Last week, I introduced Chi-May Tomb to you. This week, I am going to
introduce something more about Chi-May! That is – the Twin hearts Stone Tidal Weir
(雙心石滬)! It’s a stone tidal weir which shape was built into twin hearts.
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You may wonder that, what’s the stone tidal weir? The stone tidal weir is
a very intelligent gadget designed by our ancestors to catch fish. They collected a lot
of stones and then piled them up into circle. But why the fish would be stuck
in the stone tidal weir? That the most smarted part of the design! The
ancestors left a gap that is formed by two lines that is bent in the circle. So,
when the tide rises, lots of fishes will follow the water and flow into the stone cycle.
But when
the tide ebbs, the fish keep stay in the stone circle until the tide ebbs to a
very low level, they want to swim out but just got stuck, so the human beings
just wait for the ebb tide and come to catch the fish!
