Hangzhou Ziguduo Bridge,
History and culture are precipitated here.
"Smoky Willow Painting Bridge" is the ancient literati's praise for the beauty of the streets, alleys and rivers.
Broken bridge, long bridge, Gongchen bridge, Nanxing Bridge...
The coordinates record the past and present lives of the city.
Quaint and elegant bridge,
As an oriental classical aesthetic image,
Together with Hangzhou,
Reveal the essence of agility and openness.
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"Smoke Willow Painting Bridge"
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About the Author
Sun Kan was born in 1964 in Cixi, Zhejiang. He is a member of the Chinese Writers Association and a second-level researcher of the Zhejiang Provincial Radio and Television Bureau. Now he is mainly engaged in the creation of reportage literature, as well as the research and writing of Hangzhou literature and history. He has authored more than 40 long-form reportages, biographies, and essay collections, such as "Hangcheng Reminiscences", "Ten Mile Jianguo Road", etc.; and has published special articles in the "City Chronicle" column of Hangzhou Daily for many times. His works have won the Golden Shield Literature Award of the Ministry of Public Security, the First Prize of Zhejiang Provincial Social Science Achievements, the "Five Ones" Project Award of Zhejiang Province, and the Zhejiang Shuren Publishing Award.
More than 750 years ago, the Italian Marco Polo came to Hangzhou in the Yuan Dynasty. In his travelogue, he praised Hangzhou as a "city of paradise on the water" and praised Hangzhou for "twelve thousand large and small bridges in the city". In this watery city, from ancient times to the present, bridges carry the heavy connotation of history and culture, recording a legend that moves the world. "The city street is ten miles away, and the river port lies across the fourteen bridges." Although there are not as many bridges in Hangzhou as Marco Polo described, as a famous city in Jiangnan Water Town, the beauty of bridges is second to none in jiangnan cities. This book not only describes the vicissitudes of Hangzhou's important bridges, but also shows the poetic meaning contained in them.
Su Causeway Six Suspension Bridge: Tree fireworks fog around the embankment sand
When it comes to historical celebrities related to Hangzhou, everyone will definitely think of Su Shi. He used his own deeds and literature to make the west lake famous to the world, so that the literati and inkers are haunted by dreams here. He served in Hangzhou twice in his lifetime, the first time in the fourth year of Xi Ning (1071), when he was appointed as the Tongju of Hangzhou, and the second time in the fourth year of Yuan You (1089), when he served as the Taishou of Hangzhou.
In the fifth year of the Northern Song Dynasty (1090), the 55-year-old Su Dongpo found that the grass in the West Lake had dried up and more than half of it was silted up, which had seriously affected the agricultural production in this area and the lives of the people of Hangzhou, so he reported to the imperial court that "Hangzhou Begging To Open the West Lake" and asked for the dredging of the West Lake. Soon after, the imperial court granted Su Dongpo's request and gave 100 monks a "degree" as a source of funds for dredging the West Lake. Su Dongpo quickly sold these "degrees", obtained money to buy rice helpers, and used the method of work-for-charity, concentrated more than 200,000 labor, cleaned the grass, and used the excavated grass and silt to build a long causeway on the west side of the West Lake. Later generations called this embankment "Sugong Causeway", referred to as "Su Causeway" for short, in order to remember and thank him.
Su Causeway stretches from the foothills of Nanping Mountain in the south to the Qixia Ridge in the north, and is nearly 6 miles long. Although this Su Causeway was only the prototype of the current Su Causeway in the past, the six bridges on the embankment existed at that time. These six single-hole stone arch bridges, which Hangzhou people call "Su Causeway Six Suspension Bridges", are named Yingbo, Suolan, Wangshan, Pressure Embankment, East (Beam) Pu and Cross Rainbow from south to north. The Su Causeway, with the Six Suspension Bridge as the main scene, is beautiful and unforgettable to the world, and the book is depicted like this:
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The six bridges of Su Causeway are the essence of the scenery of the West Lake, and the people of Hangzhou City have always had the folk proverb of "six suspension bridges of the West Lake scenery, between the willows and peaches", which tells the reason why the scenery of the Su Causeway is fascinating. Since the completion of the Su Causeway, both sides of the Su Causeway have been planted with flowers and trees, mainly weeping willows, peaches, begonias, hibiscus, wisteria, etc., especially willow trees and peach trees. During the Southern Song Dynasty, many pavilions were built on the Su Causeway, adding to its scenery. In the Yuan Dynasty, the scenery of the Six Bridges of Su Causeway was called "Six Bridges Smoke Willow" and was included in one of the "Ten Views of Qiantang". The Qing Dynasty also listed "Spring Dawn of Su Causeway" as the first of the "Ten Views of the West Lake".
The Ming Dynasty scholar Nie Danian once had a poem "Spring Dawn on the Su Causeway", which almost restored the beauty of the Su Causeway of that year: "The tree fireworks are foggy around the embankment, and the pavilion is half obscured." The bells of the three zhus prompt the moon to fall, and the willow color of the six bridges perched the crow. Green windows sleep smell birds, And Qi Ge makeup calls for selling flowers. Looking at the wine flag from afar, there are people's homes where the cooking smoke starts. ”
Gongchen Bridge: The first arch of the Thirty-Zhanghuan Bridge
Gongchen Bridge, the tallest and longest stone arch bridge in Hangzhou, is a model of three-hole thin pier arch bridge in Jiangnan region of China. It should be known that thin pier bridges did not appear in Europe until the 18th century, so the bridge type of Gongchen Bridge has an important position in the history of bridges in the world. Gongchen Bridge has undergone many constructions in history, the existing Gongchen Bridge is 98 meters long, 16 meters high, the middle section of the bridge deck is slightly narrower, 5.9 meters, the width of the bridge at both ends is 12.2 meters, the shape is thick and simple, majestic, it is one of the three ancient bridges in Zhejiang Province of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal (the other two are Yuhang Guangji Bridge and Jiaxing Changhong Bridge).
Before 1908, Gongchen Bridge was the only way for Hangzhou people to go north through the canal to Shanghai, Suzhou, Ning, Tianjin, Beijing and other places, and it was also the key pass for personnel to enter Hangzhou from the north and then cross the Qiantang River to southern Zhejiang, western Zhejiang and even Fujian and Gansu. Its status and significance in Hangcheng, the book reads:
In the "Historical Materials of Qing Dynasty Diplomacy" written by Wang Yanwei and Wang Liang in the Qing Dynasty, it is said: "The ship came from Shanghai, first passed through Gongchen, passed through the provincial capital, reached the trunk of the river, and went deep into the interior." "At that time, the southbound and northbound ships on the canal entered and exited Hangzhou, and they must have passed under the bridge. It is the symbol of the starting point of the ancient canal and can be called the geographical indication of Hangzhou.
It gave the people of Hangzhou all kinds of unheard of things: Hangzhou's earliest daily newspaper, "Rishang Hangzhou Bao", was founded in Gongchenqiao; the first silent film screened in Hangzhou was screened on the street of Qiaodongli Road; The first theater in Hangzhou, Danguiyuan and later the Ronghua Theater, on Erma Road, the famous characters Tan Xinpei and Liu Hongsheng came to pass the scene; the rare post offices, western pharmacies, etc. in China at that time also appeared here...
Of course, there are also many celebrities who have left their footprints here: Zhou Zuoren changed small steamships at Gongchen Bridge during his studies; Yu Dafu used Gongchen Bridge as the source of many of his literary works. The Qing Dynasty scholar Ding Bing used the "thirty-zhang ring bridge head arch chen, chasing the stone to move the acid moan." Ding-da went to the junkers, and carefully guarded the golden ji people. "Show the style of the Arch Bridge, point out the different cultural meanings it contains...
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