买马村坐落在洞庭湖的南岸,是沿湖围垦而建的许多水乡村庄中的一座,也是我生于斯长于斯的故乡。围湖造田村里的老人告诉我,过去号称八百里的洞庭湖东至江西的九江,南至长沙的乔口,西至湘西的武陵山,北含湖北荆江以南地区,不单是湖南境内湘、资、沅、澧“四水”的聚散地,也是长江水系流经湘鄂两省境内注入大海之前巨大的屯水蓄洪之地。如今洞庭湖已四分五裂,中心湖区已不足百里 Mama Village is located on the south bank of Dongting Lake. It is one of many water villages built by reclamation of the lake. The old man from Tian Lake in Tian Lake told me that in the past, the Dongting Lake, known as 800-mile east of Jiujiang in Jiangxi Province, Qiaokou in Changsha to the south and Wuling Mountain in the west to the west of Hubei Province in the north, contained not only Hunan , Capital, Yuan, 澧 “four water ” of the gathering place, but also the Yangtze River water flows through the provinces of Hunan and Hubei before the injection into the sea a huge Tunshui flood land. Now Dongting Lake has been fragmented, the central Lake District has less than Barry