Hope bridge history

This is the Wanshou Bridge in Xianning, which is said to have a history of more than 200 years.

Wanshou Bridge is a typical covered bridge in Xianning. The bridge is covered with pavilions and blue tile roofs. There are guardrails on both sides of the bridge, and stone chairs and benches are built in the wall.

There used to be stoves and tea barrels at the bridge. Throughout the year, villagers take turns to cook tea for pedestrians to drink for free.

(Actual voice ②: Liu Deshou, a resident of Guihua Town, Xian 'an District, Xianning City)

A set of scenes shot by Cai Jun.

(Concurrent ③: Cai Jun)

Xianning is an area where mountains, hills and plains intersect. Nature's nature and historical changes have created mountains, rivers, lakes, gullies and streams criss-crossing. This river criss-crosses and breeds countless bridges.

This bridge is the most basic transportation facility here. With the bridge, the blocked mountains and rivers are connected together.

Xianning is known as the "hometown of thousands of bridges", and this mysterious land has an inseparable fate with bridges.

Here the river is clear, the mountains are beautiful, the language is elegant, the old wine is mellow, the villagers are beautiful and the folk customs are simple. Walking into a stone bridge casually, you may hear a piece of Hu Qin crying, and a piece of broken tile is readily available, so you may dig up a long-lost anecdote.

Bridges in Xianning are big or small, or bent or folded. There are arch bridges, flat bridges, covered bridges, stone bridges, wooden bridges, bamboo bridges and iron bridges. They can be described as colorful and flying all over the sky. These bridges have the aura of heaven and earth, and blend with the mountains and rivers, which set each other off and become interesting. The sunset and myriad weather from Zhao Hui have added infinite charm to this land and provided them with infinite charm in Caijun.

(Actual voice ④: Cai Jun)

After filming Wanshou Bridge, Cai Jun hurried to another shooting location-Liujiaqiao.

Liujiaqiao is an ancient residential group that Liu Bochang, the 60th descendant of Liu Jiao, the half-brother of Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang, moved to and multiplied by architecture. It has been inhabited for four centuries and is known as "the first village of Chutian folk customs".

Here, green mountains and ancient trees are towering, and the old houses, carved beams and painted buildings and railings in the village are surrounded by nuclear weapons. Although dilapidated, the prosperity of that year is still faintly visible.

Historically, Liu Jiaqiao lived an idyllic life dominated by farming for generations, and was also the younger brother of a scholar. The folk customs are simple and the ancient style is dignified. The life of the people in the small village is like a bamboo ditty in the south of the Yangtze River, soothing and calm like running water in front of the door.

Liujiaqiao Covered Bridge is an ancient covered bridge with brick and wood structure. Despite the vicissitudes of life, it still stands tall, crossing the beautiful river moss in Sichuan. It is said that the broken slate ancient post station connected in front of the bridge can reach Hankou in ancient times. The past was the only way for Tongshan in Jiangxi to pass through Xianning and Hankou. The once bustling ancient covered bridge has experienced more than 400 years of ups and downs. Now I wonder if it can make people dream.

As a photographer who has a persistent pursuit of the light and shadow world, Cai Jun has a special liking for the bridge in Xianning. Many seemingly ordinary bridges, once photographed by him, often show different charms.

In his spare time, Cai Jun also runs a website "Xianning Hotline Art Time and Space". He put his photos on the Internet to let more people know about the bridge here and pay attention to it.

(Actual voice ⑤: Cai Jun)

Like Cai Jun, Liu Mingheng, a Xianning writer born and raised in Xiang Qiao, has a special liking for this bridge.

Liu Mingheng's hometown is in Liujiaqiao. It can be said that the best childhood was spent under the bridge. Perhaps because of this, his first collection of essays was named Bridge.

(Actual voice ⑥: Liu Mingheng)

The number and age of bridges in Xianning is a must in Jingchu.

The bridge has the posture of a bridge, and the small bridge has the charm of a small bridge. The bridge in Xianning has many stories, either remembering people, or narrating things, or freehand brushwork ... Each bridge has different historical origins and each bridge has its special significance.

Among the people, there are many legends and touching stories about Xianning people building bridges, which cast a mysterious veil on the bridge family.

(Actual voice ⑦: Liu Mingheng)

This bridge, called Guanbu Bridge, was built in the late Ming Dynasty. In ancient times, this river was directly connected with the Yangtze River, so it was very convenient to sail. Most of the products in and out of Xianning gather here, and the dignitaries and poets who come and go to Xianning board the ship and land here, hence the name "Guanbu Bridge".

Guanbu Bridge is still intact after several dynasties.

The ancient style still exists.

Shooting a bridge, its beauty, its light and shadow charm are of course important, but Cai Jun is often closed.

Xianning is my hometown, and the most unforgettable thing is the bridge in my hometown.

Xianning is located in the oval zone left by the Yangtze River passing through Hubei. The Yangtze River flows northward, with the curtain rising in the south, high in the south and low in the north, criss-crossing mountains, hills and basins, and dense gullies and lakes. Various landforms naturally combine into a unique treasure.

Faced with the tortuous geographical barrier of nature, Xianning people regard bridging as a merit, connecting mountains and rivers with bridges, becoming a thoroughfare, leading to beautiful distant places, and letting rainbows fly among the valleys in Qian Shan.

Therefore, it has the reputation of "the hometown of thousands of bridges".

Bridges in Xianning, big or small, curved or stretched, ancient or modern, are colorful, making nature look particularly magnificent.

The bridge is accompanied by the sun and the moon, beautiful mountains and rivers, virtue and roads.

Xianning has more than 70 large and small water systems, some with rapids and waterfalls, some with streams and some with rivers. If there is no bridge, people will not be able to move by the water.

There are many bridges in Xianning, and 46 market towns are named after them, such as Tingsi Bridge, Sheng Qiao Bridge, Zhao Li Bridge and Lin Nan Bridge.

There are more than 80 natural villages. It can be said that there is no road without bridge, no village without bridge, no township without bridge and no town without bridge.

The number and age of bridges in Xianning is a must in Jingchu.

Probably because "the savage loves the earth and the grass loves the mountains", the bridge in Xianning always makes me dream.

Her bridge has the charm of a bridge, and the small bridge has the charm of a small bridge.

There are many bridges in Xianning, and there are many stories about them, either remembering people, taking notes or freehand brushwork. Each bridge has a different historical origin, and each bridge has a special significance. They all pin their hopes of "truth, goodness and beauty" on the people in their hometown.

The famous Tingsi Bridge was built in the Chunyou period of the Southern Song Dynasty, with a history of more than 750 years.

According to legend, there was a villager named Ding Si who lived by the river and made a living by playing straw sandals.

Whenever old people and children can't cross the river, they always take the initiative to carry them across the river.

In case of flood, you can only look at the river and sigh.

He made up his mind to raise money to build the bridge.

He scrimped and saved money to sell straw sandals, and finally built the bridge 50 years later.

In memory of the old man, the local villagers called this bridge Tingsi Bridge.

1926, Wu Zaixiang, a northern warlord, was defeated and defeated Tingsi Bridge in an attempt to use the favorable terrain surrounded by mountains and water on three sides to deploy heavy troops to fight to the death with the Northern Expeditionary Army.

With the help of friendly forces and Xianning people, the Ye Ting Independent Regiment, the vanguard of the Northern Expedition Army, conquered Tingsi Bridge in one fell swoop. Since then, Tingsi Bridge has become famous all over the world.

There is a "bamboo bridge" at the foot of Damu Mountain, which is located in a green mountain stream, and two tall and straight bamboos stand side by side at the bridge head.

There is also a beautiful legend about Cuizhu Bridge: In ancient times, there was a Qinglong, which fought in the sky to prevent the Yellow Dragon from flooding and endangering the people. Die after Huanglong, die on the bridge.

Two brothers and sisters went up the mountain to cut wood, found the dead dragon and buried it, but two dragon horns were exposed on the ground, bleeding.

Brother and sister wash dragon horns every day. A hundred days later, the dragon grew into two big bamboo shoots, and then grew into two big bamboo shoots. In the second year of Qingming, many bamboo shoots grew nearby. Many years later, there were bamboo shoots everywhere in Xianning.

There is a stone arch bridge named "Daughter Bridge" on Zhuogang, and there is a simple and tall building at the bridge head.

This was built by Xianning people to commemorate the talented woman Qian in the Hongye period of the Ming Dynasty.

Sister Liu is a poet at the age of five and a singer at the age of seven. She is bold and provocative, not afraid of power, teasing powerful people and is deeply loved by the masses.

One year, a gifted scholar from Wuchang, Hubei Province came to visit Sixth Sister, and such a strange thing happened: "Fasizhou ships flow, but ships don't."

Sister Liu thought, there are many bridges in Xianning, why not use the topic of bridges to respond?

Then he thought for a moment and said, "The bridge in Xianning is dry and windy, but it doesn't move."

After listening to this, the gifted scholar admired him very much.

There is a Liujiaqiao in the upper reaches of Baisha River, which was built by Liu Bochang, the 60th generation of Liu Bang's younger brother Liu Jiao, with a history of more than 450 years.

Single hole, arch, tired stone.

The bridge has a balcony and a green tile roof. On both sides of the bridge, a two-meter-high square-hole grid retaining wall is built with blue bricks, and benches are built in the wall.

Liujiaqiao in ancient and modern times is the main passage from Jiangxi to Xingguo and Xiushui to Hankou, Hubei, and it is very lively.

It turns out that there is only one wooden bridge here. This stone arch bridge was built by the Liu family for the convenience of pedestrians. At the eastern end of the bridge, there is a tea kiosk to provide water for pedestrians free of charge, and at the western end, there are shops such as department stores, restaurants and accommodation.

Now the covered bridges in Liu Jia are interdependent, simple and elegant, lush, surrounded by several ancient willows, clear and leisurely, a pulse of Bai Quan reflected, lively splashing water, and several village children playing in the water, which is an attractive peasant genre painting.

As a pair of couplets on the covered bridge said, "The ancient road of Shuixiu Mountain is wrapped in ink, and the peak turns to a small bridge, flying across the Liu family."

Let you feel her beautiful, strange and quaint charm, as well as deep, distant and heavy charm.

Gao Qiao Yantou Zhangjia still has an ancient wooden beam bridge named "Fulu Bridge".

Guangxu B was not built in 2000, and it has been 1 10 years now. Stone piers, wooden beams and pavilions are structurally complete, with a quaint legacy, which has entrusted the villagers with their expectations for Fulu and their yearning for a better life.

Among the bridge families in Xianning, there are Paper Factory Bridge which reflects Xianning's papermaking history, Maqiao which commemorates the ancient battlefield of the Three Kingdoms, Longtan Bridge which shows the temperament of the Chinese nation, Homecoming Bridge which looks forward to the early reunion of relatives on both sides of the strait, Xiangyang Bridge which shows people's happy life, and Yimin Bridge which confuses the grateful party and cares about people's lives. There are "military-civilian bridges" to commemorate the fish and water situation of the military and civilians, "Gao Qiao" and "Wangxian Bridge" to reflect the pursuit of a better life, and "Zhujiaqiao", "Baishaqiao" and "Shiqiao" to record the topography.

Among the more than 500 ancient bridges left by Xianning, there is a commonality, that is, the bridge holes are all singular, either one hole, three holes or five holes, and so on.

According to the width of the river, it is very decent to erect a two-hole stone arch bridge, but the ancient bridge builders deliberately cut a fake hole on the pier between the two holes and turned the two holes into three holes.

As for the ancients, what was the purpose of this arrangement? Remains a mystery.

There are many bridges and structural styles in Xianning.

There are primitive Dingbu bridge and wooden bridge, ancient Liang Shi bridge and stone arch bridge, simply supported beam slab bridge, rectangular beam slab bridge, I-beam slightly curved slab bridge, slightly curved plate flat rib arch bridge, steel frame arch bridge, flat shell arch bridge and hyperbolic arch bridge.

Among the bridge families in Xianning, the hyperbolic arch bridge is the most widely used.

This kind of bridge has a large span, and there are half-wave arch eyebrows on both sides of the main abdominal arch. The bridge spans the river, hollow and exquisite, with a very beautiful shape, just like a rainbow after rain.

In the long river of history, in the fifty-seven years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Xianning people have inherited the virtues of their ancestors to accumulate virtue and do good deeds, and the cause of building bridges has undergone earth-shaking changes.

Xianning people open roads on every mountain and bridge when they meet water. More than 800 bridges have been built in this beautiful land, forming a transportation network connecting Jingchu and the whole country. Xianning has also set foot on sunshine avenue, which is moving towards a well-off life.

The Ganjiang River, one of the three major water systems in Xianning, is winding and sparkling, starting from the southern foot of Damu, crossing the deep history, crossing the valley, crossing the mountains and cross-country, singing all the way and pouring thousands of miles.

There are more than 50 bridges across the river bed, including 8 ancient covered bridges.

There are Taoping Bridge (Covered Bridge), Goldman Sachs Bridge (Covered Bridge), Baisha Bridge (Covered Bridge) and Liu Jia Bridge (Covered Bridge) built in the Ming Dynasty, Bai Quan Bridge and Wanshou Bridge (Covered Bridge) built in the Qing Dynasty, Yufeng Bridge and Jia Zhu Bridge built in the Republic of China, Shicheng Bridge, Wenquan 1 Bridge built in the 1950s and 1960s after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and Wenquan 2 built in the 1970s.

There are ancient stone arch bridge, Liang Shi bridge, rectangular beam slab bridge, I-beam slightly curved slab bridge, steel arch bridge, flat shell arch bridge, hyperbolic arch bridge and cast-in-place reinforced concrete giant beam bridge ... Ganhe, like a bridge museum, truly records the day before yesterday, yesterday and today in Xianning.

For thousands of years, the bridge in Xianning has experienced vicissitudes and storms. They always stubbornly bow their bare backs, silently endure to look at the eternal iron hoof wheels, lovingly receive pedestrians rushing from east to west, and look after their wandering hometown.

The bridge in Xianning is very beautiful, whether it is an antique ancient bridge or a magnificent modern bridge.

His beauty lies in the external beauty of steel, which is in harmony with the flexible beauty of running water; His beauty lies in the rough and simple inner beauty, which contains Xianning people's pursuit of "truth, goodness and beauty"

So this kind of beauty becomes a beautiful note, a beautiful melody, which brings people beautiful pleasure and enjoyment.