The bridge of the West Lake is not too long, and its shape is nothing special, but it happens to be in the middle of the French phoenix tree that has grown along the lake for a certain year, and it looks particularly comfortable. West Cold Bridge is no exception.
There is a large lawn on the north side of Gouhu Lake, where it meets Beishan Road. In the afternoon of winter, many people sit on the grass exposed to the sun and play cards and drink tea. Through the west cold seal society with a big seal at the door, we arrived at the west cold bridge.
One spring day about 1500 years ago, a graceful woman sat on an oil-walled car and gently lifted the curtain on the car, or there was no curtain at all. Then she saw a handsome son riding a green horse. In this way, love happened on the edge of the weeping willow lake.
The west oblique sunlight swept across the wide water surface and shone into the wooden pavilion at the west cold bridge. Far away, I saw a female tour guide gesturing at the edge of the exhibition hall, next to a tourism team of more than a dozen people. I didn't want to go near, but I finished explaining. I can only sit alone in the pavilion and watch the West Lake, and then imagine such a possible scene.
Su Xiaoxiao, a sugar man from Nanqi, is smart and beautiful. Although he is a geisha, he knows how to love himself. This is a brief evaluation of her by someone who has lived for more than 65,438+0,500 years and used sightseeing trams instead of oil tankers and green horses, and it is engraved on the stone tablet beside the pavilion.
According to normal people's view, the death of parents since childhood without a daughter's home with brothers and sisters, coupled with low social status, seems to determine that Su Xiaoxiao can't live a normal life, let alone love.
However, in the world of the West Lake, Su Xiaoxiao is a maverick and lives so enthusiastically. Like the arrival of love in a dream, she met it when she was in go on road trip by the West Lake.
"I take an oil tanker and I ride a green horse. Where is the knot, the west is under the pine and cypress. " This song "Qiantang Su Xiaoxiao Song", which began to spread in Nanchen of the Six Dynasties, is about Su Xiaoxiao's first love. An accidental Lu Yu introduced her to Ruan Yu, the son of a visiting official, and then they lived in Su Xiaoxiao's house near Xiling Bridge.
However, sweet dreams are easy to wake up. This love ended half a year later, and Ruan Yu, who was recruited back to Jinling by strict father, never came back. However, Su Xiaoxiao didn't feel too sad. The mountains and lakes of the West Lake are the best places for her to remove obstacles in her heart.
It was the second man she met near the West Lake who built Su Xiaoxiao's grave. He used to be a down-and-out scholar, Bao Ren. Later, she donated several hundred taels of silver so that he could go to Beijing to take the exam. However, the same goes like a yellow crane. Su Xiaoxiao was still riding a tanker, wandering in the mountains and rivers of the West Lake, until one day he felt cold unexpectedly and died at the most youthful age of 22. At this time, Bao Ren, who had already made a slip state secretariat, suddenly appeared and cried, and then chose a place to build a tomb by Xiling Bridge.
Su Xiaoxiao's pity is that she sees through the ups and downs of fate and treats the lost love as naturally as the wind and the moon in the sky, instead of paying too much attention to it. In addition, her virtue of discerning talents, helping the world and helping the poor has naturally been praised by 1000 years of literati. Even, hundreds of years after her death, there was a man named Sima Cai Zhong in the Song Dynasty who dreamed that Su Xiaoxiao was singing for him in Luoyang. Finally, he was infatuated with the West Lake for a long time.
Later generations built a "Wooden Pavilion" for Su Xiaoxiao by the West Lake. Now, on one side of Xiqiao Bridge, there is a couplet that reads: "The Tiger Mountain once buried jade, and the romantic can cast gold." This beautiful scenery of lakes and mountains is an excellent match, and it is also the best commemoration of this charming and kind beauty.
Today, people put the monument of Liang Shanbo Zhu Yingtai who died in "Becoming a Butterfly" on Wansongling in the southeast of West Lake. It is said that Liang Zhu's three-year classmate built a study room for Liang Zhu in Song Wan Academy, on the ridge of Song Wan overlooking the West Lake.
If Zhu Liang really studies in Song Wan College, that's good. Because when you go to the newly-built academy today, the statues scattered on both sides from the mountain gate are all teachers who have taught in this academy or influenced it: Zhang Zai, who advocates "creating a new sage's sutra without notes, and creating a new world without modern methods", Cheng Hao Cheng Yi brothers who advocate "knowing and doing first", Yuan Mei who advocates "natural nature" and is proficient in cooking, and the Southern Song Dynasty.
However, under the discipline of these famous teachers, when did the love between Zhu Yingtai and Liang Shanbo come into being? Is it the night when the moon is bright, or the day when the sand beach is covered with smoke? Liang Zhu's reading room in Song Wan Academy is located in Yuxiuge. In an independent yard, there is a big stone that says "Independent Stone Zhuoer". On the first floor, there is a statue of Liang Zhu to read in the cold window.
Not far from the courtyard, there is also a newly-built double-illuminated well, the original site of which is in the city, which is one of the scenes in the 18th period. At this time, Yingtai pointed to the reflection in the well and said to Shanbo: A man and a woman are laughing. Still in the dark, the mountain man was annoyed and said, how can you compare me to a woman? !
Walking from Wansongling to the West Lake, I found the long bridge that Liang Zhu gave me, but it was only a short section along the lake. Nowadays, it has become a part of the road, full of traffic. If there is no guidance, it is really difficult to identify. On the contrary, not far from Changqiao, near the West Lake in Changqiao Park, a two-hole double-cast bridge was newly built, which is said to be built to commemorate another pair of young women who jumped into the lake in the Southern Song Dynasty, Tao Shier and scholar Wang.
In the eyes of many people, smooth sailing is the best, but it is not thrilling and always makes people feel sorry. The romance and ultimate beauty of love lies in the difficulties and obstacles in the middle. It seems impossible for two people to be together because of family background, birth and secular pressure. But when all the obstacles are cleared, lovers who have gone through hardships will eventually get married, so love will be sweeter.
However, things are not all as people wish. In real love, lovers are often bound by more factors in reality and finally have to work hard. Such things have existed since ancient times and abound. Therefore, if Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai's butterfly is sad and romantic, it is extreme to "open two new hibiscus" in the lake under the double butterfly bridge. Today, people who cross the long bridge and the double throw bridge can think that love needs courage, but when obstacles appear, they should let love continue in this life.
The broken bridge is only a few hundred meters long. It is a single-hole ring bridge, located at the northeast end of Bai Causeway, with one end next to Beishan Road, and the scenic Baoshi Mountain is just across the road. From here, go southwest along Bai Causeway, and you can also reach the lonely mountain with the strongest cultural meaning in the whole West Lake. This bridge, named after the Tang Dynasty, has never been broken. It is the place where the white snake met Xu Xian in the legend of the white snake.
Those couples come and go like running water. On the broken bridge, I saw several students in school uniforms, holding hands and humming "999 Roses" in unison, heading for Bai Causeway.
The broken bridge across the middle of the water is separated by lakes on both sides. The west lake in the south has a wide water surface, and the silhouette of the bustling city can be seen everywhere on the far shore. The narrow water surface of Beili Lake in the north reflects a series of hills and trees on the edge of the lake embankment. There are many people standing in the middle of the bridge taking pictures. If the weather is clear and the angle is chosen properly, then in the photo taken on the north side, there are likely to be two towers, one standing on the top of the mountain, the other upside down on the mirror-like water, and two rows of similar French phoenix trees in the middle.
On the east side of the bridge near Beihu Lake, there is an imperial tablet pavilion, a pavilion near the water, and a stone tablet with the words "Broken Bridge and Residual Snow" stands in the middle. Under the waterside pavilion, there are dozens of acres of lotus ponds in the lake near Beishan Road. Unfortunately, at this time, the lotus leaf has long since disappeared, and the branches that once stood upright have also declined. On three ships, several workers are using bamboo poles to salvage these broken branches and leaves.
"Broken bridge and residual snow" is one of the top ten old scenes of the West Lake, but it is obviously impossible to see the snow scene of the West Lake, which is most admired by the ancients. Sitting in the waterside pavilion at the eastern end of the broken bridge, I opened the West Lake Dream written by Zhang Dai, a scholar in the late Ming Dynasty. There is such a classic description: "The sky and clouds, mountains and water are all white. The shadow on the lake is only the trace of the long embankment. There is a small pavilion in the middle of the lake and a mustard tuber on board. There are only two or three people on board. " It can be roughly imagined that there were only two or three things in the world on the West Lake hundreds of years ago, and a sense of loneliness arose.
I don't think it was in winter that White Snake and Xu Xian met in youth. At least, in the legend about them, there is a very important love prop-umbrella, and it is in this process of borrowing and returning that an earth-shattering love is brought out. More appropriate, it should be in the pink spring or the summer when the lotus flowers reflect the sun, at least in the season when everything is happy and exciting, the feelings will be warmer than usual. Otherwise, even if the white snake turned into a beautiful woman, in ancient times when the ethical code was strict, people, at least in Xu Xian, were intimidated by taboo laws such as giving and receiving by men and women and not kissing.
In the feudal society with strict patriarchal clan system, the love between Bai Niangzi and Xu Xian is an impossible task, not to mention the Fahai representing feudal law. People in those days, because of this, how much love sprouted in their hearts can only make it disappear in the afterglow of their eyes.
But for thousands of years, people's desire for love has always been the same, and no amount of sticks and shackles can stop the disillusionment of love. However, due to the historical limitations of narrative, we can only see people's respect for love and desire to maintain beauty from the legends of White Snake and Xu Xian, as well as the stories and dramas that spread around the world later.
So, there is such a version. It is said that people who visit the West Lake always take a brick from the bottom of the tower because they hate Fahai and want to save the white snake who dares to love and do. After many years, it finally led to the collapse of Leifeng Tower, a symbol of feudal oppression.
Standing on today's broken bridge, looking to the southwest of the lake, a towering pagoda is higher than a row of hills on the edge of the West Lake. This is the newly built Leifeng Pagoda today. Standing on it, you can have a panoramic view of the West Lake.