The gift of nature is always the most beautiful scenery. It is late autumn, walking into the town of Folding Bridge in Linxia City, the autumn scenery is intoxicating. Folding Bridge Town has a long history since ancient times, with ancient trees, strange stones and springs reflecting each other, and the flowing water of small bridges and pavilions constitute a charming picture. The most famous is the Nine Eyes Spring, the water quality is clear, the springs reflect each other, each has its own charm, accompanied by the growth of generations of people in Linxia City.
A cultural tourism town with sweet scenery. The jingle-dong flowing spring water is like the strings of Zhiyin, playing a crisp and pleasant melody. Nine Eyes Spring is located in folding bridge town folding bridge village, adjacent to the folding road, is now the forecourt of Linxia City Conference Center. It is said that these springs are all derived from the same mother spring, such as one mother and nine sons. The square stele of the "Nine Eyes Spring" erected in the courtyard in 1998 records that the Nine Eyes Spring is a famous spring on the Silk Road, and it was listed as the first spring in Hezhou as early as the Ming Jiajing era. The Ming "Chronicle of Hezhou" records: "One spring and nine eyes, gargling in the singing piano, the water is clear, the drainage irrigation, the residents rely on it." "The Nine Eyes Springs protrude from the ground, and they have nine poetic names, namely: Yangsheng Spring, Pearl Spring, Shuyu Spring, Yingxue Spring, Ganlu Spring, Mingqin Spring, Ruoli Spring, Huanhua Spring, and Mingjing Spring. Counting the history, for a long time, the water source of the spring was the main source of domestic water for local villagers.
The Nine Eyes Spring is surrounded by elm willows, green shade, birds like springs, two ancient trees, the tree circumference of about 8 meters, more than 40 meters high, 6 people hand in hand to surround this tree. These two trees were planted during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty and have a history of more than 600 years. According to legend, the Bingbu Shangshu Wang Hu recreation of the Nine Eyes Spring, personally planted willows by the spring, the local people call these two willow trees "Shangshu Willow". There is also Taihu stone standing on the side of the spring, with a peculiar shape and unique pattern, which is the product of the Quaternary glacial movement of the Cenozoic Era, because of its shape like nine dragons rising from the sky, known as "God Stone", or "Flying Stone", which is also known as the "Nine Dragon Stone", so that everyone who sees it is amazed.
Han World, a 73-year-old villager who lives in Qimu Village in Folding Bridge Town, told reporters that his family has lived here for generations and is accompanied by Guquan. For as long as he could remember, the spring water flowed day and night. Rainy weather, springs are strong, the water is flowing. During the dry season, the spring water is still flowing and clearer.
The development of cultural tourism characteristic towns, Folding Bridge Town has a unique advantage. How to strengthen the brand around the characteristic cultural resources of Folding Bridge Town, and ultimately realize that culture drives economic and social development? Since the beginning of this year, Linxia City has based on its own reality, deeply excavated the historical and cultural heritage of Folding Bridge Town, actively explored development paths, innovated work mechanisms, and continued to build a characteristic town of cultural tourism.
The construction of characteristic towns is an effective way to implement the rural revitalization development strategy and accelerate the construction of new urbanization, which plays a very important role in consolidating the support of rural industries, inheriting and upgrading excellent rural culture, and making up for the shortcomings of rural public services.
Folding bridge because of the bridge name, folding bridge in history is Hezhou (Linxia) through Dongxiang to Jincheng (Lanzhou) official road to Jincheng (Lanzhou), the Daxia River flows from southwest to northeast, in order to facilitate the connection between the two banks of the Daxia River, the Ming Dynasty built a wooden bridge on the Daxia River, named the Folding Bridge. In the old days, the scenery of the folded bridge was erected on the LiShui (Daxia River) in the east of the state, about ten meters long, eight feet wide, with stone pillars in the middle stream, the bridge was through, and the sun and moon were in the shadow of the moon, like a long rainbow, and the willows on both sides of the river were hidden, just like a picture. The ancient Yi people Zhang Zhisheng has a poetry cloud: "Jun does not see the Western Shu Long Bridge, and the high car and horse are titled Changqing." There is no Yellow River iron bridge car connection, and the reconstruction of the floating beam begins to rise. The same is true of the Folding Bridge of the Wu River, and the size is the same. The frame of the wood is dangerously obstructed by the pavilion, riding the wind and waves through the water. The ancient folding bridge is also one of the eight scenic spots in Hezhou in the Qing Dynasty, and is called "Long Bridge Lying Wave".
In addition to its long history, Folding Bridge Town is also famous for its cuisine inside and outside the province, and there are more than 100 farmhouses with different styles and unique characteristics, with stir-fried grass chicken as the basic dishes, accompanied by "four famous dishes", Dongxiang potato chips, minced meat noodles, vinegar slip cabbage, hand-torn kale, as well as a variety of original farmhouse meals such as rice, oil aroma, hair noodle sausage, etc. The dishes are highly sought after by diners with their colours and aromas. Folding bridge stir-fried chicken fat without fat, spices seep into the meat, eat full of crispy flavor. The drink is mainly a bowl of tea, with the "Nine Eyes Spring" spring water brewed. Diners sit around the farm yard, or sit on the earthen kang, or lie in the shade of the trees, eating stir-fried chicken, tasting bowls of tea, enjoying the pastoral scenery, and have a taste in their hearts.