Shennong Stream

Shennong Stream is a left tributary of the Yangtze River, situated in the Hubei Province of focal China. Sustained by tributaries some of which originate from the Shennongjia Forestry District, the stream streams south, falling into the Yangtze inverse the city of Badong. Initially the Shennong Stream waterway comprised of a wild stream navigating a convoluted arrangement flanked by relatively vertical limestone precipices; nonetheless, since the start of the development of the Three Gorges Dam downstream on the Yangtze, the water level has risen around 155 meters at the mouth of Shennong Stream.

The bring down compasses of the Shennong Stream are by and by a lethargically streaming waterway, the vast majority of whose beforehand picturesque vertical canyon is currently submerged. By the finish of the dam development in 2009, a further 20 meters of canyon will be immersed. Estimating a length of 60 kilometers, the Shennong Stream moves through three canyons with ious enchanting landscape.

The three chasms are Mianzhu Gorge, Parrot Gorge and Longcangdong Gorge. The banks of the Shennong Stream have been occupied since in any event the Han Dynasty; the essential ethnic gathering of the waterway valley has been the Tujia individuals. Early history of settlement in the Shennong Stream Gorge is displayed by the hanging caskets stowed in clefts on the high vertical limestone clefts; it is a riddle to present day man about how the substantial pine boxes were stowed on such steep, apparently blocked off spots.