It takes 500 years for a snake to turn into a dragon, and it takes 1,000 years for a dragon to turn into a dragon. The dragon is the first of the four spirits (dragon, phoenix, unicorn, and turtle). It is good at changing, can cause clouds and rain, and benefit all things. As for whether there are dragons in this world, it seems that there is still no answer to this question. It is an unsolved mystery. Today, with the light of popular science blooming everywhere, perhaps most people would rather believe in the dragon totem theory proposed by Mr. Qian Zhongshu. Since the dragon is the totem of the ancient tribe, it is made of horse heads, bird claws, fish scales, It is composed of a snake body and a fish tail. I don’t want to believe the stories told by the elders around me. Maybe everyone thinks that the elders are more superstitious and say that if they see something that cannot be explained, they say it is a dragon.

But as the saying goes, there is no talk without wind, and it is fine if only one or two people talk about it. But if there are too many people talking about it, we have to think about it again. Today, regardless of whether it is groundless or true, everyone After listening to me talk about some dragon legends in my hometown, I naturally came to a conclusion.

Walking dragons and walking dragons are a way of talking about dragons swimming in rivers in Hubei and Sichuan areas. My hometown is Hubei. Hubei has been a province of thousands of lakes since ancient times. Lakes of all sizes are dotted around, crisscrossed like scattered pearls. Weaved by rivers, Hubei in history once had more than 1,100 lakes with an area of ​​more than 3 square kilometers. However, due to various factors, mostly human factors, there are now only more than 300 lakes left. It is unbearable. Unfortunately, water is the origin of life and culture. Perhaps it is precisely because these waters carrying life are becoming less and less that we can rarely see those legendary species now. Here I call on everyone to take care of the world. Nature. Do not participate or interfere in the evolution of nature without authorization. Maybe sometimes it is just because of a small good thing you think you have done that a species loses its rightful place on the earth. Remember Remember, even if we humans can dominate the earth, we are not the masters of nature after all. The masters of nature are always the various lives that are as small as us, but worthy of respect.

My family is in a small town in Jingmen, Hubei. Although it is not considered developed now, it was prosperous for a long time from the 1980s to the early 1990s. In the history of Jingmen, it was also called Little Hankou. It has a good reputation. Regarding the subsequent decline, some people analyzed that it was due to the economic recession caused by the young and middle-aged labor force going south to work after the reform and opening up. Many old people also said that it was because the dam was built upstream, resulting in a lack of water in the river, which surrounded our town. The dragon in the big river was forced away, taking away the blessings on our side. No matter what the reason was, the town has declined since then.

I remember that when I was three years old, the dam on the upper reaches of the river was completed and the official water storage was about to begin. The local government was in the midst of a lively celebration. Some officials even brought a large group of people to celebrate the completion of the dam happily. The gate closing ceremony of Shenma was held. Since my family lives by the river, and I heard that the gate would be closed today, my grandfather held me and some old fishermen who had never been to the shore in their lives and stood by the river to look at the water. I don’t know when it started raining, but it still couldn’t stop the water level from falling. In just a few hours, the water in the river dropped from the depth that could be used by boats to the point where you can almost see the sediment on the bottom of the river. A group of old fishermen on the side looked at it and their tears fell as the water level dropped. You can imagine a group of lean and dark people who were not afraid of the strong wind and turbulence in the river. What does the old man look like when he cries? When I was little, I didn’t know why they cried. It wasn’t until I grew up and left my hometown that I finally understood what it felt like. A person who lives on a boat and lives on water all his life. You Cutting off his water isn't the same as destroying his home?

Just when everyone was standing by the river in silence, I suddenly heard someone in the crowd shouting, "The dragon is gone, the dragon is gone. No one is allowed to stand by the river. Those who want to watch go home and watch. Why do you say you are not allowed to stand by the river?"

Bian, let me go home and watch, because the older generation said that dragons cannot be seen by others. Once it knows that it has been seen by others, it will be angry to death. So everyone ran back to prepare to peek through the cracks in the windows.

, it is said that this way the dragon will not notice. The rain is getting heavier and heavier. The light rain, which was originally scattered, turned into a downpour with the sound of "cracking, booming, rumbling" thunder. The sky is getting darker and darker.

, just when everyone was hiding by the windows of their homes and staring at the river, they saw a water column on a small tributary parallel to the main river. Note that it was a water column, not a current. It broke through the river bank directly from the middle of the river and went around the edge.

The village was rolling toward the main river. Along the way, there were rolling sand and stones. The water column filled with branches and grass debris became stronger and stronger as it went. When it reached the main river, it was already two or three meters high. It is strange to say that the water column

As soon as we reached the main river, we turned a 90-degree turn and followed the river. But it quickly disappeared without a trace. Only a short bridge was washed away in the place we passed by. The other fields were covered with everything.

It was not damaged. After the water passed, some people found that few vegetables in the vegetable fields nearby had been damaged. Regarding this matter, some materialists gritted their teeth (unreasonably stubborn) and insisted that it was rain.

It was so big that there was a flood. However, everyone knows that when the dam above was closed, there was not much water left in the river. What's more, the two rivers were originally parallel, like a "two", and the water column rushed from the tributaries.

Go to the main river channel and make it form the character "work". Do you feel that the water in his river flows sideways? Also, the reason why there is a water surface is because the water surface is flat. A three-year-old child knows that no matter how hard it is,

No matter where the water is placed, it cannot be made into a cylindrical shape, unless it is water released from a water pipe, but the river is not a water pipe, how does the water condense into a cylindrical shape? As for the collapsed bridge, no matter how it is made of steel bars

It is made of concrete. Now that I have grown up, I think that no matter how strong the water in that tributary is, it should be impossible to break down the small bridge. It seems that only the old people say that dragons will not walk under short bridges. Because of their arrogance, they

He can only raise his head, but never lower his head to crawl under anything. I can barely explain this.

As for the washed-out small bridge in my hometown, a few remaining large concrete piers are still standing there. That area once became a small amusement park on our way home from school when we were in elementary school.

After the dragon, the river channels of the tributaries also changed, from passing along the mountains to following the traces of the dragon and flowing into the main river. Since the small bridge is a must-pass road connecting the main streets, the government is very

Soon another bridge was built on top of the small bridge that was 5.6 times higher than the original bridge. The later bridge was not designed in the pier style like other bridges in the town, but was designed with a large arch hole.

The arch bridge. Maybe I thought that if the dragon walks again, the dragon can pass by without having to lower its head. But until now, no one in our place has said that they have seen the dragon. Since then, our town has slowly declined.

, and the small village where my family lives at the junction of the two rivers was also changed from Tangying Village to Qinglong Village. Because it is said that there was a very big Qinglong on the road. Later, the road in front of my house was also renamed.

Qinglong Avenue and the bridge originally called the Second Bridge were also renamed Qinglong Bridge. I don’t know if this is considered a commemoration of this event by the government.

The above story is basically true. It can be said that 80% of it really happened, and only 20% was modified by the author for everyone to see smoothly. The Qinglong Village, Qinglong Bridge, Qinglong Avenue, etc. in the article all really exist.

The name was changed by the local government in the early 1990s, which seems to have been around 1992. This story is also a collection of my own childhood experiences and the stories told by my grandfather when the author grew up. It has only been slightly modified.

Hehe, I was so frightened when I wrote this, for fear of being doxxed or being trans-provincially. The classmates who know these places must be fellow villagers. Hehe, don’t betray the fox. If you haven’t heard of it, go back and ask your grandparents for more information. Basically, the old people are

I know that the dragon walked that time. There was a violent storm, and there were thunderbolts and lightning all the way, hahaha. The dragon crossed directly from Baohe River to Fushui. Everyone should know this. Haha. There are still three bridges under it that are still there to this day.
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