Is Broken Bridge a famous bridge on the West Lake?
Broken Bridge is the most famous bridge in West Lake, and it is also one of the three lover bridges in West Lake. Its name is associated with the sad love story in China's folk story The Legend of the White Snake. White Snake and Xu Xian met here, helped each other back to the city, and made a promise with an umbrella. Later, we met here and made up. In the Yue Opera "Legend of the White Snake", the white snake sang: "The scenery of the West Lake is still the same ... I feel heartache when I see the broken bridge, and my family is gone!" It has always been a tear-jerker, leaving endless memories for every visitor who visits the broken bridge.
According to the Ming Dynasty's West Lake Tour, Broken Bridge was named after Bai Causeway, a lonely mountain, came here. It was called Baojou Bridge in the Song Dynasty. In the Yuan Dynasty, there lived a couple who made wine for a living, so it was also called Duanjia Bridge.
The earliest recorded "Broken Bridge" is Zhang Hu in the Tang Dynasty. His poem "Broken Bridge is barren and rusty" shows that the broken bridge is an ancient stone bridge with mottled moss. At the beginning of the heavy snow, the snow on the mossy ancient stone bridge has not disappeared, and there is inevitably some residual water in the mountain, so the rare landscape of the West Lake, "Broken Bridge and Residual Snow", was drawn up.
There is a quip in Amin Wang Keyu's "Talking about Picking Vegetables in Xizi Lake": "The victory of the West Lake, Yang Lake is not as good as Yin Lake, Yin Lake is not as good as Moon Lake, and Moon Lake is not as good as Snow Lake ... How many people in the world can really lead the landscape!" Hangzhou, located in the south of the Yangtze River, has a short snow period every year, especially in heavy snow days. Once the silver makeup is wrapped, it will create a snow lake that is very different from the usual time and scenery. Whenever it snows in Chuqing, I come to the broken bridge and look to the west and north. The terraced fields in Gushan and Geling are like jade, crystal clear and have a kind of Leng Yan beauty.
Li, a painter in the Ming Dynasty, once wrote "The Sleeping Map of the West Lake, the inscription of the broken bridge in spring": "When you go to the lake, when you look at the broken bridge, your soul will die. It is also said that, as far as we know, the lake is like a tree in the morning and the moon is in Lu. Covered with mountains and rivers, there is a huge immersion there, which is not as good as it is. " From this point of view, if you look at the broken bridge, you can get the essence of lakes and mountains, and you can get the remnant snow alone!
Today's broken bridge is 192 1 an arched stone bridge with single hole and round hole. It is 8.8 meters long and 8.6 meters wide, and the clear distance of a single hole is 6. 1 meter. It was overhauled years ago, but its simple and elegant style remained basically unchanged. On the east side of the bridge, there is a tablet pavilion with Kangxi imperial theme, and a water pavilion is built on the side of the pavilion. The inscription "Clouds in the Water", green tile bamboo columns and cornices, together with the bridge pavilion, constitute a classical picture in the northeast corner of the West Lake.