquan City annals, Taohe River was called mianmanshui in ancient times and originated from tuxingling in the east of Shouyang County, Shanxi Province The water is as red as peach blossom, so it is named From the west of Xindian Village in the suburb of Yangquan City, it flows from west to East through Jiujie Township, Pingtan town (including Xinxing township), Yangquan mining area, Yangquan City, Lijiazhuang Township in the suburb of Yangquan City, yuanyanhui Township in Pingding County (now 10 villages belong to Jucheng Town, luanliu village belongs to SHIMENKOU township), Niangziguan Town, and joins Wenhe River in the west of Hetan village to form Mianhe river. Taohe River is 91.4 kilometers long in Yangquan City, with a drainage area of 1086 square kilometers (about a quarter of the total area). There are nine main tributaries in the territory: Baoan River, Luhu River, Majiapo River, Mengcun River, Hongcheng River and Wudu River on the north bank, sangzhang River, Yijing River and Nanchuan River on the south bank.

Myths and legends

Taohe River, which runs through Yangquan City, is said to be called "Puzhu River" in ancient times. The fluctuation of the river is unpredictable. When the river is dry, the river bed is like a large desert river; when the river is full of water, the huge rocks in the river roll like ten thousand horses galloping, extremely fast. On a hot and sunny day, the river head suddenly rushes down, not to mention that passers-by can't be prevented. Even wild boars, which are as powerful as cattle and run as rabbits in the mountains, will be knocked down and immediately involved in the river, so the local people call it "Puzhu River".

In order to subdue the river, the people decided to dig stones to move mountains and build dams. People have been busy all winter and spring, and finally built the dam, but the next year when the river came, the dam was washed down. People moved stones to block the river again. In this way, year after year, children and grandchildren continued to block the river, and finally built a Qifeng dam to block the flood. The news spread to the sky and touched Lord Yu. One day, King Yu came here for sightseeing, just in time for the heavy rain, and there was a huge flood. At this time, hundreds of brave men, regardless of the danger, ran to the dam with stones to reinforce the dam foundation. However, the rain continued to increase, the river rose rapidly, and the Qifeng dam was on the verge of collapse. Lord Yu quickly extended his five fingers to the river. Five stone peaks appeared in the river immediately, forming five river bends, alleviating the impact of the river and keeping the dam. The next day, when the wind was calm and the rain stopped, the "five blockages" appeared in the river. Later, the village built here was called Wudu town. Because ferry was built on the river, Wudu town was also called "wudukou". This may be the origin of Wudu village. Since then, both sides of the river have flourished and villages have been built everywhere. The downstream of Wudu is called "luanliu village" because there is no fixed channel and the river flows in disorder; the village built on the bank is called "hEPO village"; the place where a large amount of gravel is deposited is called "shajiangkou", the place where a low-lying water is deposited is called "Pingtan"; the place where the river becomes clear and there are many fish and shrimp is called "Saiyu town". When peach blossom is in full bloom, peach blossoms are always floating on the surface of puzhuhe River, so people changed puzhuhe River into Taojiang River and later called it Taohe River.

history

Taohe River is the mother river of Yangquan people. Because of its long history and wide basin, it has made great contributions to the development of agriculture and reproduction of local people for thousands of years. The formation and naming of many villages on both sides of Taohe River (such as Saiyu, Pingtan, Wudu, hEPO, luanliu, Hetan, etc.) vividly reflect this fact and complex. Judging from the existing written materials and historical documents, in ancient times, Taohe River was not only rich in water resources, but also had extraordinary scenery, which was very popular with people. As early as more than 680 years ago, LV Sicheng, zuocheng of the central book of the Yuan Dynasty, wrote in his "water mill poem of the Wudu River": "the song of the city is full, the water is flowing, and he likes to listen to the sound of the basket. Laugh at my poor family, no wheat ridge, see Jun Gao weir build Taojiang. There is no need to make efforts to turn the body around, so that the energy of heaven and earth does not fall. It's said that with Han Yin's infatuation with Laozi, Jue's utility is better than Papaver jar. " In 1811, Wu Anzu, the governor of Pingding Prefecture, wrote about the scene of "Autumn Moon in Pingtan" in his eight sceneries of Pingding prefecture (recorded in the "scenery" section of Volume 7 of Shanxi general annals of Ming Chenghua Edition), and said: "in the night of plain shadow and golden boudoir, there is a feast of treasure and emotion. Last month, he Rutan left a photo to read When he wrote about the scene of "five crossing flat waves", the poem said: "the horizontal wave rises five crossing, driving the duck out of the red appendix. The reed flowers on both sides of the Strait are cold, and the autumn looks on the trees. " After the revolution of 1911, Li Su, who was a representative of the Nanjing Provisional Government and a member of the Senate, wrote in his poem "the scenery of my hometown", that "Wu Wu Cheng is not alone every day, and there are fireworks in a village. Weize pass under the deep reed, Taohe River fish thick It can be seen that more than 90 years ago, even in the early days of the founding of new China, Taohe River, as the largest river in Yangquan, played a leading role in people's benefits, which is hard to forget.

Due to natural factors, coupled with man-made excessive logging, ecological imbalance, floods also occur from time to time. In the 55 years from the liberation of Yangquan to 2002, there were more than 100 large and small floods, nearly twice a year on average. Among them, there are 5 times when the peak discharge exceeds 1000 m3 / s. The largest flood occurred on August 24, 1959 with a 50 year return period, and the maximum peak discharge reached 2200 m3 / s. The flood destroyed more than 100 meters of Saiyu coal bridge and two holes of Taohe bridge, resulting in a four-day traffic interruption between the north and the South; Yangquan power plant and Taohe dam in the riverside Street section were destroyed more than 120 meters, causing serious damage to the streets and nearby factories and mining enterprises, killing six people and causing a direct economic loss of more than 1 million yuan. The second is the 20-year flood occurred on August 23, 1966, with the maximum peak discharge of 1980 m3 / s. The flood broke the flood control levee on the South Bank of Taohe River in 9 places, totaling more than 840 meters. As a result, flour mills, timber factories, power plants and other units and 16 streets were flooded, killing 57 people and causing a direct economic loss of 100 million yuan.

The fact of blood tells people that the Taohe River, which has been flowing for more than a thousand years, has gradually lost the charm of the mother river with the change of times, and has become a disgusting, disgusting, headache and worry river! Nevertheless, some units or individuals who lack social morality are still pouring sewage, dumping garbage and dumping waste into the Taohe River; some people who lack scientific knowledge are still breeding in the riverbed of the Taohe River; some people who are infatuated with petty gains are still digging sand and stones in the Taohe River despite the repeated orders of the government

Taohe River Regulation

On September 1, 2002, with the order of Cheng Buyun, Secretary of the municipal Party committee, the Taohe River comprehensive treatment project, which attracted the attention of the people of the whole city, was started. This is a major event that has been deliberated and planned by all previous municipal Party committees and governments for a long time. It is also the voice of the 1.3 million coal farmers raised by Taohe.

Taohe Park

Taohe park is located in Taohe channel across Yangquan City. It is an ecological park with the goal of comprehensive management of Taohe River. From Saiyu bridge to Wudu bridge, it is 9.03km long. It has a compound channel with 70m width of main channel and 40m width of channel on both sides. The channel is all green. The channel realizes cascade water storage. The water storage source is reclaimed water produced by sewage treatment plant in our city. The total area of the park is 1.4 million square meters, including 720000 square meters of greening and 680000 square meters of water storage.

The overall design concept of the park is to highlight the local characteristics of Yangquan and realize ecological, ecological and modern. According to different landscape design styles, there are four key landscape areas

scenic spot.

Saiyu Park

Saiyu park is located on the North Bank of the upper reaches of Taohe River. It is a long and narrow strip park from east to west. The park extends to Saiyu in the East and Luhu bridge in the west, with a linear width of 20-50 meters and a length of about 5.58 km. The total construction area is 173000 square meters. Green area accounts for 80% of the total area. The construction of Saiyu Park adheres to the overall design concept of the Taohe River basin ecological comprehensive treatment project, focuses on highlighting the local characteristics, takes the mineral culture as the theme, and displays the economic and cultural characteristics of industrial and mining cities by showing the production and living scenes of coal mines. It has built two parks: impression print of coal city, autumn moon relief of Pingtan, fish dragon sculpture, lamp array square, machine forest mining language, and outing garden There are more than 20 scenic spots with rich cultural connotations.

Address: Yangquan City

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