Wuhan ferry timetable
Address: No.0/4, Yanjiangtan Road, Hankou River (opposite to Guangxin Aquatic Products Market)
At 6: 30 every morning, the whistle of Zhonghua Gate Wharf sounded, and Wuchang people gradually woke up. The Wuhan pier opposite responded with the same whistle, and Hankou people woke up. Then cars came and went, people crowded, and the day of Wuhan people began.
This is a cheaper mode of transportation than public transportation. You only need 1.5 cents to feel the great Wuhan, and the ticket price is also very valuable. You can have a 20-minute overview of the river scenery on both sides of the strait on the deck, or you can take a selfie with unscrupulous concave shapes. Even sitting next to the pump boat in a daze is an excellent experience. Here, there are ethereal young people, a wandering life and the most famous life in Wuhan.
Spend 1 yuan 50 cents, and you can feel the Hanyang Gate of Linjiang Avenue in Wuhan. Here we are. When you get off the bus, you can see Zhonghua Road Pier. If you can't find it, just follow the gloomy and long whistle, less than 50 meters away.
Zhonghua Road-Wuhan Pass is the busiest and most famous ferry route in Wuhan, and it is also the fastest route to cross the river. It only takes 20 minutes for the ship to dock.
In the past, Wuhan people spent an early morning in Hubu Lane, walking 10 minutes, ferrying across the river and visiting Jianghan Road, which was a perfect weekend.
Now it is the designated route for many foreign tourists to take a ferry from Jianghan Road to Hubu Lane to eat snacks.
When I came to the dock, the first thing that attracted me was the colorful ticket window. When you go out without cash, you can still see paper tickets, and suddenly there is a sense of crossing.
Now Wuhan Ferry can be directly connected to Alipay, or you can buy tickets in cash at the window.
Except for the elderly who can't pay by mobile phone and those who need to take speedboats or sightseeing boats, almost no one will deliberately buy paper tickets.
One more ticket. Would you like to go with me?
In order to see the paper tickets again, I can't wait to change 10 yuan cash and buy two speedboat tickets. In this era of habit of swiping cards, such a simple and original ticket is precious.
There is still a long and redundant way to the boarding port of the dock. At this time, the owner of the little electric donkey who is in a hurry to get on the boat often comes up with a boarding concerto. Strangely, I don't feel harsh, but I have a long-lost sense of practicality.
When the newly renovated Jiangcheng No.1 landed slowly, the hatch slowly opened and the dense crowd quickly stepped onto the barge. When the cabin was almost empty, the iron gate on this side of the waiting room was pulled open, and people quickly gathered on Jiangcheng No.1, which had just docked.
The boarding process is like some kind of sacred ceremony.
The children were very happy when they got on the boat. Just like us in those days, it was often young people who stood on the deck for the first time by ferry. Sitting quietly on the second floor are adults who are no longer curious about the ferry, or old people who quietly recall the past.
Of course, you can also buy a speedboat ticket, board another barge and discover a new world like me. Here is a ticket booth that will check your ticket. After you go in, just wait quietly to get your boat.
When the ship arrived, I jumped into the cabin that could only accommodate 40 people, blew 16 degree air conditioner and watched the waves all the way through a small window. Hey, I suddenly feel much better.
After landing, it is the boundary of Hankou. Obviously, the atmosphere in Hankou is different from that in Wuchang, as quiet as grandma's house in summer vacation.
I have seen Wuhan Ferry when it was the youngest.
Different from the mission and significance entrusted to it by modern people, in the past, it was just a means of transportation. When the ship landed, its task was successfully completed.
When there were not so many crossings earlier, taking a ferry became the only way to travel between Hankou and Wuchang. It only took six cents to cross the river by boat.
According to Zhang Dezheng, an old passenger on the ferry, I remember the longest queue, from Zhonghua Road Pier to the overpass at the company gate three or four hundred meters away.
He was a wooden pedal when he was young. People stepped on the wooden springboard and staggered from the shore to the boat. The sound of "crunching" has been ringing on the dock for many years.
Lao Zhang Mandezheng even sat on a wooden boat and rowed to the other side to meet his sweetheart.
In Wuhan's memory, when I was a child, the ferry was crowded with people and cars.
From the children who go to school by boat in the morning, to the young people who come and go between Jianghan Road and Simenkou in the afternoon, and even the office workers who go home to cook and take care of their children at night, you can see all kinds of people on the ferry.
There is also the grandmother who sells popsicles on the boat. When the child saw the foam box, he seemed to see the coolness.
At that time, the ferry had no windows! You can reach out and have a close contact with Jiang Feng. Lying on the railing, you can see "Zhu Jiang (an aquatic animal on the Yangtze River, which is rare now)" jumping out of the river from time to time.
Sitting on a stool, you can feel the motor vibration coming from the soles of your feet. The noise is so loud that you have to talk at the top of your voice on the boat. This is their best memory of the ferry.
The constantly updated ferry has brought a better ride experience, but it has taken away countless childhood and youth in Wuhan. Years left behind, except the water in the river, is the memory I once had, and the ferry will not disappear.
A wave of elderly tour groups just got off the sightseeing boat, and the tickets for the sightseeing boat at the Yellow Crane Tower Pier have been sold out. About half of the people on the speedboat are still experiencing it over the weekend.
More office workers choose to lean on the railing of the deck to blow a breeze after work to dispel the fatigue of many days, and take a speedboat to see the rising waves when they are in a bad mood.
Maybe someone will, like me, go to the cashier window to buy a paper ticket, fold it carefully and regard the whole process as a precious ceremony.
Those who choose to experience this ceremony on weekdays must want something back.
It can be a whistle that rings every 20 minutes, a rusty hull, or the word "Wuhan Port". It can also be used to verify the difference between the ferry hall where movies were shown in those days and now.
In the final analysis, we all want to find back the lost time, look at the memories from the changes of the ferry and look at ourselves from the memories. My friends in the same trade told me that as long as there is a river, the boat will not disappear and the ferry will not disappear. In the future, it will certainly appear in front of the world with another attitude.
Over the years, ferries have become more than just ferries, with rivers at one end and buildings at the other.
Wuhan ferry, from steam engine to diesel engine, from wooden pedal to steel pad, from local transportation to tourist sightseeing boat, has also moved from lush years to old age. For so many years, what has been changed by the years is people's way of life. What remains unchanged is the daily cycle of the Yangtze River and the Jianghu flavor of Wuhan people.