Reading along the history of Sanhu Farm

Sanhu, the earliest name of a water area, can be traced back to the 6th century. Li Daoyuan's Notes on Water Classics in the Northern Wei Dynasty said: "Yangjiang flows eastward, flows northward, and is injected into the White Lake. The lake is in the north of Dagang, and the south of Dagang is called Zhonghu. Under the south embankment, it is called Guanhu, and the three lakes merge into one water. Song Yuanjia bet on Shui Yang's water transport. " In the sixth year of Guangxu, "Jingzhou Fuzhi" said: "Three Lakes" are 80 miles east of the city. Small lakes in the east of the city, such as Tuo Lake, Shangdang Lake and Lake, are all connected with Chihu Lake. In the southeast, Wang Lamou entered the Yajiaomiao River, entered the Three Lakes in the south, and left the Zhangjunhe River (now Zhangjinhe Qianjiang River) and Mahong Lake. In modern times, the three lakes are about 20 kilometers long from north to south, about 15 kilometers wide from east to west, and the lake surface is 122.2 square kilometers, which is also called Jingzhou Four Lakes with Changhu Lake, Egret Lake and Honghu Lake. Three lakes generally have a water level of 29.5 meters and a water depth of about 3 meters. Because of its low terrain, it has always been the intersection of four rivers and the storage area of four lakes. On the one hand, the Yangtze River water is often poured into the lake from the new beach mouth of Honghu Lake, on the other hand, the long lake water is discharged from it. On the other hand, the Dongjing River is divided into the Han River, and the mountain torrents are off-line, surrounded by people and mountains. In addition, the rivers in the lake are tortuous, narrow and shallow. So the three lakes are often occupied by big white water. Years are long and have evolved a lot. During the period from Xianfeng to Guangxu in Qing Dynasty, Shayang levee of Hanjiang River broke its banks many times, and a large amount of sediment flowed into the three lakes with the river water. As the saying goes, "in eighteen years, the sand ocean was broken, and the three lakes were silted up to make fertile fields."

The Three Lakes, with its smooth, quiet, remote and spacious fairyland-like charm, attracted many poets and celebrities to sing and remember. Zong Shaowen, a Southern Dynasty painter, abandoned his official position and lived in seclusion for 40 years. Poets in the Qing Dynasty wanted to send their families thanks, and Huang, the magistrate of Jingzhou in the late Qing Dynasty, came here to sing and fish for snow. But unfortunately, the ancient Yunmengze, the modern Three Lakes, her beauty and vivid expression are only limited to the appreciation and praise of the idle classes such as literati and scholars. For the working people in Sanhu who depend on fishing and farming for a living, it has never been a paradise on earth.

From the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, the three lakes were all over the swamp, with closed banks, waterfowl flying in groups and reeds falling in autumn. Due to the brutality of reactionary rule, the trampling of Japanese invaders, the rampage of lake tyrants, the rampant bandits, the flooding of lakes and the frequent disasters, more or less three lake people died under the evil butcher's knife, died in the cross-flow of floods, and were displaced and ruined by darkness and hunger. In order to seek liberation, the outstanding sons and daughters of Sanhu followed the * * * production party. From the agrarian revolution to War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, from the war of liberation to the struggle against hegemony, more than 30 heroes such as Wang Zudong and Zhao died heroically. Thousands of songs and cries have melted into the long river of years. After the founding of New China, many indigenous people from three lakes who made a living in different places returned to the water town from Hunan, Jianli, Honghu and other provinces and counties one after another, or cast nets on boats, or plowed fields and scolded calves, and they sang a prelude to rebuilding their homes.

Sanhu farm has been growing for 48 years under the cultivation of pioneers. On the land of 6 1 square kilometer, the industrious and intelligent three Lakers started from mowing grass and pulling plows, planting rice and cotton, planting trees, raising livestock and fish and shrimp, setting up factories and running enterprises, and developing agricultural industrialization, and embarked on a road of developing agriculture with grain and cotton. Nowadays, the comprehensive reform of state-owned farms and a series of national policies to support agriculture and benefit farmers have greatly liberated the productivity of the three lakes and mobilized the enthusiasm of the three Lakers. 65,438+05,000 Lakers are riding the spring breeze of the party's policies and marching towards the grand goal of building a new socialist countryside.