This article is from: People’s Daily Overseas Edition
Photo by Yiming
Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province is known as the “city of natural lakes”, with Sanyong Lake, Heming Lake, Lianhuan Lake, Dawn Lake… Nearly 200 lakes, like spotless mirrors, are dotted in the “green oily capital”. In the Xiaoman season, white storks, grey geese, red-billed gulls, egrets, cuckoos and other birds put on a bird song performance on the lakes, singing and dancing, laughing and laughing.
I have lived in Daqing for more than 30 years, and what I feel most deeply is the ecological changes in Daqing. Take Longfeng Wetland as an example. This place, originally called Bei Shili Pao, was originally a “sewage pond” for the petrochemical industry and urban life. Until the city-level nature reserve was established in 1997, which banned hunting, fishing, grazing, farming, and the discharge of untreated sewage, Beisiripao gradually improved. Six years later, after changing water, building covered bridges, building sculptures, building bird-watching towers, and building a bird science and technology museum, Longfeng Wetland has become a good place for citizens to relax during holidays, and it is also a tourist business card handed out by Daqing.
The improvement of the environment has naturally retained the migratory birds that were only migrating and stayed in the past. Even the picky egrets have built their nests in the Longfeng Wetland and reproduced their offspring. Thousands of them, the “Lulu Dam” that stretches for 5 kilometers has become a scene, not Jiangnan is better than Jiangnan.
Hanging on the wide and long covered bridge, I saw the unique sculpture at a glance: a double-barreled shotgun, the barrel is bent into a round dead knot, and several birds perched leisurely on the curved gun. on the barrel. It is said that the sculpture was inspired by the story of a hunter who turned into a bird keeper.
In this city born of oil, it is a trend to love birds, protect birds, and shoot birds. The story of a photographer who ventured into the wetlands and rescued a red-billed gull caught by an iron clip. According to local media reports, the bloody iron clip and the mournful cry of the red-billed gull detonated a city’s story about people and birds. The topic of harmonious coexistence, and resulting in a festival – Bird Watching Festival. From the scorching summer to the beginning of the autumn wind, children support their parents, and parents lead their children, all come. They climbed the bird-watching tower, overlooked the gulls flying above the reeds, walked among the covered bridges, listened to the chirping of the birds, stroked the wild flowers, sniffed the fragrance of the grass, and had an affectionate dialogue with nature. What moved them even more were the stories of those who loved birds——
In order to save the golden eagle, a national first-class protected animal, some people were willing to abandon the prosperous city life and boarded the isolated island. They stayed there for 36 years. More than 300 national first- and second-level protected animals such as red-crowned cranes, white cranes, white-headed cranes, oriental white storks, great bustards, and golden eagles were injured and sickened. After those birds recovered from their injuries, they refused to fly away and hovered around the bird lovers’ hut all day long…
Some people quietly tied their self-made nests to the oriental white storks in order to keep them and observe their habits. On the poplar tree, and dug a hole at a certain distance, and then lurked in to observe, and finally captured the touching scene of the white stork mother feeding the little white stork on an empty stomach. He told this touching moment to more people, so that more people know that whether it is human or animal, maternal love is the same.
And Lao Guo loves birds, and he spent all his blood.
Old Guo is fifty years away, with a black face, a tiger’s back, a bear waist, and a windy walk. He is the head of the Heming Lake Tourism Resort. This typical northeastern man, who seems to be a careless man, has done something that makes people’s eyes warm – guarding birds. To do this, it takes money and time, but Lao Guo does it well. The local song and dance troupe also choreographed a large-scale dance drama called “Heming Lake” based on Heming Lake, telling the origin of Heming Lake and the touching story of Heming Lake people’s protection of birds in an artistic form. The love stretches thickly…
Heming Lake is located in Nangang Village, Lindian County, Daqing City, east of Zhalong Wetland. Lao Guo is a native of Nangang Village, he said, if we get bird money, there is no reason not to love birds.
“You can play casually at my place, but you can’t shoot birds, that’s my life!” Lao Guo said this with a serious expression, changing his carefree image. In order to “raise birds”, Lao Guo does not allow a tourist to enter the territory of hatching birds. In order to keep the birds, nearly 10,000 kilograms of fish and shrimp are given out every year for various birds to eat. Lao Guo said that if you keep these birds, you will keep the villagers’ jobs, that is, keep the “golden mountains and silver mountains”.
With fluttering wings, birdsong, and a bay of beautiful water, a city has aura.
Daqing’s lakes are famous, and Daqing’s birds are lovable. Not only people from Daqing, but also people from surrounding cities such as Harbin and Qiqihar, as well as many foreign friends, also come here to watch the birds fly, watch the lotus bloom, listen to frogs croak, find purity in the hustle and bustle, and experience the magnificent scenery of the sky in the water. .
Where there are wetlands, there will be agile singing, there will be beautiful scenery of thousands of feathers flying, and there will be moving expressions of the city. When humans laugh, birds will come, and when birds come, life will be turbulent.