On April 22, 1952, Chengdu began to renovate the Beimen Bridge, cutting off the arch bridge part to reduce the slope of the bridge deck, and adding an ear bridge to widen the bridge deck, which was completed on June 15 of that year.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the origin of the North Gate Bridge</h1>
The Beimen Bridge, across the Fu River, with five holes in the stone pier, is at the northern end of North Avenue in the north of the city, and is the main bridge from the North Gate to the Sichuan-Shaanxi Highway.
The North Gate Bridge has a long history, so long that it was built by that dynasty and cannot be verified. According to relevant information, this bridge was called "Qingyuan Bridge" in the Tang Dynasty, and the Name of the Qing Dynasty was "Ying'en Bridge", also known as "Da'an Bridge", because the bridge was on the north gate, and the people of Chengdu wanted to get rid of it, so they called it the North Gate Bridge.
In the 1950s, the North Gate Bridge was reconstructed, and the original appearance of the ancient bridge can no longer be seen.
Now the concept of Chengdu people is poor in the east, chaotic in the north, expensive in the west, and rich in the south. In ancient times, Chengdu was not like this, the south was basically a barren dam, the more north the more prosperous, the north gate is the most noisy. The NorthGate Bridge can be witnessed.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the soldiers were in chaos, and after Zhang Xianzhong suppressed Sichuan, Chengdu basically became a ruin, and the Sichuan provincial government was no longer in Chengdu, but moved to Langzhong.
Later, the emperor sent a new prefect named Ji Yingxiong to Chengdu to carry out "post-disaster reconstruction", the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty lived in Beijing, the officials and envoys sent by the Emperor entered Sichuan from Shaanxi and entered Chengdu through the North Gate, so they had to greet the officials of the Heavenly Dynasty at the North Gate, so the bridge at the North Gate was renamed "Ying'en Bridge", and with the "Imperial Grace", Chengdu began to recover, first building the Road of the North Gate, building many streets on the North Gate, and there were basically temples on each street, one street and one temple, and even two temples on one street. The population is also concentrated in the north, and the more it is organized, the more it is hot.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the old story of the North Gate Bridge</h1>
According to the blog post of the old Chengdu people, in the past, the North Gate Bridge was facing south of the city, and the north of the bridge was outside the city. North Gate Bridge is higher, cross the bridge north right into Caojia Lane, to the next slope, the slope of about 40 degrees, people walk without major obstacles, if you pull the car up and downhill it will bother.
In the 1960s and 1970s, convoys were a major sight in Chengdu. Most of the frame cars into the city are loaded, and the large bags and small loads of the rack cars are parked at the entrance of Caojia Lane, and the drivers of the three or four people work together to shout the trumpet, one after another pushes the frame car up the high slope of the bridge, and then pulls the car along the North Gate Avenue into the city; the return trip is both relaxed and a little nervous, the empty car rushes down from the north end of the bridge, the drivers hold the bar with both hands, and at the same time use their backs against the car crossbar to slow down the speed, while shouting loudly: "Come!" Here it comes! Move! Dodge" warns passers-by to avoid.
At that time, the north of the city was densely populated, and most of the public toilets in the city were pits or septic tanks, and the suburban farmers went into the city every day to dig toilets to load up the manure and transport it directly to the rural dung cellars. In the evening, around the north of the bridge, there are dung trucks that enter the city to pull feces, from Dustpan Street to Liangjia Lane...
It is said that when Tian Jiaying (Chairman Mao's secretary) went to the new capital Chongyi Bridge to conduct agricultural research, he also went into the city with the peasants to pull manure water, and he also gave Chongyi Bridge an auspicious name - "Dafeng".
Old Chengdu people know that there are many tea shops on the side of the Beimen Bridge, and there are eighteen ladders under the Beimen Bridge, and the so-called "river water fragrant tea" of the river water is picked up from the stone steps of these eighteen ladders barrel by barrel.
The Jinjiang River is very watery, and it floods every summer. The surrounding residents checked the water potential, and the easiest reference object to observe was the steps of the eighteen ladders. Every summer, when the rainy season comes, there are always many people asking each other, "The water of the eighteen ladders has risen to many ladders?" ”
When they reached the Eighteenth Ladder, they were not far from the famous Mapo Tofu at that time, and che spoke recalled in "Sichuan Cuisine Miscellaneous Talks" that they set out from the East Gate to chen Ma Po tofu to forage for food, along the way "along the moat, over the bay, through some graveyard wasteland ... Along the tall city wall, which was a very complete city wall at that time, after a few turns, to the Great South Sea, the eighteen ladders of the North Gate Bridge, to the west along the wooden factory to wanfu bridge Chen Ma Po tofu shop."
At that time, Chengdu cuisine was concentrated in the area of Chengbei Bridge: on the left side of the bridge was the famous old -brand "Shiyou Noodles" at the top, across the street was the famous "Linjiang Building", and there was a shop selling beef. The most famous one of the shops is the beef stew soup, the one is the husband and wife lung slices...