Friends who like to travel, for ethnic minority areas of the wind and rain covered bridge should not be unfamiliar, because this is a very common bridge building, these covered bridges not only allow people to walk through the rivers and streams, but also for passers-by to provide shelter from the wind and rain, but also a long-distance trek over the mountains in the depths of the mountains of pedestrians resting place.
There are many famous covered bridges in China, especially those ethnic minority autonomous counties in Guizhou, almost every cottage has built a wind and rain corridor bridge, and there are many famous ones, but as far as guangxi's wind and rain corridor bridge is concerned, it has to be said that the Chengyang Yongji Bridge located in Sanjiang, Liuzhou.
Yongji Bridge is a wind and rain corridor bridge for Dong compatriots, located in Linxi Township, Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County, Guangxi, Chengyang Bazhai (Ma'an Zhai) on the banks of the Linxi River, the bridge is 96 meters long, 4 meters wide, 7 meters high, is one of the most perfect stone arch bridges preserved in Guangxi so far, is now a national key cultural relics protection unit, and was also included in the preliminary list of the state to declare the world cultural heritage to the United Nations in 1997.
Yongji Bridge is a representative covered bridge built by Dong compatriots for thousands of years, which contains super high architectural skills and wisdom. There may be friends who do not know much about the Dong people, in fact, it is a relatively large ethnic minority living in the southwest region of China, with a total population of more than 2.5 million, Dong compatriots are good at wooden structure architecture, in their Dong villages, everywhere is a strange shape, rigorous structure of the drum tower, zhai gate, stupid foot building and wind and rain bridge.
According to the staff, Yongji Bridge, also known as Chengyang Bridge or Chengyang Wind and Rain Bridge, because it is located at the entrance of Chengyang Bazhai, the bridge was built in 1912, 109 years ago, from the structure of the bridge, the bottom part of the bridge is a green stone fortress of two three piers, the pier is a six-sided column, the upstream and downstream are pointed, the water angle is 68 degrees, so the design is extremely scientific, even if it encounters the largest water, its scouring force will be quickly unloaded.
As a national key cultural protection unit and quasi-world cultural heritage, Chengyang Yongji Bridge is not only a landmark building of Chengyang Eight Villages, but also one of the landmark buildings of Sanjiang County, the villagers in the village are also full of feelings for it, often in this bridge is to hold some grand and grand welcome ceremonies, such as the above picture is Yu Fan to go to visit the situation encountered, the beautiful Dong family sister with a red rope to block the yongji Bridge, tourists into the village either drink, or sing, otherwise do not let into the village, very interesting welcome ceremony.
Yongji Bridge has a total of five bridge pavilions, and the top of these bridge pavilions and the corners of the pavilion eaves are inlaid with beautiful ornaments, or a string of "gourds" composed of several iron cans and buckles, or a lifelike auspicious bird is created with tung oil, lime and glutinous rice paste as raw materials.
According to the old man in the village, these gourds and auspicious birds have good meanings, such as a string of gourds, symbolizing the smooth wind and rain, melons and fruits, and harvest every year. And the auspicious birds are shaped like wings to fly, which is a good embellishment of the wind and rain bridge.
The length of Yongji Bridge is 77.6 meters, the width is 3.75 meters, and the height is 20 meters, and its structural technology and plastic arts form a high degree of unity. At that time, the ink masters and craftsmen did not need to draw, did not use mold making, did not use a nail and a rivet, but relied on a wooden corner ruler that the locals called "incense stick", measured and painted, and chiseled and sawn, and built a complex structure and a majestic wind and rain bridge.
At the head of the Yongji Bridge, there is a red inscription, which is said to be written by Mr. Guo Moruo, in 1965, after Mr. Guo Moruo saw the model of Cheng Yang Bridge in Beijing, he was pleasantly surprised and wrote three big characters of "Cheng Yang Bridge" and wrote a poem praising:
Yan said that the Linxi Wind and Rain Bridge, the bridge length twenty zhang four high.
The Heavy Pavilion is pleasant and skillful, and the columns flow into Wangyao.
Bamboo and wood are stronger than iron, and tea forests are thriving on new seedlings.
When to go to the Three Rivers Road, learn to plow and hoe things.
At the head of the Yongji Bridge, we saw a series of bluestone stele erected, which recorded the names of the donation workers in various villages and villages when the wind and rain bridge was built, and according to the "Chronicle of Sanjiang County": "Everyone enthusiastically competed for the first... The supply of materials does not distinguish between rich and poor, the service workers do not count the day and month, men, women and children, but the strength is exhausted, and will not be terminated by prevarication." The Dong family's love for public welfare and the spirit of unity and friendliness can be seen here.
This is the treasure of Chengyang Bazhai - Yongji Bridge, as an all-stone wooden structure across the river wind and rain bridge, not only has a long history, but also beautiful shape, exquisite production, well-preserved, perhaps it is only a matter of time before it becomes a world cultural heritage in the future, if you have the opportunity to play in Liuzhou, you can go here to see.