昔日神農溪由於道路不通，物流全靠水運，而縴夫整天泡在江水中，穿著衣服工作不方便，而當時的衣服都是自家織的土布，一旦沾水就容易貼在身上，將皮膚磨破，故此不少縴夫乾脆全裸拉縴。
Up until the year 2000, people traveled from far and wide to catch a glimpse of at least one of the thousand or so naked boatmen of Chinas Shennongxi Stream Gorge. The boatmen would haul boats and barges across the river wearing nothing more than what nature gave them. Retired boatman Zhang Houbiao, 60, said the naked tradition went back hundreds of years, It was a tradition to work naked, as our clothes were made of coarse fabric that chaffed in the water.
The boat trackers are old professionals in the boating-route in the Three Gorges area. In the time when there were no engine-driven ships, the boat trackers had to draw the boat with the tracking rope over their backs when a boat was sailing against the current. The boat trackers frequently encountered with dangerous shoals and they had to fight with winds and waves in the water, or they had to step on the boat in wet, therefore, they were often naked. The energies out of the boat trackers appear to be able to topple the mountains and overturn the seas, and the chorus-like work songs in the river shouted out by the boat trackers seem to be able to pass through the cloud in the sky or to break the stones in the earth.
Many years ago, boat tracking was a majestic view in the boating-route of the Three Gorges. During World War II, the photos of the stark-naked boat trackers who were carrying the wartime materials and goods appeared in a newspaper in the United States, and the whole world got shocked. It is a story happened during the time of the anti-Japanese war in China. When the Japanese invaders occupied the Wuhan city located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, a great many of the factory equipments and national treasures from Beijing were assembled in the east end of the Three Gorges. It is very critical to save the future of the nation to sail against the current to transport those important economic resources to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. All the boats in the Minsheng Boating Company of Chongqing were involved in the transportation. At that moment, both big boats and small boats, and both soldiers and civilians in the Three Gorges area were busy transporting day and night. This is a competition of volition and power. Eventually, the Chinese people finished transporting materials and goods before the attack of the Japanese invaders came. And they are the boat trackers in the Three Gorges area during World War II, they are the boat trackers who fought against iron and steel with their bare flesh when the country was in the most dangerous situation. A modern Chinese historian said, The Three Gorges saved China, spiritually speaking rather than militarily speaking.
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