Basic introduction of Taishun corridor bridge

Covered bridge refers to a bridge with a built house.

The covered bridges in Taishun, Wenzhou can be roughly divided into several categories, such as woven beam-wood covered bridges, eight-character covered bridges, wooden flat covered bridges and stone covered bridges, among which woven beam-wood covered bridges have the most cultural relics value.

The beam-wood arcade bridges in China are concentrated in the mountainous areas at the junction of Zhejiang and Fujian, such as Taishun, Qingyuan and Jingning in Zhejiang, Shouning, Gutian and Lianjiang in Fujian.

The names of woven beam-wood arch bridges vary from place to place. Taishun is commonly known as "Pteris vittata Bridge" because its structure is very similar to centipede.

Protection level: (Taishun Corridor Bridge) National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit

Year: Qing Dynasty

Date of publication: May 25, 2006

Taishun is a mountainous county in the south of Zhejiang Province, with Wencheng in the northeast, Jingning in the northwest and Fujian Province in the south, with a total area of 1.70 square kilometers. Known as "nine mountains, half water and half fields".

There are 179 peaks above 0/000 meters, with an average elevation of over 490 meters.

In history, many celebrities and sages moved to Taishun, a mountainous and inaccessible "Xanadu", to avoid disasters and chaos, and created local civilization with mountain and rural characteristics, leaving valuable historical and cultural heritage.

Taishun covered bridge is one of the most outstanding representatives.

There are a large number of civil bridges in Taishun with various structural types.

According to Taishun traffic records, by the end of 1987, there were 958 bridges in the county, with a total length of 16829 linear meters, of which 476 bridges were built before liberation, with a total length of 7923 linear meters.

There were more than 30 covered bridges in Ming and Qing Dynasties, including covered bridges, Mu Ping covered bridges and Shigong covered bridges.

Among them, the covered bridge has 18 bridges, which occupies an important position in the history of bridges in the world.

That is, Sixi Sister Bridge (Beijian Bridge and Dongxi Bridge), Sankui Xuezhai Bridge, Xianju Bridge, Xiaocun Wenxing Bridge and Santiao Bridge.

Wooden arch bridge, the wood is very short, criss-crossing, like a rainbow flying over the wide water. Its ingenious structure is amazing!

On May 25th, 2006, Taishun Covered Bridge, as an ancient building in Qing Dynasty, was approved by the State Council to be included in the sixth batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

Taishun covered bridge can be traced back to the middle of Ming Dynasty, and most of the existing covered bridges were built in Qing Dynasty.

A large number of them have certain group advantages.

In particular, the covered bridges that only exist in the mountainous areas at the junction of Zhejiang and Fujian have typical regional particularity and high historical, scientific and artistic value.

It provides an important example for studying the origin and development of covered bridges.

Liu Jie, a lecturer at Shanghai Jiaotong University, thinks that the "Pteris vittata Bridge" is similar to centipede in structure.

In fact, people have passed down the name of Pteris vittata Bridge from generation to generation. As for the mechanical principle of wooden arch bridge, it is impossible to discuss it in depth.

In mountainous counties with remote geographical location and blocked traffic, few people know the extremely important historical and cultural value of "Pteris vittata Bridge" in the history of bridge development in China.

Until the end of 1970s, Taishun, a covered bridge in Wang Guocai, was discovered by people of insight.

On June1996165438+1October 12, China Photography published a small graphic report of "Covered Bridge in South Zhejiang" with one third of the headlines, and adopted the name of "Covered Bridge" for the first time.

Since then, the central, provincial and municipal news organizations and scholars at home and abroad have come to Taishun for interviews, inspections and investigations.

The national treasure Taishun covered bridge has attracted wide attention at home and abroad.