In the 2022 Chaozhou Lantern Festival, the ancient city of Chaozhou sang the rhyme of the Chaozhou opera "Lijing", with the lights of the Guangji Bridge and the gatehouse, the charm of the ancient city was breathtaking, and at this time, walking into the ancient city of Chaozhou was like stepping into the Ming Dynasty.
Out of the ancient city of Chaozhou Guangji Lou city gate is Guangji Bridge, this building a bridge is the teochew people's spiritual totem.
In The March of Spring and Jingming, the ancient city added more ancient charm, belonging to the March festival of the "goddess", we approached Yu Xiaojie, the "most beautiful cultural relics safety guardian" of the "National Pioneer of Construction".
In March 2021, she was awarded the honorary title of "National Pacesetter of Meritorious Service" by the China Women's Federation, and in June, she was awarded the honorary title of "Most Beautiful Cultural Relics Safety Guardian" by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage in 2021, the only person selected in Guangdong Province last year. She is the director of chaozhou Guangjiqiao cultural relics management office.
To tell the daily life of this "most beautiful cultural relics safety guardian", things began in 2007.
In 2007, the restoration project of Guangji Bridge was completed, and the Guangji Bridge Cultural Relics Management Office was established, which opened the daily life of cultural relics protection, and Yu Xiaojie was already a member of the protection team.
From 2007 to 2022, Yu Xiaojie began fifteen years of work as a "guard" and "guard" with Guangji Bridge.
Guard the safety of cultural relics and stick to it for 15 years
Cultural relics are an important carrier and physical witness of the history and cultural inheritance of a country and a nation, and are a valuable resource that is non-renewable and irreplaceable.
The "Chaozhou GuangjiQiao Cultural Relics Management Office" established in 2007 has been established from the establishment and sorting of systems and materials, everything from scratch to the current security protection, everything has rules to follow, and every word is newly established.
"In addition to paying attention to the profession, the protection of cultural relics is more important than a high sense of responsibility." Yu Xiaojie said, "For more than 10 years, there has always been the pride of cultural relics workers; as cultural relics practitioners, we must not only focus on excavating the inner heritage of cultural relics and improving their connotations, but also focus on trivial chores, and pay attention to and guard the safety of cultural relics for decades, because cultural relics safety is the red line, bottom line and lifeline of cultural relics protection."
In 2021, Yu Xiaojie organized the team to complete the "Guangji Bridge Pavilion Wooden Component Maintenance Project", which is the most comprehensive inspection and reinforcement since 2007.
"The more than 20 ancient piers of Guangji Bridge are the part with the greatest cultural relics value and the key and difficult points of protection." It is a large cultural relic that cannot be moved"; in Yu Xiaojie's vision, "if it is possible in the future, if it can be made live when inspecting the piers for underwater exploration, the conservation publicity of Guangji Bridge should have a better effect."
In the past 15 years, Yu Xiaojie led the team to formulate a detailed work plan and emergency plan for the protection of cultural relics, and gradually established and improved a series of rules and regulations for the protection and management of cultural relics, such as the normalized "half-monthly inspection" system for cultural relics protection, the quarterly emergency drill for fire safety, the monthly maintenance system for fire and lightning protection electricity facilities, the flood prevention and wind emergency response and the safety guarantee system for tourist peak nodes.
The management office still strictly implements the "semi-monthly inspection" and "daily inspection", including the "safety management team" set up in the building and the bridge; the first thing to do every day is to check the safety of various electrical appliances and wires, as well as whether the life jackets on 18 wooden boats and the pressurization system of the water supply are normal.
It is not the hero who has the ambition to show the grand plan, what is even more valuable is that the sentient beings who pay silently and do not try to reveal are also heroes, and the safety protection of cultural relics needs the latter's dedication to the ordinary.
In Yu Xiaojie's interview, her humility is permeated with such a spirit, as the teochew people's deep love for Guangji Bridge and gatehouse penetrates into the marrow, and the wisdom and magic Guangji Bridge also witnesses the historical ups and downs on both sides of the Han River, as a companion teochew people confidently move towards the future.
Pen holder smoke and rain Guangji Bridge, a mile long bridge and a mile city
The veil hangs low, the cornices are anti-yu, the long rainbow is lying on the wave, standing on the top of beacon mountain looking at the Guangji Bridge, and the smoke and rain han jiang enter the painting.
Yu Xiaojie's careful protection of Guangji Bridge is not only reflected in the details of daily safety management, but also in professional research, and also in the activation and utilization of ancient bridges and Chaozhou intangible cultural heritage.
The reporter learned that in the past 15 years, Yu Xiaojie has devoted herself to academic research, practiced the concept of innovative development, and mastered the basic theory and professional and technical skills of cultural relics protection, she wrote high-quality academic papers on "On the Protection and Management of Cultural Relics of Chaozhou Guangji Bridge" and "On the Six Architectural Characteristics of Chaozhou Guangji Bridge"; presided over the completion of two cultural relics restoration projects professional and technical data and historical archives classification, providing complete literature for the follow-up protection and research of Guangji Bridge.
She has also presided over the completion of more than 10 major cultural relics protection projects, including the construction of steel wood ornamental shuttle boats, the maintenance of paint of wooden components of pavilions and pavilions, the design and installation of pontoon bridge jumping and railings, and the underwater safety survey project of Guangji Bridge, and the construction of ancillary facilities such as the ancient stone beam area of Guangji Bridge.
According to reports, in recent years, with the blessing of digital technology, all pavilions and pavilions on the Guangji Bridge have been comprehensively surveyed, corrected and reinforced; with the help of new technologies, 66 settlement monitoring points and 19 displacement monitoring points of the Guangji Bridge piers have been comprehensively monitored for 6 times.
"Cultural relics protection should see people see things and see life", this "literacy" has almost become the internal driving force of Yu Xiaojie's work. Chaozhou currently has 17 national-level intangible cultural heritage projects, and 3 inheritors of intangible cultural heritage projects are displayed in the pavilions of Guangji Bridge every day, and every holiday, there are "intangible cultural heritage markets" and dynamic intangible cultural exhibitions on Guangji Bridge, which basically reproduce the prosperous grand situation of "one mile long bridge and one mile city" on Guangji Bridge in the Ming Dynasty.
In March, the oak blossoms, and you can enjoy chaozhou to see the fireworks in the world. Guangji Bridge, connected by wooden boats in the morning, "makes way" for the big boats to sail at dusk, and the bridge keepers who "help each other in the same boat" conscientiously inspect and inspect every day and cherish the protection.
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In the seventh year of the Southern Song Dynasty (1171 AD), the Guangji Bridge, which was built in the Southern Song Dynasty, was exactly 850 years old until last year (2021), and was originally only a simple pontoon bridge connected by 86 small boats;
From this 1711 onwards, the Teochew people began the history of bridge construction hundreds of years ago.
Starting from the first pier, after the three dynasties of Song, Yuan and Ming, which lasted for 359 years, it finally formed a pattern of "eighteen shuttle ships and twenty-four continents".
Since then, it has been destroyed by several wars, floods, and special years of transformation, until 2007, it was restored to its original appearance.
During the interview, Yu Xiaojie was very concerned about the "old age" of the Guangji Bridge, "The restoration in 2007 was in accordance with the style of the Ming Dynasty; before, every Chaozhou governor actively participated in the construction of the Guangji Bridge to benefit the people, and the Chaozhou government invested as much as it wanted, and the financial resources were enough to build a pier to build a pier, in short, the bridge was the 'lifeblood' of the state capital, because originally as a traffic function, the Guangji Bridge not only connected the two sides of Chaozhou, but also the traffic and economic artery of ancient Fujian and Guangdong, as a ' An important node of the Maritime Silk Road, the Guangji Bridge was also an artery connecting the inside and outside in those years."
The world's first opening and closing stone bridge, one of the four ancient bridges in China, the value of Guangji Bridge far exceeds that of a building itself.
Joining the "Chaozhou Guangji Bridge Cultural Relics Management Office", Yu Xiaojie's wish is to "restore the ancient appearance of Guangji Bridge, and protect and revitalize it". In 2001, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage approved the restoration plan of Guangji Bridge, and construction began in 2003.
Between 2003 and 2007, the aging Guangji Bridge was quietly renovated, ushering in her new "highlight" moment, and on June 18, 2007, in accordance with the peak model of the development of Guangji Bridge, that is, the ming Dynasty's modeling was successfully restored, repaired as old, reopened, and reproduced the wisdom of "eighteen shuttle ships and twenty-four continents".
The stone slabs across the river surface have been the only way for Chaozhou people to cross the river for hundreds of years; the pavilions and pavilions with different shapes that highlight the beauty of Chaozhou's ancient architecture were once the "bridge market" where the ancestors of Chaozhou sold trade; the shuttle boat pontoon bridge that opened at night was once an important gateway for Chaozhou people to the world.
Guangji Bridge, which integrates girder bridge, pontoon bridge and arch bridge, is one of the four ancient bridges in China and is the world's first open-close stone bridge, and the value of Guangji Bridge far exceeds that of a building itself.
Written by: Nandu reporter Xiao Yang
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