Remnant Snow on the Broken Bridge in Winter

Broken bridge CanXue is located in the east of Baidi, which is the only way to Gushan. Broken bridge is famous all over the world, which is largely due to several important plots in the story of the white snake. The so-called broken bridge snow, not standing on the broken bridge to see the snow, but in the opposite height (including the mountain) to see the whole dike, the broken bridge is more protruding, after the snow melts, it looks like a broken silver chain from a distance.

There are some pavilions and pavilions on the bridge, facing the Lixi lake, opposite to Baoshi mountain and Baochu tower across the lake. The mountain, tower, lake, pavilion, bridge, peach and willow beside the lake form a picturesque landscape.

Remnant Snow on the Broken Bridge in Winter

Broken bridge snow is a famous scenery on the West Lake. It is famous for its appearance on the surface of the lake in winter snow. It is one of the ten sceneries of the West Lake. The snow on the broken bridge is a good place to enjoy the snow scenery of the West Lake. The famous Chinese folk legend "the legend of the White Snake" adds romantic color to the scenery of the broken bridge.

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When the snow is early, standing on Baoshi mountain, looking south, the West Lake is covered with silver, and the white dike is across the snow willow and frost peach. The arch surface of the broken stone bridge is unobstructed, and the snow melts in the sun, revealing the mottled bridge railing, while the two ends of the bridge are still covered with white snow. The stone bridge, which can be discerned vaguely, seems to be hidden and visible, while the white snow in the culvert is shining, and the bridge deck is gray brown, forming a contrast. From a distance, it seems that it is broken, so it is called broken bridge. Standing at the head of the bridge, looking around, far mountains and near water, a panoramic view, give people a strong sense of vitality is a deep impression.

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Baoshi mountain is high and auspicious

Duanqiao is located at the east end of Baidi of West Lake in Hangzhou City, backed by Baoshi mountain and facing Hangzhou city. It is the water dividing point of Outer Lake and Beili lake. The situation of bridge breaking is high, and the vision is wide. It is the best place to enjoy the snow scenery of West Lake in winter.

Baidi, with a total length of 1 km, starts from Duanqiao in the East and ends at Qiuyue in Pinghu via Jindai bridge. The white dyke runs across the lake, dividing the West Lake into Outer Lake and inner lake, and connecting Gushan and Beishan together. Bai Di was originally called Baisha Di in Tang Dynasty, and also called Gushan road in Song Dynasty. Peach willows were widely planted on the dike in Ming Dynasty, also known as shijintang. The inner layer of the dike is weeping willow, and the outer layer is peach.

Zhang Hu of the Tang Dynasty was the first to record "broken bridge and broken snow"

Tower towering green Cen, a path into the lake. No rain mountain long run, no cloud water from Yin. The broken bridge is barren, the moss is astringent, and the empty courtyard is deep. I still remember the moon in the west window and the bell in Beilin.

There is a sentence in the poem "the broken bridge is barren of moss", from which we can see that the broken bridge was originally an ancient flat stone bridge with mottled moss. After heavy snow, the snow remains on the mossy ancient stone bridge. It seems that there is a sense of barrenness in the remnant mountains and waters, which is the foreshadowing of the unique landscape of the West Lake. The bridge was broken at the east end of Baidi.

The third volume of Xihu Zhi written by Yongzheng of Qing Dynasty: "go out of Qiantang gate, walk along the lake, and walk along Baisha dike. The first bridge is called broken bridge, which is bounded between the front and back lakes. The light of the water is shining, the shadow of the bridge is inverted, like a jade waist and a gold back. If you go to the plum mountain alone, you'll never get rid of the spring snow. Ge Ling area, tower high and low, such as the shop Qiong build jade, crystal clear, just like Yushan up. In the past, it was said that poetry was better in the snow of Baqiao. "

The second volume of the Qing Dynasty's Hu Shan Bian LAN: "the broken bridge can snow Pavilion is in the north of the broken bridge. Chen Qingbo of Song Dynasty has the painting of broken bridge and snow. In the 38th year of Emperor Kangxi's reign, Emperor shengzuren wrote four characters as one of the ten sceneries of the West Lake. In the 41st year, sileshi built the pavilion here.

After the West Lake Exposition in 1929, the stele Pavilion moved from the left to the right of the bridge. At the beginning of the founding of new China, the waterside pavilion beside the bridge once served as the book circulation station of Zhejiang Library for tourists to rest and read. The imperial stele Pavilion and waterside pavilion were renovated many times. During the "Cultural Revolution", all the steles and archways were destroyed. In 1977, the stone tablet of "broken bridge and snow" was re carved and placed in the original Pavilion; the plaque of "cloud, water and light" was re made and hung on the lintel of the waterside pavilion.

The deep bell of Manao Temple

Wang Keyu of the Ming Dynasty wrote a witty remark about the beautiful scenery of the West Lake in his collection of more than jade from the West Lake: "the victory of the West Lake is that the sunny lake is not as good as the rain lake, the rain lake is not as good as the Moon Lake, and the Moon Lake is not as good as the snow lake How many people can really lead the landscape in this world Hangzhou, located in the south of the Yangtze River, has a short period of snow every year, and heavy snow days are rare. Once it is wrapped in plain silver, it will create a beautiful snow lake which is quite different from the usual scenery. When it's sunny after the snow, when you come to the broken bridge, you can see from the West and the north. The buildings in the area of Gushan and Geling are as beautiful as jade. It's crystal clear.

Li Liufang, a painter of the Ming Dynasty, said in the postscript to the picture of sleeping in the West Lake -- Spring View of the broken bridge: "when I went to the lake in the past, when I looked from the broken bridge, my soul wanted to die. It is also said that as we all know, the light of the lake is like the light of the morning upon the trees and the moon upon the house. The mountains and rivers reflect the hair, and there is a great immersion of Chengbo in other places From this view, the broken bridge view, you can get the soul of the lake and mountain, not only CanXue!

The sky and the earth are indistinct, and the two peaks are small

It was called Baoyou bridge in Song Dynasty. In the Yuan Dynasty, there lived a couple surnamed Duan who made a living selling wine at Qiaotou, also known as duanjiaqiao.

Legend has it that a long time ago, the Baisha dyke of the West Lake meandered from the isolated mountain to here, with only an unnamed small wooden bridge tightly connected with the lake bank. If you want to go to Gushan, you have to go through this small wooden bridge. It's very inconvenient for you because of the sun and rain, and the bridge slab is often broken. There is a simple hut beside the bridge, where a couple surnamed Duan live. They are kind-hearted and hardworking. The men fish in the lake for a living, while the women set up a wine stand at the door, and the sellers brew little wine. Because of the bad taste of the wine, customers seldom come to the door and business is light.

One day, as the sun was setting, the couple was just about to close the door when an old man with white hair and ragged clothes came. He said that he had come all the way and had no money and asked to stay overnight. Seeing that he was poor and old, the Duan family enthusiastically stayed with him, burned a carp just caught from the West Lake, and served him a bowl of home brewed oligo wine. The old man was not polite. He drank three bowls in a row, then fell on the bed and fell asleep. The next morning when the old man with white hair left, he said, "thank you for your kind hospitality. I have three pieces of wine medicine here to help you brew good wine." After that, he took out three red wine pills and left.

The Duan couple put the old man's three wine medicines in the wine vat. The wine produced is scarlet, sweet and mellow, and has a strong aroma. Since then, every day customers, Duan scarlet red wine famous Hangzhou, business day by day prosperous. Later, the Duan family demolished the cottage and built a restaurant. In order to thank the old man with white hair, they have saved a sum of money and are ready to thank him well.

Time goes by, three years in a flash. In the winter of this year, it snowed heavily in the West Lake, and the old man with white hair came to Duan's restaurant in the snow. The couple were overjoyed to see their benefactor come, and invited the old man to stay in his home for a long time. But the old man said goodbye the next day. At the time of parting, the Duans took out silver and gave it to the old man. The old man said with a smile, "thank you for your kindness. I'm a lonely old man. What's the use of so much money? You'd better use it in the most important place. "After that, he stepped on the snow and walked to the bridge. Duan and his wife stood at the door to see each other off. They saw the old man just stepped on the small wooden bridge. When he slipped, the bridge plate broke and the old man fell into the lake. The couple ran to help each other. Suddenly, they saw the old man with white hair standing on the lake, smiling and waving to them.

Only then did the Duans realize that the old man with white hair is not a mortal. Thinking of the old man's parting words, he used the money to build a high bluestone arch bridge and a pavilion at the end of the bridge. From then on, the people who visit the West Lake are no longer afraid of road slide and bridge collapse. In memory of the good deeds of the Duan family in building the bridge, the villagers called the bridge Duan family bridge.

Mixed buildings

The existing broken bridge is an arched single hole ring cave stone bridge rebuilt in 1921, with a length of 8.8 meters, a width of 8.6 meters, and a single hole clear span of 6.1 meters. It was overhauled a year ago, but its simple and elegant style remains basically unchanged. On the east side of the bridge, there is a stele Pavilion of Emperor Kangxi. On the side of the pavilion, there are waterside pavilions with the inscription "in the light of clouds and water", green tiles and vermilion bars, cornices and angles. Together with the bridge and pavilion, it forms a classical painting of the northeast corner of the West Lake.

Snow on the broken bridge: Wang Xun looks out at the half green hill outside the Lake Pavilion, crossing the water to build a beam, and his shadow is cold. When the grass is green beside the mark, the crane will break and peck at the fence.

Youduanqiao, an anonymous novel, walks leisurely by the West Lake, with green waves like mirrors and willows like smoke. Old bridge in front of you, no white snake and Xu Xian.

"Broken bridge" raises eyebrows, Baoshi mountain is high, auspicious clouds are numerous, agate temple is deep, bells are pure, heaven and earth are ambiguous, bimodal is small, buildings are mixed, and Sanzhu is deep. There is a trace of blue and white ink on the white dyke, two lines of eyebrows on the broken bridge; there is a clear sound outside the sky, and there is no dust in Qiantang.

White dyke with blue and white ink

There are several opinions about the broken bridge

In the Ming Dynasty, the West Lake Tour notes jokingly said that the bridge was broken because of the white dyke extending from the isolated mountain, which was broken when it met the bridge, but it was far fetched.

People come all the way from the autumn moon in Pinghu, and the white dyke breaks here, so it is called broken bridge, but it lacks artistic conception.

In winter, when standing on the broken bridge and looking around, the snow looks like silver, the frozen lake is like ink, and the black and white are separated, which is particularly touching. Therefore, it is called "broken bridge and broken snow", and the origin is only a literal explanation.

Zhang Dai in the late Ming Dynasty wrote in his dream of the west lake that peach and willow trees were planted along the white dyke,

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