Teeming with life, the river also had a remarkably active course--which has changed from being bounded by steep U-shaped canyons to having a wide and shallow river bed. Ordinarily this process occurs over the course of thousands of years and cannot be observed in a human lifetime. But the Chingshui has had a new incarnation in only two decades.
充滿生命的河川，一樣有自然的生老代謝﹘﹘由溪窄水深的 U 型溪谷，演化成平坦寬闊的河床，往往要千百年，並非一代人在幾十年間可以目睹；但清水溪卻在一、二十載完成了一番生死輪迴。