At that time, the court sent firewood collectors to buy nanmu in Chishui and Xishui, and the virgin forest in Bozhou was just beginning to be known to the outside world. Before Chishui River was closed to navigation, nanmu was very precious. Therefore, each kind of wood is transported by one or several people, and then tied up in rows by the Yangtze River, or transported to the south of the Yangtze River for transshipment to Beijing. In the slow work of transporting wood, people gradually got used to standing on a single wood and supporting poles to transport nanmu, and they competed and played, which evolved into water games. In the long run, this activity will be fixed as a form of folk entertainment games, called single-tree rafting. /kloc-During the period of 0/998, among the ancient cliff tombs of the Han and Jin Dynasties excavated in Anshan, Ma Fuxing, Chishui, there was a stone carving pattern on the sarcophagus wall of a tomb, in which a man stood on a single tree with a pole in his hands. Later, a poem said: "The setting sun of Maotai reflects Chishui, and the setting sun sells wine boats. A single bamboo flies past, and it is difficult for the tracker to retreat step by step.
This stone carving cultural relic shows that the "single bamboo drift" in Chishui River basin has a long history.
Chishui River Basin in the Warring States and Qin and Han Dynasties belonged to the core area of the ancient Yelang State. Yelang country is a bamboo country. The Yelang King is the Bamboo King. "Duzhu Piao" is the most basic life skill of Yelang people who lived by the river in the early days.