Renhe / Walking with the Creek God (part I)

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In recent years, some urban rivers have been renovated into ditch-like landscaping waterfront spaces, and many people feel that this is a successful renovation when they see the clear running water. however, do we really know what the streams on Mei Lai Island should have looked like?.

Huadong large streams are like valiant warriors, and the creatures contained in the dark green and swift streams are also ferocious, skillful and skillful.

The terrain in eastern Taiwan is steep, and the large streams formed among the great mountains show a primitive and violent momentum.

From the Central Mountains, it quickly gathers running streams from several valleys, cuts the mountains out of magnificent valleys, rushes out of the peaks into longitudinal valleys, and spreads out into a wide river course. After a long horizontal journey parallel to the mountains, he quickly turned left and right from the soft ribs of the mountain gods, around the valleys of the coastal mountains and into the blue Pacific Ocean. The dance of Okawa in the east is like a warrior full of primitive strength, showing his courage and ability to face the test flexibly in the midst of ups and downs.

The warrior's robe is composed of symbolic totems, the tone of which is made up of dark green rapids and deep pools of waterfalls, and the upstream is engraved with carp that symbolizes richness and vitality and mysterious sea bass eel; in the middle reaches, there is a giant cyprinid in silver armour-he's thorn, which is much larger in number and size than the predators in other rivers-the big kiss tiger and the migratory algae eater striving for the top. Downstream, there are hundreds of mullets, huge soup carps, and silhouettes of Ami fishermen. Xikou is grayish green with a sense of weight, symbolizing the collection of nutrition. there is already much fine sand and gravel here, and there is no lack of peculiar decorations such as dragon snakes, eels and rod sharks hiding in the sand, and the ferocious barracuda in the Pacific Ocean has also heard the fragrance so far, with the rhythm of waves and streams beating pebbles, it has gained a grotesque and thrilling edge. The whole robe is full of praises of the power of life, as well as stories of life and death adventures.

What about the "western Dachuan" that can flow through several counties and cities? In the next article, let's continue to visit.

Text / photo: Li Zhenglin (this article is written by Renhe Foundation and Kenmeng AVEDA)

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