The history of Jingning covered bridge

Jingning is a She Autonomous County, located in the southwest of Zhejiang, at the junction of Zhejiang and Fujian. Jingning now has 1 12 wooden arch, wooden flat and stone arcade bridges. There are Dachikeng Bridge, Maxianlou Bridge, Linkenglou Bridge, Hu Bridge, Dongkeng Louxia Bridge, Dida Bridge, Qingfeng Bridge, Huilong Bridge, Guangji Bridge, Guang 'anlou Bridge, Changtan Bridge, Longtan Bridge and Tongshan Bridge.

Dongkeng Town is the main covered bridge in Jingning. Up to now, there are still 12 covered bridges, 9 of which still have considerable functions. Covered bridges enjoy a high reputation in the world, but the distribution area is small and there are fewer remains. Dongkeng Town has so many "treasures of ancient bridges" that it can be called the hometown of covered bridges in China!

Dongkeng Town 12 covered bridge consists of 9 wooden arcades, including Dongkeng Upper Bridge, Dongkeng Lower Bridge, Baihe Bridge, Pingqiao, Longtan Bridge, Beixi Bridge, Solitaire Bridge, Huaisheng Bridge and Sheqiao, and 4 wooden arcades, including Xu Ying Bridge, Makeng Bridge, Shuangxi Bridge and Jilongkeng Bridge. Every covered bridge has its own anecdotes.

Dongkeng Xiaqiao was built in the 28th year of Qing Emperor Kangxi (1689). According to legend, Dongkeng suffered two disasters in history. Dongkeng was originally opened by some Ou Yue people who didn't want to move northward between Jianghuai during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and lived in groups. At the same time, Xikeng (now wencheng county), which was opened at the same time, echoed from afar, and the place names came from this. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Nong Gaozhi, a descendant of the southwest Vietnamese, led an uprising, and the remaining Ou Yue people in southern Zhejiang responded in succession. The imperial court transferred Yang Dajun from the northern border to the south for cruel repression, and Ouyue village in southern Zhejiang was killed and plundered. This is the first tragic military disaster in Dongkeng. The second major military disaster in Dongkeng was in the 15th year of Kangxi (1676). The defeated soldiers of Fujian uprising, Fan and Geng, retreated to Dongkeng, and Dongkeng was once again in ruins. /kloc-after 0/978, the court ordered Fujian and other places to immigrate. After the new residents gained a firm foothold, they jointly built a covered bridge running through Dongkeng Village, symbolizing the revival of Dongkeng. These immigrants quickly accepted Jingning's regional culture and built a large-scale temple-Ma Xian Palace. In the late Republic of China, it became the party headquarters of the Kuomintang-ruled area. 1In July, 948, the Armed Forces Department of Jingning County Committee of the Communist Party of China used Ma Xian Palace to perform in front of the gods and commanded troops and militia to attack the district office at night on the covered bridge, making Dongkeng the earliest liberated area in Jingning County. Therefore, Dongkeng Xia Qiao has important cultural value in the history of local culture and revolutionary struggle.

Dongkeng Shangqiao, also known as Guanyinge Bridge, was built in the eighth year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1869). It turns out that there is Guanyin Pavilion on the shore, and there are lotus stones between the streams in front of the pavilion. In the twenty-second year of the Republic of China, "Jingning Xuzhi" contained: "Rock fronts are like lotus flowers." People regard it as a natural cross-stream walk, often tripping over floods or rain and mudslides. To this end, local fund-raising construction has attracted many respondents. Today, there are still several lotus petal-shaped boulders left between the streams under the bridge.

The juxtaposition of the two covered bridges not only adds color to the beautiful Dongkeng Mountain, but also preserves the landmark ancient buildings showing the profound local cultural heritage for the center of Dongkeng Town.

In addition, there is the crane bridge, which is recorded in Zhejiang Tongzhi: "The bridge is forty miles south of the county seat, so it was named after the crane cluster when it was built. Long waste. " The bridge is between Baihe Village in Dongkeng Town. The village is named after the bridge. According to legend, in the early Southern Song Dynasty, Zhang Jiugong, a Taoist priest in our village, fought with He Ba, a Taoist priest, and almost drowned Baihe Village. It can be seen that this bridge was built a long time ago, but it was destroyed by floods many times. Lounge Bridge is located at the confluence of Feiyunxia (Dabaikeng) and Beixi. The bridge was built in the 16th year of Qing Daoguang (183 1) and rebuilt in the 14th year of Qing Guangxu (1888). Backed by the ancient castle peak house, Baihe Bridge faces the confluence of green water, towering old trees and spacious stone steps, such as rainbow spirit water, reflecting light with the stream.

There are several covered bridges in Dongkeng that are related to the She nationality. As mentioned earlier, there are many She fighters and militiamen in the revolutionary armed forces that attacked the office of the pseudo-Dongkeng District from Xia Qiao, leaving some touching stories of the She revolution. There is actually a covered bridge called Sheqiao in Dongkeng Town. Located in the east of Pingqiao Village, it was built in the 31st year of Kangxi (1692), rebuilt in the 12th year of Qing Daoguang and 20th year of Guangxu (1894). East-west, across Baihexi, with a total length of 37.4 meters, a width of 5 meters and a clear span of 29.2 meters. There are eight Daoguang inscriptions in Qing Dynasty on the bridge, and two piers are natural rock walls. Qing Tongzhi's "Jingning County Records" says: "It is quite contradictory to lean against the wall like a rainbow." When this bridge was first built, its official name was Yong 'an Bridge. People call it She Bridge because Pingqiao village is mostly She nationality, but its official name has been forgotten, which shows that She Bridge has a very close relationship with the local She nationality.

There are also two covered bridges in Dongkeng, which were directly built by She craftsmen. One is Longtan Bridge, built at 19, with a total length of 2 1.2m, on the covered bridge. Among the names of the bridge builders are: "Choose a day, thunder, muddy water, thunder rises." According to the older generation, choosing a day is also called choosing a gram. It's not a feng shui fortune teller, it's a craftsman's business in Lu Ban Jing, which is used to build bridges. The other is Makeng Bridge, which was built in 19 and rebuilt in the Republic of China. Among the craftsmen of the bridge corridor are: "stonemason Lei Lansheng, Lan Zhensheng." This shows that in Dongkeng, where the population of She nationality accounts for 2 1% of the whole town population, the craftsmen of She nationality are also the main builders of the covered bridge.