Bodu river, where it meets the ancient canal, forms a bodu landscape.The yuan dynasty poet Zhao Meng fu Zeng Shiyun "autumn full Liang Xibo blaspheme, do people swim aloneLooking for wu things in the virtual land, merry river wine boat.Willow side of the bridge shook the light shadow chaos, river ripples moonlight hanging.I love listening to fishing songs everywhere."This is the beautiful scenery around bodu bridge and bodu harbour.Speaking of the bodu river, it is the oldest man-made river in China.The river is 25 kilometers long and goes straight east, with the present wuxi mei village as the center, with taibo bridge in the northwest leading to wuxi city and hongshan mountain in the southeast leading to suzhou.The bridge over which the cruise boat just passed is the bodu bridge named after the bodu river.In the old dayao road, the kiln workers would cross the bridge and go down to the pond to have a cup of tea and take a bath after their daily work.The history of bodu river can be traced back more than 3,000 years to the end of the shang dynasty, when taibo, the founder of wu culture, led the people to dig it.3, 200 years ago, there was a clan named ji in qishan, shaanxi province, whose leader was named shudfu.He had three sons, taibo the first, zhongyong the second and jili the third.Ancient public shudan father favorite three son of the calendar son - ji chang, think it has shengrui image, want to pass in ji chang.Taibo saw his father's mind, decided to help his father, leave the tribe, with his younger brother zhongyong from the original to this piece of jing pretty place, that is, wu, to merry, that is, today's wuxi mei village for the capital city construction city, leaving "three let the world" legend.This three let master kong also admire not line, praise him to say: "tai bo, it can be said that the most virtuous has already, three to the world to let, people have no gain and nothing.Taibo's spirit of utmost morality is summed up as "modest and pioneering" by later generations. These four words, like a rock, became the foundation of wu culture and influenced generations of wuxi people.