Updated: 2007-05-30 09:56

Last Love of Yellow River-- Hukou Waterfall

Last Love of Yellow River, directed by Feng Xiaoning, is a film about war and love. The same as Feng's others works, this film is full of thinking about war and human nature.

It focuses on a US fighter pilot who makes a crash landing behind Japanese lines but is rescued by a detachment of the Chinese 8th Army and led to safety by a small detachment, including a young nurse, with whom he eventually falls in love.

Iin order to save the fighter pilot and a child, the young nurse died in the yellow water.

Hukou Waterfall, the second largest waterfall in China, is located 165 kilometers to the west of Fenxi City, Shanxi Province, and 50 kilometers to the east of Yichuan, Shaanxi Province . The width of the waterfall changes with the season. It is usually 30 meters wide but increases to 50 meters during flood season. It falls more than 20 meters. When the Yellow River surges towards the Hukou Mountain, blocked by mountains on both sides, its width is abruptly narrowed down to 20-30 meters. The water speeds up with increasing power. Then, it rushes down from the narrow mouth, forming a grand waterfall 15 meters high and 20 meters wide, as if water is pouring down from a huge teapot. That's where it gets the name Hukou (kettle spout) Waterfall.

Standing on the Yellow River's banks, people can see the roaring water rushing through the mountains and then plunging into a deep pool, really resembling the boiling water of a teapot. The waves stir up masses of smoke and clouds, rising higher up into the sky, with the colors changing from yellow to gray and then to blue. The local people call this marvelous scenery "smoke rising from the water."

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