Several large barges glide slowly across the river.
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Almost exclusively literary today. Best known from Mao Zedong's 1925 poem 《沁园春·长沙》: 漫江碧透,百舸争流 ('the whole river clear and green, a hundred boats vying in the current') — the line that made 百舸争流 a stock metaphor for fierce competition.
