Pan Lin has a long history. Although it was established late, the village was formed earlier. As early as the late primitive society, our ancestors worked hard here. During the Northern Song Dynasty, the population here gradually increased and the economy was developed, so there was a saying that "Jieyang County should not be set up, and bamboo should be surrounded first". Most of the ancestors of the existing residents settled here in the late Southern Song Dynasty, early Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. In the eighth year of Southern Song Dynasty (1 138), Pan Lin was under the jurisdiction of Jieyang County. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was under the jurisdiction of Lintiandu Jiaolong Bureau and Panxidu Zhongyue Bureau of Jieyang County. During the Republic of China, it belonged to Jiaolong Township, the third district of Jieyang County, and Pangui Township, the first district (once the eighth district).

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it belonged to Panxi District. In July, 1950 was incorporated into the jurisdiction of Panling District; 195 1 May, 2008, it was placed under the jurisdiction of Panxi District (later renamed as District 9 and District 8); June 1957: Withdraw the district and build the township; 1June, 958, incorporated into the jurisdiction of Panxi Town; In the same winter. 1September, 959, split into Panxi People's Commune, 196 1 Spring, and split into Pan Lin People's Commune again. /kloc-in the winter of 0/983, the abandoned commune system was renamed as Panlin District Office. 199 1 65438+February, Jiedong County was established, belonging to Jiedong County. On March 20 13, Jiedong withdrew from the county building area, which is the current organizational system. For hundreds of years, we have gone through many vicissitudes and changes, and our ancestors have made great efforts to govern, leaving us precious material and cultural wealth.

Pan Lin is a waterway traffic fortress, and it has been one of the military sites in Jieyang since ancient times. At the same time, the soil around Linpanxi Port is fertile, rich in products, prosperous in culture and numerous overseas Chinese. It is known as "Land of Fish and Rice", "Land of Culture", "Land of Overseas Chinese" and "Land of Dragon Boat". Businessmen of past dynasties developed and humanities flourished. In modern times, there were Liu Changchao, a famous painter in Chaoshan, China, Liu Feng, the first secretary of Shantou Special Zone, and Chen Zhuohao, the "plastic king" of Thailand. Cultural relics include Guilin Grand Ancestral Hall, Jiangjundi, Xilong Tianhou Ancient Temple and Guilin Revolutionary Martyrs Monument, which can be described as "outstanding people". Deqiao, formerly known as Zhu Qiao, is located on the Zhu Qiao River at the junction of Pan Lin Town and Guangdong Town, Lancheng District, Jieyang City, Guangdong Province. Built in the Song Dynasty, it is an ancient bridge recorded in Chaoshan historical books.

In the eighth year of Shaoxing in Song Dynasty (1 138), it was relocated to Jieyang County. Two years later, it was located in Yujiao Village (later renamed Rongcheng). At that time, in order to facilitate external traffic, Yi Xi Road was built, and it passed through today's Pandong, Yuecheng, Pan Lin, Puzhai, Tangkeng and Feng Liang (all of which belong to Jieyang) areas to Meizhou. Twenty miles out of the city, there is a big crossing, and people walk on the bamboo bridge to facilitate pedestrians and horses and chariots. Moreover, after the bamboo frame decays, it is easy to be Chinese fir. In the third year of Song Xianchun (1267), it was rebuilt as a three-hole stone bridge, and the bridge site is about 100 meters north of this bridge. The scale of this stone bridge is not recorded in detail in the old annals. The Shenpu Bridge in the upper reaches (built in the sixth year of Song and Yuan Dynasties, namely 109 1) is five feet long and nine feet wide, and the bamboo bridge is the main traffic artery, so its scale is naturally larger than that of Shenpu Bridge. Because this bridge was originally built of bamboo, it was named "Bamboo Bridge". The river under the bridge was called Xiagoutou in ancient times. Because of the bamboo bridge, it is gradually called Zhu Qiao River or Zhu Qiao Port.

In the Song Dynasty, the Zhu Qiao River was still relatively narrow. Later, with the increase of flood diversion of the North River, the river surface expanded. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the stone bridge finally collapsed because of the bank collapse. In the ninth year of Jiajing (1530), the villagers led a flood to rebuild and were soon washed away by the river. In the fifth year of Wanli (1577), rural Zheng advocated public construction again. This time, the local people renamed the bamboo bridge "Deqiao" to commemorate the people who donated money to build the bridge many times.

In the 11th year of Chongzhen (1638), hundreds of bandits looted Deqiao village, and then the Ninth Army assembled in Nantangshan. In the war, the bridge was demolished (the stump still exists). Since then, this place has been attacked by another river. The bridge site is easily a ferry-Deqiaodu, which lasted for more than 320 years. However, during this long time, the local people's action of raising funds to build bridges has never stopped.

During the reign of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty, there was a squire named Chen in Deqiao Village. Seeing that the bridge was in disrepair and the traffic was blocked, he was very unhappy, so he stepped forward to raise funds and plan to build the bridge. However, Jieyang has just emerged from the war and people's lives are extremely difficult. He raised funds for a long time, but failed to raise the funds needed to build the bridge. Finally, we had to build a rain pavilion in the field west of the ferry to shelter people from the wind and rain. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, squire Qu and Deqiao Chen Rongfa also jointly took the lead in raising funds to build the bridge, but they still couldn't get the money together. Finally, a heavy rain pavilion was built in Watou. During the Republic of China, some people in Yongning Township also sprouted the idea of rebuilding Deqiao, but it didn't succeed. They just arranged the ferry steps and other supporting facilities on both sides of Deqiao Ferry and Guantiandu.

Shortly after liberation, the people's government began to build a highway from Jieyang to Hepo. Deqiao was finally reborn after more than three centuries of silence. 1953, the local garrison built a highway bridge with Chinese fir structure at Deqiao Ferry where the highway passed. Because the west side of the bridge was Debei Township in Panxi District at that time, the bridge was also called Debei Bridge. Because wooden bridges can't meet the needs of modern transportation. 1962, a stone arch bridge with a length of 67 meters and a width of 8.5 meters was rebuilt by the county transportation bureau, and it was completed and opened to traffic the following year. After Jieyang was removed from the county and set up as a city, in order to cooperate with urban construction and local development, He Jie Highway was expanded to 15m subgrade and 12m cement pavement secondary provincial highway. At the same time, a reinforced concrete and cement bridge with the same span and width was built on the south side of Deqiao with funds from the superior, which made the vehicle pass and made the Deqiao more magnificent.

Deqiao is an ancient bridge with a long history, which has experienced thousands of years of vicissitudes since its completion. Its repeated rise and fall is a reflection of social development, changes of the times, the advantages and disadvantages of political system and the level of folk customs in various periods.