Author: Shen Ziyou (Heart of the Far Mountains)
Climbing the Highest Peak in the East Pole: Towards the "Golden Rooster Crown" (10)
The highest peak in the East Pole is Mount Iliga, located in the south of Fuyuan County, also known as Nanshan. With an altitude of 266.5 meters, it is the commanding height of the east pole of the continent and the place where the land of China welcomes the first rays of sunshine.
When I arrived in Fuyuan this time, I originally planned to visit three places: Black Blind Island, Dongji Square, and Dongji Pavilion. It is a pity that Dongji Square has been flooded, and those "east" signs, as well as the "first outpost in the East", cannot be seen. And the East Pole Pavilion is on the mountain, so you can't help but swim, but you can't do it to meet the "first ray of sunshine" here, because you catch up with the rainy weather.
On August 26, after swimming to the Black Blind Island that day, I went back to my accommodation for a short rest, and decided to go up the mountain at about 4 p.m.
There are two ways up the mountain: the main gate and the winding mountain road, and the proprietress told me that the main gate is easy to walk, and it is a step road. In this way, go up the mountain, enter the mountain gate and go up more than 100 steps in a row, and then the slope will be slowed down, sometimes the steps are sometimes flat, and it is not difficult to climb up.
The weather was gloomy and drizzling. Plus it just rained in the afternoon, and it was wet everywhere. The scenery along the way is relatively monotonous, except for the trees and grass, the man-made landscape is only a wooden promenade and pavilion, and the others are basically kept in the original ecology.
Along the way, it is basically a solitary walk in the silent mountain forest. On the way, I saw a younger man in front of me, and I wanted to catch up with him all the way, but I was pulled farther and farther away, and finally I couldn't even see my shadow. When he was about to reach the top of the mountain, he met a young father with his young daughter, sweating profusely, and he said that the mountain is not high, but it is not easy to climb up.
As he spoke, a building faintly appeared in front of him, and the East Pole Pavilion had arrived.
See the East Pole Pavilion from a different angle.
Dongji Pavilion is a modern antique building, with a grand scale and unique shape, which is not only a local landmark building, but also the best viewing platform in Fuyuan City because it is located at the highest point of Dongji.
Plaque of the East Pole Pavilion: East Pole of China, the first pavilion of the East Pole.
Climb the stairs, climb to the top of the pavilion, overlook by the railing, the green mountains and green trees nearby, the smoke and clouds are hazy; In the distance, the white clouds churned, revealing the outline of Fuyuan City; In the distance, you can see the estuary of the Heilongjiang River, the vast Heilongjiang River, after converging with the Ussuri River, is majestic and flows into the sea. It is said that its momentum and flow exceed that of the Yangtze River estuary......
When they were looking into the distance, a couple and their daughter from Jiangxi came up from the other direction, they also stood at the corner of the railing and looked into the distance......
Yes, that area used to be ours, but unfortunately it is not now, and even the demarcation of the center line of the Heilongjiang River established at that time did not count, and the entire estuary completely fell into the hands of others!
2024.8.26 in Fuyuan, Heilongjiang
The author Shen Ziyou (heart to the distant mountains), a native of Rizhao, Shandong, enlisted in the army in 1970, transferred to the army in 1984, and retired from the 14th Bureau of China Railway.
Editor: Li Xunxiu/Zhu Gang/Zhang Xinghua Editorial Department of Qingyanwei Literature