高峡出平湖

高峽出平湖

gāo xiá chū píng hú

quotation

Meanings

1 a flat lake emerges from a high gorge
2 poetic image of damming the Yangtze at the Three Gorges
3 line from Mao Zedong's 1956 ci poem 'Swimming'

Characters

Examples

HSK 6

他用"高峡出平湖"来形容水库建成后的壮观场面。

Tā yòng " gāo xiá chū píng hú " lái xíngróng shuǐkù jiànchéng hòu de zhuàngguān chǎngmiàn.

He used the line 'a flat lake from high gorges' to describe the majestic sight after the reservoir was built.

HSK 7-9

三峡大坝建成后，真的出现了"高峡出平湖"的景象。

Sānxiá Dàbà jiànchéng hòu, zhēnde chūxiàn le " gāo xiá chū píng hú " de jǐngxiàng.

After the Three Gorges Dam was built, the image of 'a flat lake emerging from high gorges' truly appeared.

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history

From Mao Zedong's 1956 ci-poem 《水调歌头·游泳》: "更立西江石壁，截断巫山云雨，高峡出平湖." It foretold building a dam to hold back water at the Yangtze's Three Gorges. After the Three Gorges Project was completed in 2003, the poem's prophecy came true.

In Pop Culture

三峡大坝 Sānxiá Dàbà

Three Gorges Dam

World's largest hydroelectric dam on the Yangtze, completed in 2003 - often said to have realized Mao's poetic vision.

Stroke Order

高 gāo

峡 xiá

出 chū

平 píng

湖 hú