BEIJING: First opened in 2009, Baiheliang Museum is China’s first underwater museum in the section of the Yangtze River in Fuling City, southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality.
According to a report by China Central Television (CCTV), the museum is accessible to visitors without requiring them to dive. Instead, visitors can take a 91-metre-long escalator to reach a depth of about 40 metres underwater in the Yangtze River within a short period. Through observation windows, people can closely admire the inscriptions on the underwater ridge.
Baiheliang, literally “White Crane Ridge”, is a 1,600-metre-long and 15 metre-wide smooth stone ridge engraved with inscriptions about China’s longest river, dating from 763 in the Tang Dynasty to the early 20th century.
It is claimed to be the world’s oldest hydrographic survey device and is one of the four state-level national treasures in the Three Gorges area.
On the huge rock are 20 fish sculptures that serve as water-level markers and about 30,000 characters of Ch
inese poems from different dynasties.
Source: Emirates News Agency