Baiheliang

Baiheliang (Chinese白鹤梁, Baiheliang Pinyin, English White Crane Ridge, the ridge of white cranes ') is a 1,600 meters long and 15 meters wide Felsriff in the Yangtze River in the north of the district of Fuling Chongqing Municipality, China. His name has received it because sooner white cranes assembled on it. It is located in the Qutang Canyon and will sink into the waters of the Three Gorges Dam. The earliest device for measuring water levels and low water with hydrological inscriptions, the report on 1,200 consecutive years of water level changes is on him. Its history goes back to the year 763 of the Tang Dynasty.

The inscriptions of Baiheliang (Chinese白鹤梁 题 刻, Pinyin Baiheliang tike, English White Crane Ridge Stone Inscriptions ) are since 1988 on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China ( 3-172 ). An underwater museum, " Baiheliang Underwater Museum " was opened in May 2009.