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Few rivers around the world possess a thousand-year hydrological record except the Baiheliang on the Yangtze River. Baiheliang (White Crane Ridge), now submerged under Three Gorges Reservoir water, carries the earliest and lowest water hydrological inscriptions, which record 1,200 consecutive years of water level changes. Its a 1,600-meter-long and 15-meter-wide rock ridge in the Yangtze River to the north of Fuling District of Chongqing Municipality. It was given the name because of the white cranes that used to gather on it. ?A collection of Chinese sculpture and calligraphy? Before the Three Gorges Reservoir was filled, the rock ridge was concealed underwater during summer and autumn periods. As winter came and the water level dropped, the ridge would be revealed. ?Stone fish carvings, which were used for measuring water levels from the Tang Dynasty (618-907) on could be seen when it appeared in the dry season. The most attractive of them was a 2.8-meter-long, 0.95-meter-wide stone carp sculpture-in-the-round. It used to be a long rock broken from the ridge. By the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), an unknown sculptor carved out a fish on it with drill, knife and hammer. The fish was vividly depicted. Its oval eyes, slightly opened lips, palpus, as well as its cheek, fin, tail and even scales, were engraved in a subtle way. However, the stiff tail made the fish not so dynamic. ?To the east of the stone carp, there is a poem carved in a straightforward and uninhibited way, reading Since the stone carp took its shape, it has jumped into the river where the flood dragon lives. Continuous rains it has brought to people, and the moat ridge it exposes. It could have been written in the Qing Dynasty. To its west, there is a couplet: White cranes perch on the ridge creating a famous historical site, and stone fish jump out of the water, predicting a good harvest year. This was done at the time of the Republic of China (1912-1949). If one is lucky, you can see the statue of Bo