This strange landscape in Suzhou

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In Sanhuan Village, Caocun Town, Yongqiao District, at the junction of Jiangsu and Anhui, there is a strange landscape of trees and bridges on the ancient post road in Ming and Qing Dynasties, which is full of vicissitudes.

This bridge is a three-hole bridge. ?

Trees, maple trees.

According to the inscription on the bridge head, this stone bridge is called the Third Ring Bridge, which was built in the first year of Qianlong 1736 and has a history of nearly 300 years. This stone bridge spans the Lao Fei River, with a width of more than three meters and a length of about fifteen meters. There are three holes in the bridge. In the stone fence on the east side of the bridge, a tall maple tree grows. This maple tree has a diameter of about 80 cm and a height of 10 meters. It is thriving, thriving.

How is this maple fixed on the bridge?

Legend has it that Zhang rode a donkey backwards to the bridge and sat on the stone fence to rest. In the scorching sun, there was nowhere to enjoy the cool. He inserted the donkey-driving stick into a crack in the stone, blew a breath of fairy air, and the stick immediately grew into a big tree. However, legend belongs to legend. According to local villagers, Pterocarya stenoptera is rare in surrounding villages, but this kind of tree is common in Huangzangyu, the birthplace of the old Hefei River, dozens of miles away. It can be imagined that one summer more than 200 years ago, a Populus davidiana seed went down with the torrent, crossed the winding river and was washed into the crevices of the Third Ring Bridge.

And this seed settled here, took root and sprouted, and grew from a small seedling to a towering tree. ?

Poplar and stone bridge live together and coexist and prosper together. Under the care of the bridge, the tree can grow and become a bridge tree. Then, the longer the tree, the deeper its roots. It tightly surrounds the bridge with its dense roots, supports the bridge, and returns the bridge with its own life, thus forming a tree-carrying bridge.

For more than 280 years, it is only a moment in the long river of history, but trees and bridges have experienced the vicissitudes of life experienced by four or five generations. Hundreds of years of seasonal changes, the baptism of countless wars and fires, the ups and downs of the world, the rise and fall of honor and disgrace, can not change the interdependence between trees and bridges. They are connected by hand and foot, heart to heart and become an inseparable whole. Bridges and trees are not just historical sites. People admire its strangeness, but at the same time, it also shows and enlightens people.