Youshui is located west of Yuanling. 15 kilometers away from Yuanling City is Wusu, the first town of Youshui. Thirty kilometers up from Wusu is Fengtan Dam, and the reservoir area reaches directly to Yongshun, Baojing to Liye ......
There are quite a number of terraced dams on the Youshui River, and the dangerous shoals become flat lakes. Especially the source of Hubei Laifeng and Hunan Longshan is more chicken and dog separated on both sides of the Youshui River. It is really the reality of the dragon and phoenix and the dragon and phoenix.
In the basin of Youshui River, the mountains are clear and beautiful, the peaks are erect, and everywhere you can see the scenery of ghostly and ingenious work and natural heavenly creation, which makes people feel moved and stirred, and they forget to go back and forth.
Youshui is known as the mother river of Tujia and Miao people. According to historical records, after Emperor Qin Shi Huang destroyed Ba Shu, the five Ba Zi's were dispersed to You, Chen, Wu, Wu, Yuan five streams area, thus becoming the ancestors of Tujia and Miao people.
The Tujia and Miao people are along the Youshui upstream, in the vast area of Hunan, Chongqing and western Hubei to open up the territory and flourish. Due to specific natural and historical reasons, the Youshui basin is the main deposition belt of Ba-Tu culture, and also an important zone for the exchange and integration of Ba-Chu and Han cultures, with long history and culture, and splendid and colorful ethnic cultures.
The Youshui Basin is rich in people and resources, and many special products are famous throughout the world. The scenery of Youshui Basin is majestic, the mountains are beautiful, the water is quiet, the ecological vegetation is well maintained, and the climate is suitable, which is known as "the most masculine and the natural oxygen bar", and it is the most suitable place for human beings to reside.
Youshui is also called Baihe River, and its source in Hubei is called Baishui River. It is the beautiful natural scenery that has nurtured the unique national culture. Here, you can touch the traces of history and listen to the ancient celestial music.
Youshui River is also the . Mother River, which is the main channel of material exchange and civilization transmission between western Hunan and the outside world. Wushu is the first material distribution center on this river.
A wooden boat relying on human paddles and poles to pull the fiber, will be Xiangxi's tung oil, five times the seeds, animal skins, medicinal herbs and other native products through the Wuxu constantly transported out, and then downstream of the port of the foreign oil, salt, cloth, miscellaneous goods transported back. Youshui beaches dangerous water rush, the boat traveling between the dangerous. From Baojing to Changde, round trip often takes more than a month. In the long days of boating, boatmen for the concerted efforts to overcome the natural difficulties, but also to remove the chest of bitterness, regulate their own lives, day by day, and gradually created with the water labor closely related to the unique ballads, with a strong sense of regional and musical texture, interspersed with shouting of the Youshui boatmen horn.
It is regrettable that several power stations were built on the Youshui River, coupled with changes in the mode of transportation, the history of navigation throughout the Youshui River officially ended, and the boatmen's horn in the valley of the Youshui River also sank in the light of day. When the boat song creators and inheritors of the "horn head" have passed away, save the text and audio-visual as a "specimen", this is the loss of many real-life carriers of folk culture to take a helpless way of protection.
Ushuku town also disappeared and was changed into a two Youxiang, which is a strong love for the old Ushuku people regret, regret, how can I look up to the sky and long sigh. History is always pushing into the new and endless.
In the Youshui basin, you can see three kinds of fishing methods using river pebbles, namely, catching Bajan fish, smashing black flat head and skimming fork. These three fishing methods are very interesting, and we have done it when we were children. This may be a living fossil of ancient living customs left to our descendants.
Bajan fish attached to the water hidden under the rocks, this fish has a strange characteristic, people touch it or hand break it, it does not move not to escape, still tightly crawling on the rocks. As long as the rock is held out of the water, the moment it is out of the water, the Bajan fish will automatically fall down, so that you can use other tools to catch the Bajan fish.
The black flathead is a black bearded catfish that hides under rocks under the water, and the simple way to catch this fish is to pick up rocks that may be harboring fish, and the black flathead gets a huge jolt and is stunned and floats to the surface.
The water is crystal clear. The deep pool for the sun is reflected, the bottom of the river small white stones, patterned agate stones, all see clearly. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.
In fact, Shen Congwen's "Biancheng" is today's Hunan Huayuan County, Chadong, "Biancheng" mentioned in the "White River", is the Youshui River, but also non-Fenghuang County, "Tuojiang". "Biancheng. Due to the aesthetic art of "Biancheng", "Biancheng" this novel has a unique position in the history of modern Chinese literature. Therefore, the tea cave was also officially renamed Border City more than ten years ago. Biancheng is known as "a foot in three provinces, western Hunan small Nanjing". West and Songtao County, Guizhou Province, Yazhou town and Chongqing Xiushan County, Hongan town border, north and Chongqing Xiushan County, Eryong Township across the river, is the western gate of Hunan Province and one of the four major towns in western Hunan.