Spring Lantern Festival is worth a thousand pieces of gold. Lantern Festival, another Wuchuan people carnival fire trees and silver flowers all night long.
Every lunar new year 15th night, stepping on the night, tourists pour out of the city, crowded to the flower bridge. The Flower Bridge is decorated by the people of Dihai Village, Meilu Township, Wuchuan City. They decorated a bridge on the Meijiang River with flowers and lights, the bridge dragon flying phoenix, realistic and moving. From a distance, as if a fire dragon out of the water, across the Meijiang River, magnificent, incomparable spectacular. Approaching the flower bridge, both sides of the bridge, flowers, poetry and painting hanging high, colorful lights, reflecting the water, let people appreciate, with people associated. Flower Bridge and clay sculpture, floating color, known as Meilu Lantern "three great", many times by Guangdong TV screen, reputation inside and outside.
"On the 15th night of the first lunar month, walk on the Flower Bridge and buy a white flower to give birth to a child." This custom of Wuchuan people has a long history. Nowadays, not only the people of Wuchuan tour Huaqiao, lanterns, more and more foreigners also rushed to Wuchuan to see the flavor, but also a lot of foreign guests also came to the name, which gives the ancient town of western Guangdong - Meilu add a lot of color.
Second, the flower bridge spectacle
Traditional flower bridge, are located in Wuchuan City, Meilu town on the sea bridge. Due to the terrain location restrictions, the narrow streets and alleys of the old town, can not accommodate the influx of people. People want to walk on the bridge, often have to wait in a kilometer-long queue, crowded, causing inconvenience to visitors and managers. This year is the first year of the twenty-first century, last year is the people of Wuchuan harvest year. Wuchuan people's enthusiasm is very high, Wuchuan Municipal Government also attaches great importance to, therefore, this year's Lantern Festival than in any previous year to make a grand. In order to reduce the pressure of crowded, easy to dredge the management, this year the municipal government in the Jiangxindao Bridge set up a new flower bridge, the tour of the flower bridge and the Jiangxindao Paradise dissolved into a rest. People swim across the flower bridge, you can go to Jiangxindao paradise to play a painful, taste all the Wuchuan flavor snacks.
Traditional customs to be changed, the flower bridge from the Meijiang River to the Jianjiang River, the sea village people do not agree ah. So, the people of the village decided to raise funds themselves and built a traditional flower bridge on the old site of the traditional flower bridge (the upper Dihai Bridge), ready to compete with the new flowers of the Jiangxindao Island. As a result, this year's visitors will be able to view two flower bridges with different characteristics. The new flower bridge in Gangsim Island Paradise has a new age style. Jiangxin Island Flower Bridge bridge width of 10 meters, more than 200 meters long, the head of the bridge hanging two 1.8 meters on the two big lanterns "flower bridge" two very eye-catching, two laser lights, dazzling colorful, the bridge hanging lanterns, flags, ribbons, balloons, calligraphy and painting, everywhere set off a festive and warm atmosphere. On the bridge head, "Flowering branch spreads to welcome the new era, the bridge road is wide and comfortable to the well-off" and "Trance Chang'e is in the Moon Palace, you swim in the flower bridge" reflect the tourists' heartfelt admiration. The Flower Bridge across the sea maintains the traditional style characteristics, ancient colors, colorful legends, tempting thoughts. The two bridges compete with each other, and visitors have a feast for their eyes.
Three, the art of making flower bridge
"Flower Bridge" as the name suggests. Is the bridge decorated with flowers. This explanation for the ancient flower bridge may be correct. However, the history of flower bridge to today, its meaning is not just flowers decorated bridge. Today's Flower Bridge, rather than a flower bridge, it is more appropriate to say that it is a folk art gallery. It constitutes a sculpture art, bonsai craft, lighting effects, poetry and painting and the ancient pagoda architectural art style and so on.
A complete flower bridge, mainly composed of two parts, one is the bridge body, and the second is the embellishment of the two ends of the bridge. The entrance of the flower bridge, there is an ancient architectural style of pagoda, which is the inheritance of China's ancient architectural art style, the pagoda has a variety of patterns on the pattern, dragons and phoenixes, red walls and green tiles, the eaves of the four warps, on the horizontal plaques, on both sides of the couplets, it is very spectacular. Flower Bridge at the other end of the bridge, directly across the bridge there is a fairy scattered flowers as the theme of a large clay sculpture, two meters high fairy, located in the flowers in the middle of the cluster. The clay sculpture is finely carved and skillfully crafted, with a lifelike form that is breathtaking. This clay sculpture is not only exquisite craftsmanship, it also has a beautiful legend. Whenever visitors buy a white chrysanthemum drenched with water sprayed from the fountain on the clay sculpture, they will have a baby this year, and if it is a red chrysanthemum, they will have a daughter. As a result, this is a particularly popular spot for young couples and lovers. This is also the main reason why the Flower Bridge continues to be crowded year after year. The most beautiful part of the Flower Bridge is still the main part (the bridge body). Based on the original reinforced concrete bridge, the Huaqiao is made of bamboo and wood, forming the whole bridge into a four-square channel. Flower Bridge covered with colorful plastic film on top, crisscrossed with colorful flags, decorated with bunches of grapes, strawberries and other fruits and green leaves; above and on both sides of the various colors of fluorescent lamps, the entire bridge illuminated with colorful, brilliant lights, a string, a string of colored lights, such as the stars, the Milky Way Diarrhea; bridge on both sides of the stickers hanging in all walks of life in Wuchuan celebrities and literary heroes of the masterpieces of poetry, calligraphy and painting, walk into a poetry and books, such as Gallery. On both sides of the flowers are crowded, compete with each other. Blossoming flowers, brilliant lights, reflected in the water, rippling with a bunch of magnificent halo, dissolved with just the right poetic mood, it can be called a good night, the beauty of the intoxicating.
Four, the history of Huaqiao and legend
Today's Huaqiao, from a long time, is said to have originated in the years of the Qing Dynasty, with Hugh for which dynasty which year, is now not available. The original Huaqiao did not have the current Huaqiao so colorful, brilliant lights. At first, it was a pontoon bridge formed by connecting bamboo rafts or small wooden boats, and was not decorated with flowers and lights. Historical legends about it vary.
Flower Bridge was originally a bridge built by the people of the village to cross the river into the city to celebrate the Lantern Festival. It is said that at first it was a pontoon bridge with bamboo rafts or small boats, but later, because of the danger of pontoon bridges, it was changed to a bamboo bridge. At that time, because people have "men and women are not close" of feudalism, fear of men and women walking a bridge, crowded shoulders and backs, and then changed to build men and women two bridges, but also the women's bridge cover, decorate some, the more beautiful the more beautiful, it became a "flower bridge".
Another legend, a long time ago, the sea village masses in order to cross the river Lantern Festival, every year with a small boat or bamboo rows connected to a pontoon bridge, the people across the river. One New Year's Eve, people are crowded across the bridge, a sudden gust of wind toppled the pontoon, people all fell into the water, men and women, young and old, crying father and child, very sad. At this time, suddenly a fairy floated down from the sky, the ribbon swing, the ribbon immediately turned into a rainbow bridge over the river, this bridge is all made of flowers, very beautiful, fell into the water people immediately climbed on the flower bridge, no one casualty. Since then, the sea village mass in order to commemorate the fairy, every Lantern Festival will be modeled after the fairy bridge with bamboo and wood bridge, and then decorated into a flower bridge, and in the bridge carved a fairy clay sculpture, to protect future generations.
Historical records about the Flower Bridge said. Hebei on the village, Meijiang across its front, the temple built after the magnificent scenery, customs, a water apart, boat driving across, Lantern Festival, the center of the race. Before the Qing Dynasty, the night of the Lantern Festival, there are goddesses send flowers, floating river and come, descending on the holy land, sprinkle flowers, get the prosperity. So every year the Lantern Festival, set up a flower bridge, welcome God driving, benefit the people, young men and women, to the bridge to take flowers, become a symbol of good luck, red men and women, hand in hand, such as the four sides of the guests, even to. Plum six flower bridge, famous, I do not know how many years for several generations. Plum six colorful bridge, the stream across the rainbow, string song brilliant, looking for the moon chasing couples of the style, the bridge flowers, colorful flags, poetry and painting corridor, lights charming, in which, like Chang'e in the moon temple, wide cold fairy swim Penglai. People meet the spirit of the land, the bridge head clay sculpture hundred years Fu Cheng not decline, the material Hua Yao Tianbao, the goddess of offering flowers thousands of years of counting often Xing, solid take auspicious, prosperous, good men and women, scrambling to take the flowers to the sandalwood, constituting a picture of heaven on earth. It is plum six Lantern Festival fascinated faraway guests, across the sea flower bridge drunken tourists.
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