"High Gorge Emerging from Pinghu" - a passionate epic on Qingshi Mountain
In the late autumn of 1966, 40,000 Linqu people carried stone drills on their shoulders and pushed wooden carts, rushing into the Songshan Canyon like a torrent of steel. Their goal is to build a reservoir that will change their destiny in the Qingshi Mountain area, where it is asserted that "water storage is not as good as water leakage"!
A battle of life and death on a cliff
Blood and flesh Qingji: In order to conquer the leaking limestone, migrant workers jumped barefoot into the glacier in the cold winter of minus 17 degrees, and carried Qingji 18.5 Meters on their shoulders. Their blood froze into ice and stuck to their cotton clothes.
Forty thousand iron arms fight the flood peak: In 1969, the flood season was approaching, and the gap in the dam was like a huge gaping mouth. 17,000 Reinforcements from the five counties of Changwei and Wei rushed to the rescue at night, and 40,000 people blocked the flow with human walls. Sandbags built a flesh-and-blood Great Wall in the torrent, and finally completed the "impossible" closure on June 6.
A spiritual monument that will never collapse
A family of masons: The old hero Xue Xiucheng pushed his fellow workers away when the aqueduct collapsed and buried tens of thousands of tons of gravel himself. The next day, his son Xue Liangzhu carried his father's blood-stained tool box and carved the first chisel of the "Heroes Aqueduct" at the place where he was martyred.
Five Steel Sisters: Five girls from Longgang Commune practiced hammer-swinging hard. The blood from the cracked tiger's mouth soaked the hammer handle, but they set a record for male workers drilling a 3-meter-long cave in a day. The legend of "Iron Girls" bloomed amidst the splashing of gravel.
The miracle of recasting mountains and rivers
In the spring of 1971, 55 kilometers of main canals passed through 15 tunnels and spanned 19 aqueducts, winding like a dragon, and 85,000 acres of scorched soil became fertile wilderness. When the blue waves overflowed the cracked field ridges for the first time, the old farmer knelt down and drank the Songshan water, with tears streaming down his face: "The stone river has harmed us for thousands of years, and today - it has nourished people!"
"There are small carts and hands in this lake.
