《天下景》一书中载有“周口有个铁水牛,亳州有个花戏楼”的诗句。由此可见,周口铁水牛亦是天下景之一。 铁水牛原坐落于沙、颍、贾鲁三河交汇处。建于清光绪四年,是记载沙河水位涨落、汛期报警的标志,并有吞洪镇潮的迷信色彩。当时在群众中曾流传着“水牛喝水,上游决口”的歌谣。1935年周口沙河桥建成,铁水牛从沙河、颍河、贾鲁河汇流处迁到沙河北岸沙河桥上游桥头处,仍作为记载河水涨落的标 “World Scenery,” a book contains “Zhoukou iron buffalo, Bozhou has a playhouse,” the verse. This shows that Zhoukou iron buffalo is also one of the best in the world. Iron Buffalo was originally located in the sand, Ying, Jialu Interchange. Built in the Qing Emperor Guangxu four years, is a record of the Shahe water level fluctuations, flood alarm signs, and swallowing the town superstitious tide color. At that time, among the masses, there was a folk song “Water buffalo drink water, the upstream burst.” 1935 Zhoukou Shahe Bridge built, iron buffalo from the Shahe, Ying River, Jialu convergence moved to the north bank of the Shahe River Bridge north shore of the bridgehead, still recorded as the fluctuation of the river