The legacy of covered bridges lies in the Xucun ancient building complex, along with long corridors and arch-protected bridges. Who left a miracle that will shake the present
Gaoyang Covered Bridge is located on the Fang River in Xucun. It was built by Xu Youshan, a scholar in the Yuan Dynasty. It is a double-hole stone pier wooden bridge. During the Hongzhi period of the Ming Dynasty, it was rebuilt into a stone arch bridge by Xu Shengsheng. In the Dingsi year of Jiajing (1557) It was rebuilt and a bridge corridor was built. It was rebuilt in the 22nd year of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty (1683). The bridge is 21 meters long and 5.3 meters wide.
When walking into the Xucun ancient building complex, the first thing you walk into is the covered bridge.
The light in the corridor is dark, and the small round or square windows set above the bridge corridor are like camera view frames, capturing the pink walls and black tiles, green water and green mountains outside the bridge corridor into the lens.
For me, it is to record and record every real moment during the journey. moment. Because I'm not tall enough, I can't hold my camera and mobile phone high enough, and I can't see the lens window at all. Whatever is captured in the lens is what I take. No matter what the picture is, it's all what the photographic equipment conveys to me at this moment. "The most authentic scenery seen" -
The significance of photography is to teach people how to see the world without a camera.
The appearance of Gaoyang Covered Bridge is divided into three large rooms. The roof in the middle is slightly higher, making the gable ridges staggered and rhythmic.
The word "Gaoyang" in ancient times contained the auspicious and joyful connotations of purple air coming from the east and sunshine shining brightly. When you come to Gaoyang and walk across the covered bridge, you are faced with a unique artistic conception that is different from the "small bridges, flowing water, and people" in the Jiangnan water town. If "Small Bridge, Flowing Water, People" is a poetic and lyrical poem, then Gaoyang Corridor Bridge is a heartfelt song with melodious meaning and solemn tones.
Who left a miracle to protect the arch bridge along the corridor?
The stream does not know the tricks of the world, it is suspected to be a flying rainbow floating on the head!
The water flows far away from the covered bridge, and the wind blows fragrantly from the shadow of the flowers.
The mountain stream has washed away all the ups and downs, and the shadow of the bridge in the stream has not moved.
Fortunately, although Xu Village has been developed into a tourist attraction, the Fang River water under the covered bridge is still clear and beautiful. Compared with the worrying pollution of the Xin'an River water, the safety of the Fang River water is somewhat surprising. People feel a little relieved.
The clear stream clears my heart, and the color of the water is different from other waters.
People walk in the mirror, and birds fly in the screen.
If the poet Li Bai came to Gaoyang, Xucun Village, and walked along the Fang River and under the covered bridge, he would have felt the same emotion as walking on a clear stream.
One uses a pen and the other uses a lens to reproduce the scenery they saw with their heart. One is hiding the words in the painting, and the other is hiding the words in the painting. , "Poetry is at its best when silence is better than sound", "Photography has nothing to do with equipment, but everything to do with the heart", this is what they say.
Crossing the Qingqing Fang River, beside the covered bridge and under the eaves, there is a girl in clothes from the Qingxi River;
Next to the dead tree, on the wall, there is little girl Ni in her youth.
The clear water of the stream touches my heart, the lush green trees make me happy, and the long road of thousands of years is the same throughout the ages.
The covered bridge in my dream follows me like a shadow, and the twists and turns enter my heart.
I saw Wumafang, Daguan Pavilion, Shuangshou Chengenfang...
< p> Wuma Square, Daguan Tower, Shuangshou Chengen Square, so many stories of joys and sorrows have been staged on this covered bridge. The remembered and forgotten ones are all the same, just like the falling dead leaves disappearing with the water of Fang River. Traces, like dreams lost by the years, waiting for every passer-by, some passing by, some falling asleep——
Wumafang was built in the second year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty (1507). It is a five-story stone archway with four pillars and three bays. It is 8.2 meters wide and 9.7 meters high. The main components such as the straight columns are made of granite, and the rest are made of sandstone and are exquisitely carved. There is also a "chicken-feeding beast" with a simple snout on the eaves of the second floor. The word "Fang" is written on the plaque. "Five Horses" is the elegant name for the prefect in ancient times.
The square was built for Xu Boxheng, the prefect of Tingzhou Prefecture in Fujian. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Xu Gong led his troops to protect the country and the people. He was highly valued by the imperial court and was appointed magistrate of Tingzhou.
The Daguan Pavilion has a unique shape with flying octagonal corners. It is commonly known as the Octagonal Tower. It was built in the 30th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1557). , rebuilt in the 22nd year of Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty (1633), it is a triple eaves pavilion style building. The ground floor and second floor are octagonal, each side of the ground floor is 3.5 meters long, covering an area of 64.6 square meters; the third floor is a virtual pavilion with a rectangular plane and a total height of 11.75 meters. There are stairs in the pavilion, and you can go up to the top to see far away. The moon beams on the first and second floors are decorated with colored paintings.
The lonely bird reminds me of a song that was popular in the 1980s:
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I am a little bird
I want to fly but I can’t fly high
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The world So small
We are destined to have nowhere to escape
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When you decide to burn for your ideals
Life Pressure and the dignity of life
Which one is important
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Shuangshou Chengenfang is located at the end of the Gaoyang Corridor Bridge and next to the Grand View Pavilion.
It was built in the Wuchen Year of Longqing in the Ming Dynasty (1568). It has four pillars, three rooms and five rooms. The building-style stone archway is 7.9 meters wide and 9.5 meters high. The upright columns, lower arch, eaves board and four running lions in front and rear of the bright pillars are made of granite. Other carved components such as flower panels and beams are made of sandstone. After hundreds of years of wind and rain, the exquisite stone carvings are still clearly visible today.
The square was built for Huizhou merchant Xu Shiji and his wife. During the Longqing period of the Ming Dynasty (1567-1572), Emperor Mu Zong advocated "auspicious couples" in both the government and the public. Doctor", he was given the gift to build "Shuangshou Chengenfang". Xu Guo made a "deed" for him. This shows the respect for the elderly back then.
Gaoyang Covered Bridge, Wumafang, Daguan Pavilion, Shuangshou Chengenfang are the best places to visit the ancient Xucun Village. The first thing you see in the building complex is the typical ancient Ming Dynasty building. There are many ancient ancestral halls and ancient houses around it and further inside, which still retain their original ancient style. When you walk through it, you will feel like you are in another world. If you are an "ancient" "Jianmi", don't miss this place when you come to Wannan.
"Long live Chairman Mao", this is the voice coming from deep in the hearts of the people. You can't hear it, but But it pervades every corner of the countryside.
Ancient buildings are the material cultural heritage left over from feudal society. Emotionally speaking, seeing them feels like seeing That "evil old society" is why there were ten years of turmoil and the "Four Olds"; but from an architectural perspective, they are the crystallization of the wisdom and handicrafts of the working people, and are works of art that cannot be replicated in modern society. , every brick and tile is worth cherishing.
Just like these green vegetables growing in fields and ruins, they are alive and need our careful care and appreciation.
Xu Village History Museum is one of the rare village-level history museums in my country. Branch temple. In the early Ming Dynasty, it was for the purpose of observing the residence of Xu Tianxiang.
Xu Boxheng's sixth brother, Xu Zhou, died young due to illness. His wife kept her integrity all her life and never stepped outside the family home. Therefore, it is also called "the door inside the wall". The ancestral hall you see today was built on the south side of the old site of the mansion during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. It was rebuilt in the 17th year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty (1813), and the round door facing the street on the north side was engraved with "Notes on the Wall".
In 1997, his grandson Academician Xu Jinghua (now living in Switzerland) donated US$10,000, which was renovated and turned into the "Xucun History Museum" by the county government. The museum introduces the natural resources, historical overview, cultural landscape and historical celebrities in the Xucun area in the form of physical objects, texts, photos and charts.
There is a sad story about the inner gate of the observation wall. In fact, every ancient deep house compound in Huizhou has such a story, a sad and desolate story about women.
During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Zhouan, the youngest brother of Xu Boxheng, then the magistrate of Tingzhou, married the beautiful 18-year-old Hu as his wife. Soon after the marriage, After leaving the country, he fell ill and died in a foreign country at the age of twenty-four.
At that time, Mr. Hu was twenty years old and already had Xu family members in his belly. His eldest uncle Xu Boxheng wanted him to be a widow. In the old society of ancient Huizhou, women who had lost their husbands had to be widowed, even if they had just gotten married.
After Xu Boxheng returned to his hometown, he ordered people to build a high wall around the courtyard. There were no windows on the wall, and only a small door was opened on the wall to communicate with the outside world. He ordered the craftsmen to "dig a well inside, and the name It is called Fuquan, and she will choose two or three old ladies to serve her. She will take in rice, fuel, oil, and salt from outside." At this point, her entire living space is this house with a large patio, and she cannot take a step out of the house, living in isolation from the world.
In ten months of pregnancy, she gave birth to a son, whom her uncle named "Tianxiang". Mrs. Hu, who was only in her early twenties, stayed alone to educate her son on her husband's memorial tablet. With high walls and long years, she endured long summers and cold winters. Her son finally grew up and passed the Jinshi examination. After becoming an official, he wanted to be a mother. After the wall was demolished, the woman who had never left the house in her life could finally see the light of day. However, Mrs. Hu did not agree until she passed away.
The imperial court was once moved by Hu's deeds and allowed the erection of a banner, but Mrs. Hu refused. At that time, there was a severe drought in Xu Village, and the neighboring villagers had difficulty getting water. However, Mrs. Hu asked her family to tear down a corner of the wall of her house and put a well outside the wall for the use of the villagers. This was extremely touching.
During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, Hu passed away at the age of seventy-two. She had been a widow for fifty-two years and never left this deep compound.
Most of the lives of Huizhou women are deplorable, not only It is the persecution of women by the feudal ethics itself. What is even more frightening is that they are willing to accept all this. In the end, they themselves become the defenders of the feudal ethics that oppress them. They endure the humiliation and pass it down from generation to generation, and the education that restricts their thoughts How terrible!
Look at history dialectically and selectively inherit the ancient and long-standing traditional Chinese civilization, neither blindly praising nor rudely rejecting. From these ancient buildings, your knowledge will no longer be limited to what you can see with your eyes. What you hear with your ears, invisible and silent, you will feel more, due to your heart...
Just like these beautifully carved brick carvings, what they show to people may be just a kind of decoration and a show of status of the owner, but the meaning hidden behind them is not easy to read. We What we see is more about whether the people and objects on the picture are realistic and whether the carvings are fine. We rarely care about other things. The superficial appreciation makes our understanding of our own nation more and more superficial.
Walking out of the Xucun History Museum, which is the Observation Section, we came to the senior citizen apartment in Xucun.
Xucun Senior Apartment is located in the ancient building complex, built close to the ancient buildings, with the same pink walls and black tiles, the same quietness, old age will always remind people of history and the past , in this group of ancient buildings, the senior apartment is not out of place, but more harmonious and peaceful.
Senior apartments are two-story buildings in two rows. Each elderly person has one room, and some have two rooms. , subject to occupancy fee. During the Spring Festival, most elderly people were taken home by their children for reunion, and some elderly people stayed to celebrate the New Year.
Even if the old people who stay to celebrate the New Year celebrate the New Year alone, they still decorate the room with a New Year atmosphere. The strong atmosphere of life is written in The couplets posted on the door and the bacon hanging on the walls indicate that this is the home of an old man who loves life.
The old man was cooking in the outer room. When he heard us coming in, he greeted us warmly and asked to sit inside. The small room was neatly organized by this old man, and his heartfelt smile was touching.
The old man is a retired cadre. He uses his pension to pay for living in a senior citizen apartment and daily living expenses. He likes it here very much. Although the room is small, it is a warm home, completely unlike the nursing home of the past.
Every old man’s home is not big, but it makes people feel It was warm and considerate. It reminded me of the two old fathers I met earlier. Although they guarded a large old house, it gave people the feeling of being deserted and lonely. The old house may have been handed down from the ancestors, recording the past of the family. With its glorious history and many little-known stories, guarding the old house is like guarding one's own relatives, and they must be reluctant to leave.
In fact, everyone has his own life, and only you know the taste of it, and outsiders only see the appearance. No matter what kind of life it is, whether it is good or bad in the eyes of outsiders, it doesn't matter. What matters is the choice that comes from the heart. And how many of us who are limited by reality can make the choice that comes from the heart?
Standing in the two-story building and looking out, there are scenery in the distance and near. The old people here are not lonely, as long as they have a heart of love The heart of life.
This is the home of Uncle Jiang who loves art. When you walk into his cabin, the literary and artistic atmosphere hits your face. The walls of the small room are decorated with It is full of calligraphy and painting, all done by Uncle Jiang himself.
He said that he liked calligraphy and painting when he was young. He suffered from being too busy at work and had no time to do what he liked. It was not until he retired and lived in a senior citizen apartment for nearly two years that he had real time for himself. , writing, painting, and going out for walks every day, living the life I always wanted.
Do too many of us have to wait until retirement to live the life we want? The policy of delaying retirement is undoubtedly a bit more frustrating.
Uncle Jiang made the mountaineering trail map from memory. He is truly a versatile literary and artistic man.
Before his retirement, the 85-year-old Uncle Jiang was also an expert and a model worker. He once attended the National People's Congress.
Talking about the past, the old man was full of joy and full of deep nostalgia and nostalgia for the past era. I was young at that time, and my memory is full of nostalgia and nostalgia.
Uncle Jiang told us the meaning and story behind each painting he made, "Only by staying true to your original intention can you succeed." This sentence that has been rumored by too many people has become a fact for him. He did not create it to win awards, not to become famous, or to obtain any external benefits, but just to express his true inner emotions. I was touched by his persistence. Stick to your own heart, "The sky leaves no trace, but I have flown through."
"Silver Sheep, Golden Horse, Golden Horse and Silver Sheep", this is what Uncle Jiang's nephew wrote when he came to visit him a few years ago, bidding farewell to the Year of the Horse. There is no deep special meaning in ushering in the Year of the Sheep. Uncle Jiang posted it on the lintel of the door. It can be seen that he misses his nephew very much.
Uncle Jiang’s kind smile deeply infected me, and the sense of abundance from his heart filled his cabin. , having nothing to desire and doing whatever you want is an unattainable happiness.
When I was about to leave, Uncle Jiang came downstairs to see me off. At this moment, I vaguely felt a certain loneliness that I felt reluctant to leave. Maybe it wasn’t with Uncle Jiang. On my body, it’s just my feeling.
As for the elderly, they hope that someone will "disturb" them. Even if they can live a fulfilling life by themselves, it is their inner desire to talk to others, whether it is relatives or strangers they meet by chance. People, they all give the same enthusiasm and trust.
If you arrive in Xucun, please don’t forget to walk into the elderly apartments in the ancient building complex, go see the elderly living there, send your greetings, and listen to their voices.
After leaving the senior citizen apartment, we arrived at Wumafang not far away. It turned out that the senior citizen apartment was at the end of the alley opposite Wumafang.
Walking through the Grand View Pavilion
Farewell Covered Bridge——
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I left gently,
Just as I came gently;
I waved gently,
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Be a farewell to the clouds in the western sky.
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Quietly I left,
Just as quietly I came;
I waved Sleeves,
do not take away a cloud.
In Xu Village under construction, the past and present are integrated with each other, ancient and modern complement each other, inheritance and development are not contradictory, I think When I set foot on this land many years later, it is still full of charm, and I can still find the lost dreams on the covered bridge...
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