The Shanxi-Shaanxi gorge town group: coming from the air

"The Yellow River boat, on the moraine became", businessmen aspiring only "at the moraine sigh", reluctantly over the ship's cargo in Qikou shore, to hire a team by road transport.

The first year of Qing Emperor Guangxu, the Yellow River suddenly flooding, water potential of large numbers of epic proportions. Three towns were crowning calamity, the bustling commercial street on both sides of the shop is make a clean sweep of together with.

The Yellow River flows through the Millennium

In its heyday, Zhaoxian town gathered tens of thousands of ceramic industry, the street was full of tension porcelain camels and mule cart, pulled out of the porcelain, into the shining white silver.

From the water transport point of view, the Yellow River Shanxi, the Grand Canyon is definitely not a golden waterway -- narrow river, suddenly slow suddenly rush of water, and the ubiquity of Shaqi reef, let the boat is a very risky business.

Ancient houses

However, compared with the rough road on the Loess Plateau, canyon waterway or convenient many. In those days, countlessShaanxi,ShanxiThe merchant is to take a fancy to this, they be fearless, loaded with goods from south to north along the canyon. Canyon on both sides of the countless dock ferry, market towns and villages also subsequently flourishing, and suddenly, become a bustling commercial city, Qikou, Wucheng, Zhao Xian, three...... The Yellow River waterway, gave birth to the ancient town of riches, honour and splendor.

The past thousands of years, the ancient town of the Yellow River waxed and waned, flood, war here go round and begin again. Finally, travel away, over the desolate, an ancient town is also gradually subsided, until now.

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