Wén Tiānxiáng jiè Huángkǒng Tān de míngzi, xiěchū le zìjǐ xīnli de huángkǒng.
Wen Tianxiang used the name of the Huangkong Rapids to voice the dread in his own heart.
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history
It was one of the eighteen rapids of the 赣江, long feared by boatmen, and was first called 黄公滩. 苏轼 wrote it with the near-homophone 惶恐 "fear" in a poem of 1094, and the new name stuck.
culture
In 过零丁洋文天祥 pairs it with the Lingding Sea: "at the Rapids of Dread I spoke of dread; on the Lingding Sea I sigh at being alone", recalling his defeat in Jiangxi and his capture.
