1, Naihe Bridge
Legend has it that there is a road called the Yellow Springs Road, there is a river called the River of Forgetfulness, on which there is a bridge called Naihe Bridge. Walking across the bridge there is an earthen platform called Wangxiangtai, Wangxiangtai side of an old woman named Meng in the sale of Mengbo soup, forgetting the river there is a stone called the three stone, Mengbo soup makes you forget everything, the three stone records of your past life and present life. We walked across the Naiho Bridge, on the lookout platform to see the last glimpse of the earth, drink a cup of water boiled in the River of Forgetfulness, "this life has a destiny but not share" and why force it?
This bridge is the boundary, start a new reincarnation. Green stone bridge surface, five compartment steps, west of the bridge for women, east of the bridge for men, left yin, right yang. "Whoever dies at the age of ninety-seven will wait for three years on the Naho Bridge." A thousand years of looking back, a hundred years of agreement. Perhaps the couple's love affair in this life began in this, and the grace is broken here.
Thousands of feet under the Bridge of Naho, clouds and mist, waiting for the next life is what road, who does not know. The promise of the next life, just a follow-up to this life, drank Mengbo soup, has forgotten all, the meeting in the next life, just a kind of re-start. The bridge of Naihe, Naihe the parting of the previous life, Naihe the meeting in this life, helpless to meet again in the next life.
2, Zhaozhou Bridge
Legend has it that the gods of the sky have one hundred single eight generals, seventy-two earthly fury, thirty-six heavenly deities, twenty-eight stars, nine star king, six ding six armor. This myth and legend on the construction of Zhaozhou Bridge conception played a certain role in inspiration, laid the ideological basis for the creation of the design, our ancestors, clever craftsmen, is on the basis of this idea, bold vision, clever conception;
Make full use of the experience of the previous generation and myths and legends, melting them into the bridge construction. First, it is our country in the ancient science of the celestial trunk and earth as the bridge of the overall shape of the structure to design, that is, the Taiji and instrument, two instrument into four elephants, four elephants into eight trigrams. The bridge body for the Taiji, the two ends of the two instruments.
Four small arches for the four elephants. Second, and the legendary gods of the heavens and the bridge components, so that the experience of science and myths and legends into one. Created a deified image of Zhaozhou Bridge.
For example: twenty-eight arches for the twenty-eight stars, seventy-two arches of each circle for the seventy-two arches of the seventy-two earth, which are under the bridge to support the bottom of the bridge. Nine iron beams are the Nine Stars, and six hooked stones are the Six Dings and Six Armors, which protect the bridge.
One hundred and eight Yangtian stone is one hundred and eight generals, guarding both sides of the bridge. Thirty-six railings are thirty-six heavenly deities, guarding the bridge. Each heavenly deity components in the Taiji, two instruments, four elephants, eight trigrams within the structure of the layout, divided into troops to guard, close collaboration, each do their best.
This ingenious design, drawing on, using, combining myths and legends, to the virtual with the real, the combination of the real and virtual, so that the influence of this myth, in the bridge design and construction of the role played in the subtle. This is a great invention of our craftsmen. As a result of this clever combination, so that the image of God penetrated into the structure of the bridge, and the structure of the bridge to the image of God to reflect, the bridge became the embodiment of the gods - the deification of the Zhaozhou Bridge.
3, Luoyang Bridge
It is reported that, in ancient times, the Luoyang River winds and waves, the people on both sides of the river often encountered danger, but here is Guangdong, Fujian into the capital of the road, the ferry has become the only way of passage, people in order to pray for a safe transition, the ferry known as the "Wanandu", the back of the bridge, also known as the "Wanan Bridge".
Because of war and natural disasters in the late Tang Dynasty, a large number of people from Henan and Luoyang, the ancient capital of Luoyang, moved south to Quanzhou, Fujian Province, where people from the Central Plains brought advanced and developed agricultural technology and experience to guide the local people in the reclamation and development of agriculture, and when they saw that the mountains and rivers and the terrain of this place were very similar to the ancient capital of Luoyang, they named this place Luoyang, and so there were the Luoyang River and the Luoyang Bridge.
4, the bridge legend story: the legendary story of the Xianggong Bridge
Hu Xi --- a tributary of the end of the En River east of Jishui County. Tiger Creek originates in the Qingyuan District, rich beach town of Gu Fu village north. As early as the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, a stone arch bridge was built over this small river, named Xianggong Bridge. This bridge was in ancient times a necessary route from Jishui County town to Shuinan, Baisha, Shaxi, Dongguo, and even up to Xingguo and Ganzhou.
About Xianggong Bridge, there is a true local legend: there is an official road to the north of Gu Fu, and passers-by have to pass through it. During the Southern Song Dynasty, a talented scholar rode on the official road to Beijing to catch the examination, the scholar hesitant, anxious to hurry, early in the morning came to this Tiger Creek's simple bridge, horse on the bridge, due to the original bridge is in disrepair, dilapidated, the horse traveled to the middle of the section, a foot in the loose stones.
Losing his footing, he fell with his horse into the stream underneath the bridge at a depth of about ten feet. The bottom of the stream was rocky, and Sang-gong hit the rocks hard and died. The villagers were saddened by the news. In order to prevent such a tragedy from happening again, the villagers resolved to build a stone bridge here. But at that time, the construction of a stone bridge is the need for a large sum of money, the villagers are really poor, despite all the money, but still far from enough.
However, the lesson of blood, so that the people of Gufu Village, the original intention of building bridges do not change. The people are united, the mountains move, Gu Fu villagers hard to tighten their belts and save for several years, before the stone bridge was built.
In order to honor the promising candidate, people named the bridge Xianggong Bridge. Soon after, they built a temple to the west of the bridge to commemorate the man who was not meant to be, which was the fulfillment of the village people's wish.
5, the bridge legend story: the legendary story of Anyang Bridge
Anyang River on the oldest existing bridge, and other places like people, Anyang people call this bridge Anyang Bridge. Speaking of the age of this bridge, although it is not as historic as Zhaozhou Bridge, it has also survived the vicissitudes of the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, and weathered the storms from the Republic of China to the present.
Then this bridge is who built it? Folklore, of course, since it is a legend, that behind this must stand a big man, who is the big man in this legend? Not someone else, it is a generation of legend, realized from the monk to the emperor this almost impossible task of Zhu Yuanzhang.
That is to say, when Zhu Yuanzhang rose up against the Yuan, in the millions of battles, this time, he was defeated by the Yuan army, a defeat to the Anyang River. But what made Zhu Yuanzhang incredibly sad was that there was not a single boat on the Anyang River, it was the critical moment when there were pursuers in front and blockades in the back, what to do? Anyang old man said, don't panic, Zhu Yuanzhang is who ah? That is the emperor, the real dragon son, which can not say no on it.
Said when it was too late, the despair of the future emperor Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly saw the river appeared a big whale, the whale in the end how big it? We have never seen it. Anyway, it was Zhu Yuanzhang who took his troops, boarded the whale's back and passed through the Anyang River without any problems, so you can tell how big that fish was. What's even more amazing is that when the Yuan army arrived, the whale evaporated in the twinkling of an eye, just as it had appeared.
After getting out of danger, Zhu Yuanzhang secretly made up his mind that if he won the world in the future, he must build a bridge like the whale over the Anyang River. The big man is a man of his word. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang really became the emperor, and really had a bridge like a whale erected over the Anyang River, which is the Anyang Bridge.
Because the back of the Anyang Bridge is a bit like a whale's back, so, standing on the Anyang Bridge to see the scenery, it is known as the whale's back to watch the waves, which has also become a famous sight in Anyang.