The origin of Jinshi Bridge and the history of Earth Bridge
There is a small town at the eastern foot of Xuefeng Mountain, formerly called Tuqiao. The ancients used fir trees to build a bridge across the river, and the bridge deck was paved with earth and stones, hence its name.
The earthen bridge was often washed away by flash floods, so later generations decided to raise funds to build a storm covered bridge that could not be washed away. The covered bridge has several stone piers, with barrel-thick giant cedars as beams on the piers, and a wind and rain pavilion on them.
Longhui transportation history: Jinshi Bridge, also known as Tuqiao, is located in the northeast of Jinshiqiao Town and spans the Yunxi River. It was first built during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty and has been here for more than 100 years. In the 20th year of the Republic of China (1931), it was damaged by floods. Villagers actively raised donations and funds, and the local famous craftsman Liu Zhengmao presided over the restoration.
The bridge is 45 meters long, 5 meters wide and 4 meters high. The bridge is made of stone piers and wooden surfaces, with pavilions on it to provide shelter from wind and rain for passers-by, and to provide convenience for people to rest and chat. The bridge pavilion is antique and unique.
In 1994, due to the construction of rural roads to meet the needs of motor vehicles, the local party and government took the lead and villagers widely raised funds to win subsidies for civil bridges from the city and county transportation departments. After nearly two years of construction, the original wooden bridge was transformed into a stone arch bridge with 2 spans, 45 meters long, 8 meters wide and 5 meters high.
When the bridge was being built, a huge candle was lit on the mouth of the stone mountain on the east side of the bridge. The diameter of the candle body was nearly two meters, larger than a dumpling. stop. This candle is considered to be the largest artificial light source in the history of Tuqiao, and can be called an artificial little sun. I don’t know what year or month, this place will have another strange light?
The construction of the stone pier is based on the ancient "magpie nest" construction technology, that is, the fir tree segments are stacked layer by layer, and the surrounding Fastened with huge fir wood stakes. Fir wood can survive for thousands of years when immersed in water. It is a treasure of China's water conservancy construction in the past dynasties. It is also called "gluing wood" and is specially used to fix the cornerstone and the earth in water conservancy projects.
The bridge piers are made of huge stones, and the stones are connected by iron buckles, making them tangled together into a whole. I think the combination of the bridge piers and its unique foundation can withstand a magnitude 10 earthquake.
The fir trees used to make the bridge were taken from the mountains on both sides of Zhaibeichong. In order to transport the giant sequoia trees, the ancients temporarily built a small canal and poured mud into the river to form a mud channel. A specially made "mud boat" was built, with huge trees placed on top of the "mud boat", and the buoyancy generated by the mud in the river channel was used to drive the "mud boat". There were rows of trackers on both sides of the mud trough. They shouted "Hey, hey, hey," and they all used their strength to drive the giant logs of the mud boat down the trough.
After the bridge was completed, it was called Tuqiao Qiaoting.
The Earthen Bridge Pavilion is located on the Yunxi River, like a shovel board, blocking the northward flow of the Yunxi River.
The Shishanzui in the east of Qiaodong is the shape of a lion in Feng Shui theory. In the area near the Bailu Temple to the west of the bridge, there is a long mountain shaped like an elephant's trunk, which corresponds to the omen of the divine elephant. The lion shape, elephant shape, and gold plate form a feng shui pattern comparable to that of Wei Guangtao, the hometown of Wei Guangtao, the governor of Liangjiang and Nanyang Minister in front of Simen next door: the lion elephant controls the water mouth, and the gold plate shovels the dragon gate.
Once the dragon gate is shoveled, the water mouth of the tree field is tightened, so that the wealth does not flow out, and the auspiciousness does not leak out, the land here becomes a golden basin for gathering treasures, a fairy pond containing dragons, and it is about to begin. It not only improves the wealth and luck of this land, but also opens up the wisdom and prosperity of this land.
Downstream of Tuqiaoqiao Pavilion and on the left bank, there is a round hill called Taiyuan Nao, which is shaped like the legendary golden turtle that represents the number one scholar in high school.
Jin Ao goes up against the Yun River and heads towards the earthen bridge pavilion shaped like a Dragon Palace guarding the gate. It forms a kind of Feng Shui situation of Jin Ao on the water and fish leaping over the dragon gate, indicating that this place will definitely be culturally prosperous. Yunchanglong: Two well-known schools in Longhui County, Longhui No. 6 Middle School and Longhui No. 2 Middle School, were both conceived in Taiyuan Naoshang. This Taiyuan Nao opened the curtain of modern education for the entire Longhui County.
After the bridge pavilion was repaired, Tuqiao Old Street prospered, and finally replaced Huangjinjing and became the biggest hotspot in the second capital of Longhui.
In 1935, Marshal He Long paid homage to his ancestors at the He Family Ancestral Hall in Huanghuangjing, drank shochu, and then rode a tall horse and led his team along the old bluestone road on the left bank of Yunxi River to Tuqiao. Coming in a meandering way.
According to the memories of older people, that team was the first to use mobile phones: the soldiers carried the wires on their shoulders, like a row of moving poles, and the lines were as long as the team was. The marshal was a tall man, but he didn't dismount when he got on the bridge, so he had to lower his head and bend over. From then on, a story was left: the second capital was called Tuqiao, and the marshal also bowed his head.
The earth bridge, which contains the wisdom of ancient Chinese bridge construction and local historical stories, is undoubtedly qualified to be called a cultural relic. Unfortunately, Tuqiaoqiao Pavilion, which was in a "demolished" country more than 20 years ago, could not escape the fate of being demolished. From now on, it can only live in the hearts of the people.
Chinese people generally have to be given names twice in their lives. Before minors, people have nicknames, which usually use cheap characters: such as gaohuazi, scavengers, puppies, pigs, cow afterbirth and other livestock and even discarded items. If someone is named with a mean character, it is said that the child will be well raised and taken care of.
This illustrates a problem. There is a unique kind of worship in our local customs: the worship of base people - the base class has the most vitality. When you are young, you have to survive. Life-saving is important, so you have to keep a low profile.
After adulthood, the foundation of life is stable, and if development is put on the agenda, it is necessary to start a new one. The characters used in large names often convey good intentions such as pursuing prosperity and wealth. They are high-profile demands for fate, bargaining with God, and determining the general direction of life. They are very different from pet names: when I was young, I was called Oujin. Probably Garbo.
Chinese places, like Chinese people, have nicknames and nicknames. It is a metaphor that someone once hung his neck on a tree in a certain place, so it was called Hanging Ridge. Later, it was favored by developers and was renamed Doujinling.
Our bridge is called an earth bridge because it was covered with soil when it first stood up. The local people pronounce "Tuqiao" as Tuqiao (the dialect is qiào).
The pronunciation of qiào is very rustic, but it is very meaningful in terms of phonetic archeology: when the ancients were hindered by concave terrain such as ravines, they envied the ability of birds to cross: If they could be like birds It would be great to be able to cross in the same way! A bridge is a kind of wood that allows humans to cross like a bird.
The wood that allows humans to make leaps and bounds like a bird can be called bird wood. The tree that makes human beings walk like a bird crossing over is called bird tree. Bird tree is pronounced as bird (the dialect is qiào). This qiào is the original pronunciation of the word bridge. Earth bridge is homophonic to earth bird. Although earth bird is earthy, it can spread its wings and fly high. The bird is small and the world is big, which is not necessarily a bad state.
A local sage, Chen Shifangong, the family teacher of Wei Guangtao, the governor of Liangjiang and Nanyang minister, was deeply concerned about the name of the earth bridge. He believed that there was an imperial temple on the bridge, and Emperor Guan had great righteousness and could penetrate gold and stone: "Only Gong (referring to Guan Gong) had great righteousness through gold and stone. Why is this place called Earth Bridge?" Therefore, the name of the bridge was changed to the words "jinshi" and it was called Jinshi Bridge. .
"Guan Gong's righteousness penetrates the metal and stone" is the metal and stone root of the three characters Jinshiqiao, but its original name Tuqiao also has its earth roots: Tuqiao is not a bridge built by local methods, not a bridge of local people, but a bridge built by local people. It is a bridge covered with earth: there are many fir trees on the hills around the earth bridge, and its material is relatively corrosion-resistant, so local people often use it to build bridges. The earth bridge is made of several fir logs arranged side by side. The bridge deck is then covered with soil and leveled to form a simple bridge that can be used by pedestrians and horses, and can even bear modern trucks.
Gold and stone have aura of wealth and nobility, but earthen bridges also have their own unique earthy flavor, with a kind of Meishan style: drinking blood while drinking blood, overcoming thorns and thorns, building roads across mountains, and building bridges when encountering water, which reflects the way our predecessors used ragged roads to open up mountains and forests. pioneering spirit.