Located at the northern end of the intersection of Xiuzhou North Road and North Huancheng Road in Jiaxing District, Xiucheng Bridge was built by Shen Min, a bamboo forest in the early years of Jingtai in the Ming Dynasty. The bridge on its west side is: "The emperor's road is long, and the water conservancy is prosperous; the imperial □ (road) is consolidated, and the happy people will become a beam." A commoner, not a palace, why should he "linger", "imperial road", "consolidation", "imperial road"? There is also a poignant history. Shen Min had four sons, and later added a little girl, which she liked very much. After the little girl grew up, she personally chose a son-in-law for her beloved daughter and fell in love with her son-in-law Yu Shan. Yu Shan (1399~1457), Zi Jizhi, Meizhuang. Silk water people. In the twenty-first year of Ming Yongle (1423), he was raised to the rank of Kunshan. The fifth year of orthodoxy (1440) was read by the palace of the Emperor. In the fourteenth year (1449), on the eleventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the Northern Wattle Army invaded Datong, and Emperor Yingzong Zhu Qi ordered a personal conquest. On August 14, the Imperial Division stationed at Tumu Fort was surrounded by tile thorns. On the fifteenth day, the imperial division collapsed, killing hundreds of thousands of people. On the seventeenth day, the capital was shocked. On the eighteenth day, the empress dowager ordered Zhu Qiyu the Prince of Qi to oversee the country. On the sixth day of the first month of September, the king ascended the throne as Emperor Daizong. Emperor Yaozun was made Emperor Taishang. Next year is set for the first year of Jingtai. After the ascension of the King of Hao to the throne, yu Shan, his former companion, was promoted to the position of Shaoqing of Hongxu Temple. Soon after, he was promoted to the right of the official department and the lecturer of the feast, and turned to the left waiter. If they want to enter the cabinet and then want to ascend to the throne, they will not resign. At the beginning of Jingtai, Yu Shan sang Zhang Li praise to welcome the return of Emperor Yingzong, but did not listen. He also advised Emperor Jing not to change his position to crown prince, but he did not listen. It is a matter of retreating and worrying: "The calamity has begun from this point!" That is, to lead to the wind disease. After returning to his hometown, Yu Shan was still worried: once Yingzong returned, it was inevitable that a catastrophe would come! If you don't get it right, you still have to plant an old man who has been in his eighties for a long time. Only by doing good deeds and accumulating virtue, and by keeping the road of emperors from being smooth, can we avoid disasters and eliminate disasters. Therefore, the Yu and Shen families, in the name of the elder Shen Min (yu shan's parents died at that time), came out to relieve hunger, donated funds to build temples, and built bridges and wells. All kinds of good deeds made the Yu and Shen families seek peace in fear. Yu Shan Gong poems, good books, also fine ink plum. With the help of poetry, calligraphy and painting, it has been seven or eight years. He is the author of "Meizhuang Collection". In the first month of the ninth year of Jingtai (1457), Emperor Yingzong made a comeback in the change of the gate and changed the year to the first year of Tianshun (1457). Emperor Daizong starved to death. Also on the ninth day of October of this year, Yu Shan also died of a long illness and returned to Daoshan. The imperial court traced down, and the two chapters after Yu Shan became the official of Lang were not unfavorable to Emperor Yingzong. And Yu Shan had already passed away, so he would no longer pursue it. Nowadays, most of the good deeds of the Shen and Yu families have disappeared, leaving only the Xiucheng Bridge for posterity to watch or walk, and the strange bridge on the west side of it tells people that the feudal era was a danger for officials and a difficulty for subjects.
Source: Canal Jiaxing
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