What is the origin of Jinsha River?

There is a legend among Naxi people that hundreds of thousands of years ago, under the bayan har in Qinghai, there lived a pair of neighbors, a lively girl named Jinsha River and a quiet old man named Yulong Mountain.

They often talk and laugh together, just like father and daughter. Old people in Yulong Mountain love to listen to girls singing in Jinsha River, and girls in Jinsha River love to listen to stories told by old people in Yulong Mountain. One day, the old man in Yulong Mountain said that there was a beautiful crystal palace in the East China Sea. There lived a kind, young and handsome prince in the Crystal Palace, but he didn't find an ideal partner. One day, Prince Donghai heard that there was a beautiful girl in the west. He jumped out of the Crystal Palace with joy and went to the seaside, dreaming to the west that a beautiful girl would come to the East China Sea. But one day, two days and three days passed, and there was nothing but the flying Bai Ou and the sound of the tide hitting the coast. He said to Feng, "Brother Feng, please send a message to that beautiful girl in the West. Just tell her that the Prince of the East China Sea thinks about her day and night. " The wind roared past. He waited for the girl's answer day and night. Who knows that the wind has long forgotten this matter! The prince stands on the beach every day and looks at the west eagerly. Finally, he got sick. Hearing this, the Jinsha River girl was very sympathetic to the prince and eagerly asked, "How can I cure the prince's illness?"

The old man in Yulong Mountain replied, "Only when that girl goes can the Prince of the East China Sea get better." The Jinsha River girl asked again, "Who is that girl? Why doesn't she go? " The old man in Yulong Mountain looked at the innocent face of the Jinsha River girl and said with a smile, "Well, it's you, beautiful Jinsha River girl! It is you that he looks forward to day and night. My good girl, go to the East China Sea to save the Prince! " The girl in Jinsha River blushed, and the old man in Yulong Mountain laughed. The Jinsha River girl thought for a moment, but her face turned red. She looked up and stood up and said, "OK, I'm going to the East China Sea!" " "The old man in Yulong Mountain was startled and said," The East China Sea is more than 6,000 miles. How can a young girl like you walk so far? "Jinsha River girl said," I'm not afraid to go a long way. I must go to the East China Sea! "The old man at Yulong Snow Mountain said," If you must go, shall I follow you? "Jinsha River girl is very happy. "It would be great if you could accompany me, but at your age, you must be unhappy to walk. How can you walk to the East China Sea? "

The old man in Yulong Mountain smiled and said, "You can go to the East China Sea to be a little girl, but my old man can't?" ? If you don't believe me, let's compare and see who gets to the East China Sea first! "

So they left Qinghai and walked to the southeast. At first, no one will let anyone walk in front of him. However, the old man in Yulong Mountain is burly and walks at his pace. One step is dozens of miles, not as slow as the girl in Jinsha River, so the old man in Yulong Mountain has been walking ahead.

Old people in Yulong Mountain often smile and say to the girls near Jinsha River, "Little girl, please leave quickly." The Jinsha River girl bowed her head and walked day and night without saying a word. She thought to herself, "Be sure to catch up with him!" After walking for thirty or forty days, I arrived in Lijiang, Yunnan. The old people in Yulong Mountain think this place is elegant and quiet, which makes people feel relaxed and happy. He sat in the south and looked back at the Jinsha River girl. He wanted to wait for her, but he fell asleep. It will take him hundreds of thousands of years to wake up from this deep sleep. He is lying on the street of Baisha in Lijiang, just on the road of Jinsha River girl.

Seeing that the old man in Yulong Mountain was far asleep, the girl in Jinsha River slipped in quietly from the seam where the old man in Yulong Mountain bent one leg.

Jinsha River girl walked through the southeast of Sichuan, crossed Wuhan and came to Jiangsu. She saw the East China Sea Prince greet her happily, and she threw herself into the arms of the East China Sea Prince happily and never went back.

Jinsha River, also known as the "Golden River" by local people, was mentioned in Gong Yu as early as the Warring States Period, known as black water, and was called rope water in Shan Hai Jing.

Xu Shen's Shuowen Jiezi and Hanshu in the Eastern Han Dynasty? According to geographical records, Jinsha River is a tributary of Jinsha River, which overflows on Yalong River. During the Three Kingdoms period, Jinsha River was called Lushui, and Zhuge Wuhou's "crossing Lushui in May, going deep and barren" refers to this place. In the Song Dynasty, it was renamed Jinsha River because there were a large number of gold diggers in the river.

Jinsha River is rich in placer gold. In the Ming Dynasty, Cheng said in "Study in Qionglin": "Gold is born in Lishui, and silver is from all over the world." In fact, the mining and smelting of the Jinsha River "placer gold mine" has a long history. As early as the pre-Qin period, people were looking for gold by the Jinsha River. For thousands of years, countless people came to the river to borrow soil and gold, thus leaving the names of Jintang Bay, Jintang Village and Jintang Township.

There used to be a folk proverb on both sides of Jinsha River: "When the water rises, it floats; when the water is low, it sails. If it doesn't rise, it won't dry up. " It is said that the wood floating on the Jinhe River in the flood season is not ordinary wood, but a kind of high-quality wood called "Ma Mulberry" on the mountains on both sides of the Jinhe River, that is, Nanmu. Wood has been drifting along the river to the capital to build the emperor's palace, so it was named "Imperial Wood" by the emperor.

In the dry season, an official ship carrying only silver and copper runs in the Tianjin River every once in a while, transporting the silver and copper in the upper reaches of the Tianjin River to the Imperial City and casting silver dollars and copper coins.

Qiaojia Jinsha River section in Tanglangshan area belongs to Jin Lu section of Gulujiang River. The "Qiong Road", where the ancestors of Yi people, Simuzhe, lived, later became the main gold producing area of Jinsha River. Located in the metal mine belt rich in gold, silver, copper and lead with the ancient Zhuding Mountain, the placer gold produced was cast into the surrounding gold craft products, forming the ancient Lishui placer gold culture dominated by Qiaojiatang Langshan placer gold culture! In the whole Jinsha River basin, placer gold mine, a clever family, has a very high output and good quality. Therefore, the local chronicles "Yunnan Tongzhi" said that placer gold and skillful artists are the "best" of the whole Jinsha River basin.

The Jinsha River has narrow channels, fast-flowing water and poor navigation capacity. 1740, in order to meet the needs of Shi Jing Money Bureau for casting copper, the Jinsha River was dug on a large scale for the first time in history, which was initiated by the Qing Dynasty university students and supervised by Dongchuanfu and Kunming Hong Miao. & gt Hong Miao led tens of thousands of migrant workers for several years, but the Jinsha River is still not navigable. After Hong Miao's failure, he carved the word "An Lan saves water" on the cliff and wrote a farewell poem to Jinsha River:

Jinjiang has been closed to ships since ancient times, and the water is urgent and the sky is high. When will heaven and man open a line and travel together?

Jinsha River originates from the northern foot of Gela Snow Mountain in Tanggula Mountains of Qinghai, and is the boundary river between Tibet and Sichuan. After the water system at the source of the Yangtze River merged into the Tongtian River, it entered the Hengduan Mountain area of Yushu County, Qinghai Province, and began to be called the Jinsha River.