Good morning, everyone. Did you have a good rest last night? Today we allrely on our blessings to bring us luck. We haven't seen rime for a few days.This morning, we are finally full of branches. Hearing is believing, seeing isbelieving. Now let's go to the shilijiandi to see Jilin rime, one of China'sfour natural wonders. It's about ten minutes' journey from our internationalhotel to Shili river bank. Let me introduce the formation of rime.
Jilin rime with its "spring in winter" poetic beauty. Together with Guilinmountains and waters, Yunnan Shilin and the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River,they are known as China's four natural wonders. In Jilin Province, we usuallycall rime "tree hanging". It is a kind of meteorological landscape formed by fogand water vapor freezing when it is cold. It can be divided into granular andcrystalline. Jilin rime belongs to crystalline type. It can only be formed inthe weather with water vapor, temperature below - 25 ° C and no more than thethird wind. Because of the harsh conditions for its formation, it is listed asone of the four natural wonders in China. Some of the group members here wouldlike to ask why such a marvelous natural rime spectacle can be formed in JilinCity? This is because there is a Songhua River in Jilin City, the only riverthat does not freeze in winter. Oh, the group friend asked, "we just came fromHarbin, why is the Songhua River frozen there?" this is because the famousFengman Hydropower Station is 15 kilometers upstream from the Songhua River inJilin City. Every winter, the water temperature of the river rises and warms upthrough the huge water turbine generator set, and it is still around 4 ° C.Therefore, although the Songhua Lake is covered with ice for thousands of miles,it looks like a mirror However, the river water under the lake carries a hugeamount of heat energy and flows through the urban area for tens of kilometerswithout freezing. A large amount of water vapor evaporates from the unfrozenriver surface. When it is cold, the air pressure forms a miraculous winter fog.With the help of the fog, water vapor condenses on the pines and weeping willowson both sides of the river under suitable natural conditions, forming aworld-famous rime spectacle.
Careful group members have found that the trees on both sides of the roadtoday are different from those of yesterday. The black bark was still exposedyesterday, but it has turned white today. Yes, this is the tree hanging. It'sjust that there is less fog in the urban area, so there is only one layer on thetree, which is far worse than the scenery of the riverbank. Are some of thegroup members anxious to get to the riverside immediately. In the morning, agroup friend asked me why I got up at dawn. This is because the beautiful rimedoes not appear every day, and the appreciation is divided into three stages,which are called "watching the fog at night, watching the hanging in themorning, and enjoying the falling flowers near noon".
"Watching fog at night" is to see the fog scene on the river on the eve ofrime formation. At more than 10 o'clock in the night, there began to be wisps offog rising on the river, and then it became bigger and thicker. The big whitefog rolled up from the river and kept flowing to the river bank. Some fog likewisps of fine sand, winding in the river bank old trees; some fog like clouds,floating in the space; more fog like cotton ball, constantly climbing highcotton mountain. At this time, the middle Songjiang Road is wrapped in thickfog, high-rise buildings appear and disappear in the fog, and the lights becomecomplicated, making people feel like they are in the sky above nine days. Thewinter fog permeates Jiangcheng, which is also one of the wonders of northernChina.
"Morning watch hanging" means getting up early to watch the tree hanging.Fog constantly attached to the trees, overnight, in front of the trees willbecome a sea of silver, willows like jade branches hanging, clusters of pineneedles like silver chrysanthemum in full bloom, the river breeze blowing,silver needles flickering, jade chrysanthemum swaying; when the East's dawncasts red light into the forest, the thousands of forms of rime is more crystalclear and colorful. Rime in the folk also has a "dream send" reputation. Itmeans that when people are still sleeping, God has sent the crystal clear pearflowers all over the sky. As Tang Dynasty poet Cen Shen said: "suddenly like aspring breeze, thousands of pear trees bloom.".
When you get up in the morning, you can feel that today's weather isparticularly sunny and the air is particularly fresh. This is probably becausethe water flow in the fog has a purifying effect on the air, so I asked you towatch the beautiful tree hanging with me in the early morning and breathe thefresh air by the way.
Many Chinese and foreign tourists marvel at the beauty of the tree afterseeing it. On January 9, 1990, when Jiang Zemin, then president of the people'sRepublic of China, visited Jilin city to watch the rime of Jilin Province, hesaid with admiration: "the cold river snow willow, Yushu Qionghua, Jilin treehanging are worthy of the name."
Although the rime is beautiful, it can only last for a few hours, "untilnoon to enjoy the falling flowers", that is, the scene when the tree hangingfalls off. Generally at about 10 am, the hanging trees begin to fall off one byone, and then fall in clusters. When the breeze blows off the silver flakesflying in the air, the bright sunlight shines on it, the background of the skyis particularly blue, and the snow flakes open into colorful snow curtains inthe air, slowly floating down and scattering white on the ground. At this time,walking on the Songjiang Road, under the sun, blue sky and white snow, peoplelet the trees fall on their heads. Through the snow curtain, people can see theSonghua River running like a drill. The high-rise buildings, floating floats andcolorful costumes make the tourists look very fresh. What they see in winter isa picture of pear blossom in spring.
Well, having said so much, we are going to get to the best place to watchWusong, Songjiang middle road. Now look at the large-scale sculpture in front ofyou. This is the city standard of Jilin City - rowing man. It is carved fromgranite and has four big characters "torrent bravely marching" on it. Yesterday,I told you about the history of Jilin City. In the Qing Dynasty, Jilin city wasa famous shipyard in China. Remember, choosing "rower" as our city logo is asymbol of the city spirit of Jilin City.
Now you can see that the Gothic building with a layer of snow in the treehanging on the right side is the Catholic Church. It was built by French priestPaul in 1917 and took nine years to complete. Its main body is composed of thechurch and the bell tower. The towering sky is a scene in the rime by theriver.
Please wear your hats and gloves and follow me to this beautiful rimespectacle. You can hold up your camera and take a picture of the rime sceneryand keep it in your memory, because the rime scenery is not only of Jilin, butalso of China and the world.
