Baiheliang
Baiheliang (
In the past, Baiheliang served as an ancient device for measuring water levels of the Yangtze in China, the equivalent of a hydrometric station. The horizontal rock ledge, 1.6 km long and ten to fifteen metres wide, lay submerged under water most of the year, showing its upper face above water only during the low-water season of winter and early spring. The eyes of fish carved on the stone indicate the lowest water levels of the Yangtze River, which made the site a precious hydrographic marker. Baiheliang has been submerged to a depth of over 30 metres behind the Three Gorges Dam.[3]
Engraved in the rock are 163 inscriptions and pictures, which include 114
The fish carvings and hydrological inscriptions were virtually unknown in the West until the 1970s, when Chinese experts presented photos of these two fish and hydrological data of Fuling for the past 1,200 years at an international hydrological symposium held in the UK.
The best-known of the fish carvings was a 2.8-metre
The inscriptions on the "White Crane Ridge" are on display in the Baiheliang Underwater Museum,[5] which opened to the public on May 18, 2009.[6] Some carvings are also on display in the Three Gorges Museum in the city centre of Chongqing.[7]
See also
References
- ^ "White Crane Ridge". www.chinatour360.com. ChinaTour360.com. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
- National Geographic. Archived from the originalon 6 June 2017. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
- ^ "Accident-maker reef no longer threatens Yangtze navigation" Archived 2007-03-12 at the Wayback Machine, ThreeGorgesProbe.org.
- ^ Baiheliang: Ancient Hydrologic Station, China.org.cn, 2003.
- Chinese Government, 8 May 2006.
- ^ "Baiheliang underwater museum open today" Archived 2010-04-29 at the Wayback Machine, cq.gov.cn, 2009.
- ^ Zhao Lixia, ed. (29 September 2009). "Three Gorges Museum, Largest Thematic Museum in China". english.cri.cn. China: CRI.cn. Archived from the original on September 24, 2014. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
External links
- Media related to Baiheliang at Wikimedia Commons