Zhang Shengyou

Hometown, what a warm word, the bridge of my hometown, which makes me think more about my feelings and attachment.

Whenever I return to my hometown from the noisy metropolis and step on the bridge of my hometown, the call of nostalgia and childhood memories comes to my mind. My hometown, Yongding, Fujian, adjacent to Guangdong, is the ancestral home of Hakka people. Round earth buildings are patchwork, surrounded by mountains and waters, dotted with pictures of embroidered water-two peaks stand opposite each other, with a bay of clear water and a flowing spring in the middle, surrounded by green trees; Clear water is like a beautiful lyric poem, a long bridge and an elegant ink painting. When I was a child, my friends and I played in the water by the stream and caught fish under the bridge, so a string of bamboo bridges, wooden bridges and stone bridges were woven into Haruka and colorful rainbows in our dreams. And that dream haunted me, leaving me with the most magical legend, which was nothing more than Gaopi Bridge in my hometown.

Gaobei Bridge is located between the steep slope and cliff of Yongding River (Yongding River flows into Tingjiang River, and then flows into Hanjiang River as the South China Sea), so it is named Gaobei Bridge. This is a single-hole stone covered bridge with a deck length of 100 meters, which is paved with 72 stone slabs and 36 stone pillars on both sides. The pavilion covered with blue bricks on the bridge looks like a boat covered with a canopy from a distance, or moored in the river or on the waves, which has a unique charm; There is only one arch hole in the whole bridge, half submerged and half exposed. It is more than 20 feet high and has a magnificent structure.

According to legend, a long time ago, there was only a simple wooden bridge here. On the Dragon Boat Festival that year, the flood surged, and a pregnant young woman walked to the river, and the water had overflowed the bridge deck. At that time, a group of pedestrians gathered by the river and stopped when they saw the fierce current. The young woman, eager to go home, set foot on the bridge without hesitation. When everyone saw it, they all got up the courage to follow. Every time they passed a pier, the flood washed away a section of the bridge deck. When they reached the other side, the flood just washed away the whole wooden bridge. Looking back at the flood peak, everyone was scared to death. At this moment, a flock of wild geese flew over. Their voices were loud and clear. They shouted, "Wang Daren-Wang Daren-". A scholar among the pedestrians suddenly realized and said with great joy, "Ladies and gentlemen, who is Wang?" Everyone shook their heads frequently. The scholar turned to the young woman: "Dare I ask your husband's name?" Answer: "My late husband's surname is Wang".

Hearing this, everyone bowed to the young woman and said, "Sister-in-law, congratulations, thanks to your son Hongfu today. Your son will be successful in the future! " The young woman hurriedly knelt down in return: "If there is a future, I must build a stone bridge here to thank my parents!" "

Later, the young woman gave birth to a son named Wang Jianchuan. Seeing that Sichuan has studied hard and made academic progress since childhood; Standing at the age of 30, he was admitted as a scholar of Hanlin. Year after year, the Queen Mother regards her son as a loyal and honest person, and she is also happy and worried. When she is happy, she sees that the official voice in Sichuan is getting stronger and stronger, and she lives up to expectations. Worried is that although the child has a prominent position, he has no savings; On the last day, I can only tell Jianchuan the promise I made in those years with tears in my eyes.

When Wang Hanlin learned about it, he resigned and returned to his hometown. He founded the Taiping Academy on Yongding River and the "Jigu Wenhui", recruiting disciples from all over the world and cataloguing and giving lectures. One evening, the sky collapsed and the autumn wind was blowing gently. Wang Hanlin strolled to the river and saw the broken bridge and pier standing alone in the river. He turned to his disciples and asked them, "If there is something missing in the sky, we should make up for it by refining stones. Who fills the sky? " They said, "Nu Wa's family is also!" He asked again, "there is a depression on the ground, so we have to cross the bridge." Who is the bridge builder? " Everyone was too shocked to answer. Wang Hanlin broke off a willow branch and leaned over the big book: "We gentlemen!"

As a result, the disciples gave generously and helped each other in all directions; On the Yongding River, hammers are jingling and great construction is under way. The following year, this famous Gaopi Bridge in Fujian and Guangdong was completed. On the day when Gaobei Bridge was completed, the traffic was busy and the four towns celebrated together. Wang Hanlin happily wrote a pair of couplets: "A flying rainbow man is on Qingyun Road, and half the moon is in Dangui Palace."

From then on, every year on the fifteenth day of the first month of the Lantern Festival, the villagers will gather on Gaopi Bridge to hold the Dragon Lantern Festival-double dragons playing pearls, birds flying at the phoenix, complacent, picking tea and butterflies, lions rolling hydrangeas ... to form a night world of flaming trees and silver flowers. It is said that one year a lotus lantern accidentally fell off the bridge until the Dragon Boat Festival was held for Qu Yuan. Boys and girls beat gongs and drums and held their arms high, and it just caught it when it passed through the arch hole under the bridge. These beautiful legends have entrusted the people in their hometown with a strong vision of living in harmony, studying family ties and pursuing a better life.

At the moment, I'm walking on the Gaopi Bridge, just like reading a rural classic, with graceful pictures spread out in front of me. Looking around, the rows of new buildings in the "Dangui Palace" are filled with smoke, and the rising sun paints the hometown with a crimson color, which is particularly attractive. ...

(Published on June 20 1 14, eighth edition of Camellia in Minxi Daily, edited by Liu Shaoxiong)

Bijiashan and the Twin Peaks of Literature

Liao Maowen

Yongding and Zhou belong to the land of seven Fujian provinces; Qin is a county in central Fujian; The early Han dynasty belonged to Fujian and Vietnam; The early Tang Dynasty belonged to Jin 'an County. In the fourth year of the Tang Dynasty (AD 769), Xiabao (now Yongding Lake Lei) in Longyan County set up Shanghang Field, and Yongding Land was under the jurisdiction of Shanghang Field. In the 12th year of Baoda in Southern Tang Dynasty (AD 954), he moved to Maozibao (now Gaobei Yongding) Shanghangchang. In the fifth year of Song Chunhua (AD 994), Shanghangchang was upgraded to Shanghang County, and the county was located in Bazibao (now Yongding Gaopi). In A.D. 1478, Yongding County was established and separated from Shanghang County. Today, Gaobei Ancient Post has a history of 1000 years in the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, and is a political, economic and cultural center.

Bijia Mountain is located in Gaopi, north of Yongding, where the middle peak is towering, the wing peak is arched and the three peaks are separated, just like the penholder on the ancient study case, hence the name Bijia Mountain Side. Bijiashan is highly respected by local literati because of its cultural affection and is regarded as a totem symbol of Yongding Hakka culture. Yongding won the imperial examination champion Lin Daqin because the Hakka earth building where Lin Daqin lives is far from Bijia Mountain, and Lin Daqin loves Bijia Mountain every day. In the 11th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (AD 1532), Lin Daqin appointed the champion, and the emperor allowed him to build a pagoda, commonly known as the champion pagoda. In 2006, the Champion Tower was listed as a national key cultural relic protection unit.

There is a river under Bijia Mountain called Yongding River. There is a stone arch bridge on Yongding River, called Gaopi Bridge, which was built in Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty and listed as eight scenic spots in western Fujian. According to legend, in order to raise money to repair the bridge, Su Tingxiu, a scholar, preemptively wrote a poem "Bridge Fu": "Heaven is short, stone is open; If the ground sinks, bridge it. Who is the alchemist? Nu Wa Jia also; Who is the bridge builder? The name is as follows. " Master Wang Jianchuan called it a "unique gift". It is really difficult to add or subtract a word, and life is stuck on the bridge. Jianqiao is as famous as Nu Wa, passed down from generation to generation. Whether it is a big family or passers-by, it is helpful, and the bridge can be built. On the day when Gaobei Bridge was completed, Wang Hanlin Jianchuan made a "bridge connection": "A flying rainbow, people are on Qingyun Road; Half a month, Zang Dangui Palace. " Couplets have profound meanings and depict images, which later people call "Jue". Why does a Gaobei Bridge have a "literary double peak" phenomenon? Scholars try to figure out that Gaobei Bridge is the best position overlooking Bijia Mountain, so it is a wonderful pen.

Bijia Mountain, Champion Tower and Gaopi Bridge are connected at three points to form a landscape. No wonder Yongding literati said: climb the pen and win Wenfeng. Favorite pen, pick the top scholar in Guangxi.

(Published in Minxi Daily 20 1 1 Humanities Third Edition, edited by Zhong Debiao)

A beautiful scenery in the history of bridge culture

Wang Guiyuan

At the junction of Gaobei Town and kan shi zhen in Yongding County, Fujian Province, there is an ancient stone arch bridge-Gaobei Bridge, which still stands today. At that time, the bridge was engraved with the preface to persuade people to build the bridge and the couplets after the bridge was built. For hundreds of years, this sequence has been widely recited and nurtured by Yongding Hakkas, which can be called a great spectacle in the history of bridge culture.

During the reign of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, the wise king of Yongding Township saw Chuanhanlin's mother returning from Li Jinfeng to visit relatives in Taiping. At that time, he was seven or eight months pregnant with Wang Jianchuan. On the return trip, in case of flood, the river rose to the deck of Gaobei Bridge. The Queen Mother ventured across the rickety wooden bridge. When we reached the other end of the bridge, the restless queen mother secretly vowed that she would give birth to children every day and teach my son to study hard. After winning the first prize, I will ask him to build a bridge here for the benefit of the people.

Soon, the Queen Mother gave birth to Wang Jianchuan. In the tenth year of Yongzheng (1732), Wang Jianchuan was promoted, and the following year (1733) he was a scholar. In the first year of Qianlong (1736), he took the court exam and was recorded as an academician, which made him famous for a while.

In the seventeenth year of Qianlong (1752), Wang Jianchuan gave lectures and compiled county annals at Li Taiping Cultural Museum in Gaopi. Besides giving lectures and writing records, we should also create a "Yoshitani Cultural Exchange" to help students learn substantively from the course. Seeing that Gaobei Bridge on the main road from Longyan to Yongding near the museum was in disrepair for a long time, and thinking of my mother's wishes, the reconstruction of Gaobei Bridge was initiated on the day when the county annals of 1755 (twenty years of Qianlong) were completed. Su Ting, a scholar, was impressed by Wang Jianchuan's righteous act and tried his best to help him. He wrote a preface:

There is a lack of heaven, and the stone is open; If the ground sinks, bridge it. Who is the stone refiner, the son-in-law is also; Who is the bridge builder? The name is as follows: ... (The following is the list of donors and the amount)

Passers-by, seeing this good article, all praised it for being well written, concise, pithy and powerful, and extremely literary. Can't help but give generously. Not long after, we donated 3,200 taels of silver to build a magnificent stone arch bridge-Gaopi Bridge, which is still a scenic spot in Yongding. On the day when the bridge was completed, Wang Jianchuan was excited and poetic, and wrote a couplet:

A flying rainbow, people are on Qingyun Road.

Half a month, Zang Dangui Palace.

This couplet takes the lower reaches of the river as the observation point and highly praises the height and beauty of the bridge. Ingenious conception, rigorous meter and beautiful writing. (Couplets may also contain the hope that his disciples can reach the top of the world with some magical power, make contributions and serve the country, so I won't elaborate here. )

Lin Yayun, a local scholar in the northwest, is the icing on the cake, playing the banner of "Long Bridge Yongtai", praising the stability of the bridge, which is as long as Mount Tai, and using homophonic words to point out that the address of the bridge is in Taiping Lane, Yongding, which also means peace for the country and the people. It really amazes people and admires the effect of "making the finishing point".

This perfect couplet, together with Su Xiucai's preface, complements each other and becomes a beautiful landscape in the history of Chinese bridge culture.

For more than 200 years, Yongding students have always been proud of this, inspiring themselves to keep forging ahead and make contributions to the country and hometown. Far away, take the contemporary as an example. After the founding of New China, especially after the reform and opening-up, six great writers appeared in Gaobei Town, namely: Zhang Shengyou, former member of the Party Group of the Chinese Writers Association, secretary of the Secretariat, president and editor-in-chief of the Writers Publishing House; Wen Jinhai, former editor-in-chief of Literary and Art Newspaper and director of the special issue of China Talent Magazine; Zhang Yaoqing, former director of Longyan Culture Publishing Bureau and former deputy editor-in-chief of Minxi Daily; and Chen Yanrong, a famous children's literature writer. When talking about their road to success, the six of them all said that they were more or less influenced by this Gaopi Bridge. Gaopi people have always attached importance to education, and the online rate of college entrance examination ranks first in all towns and villages in the county every year. Known as the "high education phenomenon", it has been widely studied and explored by people inside and outside the industry. I think it has something to do with this. This is exactly:

Tell a story in a hundred years.

A single joint education for future generations

(Published in Minxi Culture,No. 1 No.20 1 1, edited by Tang)