Last time, when it comes to the Hushu April 8th Temple Fair, the former grand, can cross Lingshun North Road and Lingshun South Road, 2 kilometers of liveliness and strangeness, so far people are reminiscent of all kinds. What truncates Lingshun Road into one north and one south is the Lingshun Bridge, a man-made traffic structure grafted on the section of the Qinhuai River.
Talking about the origin of Lingshun Bridge, there is a legend that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was a rich merchant Lin Shun, who was eager for justice and righteousness, donated silver and thousands of taels, and built a five-hole Su-style bluestone arch bridge at the most prosperous main ferry port in Hushu Ancient Town, this bridge is "Lingshun Bridge", there is a stone gate in the south of the bridge, and the four characters of "Qinhuai Ancient Ferry" are engraved on the forehead. "Qinhuai Ancient Ferry", that is, one of the eight scenic spots of the lake, "the Red Mountains are towering and the Huai River is long, and the willow wind on both sides of the river is cool." A thousand ships have come from afar in the old age, waiting for the rise and fall of the ferry. ”
The book "Hushu Street Chronicle" (compiled by the Hushu Street Chronicle Compilation Committee in Jiangning District) records the story of "Lin Shun's Righteous Construction of Bridges".
It is said that at that time, Lin Shun was in the Yueyang Lou Tea House to discuss the construction of the bridge with everyone, and the land protection material Dedou, who served as the director of bridge construction three years ago, heard about this matter and even put forward two harsh requirements: First, the circle around the lake was ten kilometers, and it was not allowed to dig a shovel of soil and mine a stone; second, the bricks used for bridge building, and the stones were not allowed to go from the ground.
The Material Virtue Dou people gave the nickname "Material Bean Essence", for the sake of building bridges, they only collected money and did not do things, and they did not despise the people. He would also sneak around and pat horses, and at the end of the year asked his son to send two baskets of small grinding sesame oil to the county taiye mansion. When the county grand master saw the superficial article, he was not very happy, and then he was pleasantly surprised to find that there were three thousand taels of silver hidden in the oil, and immediately said that he would report it to the imperial court.
With such confidence, "material bean essence" is of course more powerful and blessed, and does not look at Lin Shun'er and so on in the eyes. And Lin Shun, although he is a trader, is also an iron man who eats soft and not hard, and in the face of the rogue and tyranny of the "material bean essence", he counts his heart.
The lake can not move, then go to Suzhou to buy, Tianzi stone, small city bricks, land is not allowed to go, then water transport. Everyone agreed that in February, the dragon raised his head to raise money and raise grain, in March Yangchun stone materials were delivered to the ship, in early April, the goods arrived at the ground, the construction began on the eighth day, and the Ninth Yang festival bridge passed in early September. The boat passed under the bridge and the horse walked up the bridge.
In the blink of an eye, two months passed, and there was no movement on the banks of the Qinhuai River. "Material bean essence" is secretly happy, drinking yellow soup at home to celebrate. Who knows, on the eighth day of the first month of April, the chickens did not crow, the sky was not bright, and the people on the banks of the Qinhuai River were crying happily. "Material bean essence" rushed out of the house to see that the stones on both sides of the Qinhuai River were made of mountains, people carried stones, horses dragged wood, and people came and went, without any chaos. The "Material Bean Essence" surged with qi and blood, and the white eyeballs rolled over, and "Grunt" fell to the ground with a bang. The wife and child panicked treatment, raised the leg of the leg, supported the head, and forcefully poured a bowl of ginger soup to save the "material bean essence". Since then, a good sad urge, "material bean essence" has been "half crazy", the mouth is crooked, it is the norm of drinking water and talking.
Lin Shunzhidou's "material bean essence" paragraph is ridiculous, and it is difficult to read it back and forth several times.
The thousand-year-old Hushu Ancient Town, as the key to water and land transportation in the southeast of Nanjing, the Ningli Highway and the Qinhuai River intersect the town, Lin Shun did not build a bridge on the river before, and pedestrians rely on ferries, which is also rare. Only the ferry port has no bridge, and there are poems as evidence - Shi Jin's "Liangtai Liu Yong Ye Du HengZhou" Yun: "The desert river flows between the blue sky, and the fishing houses in yancun are broken." The lonely boat has no one to cross the day, and the long reed flower is shallow water.