The fairy tale of the old man and the fish

"There are swarms of fish and shrimps in Wanfeng Lake. Wanfeng Lake is a fairy tale!" This is described in Changwu's book, and it is also what I want to say: I once built a castle called Jilong Fort in Wanfeng Lake. At the resort, I bought a lot of tilapia for only 50 cents a pound. So I thought, there are eighteen strange things in Yunnan, and there is also a strange thing in southwestern Guizhou, that is, "Tilapia is as cheap as ganba vegetables." In addition, going to a place called Tianshengqiao to go wild fishing in Wanfeng Lake is very poetic, and what happened there There are many things that are magnetic, rational and fairy tale-like. "Wanfeng Lake on the Fishhook" will tell you all this, and the fish in Wanfeng Lake will also tell you.

Fairytale Wanfeng Lake

In the 1990s, Guodian built a high dam and sluice gates at a place called Tiansheng Bridge on the Nanpan River to store water. The plateau came out of Pinghu Lake overnight. With a water coastline of more than 2,000 kilometers, this place has transformed into one of the five famous freshwater lakes in the country. The Tianshengqiao Damhou Power Station with millions of installed capacity made the heart of the mountains and rivers of Guizhou and Guizhou, which had been dormant for many years, start beating loudly, creating a rare new fairy tale!

The stories in Changwu's book are roughly divided into two parts. One part is a historical story with a legendary color. Part of it is the author's true story of fishing in Wanfeng Lake, which makes people feel like they are there. Historical stories are mainly collected in the series "Maybe You Won't Believe". The stories are ups and downs, full of fun and fascinating.

The core content of historical stories is actually the story of man and fish. Just like the story of "Mermaid in Love" described by Oscar Wilde in his "The Fisherman and His Soul", the mermaid is a man's erotic dream and what the fisherman has always wanted, even if he sacrifices his soul. The mermaid is full of charm, but has no "soul", and hopes to be placed in the body of the fisherman. What this book narrates are all interesting and touching stories between man and fish.

"Fish Growing on the Mountain" describes how humans fished out ancient dragon fish, Guizhou cod, bowfin fish, Xingyi flying fish and other fish fossils from historical rock formations, and surprisingly discovered the vicissitudes of the sea and the changes of fish people. ; In "Yelang Man's Fishhook", a "fishhook mold" from two thousand years ago is displayed, which shows the long history of the enemies of man and fish; from "Fishing the Tiger at the Fish Dam", it can be seen that the ancients set up fence traps and used them to catch fish. Torch, the scene of raising a kitchen knife to chop fish; in "Lazy Rod", you will see such a spectacular scene: "Looking from a distance, under the cover of green trees, there are long rows of fishing rods, hanging with lively fish. It is truly a rare sight." In "Records Created by Weighing Hooks", fisherman Wang Yingkuan uses a weighing hook to fish: "There is a group of big fish moving, and the formation is like a group of buffaloes that can't stand the heat, rolling in the pond... "; In addition, there are "The Hero among the Fishes" with seven fish hooks hanging on his body, and the "Magic Fish" in the sinkhole in "The Big Fish Unhooked", etc., all of which are full of fairy tale colors.

Magnetic Fishing Ground

The other type is the true story of Changwu fishing by himself on the bank of Wanfeng Lake.

As a reporter and writer, Chang Wu was originally very busy, but Wanfeng Lake seemed to have gravitational pull from an electromagnetic field, making him call as if he were an electric ray. I used to be a fisherman, and the stories of "catching fish" written by Chang Wu were so real, alluring, and magnetic that they aroused countless screams, and I felt the generator in my body beating wildly.

Shanghai fishing friend Shang took the bait and was tempted by the tilapia from the Nile River in Africa. He lost his business and came all the way to walk the fish. The feeling of running back and forth to walk the fish made him unforgettable: "I remember the first time The feeling of catching a big tilapia is the same as the feeling of dating my girlfriend for the first time when I first fell in love. It is mysterious, nervous, and full of expectations.” I accidentally heard that a Yunnan fishing friend was walking fish and found that the front half of the fish was slender and silvery white, while the back half was flat and dark yellow. He thought he had encountered a "water monster", but it was actually a white-striped fish that was hooked and then another. The tilapia bit and both were hooked. After hearing this story, he bought a boat and fished in Wanfeng Lake for three years. He also made rubbings of the fish and preserved them.

Fishing for a living was like a fish in water. When he was young, he would arrange more than a hundred hooks in the river every night. When he rowed the bamboo raft to the shore, there was always a girl waiting on the shore. Bian, caught his kiss. Now that he is old, the person who often licks his hands and face is a big yellow dog.

A drunk man who suffered from a brain tumor solved his worries. The treatment he chose was to build a fishing house in Wanfeng Lake and fish for five years. However, he went to the hospital for a review and found no abnormalities. He said "raise the fishing rod and you can throw away the medicine can". In addition, the story of the old osprey and the young harpoon is equally exciting. They became connected because of a "fight" with a fishhook, so they killed pigs for fishing, slept in graves together, and were poisoned by mosquito killers. The two had a life-saving feeling.

Also, the stories of the southern fisherman who went to the source of the Pearl River to release fish, the fisherman who loved to smoke hookahs, and the Chuncheng fisherman who was addicted to fishing are also full of magnetism; also, because he was carrying a fishing bag, The story of the fisherman who accidentally fell into the lake and died, and the story of Wang Xiaoyu, whose hand was entangled in the fishing line and was dragged into the lake by a big fish and died, is sad and regrettable.

The Philosophical Fish

From "Wanfeng Lake on the Fishhook", I not only saw the sea pole and the hand pole, but also saw the throwing pole, walking the fish, and catching the fish. We also saw herring, tilapia, bearded fish, pig-mouthed fish, sesame sword, cock-billed red fish and many other fish in the fish guard. Wanfeng Lake is like a fish museum. I also read about the historical and cultural Wanfeng Lake: the footprints of Xu Xiake's "Panjiang Kao" are vaguely visible, the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" series "Seven Captures of Meng Huo" once took pictures here, and the Yi dance known as "Oriental Tap Dance" once took place on the shore. While dancing, the eight-note sitting singing, known as the "living fossil of music", was once performed by the lake.

However, what I would like to emphasize here is that the fish in Tao Changwu's works are also moral fish, "philosophical fish". Fishing requires "fishing ethics", which Changwu mentioned in the book. Anglers should abide by the minimum fishing rules, such as protecting the wild fishing environment, releasing small fish after catching them, not swearing at others if they cannot catch fish, and not pooping or peeing in the lake.

Chang Wu threw out a series of hooks in the article, leading to speculation: What exactly are people fishing for? Are people fishing, or are fish fishing people? Who catches whom? When fishing, you need to feed the pond, pay for bait, and stay ahead of schedule. This may be the principle of "each other is a fisherman and each other benefits from the fish."

What deserves more attention is Changwu's divergent tendency in "Jiang Shang and Zhuang Zhou". There is a mystery in Jiang Taigong's fishing: "It is to look for opportunities to get ahead, or it can be said that Jiang Shang is just showing off, and does not really want to fish." Zhuangzi saw the minnows coming in and out calmly, and thought it was the joy of fish, and he was very envious. Keiko said you are not a fish, how do you know the happiness of fish? Zhuangzi said, "You are not me, how do you know that I don't know the happiness of fish?" In this story, Changwu realized: "Zhuangzhou fished for the real purpose of fishing, in order to exile his body and mind and achieve the purpose of happiness and leisure."

This is Changwu’s “philosophical fish”