MianXian Tonggou Temple Black Bridge Chronicle
In the seventy-second year of the Republic, the black bridge of the eighty years of wind and rain collapsed, and everyone regretted it, but there was no monument on its shore, and the historical materials did not record its ins and outs, and I was afraid that the people of the future generations would forget its old appearance, so I tried my best to examine it and wrote it in a clumsy writing, all nine hundred and fifty-three words.
Black Bridge in the summer of 2013
The black bridge, the Hanhui Canal Aqueduct, the bridge height is four meters, nine holes and ten piers, the hole span is six meters, the length is more than sixty meters, the inner groove is three meters wide, and the left and right sides of the trough rock are one meter, about one meter, so the width is five meters. The black bridge is not a bridge, but because it is blue and black, shaped like a bridge, spanning the river, connecting the two banks, connecting two places, and acting as a bridge function, it is also named. It is on the Waiba River in Tonggou Temple Town, through floods, through waves, counting eighty years of Yuye [1].
At the beginning, master Li Yizhi [2] to Qiufu mentioned the construction of the Hanhui Canal [3], the three county magistrates Fu Qikai, Zhu Guoping, Wang Muzeng [4] and The governor of Baocheng County [5] Li Geng all supported it with all their might, but Li Gong was seriously ill and died in the twenty-seventh year of the Republic of China, it was December of that year, the Hanhui Canal was built, and in the twenty-ninth year of the Republic of China, Wang Muzeng ruled the canal, its heavy education, the water conservancy, the Hanhui Canal was continued, the canal crossed the Waiba River and could not be crossed, so the aqueduct was built, thirty years, the canal head hub and the North Trunk Canal were formed from the head of the canal to the outer dam river section, thirty-three years, Since then, the land of Chuzhou in the northwest corner, the ganquan of Hanshui down the aqueduct, the 10,000 acres of fertile land in the lower reaches of Ze, the tens of thousands of people in the east of Huiyuan, the realm of Qiu, the full family of Yong Rang, the abundance of xianle, the peace of the cultivators who live happily, the people's strength is enriched [6], and the wealth of the people is gradually completed.
The aqueduct was first built, only for the purpose of diverting water, but the people on both sides of the strait often followed the canal and came and went freely, and the name of the black bridge was widely circulated, and the Seventy-first Year of the Republic [7], the Hanhui Canal Administration Bureau knew the people's will, sympathized with the people's feelings, and conformed to the people's hearts, but allocated funds to build the bridge deck and install guardrails on the aqueduct.
Seventy-two years of the Republic, the month of Prophecy, the day of Xin Ugly, the hour of Hai [8], the rainstorm began, the heavens roared, the wind was fierce, the flood raged, the Hanhui Canal was destroyed for more than fifteen meters, the water in the canal was poured into the city, the land of Qiuzhou was in the form of Wang Yangzeguo, and the Tonggou Temple in the east of the river was rainstorm that had not been seen for many years, and disasters were everywhere. On the day of nongyin, yinshi [9], the flood surged up, the black bridge collapsed in the huge waves, the body was shattered, the body was complete, and the black bridge that had gone through eighty years of wind and rain was finally destroyed, unfortunately, it was a pity.
The destruction of the Black Bridge is due to the oldness of the bridge and the size of the water, but there are very few people who anticipate it, so there are many people who are shocked and sigh like me. Some people have said that the Black Bridge is the common memory of the people of Tonggou Temple, and what is more, the joy of childhood, the joy of youth, and the pure love of youth are all witnessed in the Black Bridge. To the west of the Black Bridge, there were once willow trees shaded, hemp willows into forests, the breeze came slowly, the leaves sounded like sand, under the aqueduct, the river met the dam to form a bay, the fish soared shallow and jumped, so there were many walking spectators, small talk anglers, singing high songs, and whispering lovers. Standing on the black bridge, you can watch the spring flowers bloom, listen to the cicadas in summer, enjoy the autumn leaves, and the warm sun in the warm winter. For decades, the same middle school students have traveled back and forth to this bridge, and they have spent three years of youth and three years of wind and rain, spring and autumn, how fortunate.
The black bridge is no longer there, the willow on the west side is also poured on the river, the scenery of the old times is almost not preserved, the old site is full of people, the thoughts are thousands, there is no ancient building in the wounded territory to compare with it, sigh there is no opportunity to see the beauty of the black bridge, but the beauty of the ancient building of the black bridge, the beauty of the scenery, will be seen in the text, keep in the heart, think, think, and survive forever.
exegesis:
[1] Its yu ..., counting more than 80 years: Regarding the age of the construction of the Black Bridge, there is no reliable data record at present, the author according to the construction date of the Hanhui Canal and visiting the surrounding masses, the construction date is roughly between 1938 and 1941, at least 80 years ago.
[2] Li Yizhi: Li Yizhi (1882-1938), a native of Pucheng County, Shaanxi Province, a famous hydraulic scientist and educator, a pioneer of modern water conservancy construction in China, and a historical water management celebrity. He personally presided over the construction of the four major Hui Canals in Jing, Wei, Luo, and Mei in Shaanxi, set up a model for modern irrigation projects in China, personally went to southern Shaanxi and northern Shaanxi to investigate, and planned the Hanhui Canal in southern Shaanxi, the Baohui Canal, and the Ding (WudingHe) Hui Canal in northern Shaanxi, making major contributions to China's water conservancy undertakings. He advocated that the management of the Yellow River should be equally important in the upper, middle, and lower reaches, and that flood prevention, shipping, irrigation, and hydropower should be taken into account, changing the water control thinking that has focused solely on the lower reaches of the Yellow River for thousands of years, and pushing forward a big step forward the theory and strategy of China's management of the Yellow River. At the same time, Mr. Li Yizhi also founded China's first water conservancy engineering institution of higher learning, Nanjing Hehai Engineering College and a number of colleges and universities, which has trained a large number of water conservancy construction talents for China.
[3] At the beginning, the master Li Yizhi went to The Restoration of the Construction of the Hanhui Canal: It refers to the fact that in 1932, Li Yizhi came to Han to inspect the water conservancy and decided again to build the Hanhui Canal. Mr. Li Yizhi first proposed the construction of the Hanhui Canal in the thirteenth year of the Republic of China (1924), when Mr. Li Yizhi was the director of the Shaanxi Provincial Water Conservancy Bureau, he sent the engineer Hu Buchuan to survey the water conservancy and began to propose a plan to build the Hanhui Canal. In the nineteenth year of the Republic of China (1930), with the support of the Hanzhong Commissioner's Office, the government used the income from the anti-smoking funds as funds, and Zhang Jiarui presided over the first dam and weir at Miaotaizi (now the Wuhou Town Center Primary School), which was intended to divert water from the Han River to irrigate the farmland around Dingjun. In the twenty-first year of the Republic of China (1932), Li Yizhi came to Han to investigate water conservancy and decided again to build the Hanhui Canal. He personally visited Wuhou Town, surveyed and selected to set up a canal head in Xigaojiaquan, Wuhou Town, build a weir dam, divert the water of the Han River, open a canal in the south and north, irrigate the farmland in The two counties of Qiu and Bao, and name it: Hanhui Canal. In the 26th year of the Republic of China (1937), the Shaanxi Provincial Water Conservancy Bureau sent a survey team to survey the terrain on the spot; in the autumn of the 27th year of the Republic of China (1938), the Jingluo Engineering Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the National Government sent a design and survey team to survey the canal line.
[4] Wang Mucheng: Wang Mucheng (1901-1951), a native of Xindeng County (now Fuyang County) in Zhejiang Province, graduated from the Kuomintang Central Police Academy. In December of the 29th year of the Republic of China (1940), he was appointed as the county magistrate of Chu County, and during his tenure, he founded the county middle school (now Mian County No. 2 Middle School) to support and promote the construction of the Hanhui Canal. In April 1949, Wang Muchang, the warden of Tilan Prison in Shanghai, deeply understood the great righteousness and vigorously cooperated with the Chinese Communist Party to rescue political prisoners, and during the rescue process, the underground party promised to ensure the safety of Wang Muchen's wealth. After liberation, Wang Mu accepted the arrangement of the Military Control Commission, worked in the Shanghai High People's Court, enjoyed the treatment of department-level cadres, and served as a public defender of the court. In the 1951 "Zhen Rebellion", Wang Mu was killed for the crime of killing Liu Caifeng as a martyr for the crime of failing to do good by someone from Shaanxi, and the Shanghai Military Control Commission Document No. 1897 characterized him as a counter-revolutionary crime. In December 1985, the Shanghai Municipal Higher People's Court clarified the facts of the case, rehabilitated it, and treated him as a "rebel defector".
[5] Baocheng County: The name of the ancient county, since the Establishment of Baozhong County in the Han Dynasty, it has gone through the process of changing the name of Baocheng County, Baozhong County, and Baonei County, and finally was designated as Baocheng County in the third year of Tang Zhenguan, and has not changed since then, on November 1, 1958, the State Council approved the abolition of Baocheng County, and its area was assigned to Hantai, Nanzheng and Mian Counties.
[6] "Rang Rang Man Family... Enrichment of people's strength": This paragraph is borrowed from the article "Monument of Han Huiqu" written by Jiang Dingwen for Han Huiqu on June 1, 1930 of the Republic of China, the original text is: "Yong Yong is full of family, Xian Le is abundant." Let the land of the high be barren, the cultivators come, and the dwellers be safe, than the households, the people are full, and the northwest corner will be profitable, is it not the best plan of the country? ”
[7] Seventy-one years of the Republic: that is, 2020. The Republic referred to in this article refers specifically to the People's Republic of China, which began with the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, and 1949 is the first year of the Republic.
[8] The Seventy-second Year of the Republic, the Month of Prophecy, the Day of the Xinugu, and the Hour of Hai: that is, between 21:00 and 23:00 on August 21, 2021.
[9] Nongyin Day, YinShi: That is, from 3:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. on August 22, 2021, according to witnesses, the time of the collapse of the Black Bridge was about 3:05 a.m. on the 22nd.
Special Note: Picture Story
The first picture comes from Mr. Zhang Yufei, in the summer of 2013, Mr. Zhang graduated from high school, after going to the Tonggou Temple community to attend the family banquet of his classmates, he passed by the Black Bridge on the way back, and saw that the picture was very idyllic, the summer breeze blew the willow trees, the children went down the canal to swim, that day he just happened to carry a SLR camera, so he took the most beautiful photo of the Black Bridge.
The second picture comes from Mr. Liu, who in the summer of 2020 went fishing with friends in the backwater bay under the Black Bridge and took several photos for the Black Bridge.
Mianxian Tonggou Temple Black Bridge | translation
A corner of the Black Bridge in the summer of 2020
The so-called black bridge, in fact, is the Hanhui Canal Aqueduct, the black bridge is 4 meters high, there are 9 holes, 10 piers, each hole span is 6 meters, the total length is more than 60 meters, the inner trough of the aqueduct is 3 meters wide, and there is a trough rock on each side, about 1 meter wide, so the width of the aqueduct is 5 meters in total. The Black Bridge was not originally a bridge, probably because his main body was blue-black, shaped like a bridge, spanning the river surface, connecting the two banks of the river, and acting as a bridge, so it was called the Black Bridge. He is located on the surface of the Waiba River in Tonggou Temple Town, experiencing floods and waves for more than 80 years.
Initially, the water conservancy master Mr. Li Yizhi went to Mian County to mention the construction of the Hanhui Canal again, and the three successive county governors of Mian County, Fu Qikai, Zhu Guoping, Wang Mucheng, and Li Geng, the county magistrate of Baocheng County, all supported it, but Mr. Li Yizhi later died of a serious illness in the 27th year of the Republic of China (1938). In December of the 27th year of the Republic of China, the Construction of the Hanhui Canal began (in fact, it was officially started in 28 years), and in the 29th year of the Republic of China, Wang Muzeng was in charge of Mian County, he attached great importance to education, continued to build water conservancy, and the Hanhui Canal was able to continue to be built, and when it was built to the Waiba River, the Hanhui Canal was blocked by the river and could not be crossed, so the aqueduct was built. In the 30th year of the Republic of China (1941), the first hub of the Hanhui Canal and the North Trunk Canal were built from the head of the canal to the outer dam river section, and in the 33rd year of the Republic of China (1943), the entire section of the Hanhui Canal was completed, and since then, in Mian County, located in the northwest corner of Mian County, the Water of the Han River has flown all the way down the aqueduct, watering tens of thousands of acres of fertile land downstream, benefiting tens of thousands of li people in the east of Mian County, this place in Mian County, the grain is abundant, all gradually rich, the peasants are happy, the people living in peace and contentment, the households are becoming more and more dense, and the population is also increasing. Mian County also gradually became rich.
When this aqueduct was just built, it was only used for water diversion and irrigation, but the people on both sides of the Waiba River often walked along the trough on both sides of the aqueduct, coming and going freely, so the name of the black bridge spread, in 2020, the Hanhui Canal Administration bureau knew the people's will, sympathetic to the people's feelings, and followed the people's hearts, and allocated funds to build a bridge deck on the aqueduct, at this time, the name of the bridge was worthy of the name.
At about 10 o'clock on August 21, 2021, Mian County began to rain heavily, for a time the heavens roared, the wind was fierce, the flood was raging, the Hanhui Canal was washed away for about fifteen meters, the water in the canal was poured into the city, the county seat of Mian County was a Wang Yang Ze country, and the Tonggou Temple in the east of Mian County, which had not been rained for many years, was plagued. At 3:05 a.m., the waiba river flooded sharply, and the black bridge collapsed in the flood waves, shattered to pieces, and the black bridge, which had gone through eighty years of wind and rain, was finally destroyed in this torrential rain, which was really a pity and a pity.
The destruction of the Black Bridge must be related to the obsolescence of the bridge and the fierceness of the flood, but no one can imagine that the Black Bridge will be washed away, so after the collapse of the Black Bridge, there are many people who sigh with consternation like me. It has been said that the Black Bridge is the common memory of people living in this place of Tonggou Temple, and even for some people, the joy of childhood, the joy of youth, and the pure feelings of youth are all witnessed in the Black Bridge, which is by no means unfounded. On the west side of the Black Bridge, there used to be a scene of willow trees, hemp willows into a forest, the breeze gently blew, the leaves were saladling, the underside of the aqueduct, the river water formed a backwater inlet because of the dam, the fish swam freely in it, and jumped out of the water from time to time, so there were many people who came to the Black Bridge to walk and watch the scenery, chat about fishing, sing and talk in secret. Standing on the Black Bridge, you can see the flowers blooming in spring, you can hear the cicadas chirping in summer, you can watch the falling leaves in autumn, and you can feel the warmth of the sun in winter. For decades, the students of Tonggou Temple Middle School have traveled back and forth to Heiqiao, experienced three years of adolescence, and spent three years of ups and downs, which is a fortunate thing.
The black bridge does not exist, even the big willow tree on the west side of the bridge has fallen in the water of the Waiba River, the old scene has hardly survived, standing next to the former site of the black bridge, with thousands of thoughts, sad is that there is no longer an ancient bridge in the territory of Tonggou Temple to compare with it, sighing is that there is no chance to see the beauty of the black bridge, but the beauty of the ancient buildings of the black bridge, the beauty of the natural scenery, will definitely be seen in the article, left in the heart, become a permanent miss.
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