Please correct the first couplet: Qiantang River Bridge, the Five Elements lack fire.

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The majestic Qiantang River Bridge After more than 50 years of vicissitudes, it still stands tall above the stormy waves. Speaking of it, there is an anecdote related to "fire"!

Luo Ying, the assistant and chief engineer of Mao Yi, director of the Construction Engineering Department at that time, believed that the four words "Qiantang River Bridge" came from gold, earth, water and wood, but lacked "fire", so I took "The Five Elements of Qiantang River Bridge lack fire" as the first couplet and asked for the second couplet. A long time passed, but no one responded. When Mao Yisheng heard about it, he said: "There is a 'fire' on the Qiantang River Bridge, and it is in disaster, so why bother to fix it?" In fact, this bridge was born in the sky full of beacon fire. When the bridge construction project entered its most intense stage in 1937, the "July 7" Incident occurred. The "August 13" Japanese invaders spread the war from Marco Polo Bridge to Shanghai, and the "August 14" enemy planes flew to Hangzhou to bomb the bridge. bridge. The smoke of a prairie fire forced the employees to work desperately, and finally the first train was opened on September 26, which greatly transported anti-war materials and supported the Songhu front line. According to the situation at that time, the bridge design had to prepare a cave for filling explosives on the second pier near the south bank. Mao Yizeng lamented this and said: "On the first day of the opening of the bridge, there were explosives in the bridge. This is unprecedented for the Qiantang River Bridge in the history of bridges at home and abroad." On December 22 of that year, the Japanese army advanced The troops had arrived in the northern suburbs of Hangzhou. On that day, more than 300 locomotives and more than 2,000 passenger and freight cars on our side retreated across the river from the bridge, and there was a huge crowd. The traffic on the bridge and the evacuation of pedestrians began in the afternoon of the next day, and were completed at 5 pm. The Japanese cavalry invading Hangzhou and peeking north of the bridge were looming. In view of this situation, Mao Yi, who was personally supervising the bombing, had no choice but to issue the order to destroy the bridge. He only heard a loud noise, dust stones flew into the air, beams fell into the water, and the Qiantang River Bridge was broken. It was less than three months after it was first opened to traffic. It was shocking. Shocked and lamented.

This is another construction disaster in modern times after the Old Summer Palace was destroyed by foreign troops. The "fire" left indelible trauma and imprint on the Qiantang River Bridge. These "fire" scars are typical evidence of the countless crimes committed by imperialism in invading the Chinese nation. We descendants of Yan and Huang must never forget the "fire" hated by the enemies of the country.