Among the hundreds of wind and rain bridges in the whole Dong area, Chengyang Yongji Bridge is the most magnificent and famous at home and abroad. Chengyang Yongji Bridge is located on Linxi River in Chengyang Village, Linxi Township, Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County, Guangxi. It is the crystallization of the wisdom of the Dong people.
1982, Chengyang Yongji Bridge was announced by the State Council as a national key cultural relics protection unit. 199565438+February, with the consent of the Party committee and people's government of the autonomous region, it was named as the patriotic education base of the autonomous region. 1997 was included in the preparatory list for declaring world cultural heritage to the United Nations. In the same year, Hong Kong returned to the motherland. At this epoch-making moment, Guangxi presented the Chengyang Yongji Bridge model as a gift to the Hong Kong SAR government as a commemoration of the reunification.
Chengyang Yongji Bridge, also known as Chengyang Bridge and Chengyang Yufeng Bridge, was founded in 19 12 years and lasted for 12 years. From the structure of the bridge, the lower part of the bridge is divided into two groups of three piers, which are made of green materials and stones respectively. The pier is a hexagonal cylinder, the upstream and downstream are pointed and the water angle is 68 degrees; The middle part of the bridge is a wooden deck, with dense cantilever support columns and beams, and a *** 19 bridge corridor; The upper part of the bridge is divided into wooden beams and columns, and tenons and mortises are chiseled to form a double-eaved, angular and well-defined gallery pavilion system, with five tower-shaped bridge pavilions.
The top of the bridge pavilion and a corner of the pavilion eaves are inlaid with ornaments, or a string of "gourds" composed of several tin cans, or tung oil, lime and glutinous rice pulp are used as raw materials to create a lifelike auspicious bird. A string of gourds symbolizes good weather, good harvests and bumper harvests every year. Lucky birds yearn for the green hills, spread their wings and fly, blend in with the beautiful scenery of nature, and decorate a picturesque wind and rain bridge. The whole bridge is 77.6 meters long, 3.75 meters wide and 20 meters high, and the structural technology and plastic arts have formed a high degree of unity. At that time, painters and craftsmen did not need to draw pictures, make molds, nail nails or rivets, and they could build a wind and rain bridge with complex structure and magnificent momentum by measuring and painting with a wooden abbot called "incense candle" by local people.
1965, Mr. Guo Moruo was overjoyed when he saw the model of Chengyang Bridge in Beijing. He wrote three characters of Chengyang Bridge and wrote poems in praise:
Yan said that Linxi Wind and Rain Bridge is twenty feet long and four feet high.
The reunion pavilions are ingenious, and the columns flow far away.
Bamboo and wood are stronger than iron, and tea forests are new seedlings for thousands of years.
When to go to Sanjiang Road, it is difficult to learn to plow and hoe.
While admiring the superb skills of Mohists and craftsmen in Dong Shi, we have to admire the noble virtues of the Dong Shi family who love public welfare undertakings. Construction of bridges, roads, drum towers, pavilions, theaters, wells, fence doors, etc. The contribution of the whole village. The bluestone tablet erected at the bridge head of Chengyang recorded the names of the people and workers who donated money in each village. No matter how much you donate, no matter how big or small your strength is, as long as you have this spirit, his name will be remembered in Dong Jia's heart.
19 12, fifty bridge-building leaders from Bazhai, Chengyang, with a warm heart, visited eight Dong villages in 12 years to mobilize villagers and raise funds for bridge construction. They eat at home and do everyone's work. Where there are difficulties, there are difficulties. But before the bridge was built, the two leading old people died one after another, and their son took over the unfinished business of his parents without hesitation. Chen Jiming, a villager in Maantun Village, Yan Ping Village, Linxi Township: We Dong people are willing to contribute to the construction. Everyone got together to make money for the construction, and everyone rushed to participate. )
"Sanjiang County Records" records the situation of bridge construction in that year: "Everyone strives for the first place ... regardless of the rich and the poor, regardless of the sun and the moon, men and women, old and young, but do their best and never shirk or terminate." Dong Jia's spirit of loving public welfare, unity and friendship can be seen from this.
On June 2 1, 65438, 0983, the flash floods of Linxi River soared, and the swift waves hit the bridge deck, which was not seen for 70 years. (Mrs. Chen actually said, Ma 'antun villager, administrator of Chengyang Bridge: At that time, the flood had already passed half of the bridge, so we mobilized the masses to rescue the bridge at about eight or nine o'clock in the evening. Chen Jiguang, a villager in Ma 'anshan Tun and a member of Chengyang Bridge Reconstruction Leading Group, actually said: At that time, we mobilized everyone to save timber in the whole Ma 'anshan natural village, and there was a big flood. Everyone boldly went down to rescue the big wooden beams and beams, and finally came back without being washed away. ) After Chengyang Bridge was washed away by the flood, the Party and the government allocated special funds to repair the bridge, and the Dong people in Bazhai donated money in succession. 1984 began to repair it in February.
With the full cooperation of professional engineers and technicians sent by the government, it took 20 months to complete the restoration project, and the magnificent Chengyang Bridge flew over the Linxi River again.
Chengyang Yongji Bridge is the outstanding cultural heritage of the Chinese nation and the crystallization of the industrious wisdom of the Dong people.