The canal is not stagnant water, the canal is hot blood.
Ships in the south and horses in the north, rise and fall, honor and disgrace, all rise and fall in the waves.
In 1900, Suzhou boatman Shao Changlai took Italian merchants north. A fire from the Boxers burned the wooden boats saved by five generations, but it could not burn out the soul of the canal;
In 2000, teenagers from Huajie Xiaoyuan rode their bicycles through the construction site of the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway.
There is no golden finger, just a group of ordinary people being chased by the wheel of time.
Xie Wanghe went from being a contractor at the dock to becoming the CEO of Beidiao, but when he became famous, he stumbled and drowned and returned to the starting point;
Conflict between gates and valves? Modern people are engaged in capital hunting.
Cavalry peeking into the river? Now the pressure is bulldozers and hot search lists.
They say the canal is dead.
Until Xie Wanghe threw all the 800 million in his Bitcoin account into the "Canal World Heritage List" live broadcast room;
Until Xia Fenghua, wearing a high-end suit, took the lead and jumped into the river to dredge;
Until Shao Xingchi's oil painting was burned to ashes, a ship ticket from 1900 floated out of the ashes——
People were shocked to realize that this river has been flowing for thousands of years, and the fate of the river has spanned hundreds of years and has long become the rust and agarwood in the bones of the Chinese people.