Three generations of commitment to obligations old

Crossing picturesque. Its really old Shaogong Wan has been in 15 years this stick.
Lao Wan others always smile on his face.
Lao Wan drying hats and rain clothes.
Wan The real (left) and his son, grandson, he wants three generations and then crossing the justice handed down

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25 in the morning, before the construction of Enshi County, Township Dasha River crossing, cold blowing mist misty. Day, up to hundreds of times when, sitting in his boat across the river from.
old Shaogong full name Wan its true. This is just crossing his 15-year life of a defined silhouette. Since the early 1995 took over the ferry from his stick in this day, villagers and the transition to maintain cross-strait Streams important channel.
years flies. In the past hundred years, the vicissitudes of the years, the Lao Wan Yi Relay family of three generations in this crossing, across the river to facilitate numerous people.
dark clouds, paddle from the paddle down

stick to ferry 15 years

cars built before the county out of the window as a quiet ############## Wuling mountains, meandering to SE 22 km. Over the two mountains at the door of an inner row, a broad river suddenly now in the eyes. Looked from the top, the river curved, like a repose under the green lentils in a bright winter sun. This little ferry, was built in Enshi and transport routes between the beginning and now still is an important channel.
in the Dasha River Village, Xu rock and Flower Hill standing up into the clouds sharp corners, cover your ferry from the north and south sides. Affected by hydropower reservoir immigrants, many of the villagers moved out of the mountains, and now, most of them live in the north Xu Yan, the sharp corners of mountain flowers, then home to six groups of six villagers.
Big River ferry crossing the old Shaogong Wan meaning its true, the villagers affectionately call the old million. His head is not high, thin face, bronze face is always wearing a smile and gas. 15 years, the Lao Wan day after day, trip to trip, crossing to the other side of the village. In the past hundred years, million of its true meaning of family, three generations Relay crossing to facilitate the numerous villagers and Streams.
greet people on board, Penny tap

wave swept the boat to row in the other side

crossing at the surface width of 150 meters, the deepest more than 50 meters. November 25 at 7 pm, in the mountains just dawn, shrouded in fog, early side of the village to reach the ferry, the Lao Wan has been in this waiting.
to 9 am, doing farm work and visit relatives from the village, has been more than 10 times, early winter has been spilled into the front of the warm sun. Lao Wan put a little thin coat, sitting in front of the break.
few words of the old silent million, the time to do things more than talking all the time. Rest of him under the sun from afar, like a statue.
3 years ago, his wife died, and now, two daughters had married, husband and wife work outside the home son, the old son of one million and a large living guarding the crossing.
Lao Wan soft-spoken, when the ferry operation to relieve a strong, not rash, safe, quiet. He was older, but tough body bone Qing Qu, except the right knee the past two years, occasional pain, no major ailments.
At this time, six groups of 67-year-old villager Qing Cui wish a bunch of dry straw carrying, and carrying his wife to ferry the sweet potato side. Cui Qing Zhu did not say, Lao Wan does not need to ask him unlock the mooring ropes, Cui Zhu Qinghe his wife on board to be firmly secured, he jumped ship, a pole point on the shore cliff, legs slightly bent, hands a hard, the boat retreated to the river center.
Laowanchang half of the blade force, a beautiful turn, turn around and cut open small boat waves, the water the sun Zhancheng million points Bits of Gold, Jiang Sheng Road, accompanied by a spray, the other side of the boat light to Luexiang . Shore people looked, Lao Wan insisted on more than six meters long boat water line, it is smooth, it seems effortless.
just a few minutes later, turned a small bend boat across the water's edge, hidden in the tree, the tree is only visible in the gold leaf of the ginkgo trees to live under the park. The boat ride to go, Lao Wan in just about 5 minutes.
Sometimes Laowanchang not draw back the other side of the boat, the villagers here have to, call out: :
Laowanchang occasionally to the mood, but also while punting, while sang, shouted a few folk songs Son:

high mountains and only one road / boat to ferry water depth is only / men from the mountains umbrella to / female in the room embroidered shoes / I Ziqiu (names) turn back / March of that year that many of my embroidered shoes ... ...

vicissitudes vigorous voice, and Jiang Sheng wind relative to linger a long time without a break .
small shrimping net, cup of tea

busy ferry gap in music

usually ferry, what time of day most busy, always had an idea Laowanchang : village early in the morning and labor, before and after the 10 am breakfast, lunch around 3 pm, call it a day to go home around 6pm.
Lao Wan was always waiting in the ferry. Day, he ferry dozens of times, met the villagers have weddings and funerals and other important events, he is not the slightest slack. Day, even when the crossing up to hundreds of times, sometimes too busy to eat only one meal.
ferry life is lonely. Every no transition, Lao Wan on leash boat, into the house. House only a few incomplete chair, a bench, a bunch of cool charcoal gray corner, a kettle hanging on it, as black as the bottom of the pot.
ferry hut without electricity, he lit the kerosene lamp, lit firewood, water for a while on the boil. Take-out from the mountains back to the tea, produced in the mountains or on the old tea, brew a cup, while sitting alone savoring firewood, or even with an old friend of Cui Xianyao other peers to sit and chat.
a Zhancha later, still no transition, Lao Wan will go and see his home-made shrimp small net bag, or sort out from lack of use due to the busy ferry and fishing nets, grab some shrimp and fish . Next meal, the vegetables in addition to the ground, the table will be more of a taste.
leisure time, Lao Wan will sit down at the door, will be in the hands of bamboo strips, woven into baskets or basket one night to take home.
summer to winter, the coming and going

meaning of life never stop crossing

a few kilometers, the Shanghai-Chengdu Expressway and the Yichang-Wanzhou railway have been built , western Hubei mountains in the world are rapidly changing. The old guard at the ferry million, the illiterate, do not read books and newspapers, do not watch TV, just facing the daily Rays, a paddle to paddle a plan, a ferry boat to boat.
Dasha village 278 villagers, more than 1,000 people, with outsiders in the past, a lot of people by boat transition. 15 years, even Lao Wan did not know his boat to boat to go in the end the number of people crossing. By now, he seems to have been separated can not live with this ferry.
in the
Lao Wan as well.
68-year-old Dasha village party secretary, said Cui Dengbi, trip planning 300 meters a day, counting only 30 times, 15-year plan of how far down? But the old million and his family never thought of it. The village's old people talk about Wan its really a three generations, have repeatedly praised: great!
Some people say, trees and stones to make the passage of time, the passage of time is always quietly watered down in the past everything. It now appears, the old million and three generations of his family crossing the act of justice, the passage of time will not dilute it, but will it emit more rich mellow.
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crossing,
centuries, Dasha in the water on both sides people coming and going, to survive and multiply, for their ferry boat pole, three generations in the hands of ten thousand heritage. Ten thousand three generations Shaogong insisted day after day in the river and from the ship, it seems that this is their life.
Thanksgiving

fled to this first generation of ten thousand people, the neighbors felt the grace with mercy, justice ferry shipbuilding hands

now punt crossing the million-defined its true, is the third generation Shaogong million present. In the Dasha village, Wan Wan for his grandfather's column really is rooted in this first generation of grandparents.
Qing dynasty, in order to escape military service, and flooding, Wan Wan for the column name and several families who fled from Jianghan now to Jianshi Jianli County, settled in the mountains located in the Dasha River in western Hubei. Sand River Wan Tai early ancestors surname, Choi was named the local acceptance of such native neighbors, tolerance, and subject to the aid of grace, to expand land reclamation, new home.
Dasha cross this mountain, the original home to many of the people scattered by water. North Shore mountain carrying a bamboo basket to the sharp corners of the mountains south of flowers taken back to the grapefruit, herbs, south mountain carrying a rake, to sow the seeds across the land where, back back to peanuts, potatoes, sweet potato,mbt uomini, pigs. For thousands of years, exchange marriage river, has long been linked to blood.
hundred years before the Dasha River, water more urgent, the river is not wide, annual winter dry season, can stone feet, barely wading across the river, as soon as the wet period, the river rose, and can only be separated look.
long childhood and ten thousand people in the Yangtze River, are familiar with water, seeing the two sides separated by the neighbors of the Dasha, as 20-year-old Wan-chu, then discuss with his wife, a self-made wooden boat, ferry obligations ,mbt uomo, no charges. Since then, ten thousand people standing bow, pervariabilis sailing shadow, and the sides of mountains, painted in the water into the Dasha. That year, just 50 meters wide ferry Dasha, in terms of the million for the column, but can easily hold a few to the other side of Penny's little effort.
river already appeared wooden, cross-strait exchanges become more frequent people slowly without the ferry, Man fit for the hands of Penny's column, this crossing has become the Shaogong. Several years later, a local squire read Wan for justice after years of crossing the column, the mouth is not easy to apply, allocated to him in the ferry next to the 6 acres Yoshida, convenient for him to the nearest labor, and free their land tax.
fleeting

Shaogong the first generation after the death of ten thousand, Alex rock tomb in the east of the mountain crossing into the weeds, no grave monument, oblique look ferry

Yoshida on the foot of the mountain over there. of water, told the curious foreign guests.
3 years, 2 km downstream of the old ferry station built, the piece had Yoshida grandfather labor has been submerged in the water below. After the river water is three times when his grandfather pervariabilis wide.
time like a river, slowly flow away. Ten thousand for the first generation Shaogong Wan column in the liberation of death, grave east of the ferry Alex rock halfway into the weeds, no grave monument, look ferry ramp. His grandson Wan its true, and now have two 10-year-old child's grandfather, the village no one can say exactly which year the death of Wan for the column, only knew about the liberation of a few years.
Wan for the column passed away, the million present and several villagers have been received after the ferry, not a few years, the new China was founded, followed by Ferry, together with 6 acres Yoshida, was incorporated into people's communes.
liberation until 1983, the household contract responsibility system implemented in the village before the Dasha 34 years, in addition to ten thousand generations Wan surgery material, million of its long, there is much empty Cui, Long Friends soldiers have replaced five villagers ferry.
However, the water sailing skills, it seems from the first generation Shaogong Wan for the column began, it became a village of ten thousand people Dasha unique unique skills, old Shaogong Wan Wan son for column material adult patients craft made a good carpenter, but the technology never punt who inherited his father. Other villagers responsible for the ferry in those years, every summer when the water rose, and ultimately brought Wan ferry or punt operation material. Old youngest son of Wan Shaogong surgery wing, the village was a team leader.
gratitude

more people across the river, ran into trouble at home. Wan Rong surgery on I sleep on the shore of the cave, put forward a iron Bobo, light a fire to cook food

1983, the Dasha village land contract home business. Remember credits at the time away, the Dasha River still runs through the middle of the village.
River, the villagers had every day, the ship, the helm who?
Qing dynasty, the meaning of fields, there is no continuity of ferry those who rely on living? At the time spent south of the Dasha angular mountains, with 16 villagers, over the hill, there Sifangjingcun concept of the village and two villages Jinlong, the villagers one day across the river from no less than 50 times, were not long out of the ferry crossing.
or ten thousand people took the ferry. Old Shaogong younger son Wan Rong surgery team leader resigned to the village, came to the ferry pick up Penny. Bearing the convenience of the villagers who gathered together, decided to separate the one next to the ferry nearly 600 acres of land, the nearest cultivated by Wan Rong surgery, can be considered for his compensation.
meaning crossing or passed down by the old ten thousand. Wan Rong took Penny's surgery that day, the Dasha remained calm as ever, no drums, no incense ceremony of ancestor worship, no one remember an exact date. The villagers next to the ferry stop, long crying out: > over sixties villagers of Wan Rong gratitude for his surgery, stay in the cave that he lived three or four years.
live? those years of his life's damned hard. Grilled food in your mouth, it was across the river, go out into the ferry ran down the bowl, never impatient. Big River ferry more than 20 kilometers outside of town, the house was built of reinforced concrete, first emerged in the non-stop, bell-bottoms, pop music is becoming fashionable. For the Montagnards, such a life far away from them and some, at least, they have first passed in front of this river.
across the river of people, young people sitting in his boat across the river, to the county, to further afield. Wan Rong children of patients who have gradually grown up, got married. For him, the most practical change than the township government began to send him several hundred dollars per year subsidy, which makes him a little slow on the burden of relief.
exhortations

Wan it really should be entrusted, under his uncle's death. Then came the third generation Shaogong ferry side, picked up the Penny

accompanied with the ferry 15 years after 1995, the 73-year-old Wan Rong surgery fell sick bed. At this point, its really his nephew Wan has 53 years of age, this year, Wan Wan Tyurin its really great grandson was born.
this year, a large number of young people in the village go out to work, older workers can not go out to the villagers, one after another on the land planted oranges, grapefruit, with selling oranges, grapefruit money, they one after another in the mountains built cottage. Defined crossing meager share of subsidies for the villagers is not much attractive.
deathbed, Wan Rong surgery will be 53-year-old nephew Wan shouted to its true, meaning crossing the solemn task entrusted to him.
Wan really should be under their uncle's exhortations. Million present third-generation Shaogong to ferry side, picked up the Penny. This year, government subsidies up to $ 200 a month, starting in 2008, increased to 540 yuan per month. So, other people are willing to pick up the oars do this subsidy?
Wan took over its true meaning of crossing two years later,uomini mbt scarpe, the village leading to the county road repair industry through the red, red as the industry's Wangjiazhai bridge road bridge built in the same time, about 3 km away from the ferry. Big River south of the more than 10 villagers, some people began to move north. Transition to fewer people, but still no less than 30 times a day.
2009 years, nearly 40 km downstream of the old ferry station completed in Enshi water, crossing up a wide, slow water flow.
in the early winter sunshine, guarded by a large number of foreign guests excited for the arrival of the ferry suddenly, Man it really was not much excitement, he does not know what it means to him, maybe it lively not meaningful to him.
someone to cross the river, the Lao Wan is still up, as usual, others on board firmly secured, Penny's a brace, offshore for paddle boat on the water slide it across.