瓯江帆影的制造人

The Maker of Sailboats on the Ou River

如果有一天少了瓯江帆船,摄影爱好者及到丽水游玩的游客们可能只能从过去的摄影作品或者导游的介绍中去想象"瓯江帆船美如画"的情形了。在八百里瓯江上,徐行顺是一位制造"瓯江帆影"的高手。"给我一根长五六米、直径18至20厘米的木头,顶多一个星期时间,我就可以交给人家一条帆船。"今年58岁的徐行顺造了大半辈子的帆船,从18岁开始,他就跟外公、父亲学习这门祖传的造船技术,经他的手造出的帆船究竟有多少,连他自己都记不清了,他说,肯定超过两千艘了。

If the Ou River would be in lack of sailboats someday,photographic lovers and tourists at Lishui would have to image "the beautiful scenery of sailing boats on the Ou River" through photos or with the help of tour guides’ narrations.On the 400-km-long Ou River.Xu Xingshun is surely a dab hand at making sailboats."Give me a wooden piece 5 to 6 meters in length and 18-20 centimeters in diameter,and I’ll make a sailboat within a week." he boasts proudly.The now 58-year-old Xu has spent the better part of his life manufacturing sailboats.He followed his father and grandfather to learn the craft handed down from his ancestors when he was 18.Though he fails to remember the exact number of sailboats he has made over the past four decades,yet he says it must be more than 2.000.