July
Fourteenth day of July
Evening, clear. Opened the south window to view the stream and mountains. The stream is absolutely many fish, sometimes cracking the surface of the water jumped out of the slanting sun reflection, like a silver knife. Fishing and pulling the net people look forward to, so the price is very low, the boy to make the generation of day are all eaten. The natives say, this stream water is fat, suitable for fish. And drink it, the water taste fruit sweet, do not believe that fat so many fish evil? The southeast of the creek several peaks such as Diane, cover the green mountain also.
August
14th, dawn, rain. Passed a small stone mountain, from the top of the straight cut in half, and Yuyao Riverside Shushan absolutely similar. Throw the big river, met a raft, wide more than ten feet, long more than fifty feet. There are thirty or forty families, wives, chickens, dogs, mortars and pestles are equipped, in the pathway to each other, there are also shrines, so I have not seen. Boatman Yun, this is still the small ear, the big ones on the raft paved soil for vegetable gardens, or as a restaurant, are no longer able to enter the folder, but the line of the river only. On this day, the boat was pulled against the wind, and the declining sun in the west (dié) only traveled fifteen or sixteen miles since Pingdan. Parked Liu Guanji, next to the Herb State border. The children disembarked and returned to the shore, saying, "I have to take a small path to the back of the mountain, and there is a small lake with a lot of lotus water. Along the lake more wood infused flowers, a few families in the setting sun, Lu Fan thatched cottage, just like a quiet, but silent. There are big pears, want to buy them, can not be obtained. There were some big pears, but I could not buy them. The boat in the lake was used for picking diamonds, and I did not call them. Want to be poorer, met with the roadside set up machine, suspected of tigers and wolves, so did not dare to go." Liu Guanji, rumor has it that Han Zhaolie into Wu taste pitchfork boat here. Evening, watching the big soft-shelled turtle floating and sinking in the water.
(August) 21. Passed the double willow clip, look back on the river, the distant mountains repeat deep show. From the yellow, although the line in the folder, but also all far away, the terrain is gradually high, a variety of beans and buckwheat genus. Evening, berth Yang Luo, high willow embankment, the inhabitants of the crowd. Fish as cheap as dirt, a hundred dollars can be full of twenty mouth; and all the giant fish, want to find small fish to feed the cat, can not get.
September
9th, morning, visit the Hou Tu Shrine. The roadside houses, thatched all thick more than feet, neat and tidy without a branch mess. Hanging sails, throw the river line thirty miles, parked Taziji, Riverside Hill. Since the departure of Ezhou, to this is the first time to see the mountain . Buy sheep and wine. Covering the village step to the nine, slaughtering a sheep, the boat to buy, and then exhausted. I begged for chrysanthemums from people on the river, and got several branches, which were very fragrant and lovely, and I got drunk for the decadent path. The night rain, extremely cold, began to cover the flocculation coverlet.
October
Twenty-one. Boat looking at the Shimen Pass, only through a person line, the world's most dangerous. In the evening, parked Badong County, the mountains and rivers are majestic, great victory over zigui. But Jingyi is extremely depressed, only a hundred households in the Eup, since the light and down all thatched, no tile. The right county affairs at zigui, the lieutenant of the right dikonglang Wang Kangnian, the lieutenant and chief bookkeeper of the right dikonglang Du Dexian came, all Shu people also. Visited the ancestral hall of Kou Lai Gong, climbed the Autumn Wind Pavilion, down to the river and mountains. It is heavily cloudy and snowy, the weather, but also to see the name of the pavilion, so that people are frustrated, began to have the sigh of the end of the world. Then climbed the double cypress hall, Baiyun Pavilion. Hall under the old cypress planted by Mr. Lai, now dead. But the South Mountain repeat, beautiful and lovely. White Cloud Pavilion is the world's weird and wonderful realm, surrounded by mountains, layers out of the intersections, ancient trees, often two or three hundred years of things. Column outside the double waterfall diarrhea stone stream, jumping beads splash jade, cold into the human bone. Under it is Cixi, running with the river will be. Yu from Wu into Chu, line more than 5,000 miles, over fifteen states, pavilions of the victory is not as white as the clouds, but only in the light of the county after listening to things. Batong has nothing to do, for the order of the person can sleep and eat in the pavilion, the joy of the endless, and Que order often two or three years, no willingness to make up for the person, why?
Twenty-three days, over the Wushan condensed true view, visit the shrine of the Myriad of real people. Real people that the world called Wushan Goddess also. Shrine to the Wushan Mountain, the peaks into the sky, the foot of the mountain straight into the river. The discussants said too, Hua, Heng, Lu, are not this strange. However, the twelve peaks can not be seen in full, seen eight or nine peaks, but the Goddess Peak is the most delicate and strange crags, it is appropriate for the fairy real trust. Zhu Shi Yun: "Every August 15 night when the moon is bright, there is the sound of silk and bamboo, to and from the top of the peak, the mountain apes are singing, up to Dan Fang gradually stop." After the temple, there was a stone altar in the middle of the mountain, which was open. The legend says: "Xia Yu met the goddess and gave her the book of symbols here." On the altar, the twelve peaks looked like a barrier. On that day, the sky cleared up, looking around without fiber cataracts, but the goddess of the peak of several pieces of white clouds, such as luan and crane dance hovering, long time does not disperse, can also be different. Shrine of the old Wu hundreds, send guests to meet the boat.
Translation
July
Fourteenth, evening, the sky is clear. I opened the south-facing window in the cabin and watched the scenery of the river and mountains. There were a lot of fish in the Gushu Stream, and from time to time they rushed through the water and leaped out, and the setting sun reflected the stream (fish) as if they were silver knives. Fishing and netting people were all over the place, and because of this, the price of fish was very low, and the houseboys were well-fed every day. The local people say that the water of this stream is very fertile and suitable for fish. When I drank the water of this stream, I felt that the water tasted really sweet, is it really because the water is fat and there are many fish? The many peaks in the southeast of the stream look like they have been dyed with green and black pigment, so they are the green mountains.
August
On the 14th day of the eighth month, (the boat departed from Fu Chi and traveled west) at dawn, it rained. Passed a small rocky mountain, (which) was so straight that it looked as if half of it had been cut off with a knife from the top of the mountain, very similar to Mount Shushan on the Yuyao River. Traveling on the river, I came upon a raft, more than ten fathoms wide and more than fifty fathoms long. There were thirty or forty families on it, with wives, children, chickens and dogs, as well as mortars and pestles for pounding rice. In the middle of the raft there was a passage between them, and a shrine, which had never been seen before. The boat driver said, this is still small, big rafts can be laid on the soil for vegetable fields, or open a hotel, but the big can no longer drive into the small water bay, only in the big river traveling just. This day blowing against the wind, (fiberglass man) hard pull boat, from dawn to sunset only went 15 or 16 miles. The boat anchored at Liu Guan Ji, the ancient border of Herb State. The son and nephew and other generations went ashore and came back, saying, "I found a path, (from the path) to the back of the mountain, there was a small lake, a large area, with a lot of lotus seeds and rhombus corns, and a lot of wood infused flowers along the lake, and a few families were in the sunset, with reed fences and thatched roof houses, as if it was a secluded and elegant place, and so silent that there was no sound of human beings. There was a very large pear, and wanted to buy it, but could not. In the lake, there were small boats picking diamond corns, and no one answered when I called them. I wanted to see what was going on, but I happened to see that the roadside was equipped with tools for catching wild animals, and I suspected that there were tigers and wolves, so I didn't dare to go forward again." Liu Guan Jie, legend has it that Liu Bei, Emperor Zhaolie of Shu Han, went to Wu, and once landed on a boat here. At night, he saw a big turtle floating in the water.
(August) 21, (ship from Huangzhou upstream Qi Ji port) passed the double willow clip, looking back at the river, the distant mountains heavy deep and beautiful. From the departure of Huangzhou, although traveling in the double willow folder, but also vast and far-reaching, the terrain gradually high, large planting some beans, grains, buckwheat and other food crops. In the evening, in Yang Luofu anchored, where the embankment is wide, willow trees are high and dense, the inhabitants are thick and numerous. Fish is as cheap as dirt, a hundred copper coins (bought fish) can make twenty people eat; and all are big fish, want to find some small fish to feed the cat, can not be found.
September
9th, (the boat traveling to the Jingzhou Shishou county territory) morning, to worship the temple of the earth god. The thatch covering the roofs of the houses by the roadside was more than a foot thick, so neat that there was not a single stray blade of grass. Open up the sails of the boat, sailing in the river for thirty miles, anchored in Taziji, Taziji is a large mountain on the river. I have not seen the mountain since I left Ezhou until I arrived here. We bought sheep and wine, and anchored at the water's edge beside the village. Because it was the Chung Yeung Festival, we killed a sheep and bought it in several boats, which were finished in a short time. I bought a few chrysanthemums from a house by the river, which had a lovely fragrance, and thus got drunk. It rained during the night, and was very cold, which made it time to begin to cover up.
October
On the twenty-first day, (the ship passed through Guizhou) looking from the ship at the Shimen Pass, it was only possible to pass through it by one man, it was really the most dangerous place in the world. In the evening, the ship anchored in Badong County, the great river and mountains are very majestic and magnificent, far beyond Zigui. The market is very depressed and cold, there are only a hundred or so families in the county, the county magistrate's office below are thatched roofs, there is not a single tile. Acting lieutenant is zigui's lieutenant right dikonglang wang kangnian, lieutenant and chief minister is right dikonglang du de xianlai, both are sichuan people. I paid my respects to Kou Lai's hall and climbed up to the Autumn Wind Pavilion, which was next to the Yangtze River. This day is very cloudy and heavy snow, the weather is cold, and then look at the name of the pavilion, so that people are frustrated, only to have the feelings of the end of the world. So again climbed the double cypress hall, white cloud pavilion. Under the hall, there was a cypress tree planted by Mr. Kou Lai, which is now dead. However, there are many peaks in the South Mountain, which are beautiful and lovely. Baiyun Pavilion is the most exquisite and marvelous place in the world, surrounded by mountains, showing one layer after another, and the ancient trees are dense and luxuriant, often grown up for two or three hundred years. Outside the pavilion fence there are two waterfalls flowing straight into the mountain stream, like pearls jumping, like jade shavings splashing, and cold air invading the bones. Below it is Cixi, running to meet the Yangtze River. I entered Hubei from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, traveled more than five thousand miles, passed through fifteen states, the most beautiful pavilion did not exceed the White Cloud Pavilion, only in the back of the county lieutenant's office. The county magistrate of Badong has no business at all, as the magistrate can sleep, eat in the pavilion, that kind of fun is simply boundless, but the magistrate is vacant for two or three years, no one is willing to come to fill the vacancy, this is why ah?
Twenty-three days, over the Wushan condensed true view, visited the shrine of the real person of the wonderful use. The real person is what everyone calls the goddess of Wushan. The shrine is facing Wushan Mountain, the peaks are very high rushing into the high sky, while the foot of the mountain is plunged straight into the river. Discussions of people say that Mount Tai, Mount Hua, Mount Heng, Mount Lushan, are not as peculiar as Mount Wushan. But the twelve peaks and can not see all, can see the eight or nine peaks, only the goddess peak slender and slender, steep and colorful, is indeed suitable for the incarnation of the goddess. Shrine in the presiding priest said: "Every year on the night of August 15 when the moon is bright, you can hear the beautiful orchestral music, walking back and forth on the peak, you can hear the apes on the mountain cries, to the dawn only gradually stop." Behind the temple, halfway up the mountain, there is a stone altar, which is relatively flat. Legend has it that "when Xia Yu met the Goddess, the Goddess gave the talisman to Yu at this place." From the stone altar, the twelve peaks look like a barrier. On this day, the sky was clear and there was not a single cloud around, except for a few white clouds on the Goddess Peak, which were like phoenixes and white cranes dancing and strolling there, and did not disperse for a long time, which was also a very strange phenomenon. The shrine turned out to have hundreds of crows, sending away guests, ushering in the new boat.