Guilin Huaqiao

Guilin Huaqiao

Huaqiao is located at the confluence of Xiaodongjiang River and Lingjianxi River in Guilin Qixing park. It was built in Song Dynasty with five stone holes. The bridge and kiosk are roughly the same as the present water bridge.

brief introduction

Huaqiao is located at the confluence of Xiaodongjiang River and Lingjianxi River in Qixing park. According to the stone carvings in the picture of Jingjiang Fucheng, this bridge was built in the Song Dynasty with five stone holes. The bridge and pavilion are roughly the same as the contemporary water bridge. In Song Dynasty, Huaqiao was named Jiaxi bridge because it was built between Jiaxi. In Ming Dynasty, Huaqiao was renamed Huaqiao because of the lush flowers and trees nearby. In Qing Dynasty, Tianzhu bridge was renamed Tianzhu bridge because of the protruding hills on the east end and the shape of columns. At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, the bridge was washed down by flood. In 1456, he Yongquan, the magistrate of Guilin, built a bridge on the original bridge foundation. In the 19th year of Jiajing period (1540), Xu family, Princess ansu of Jingjiang, rebuilt the existing four hole stone bridge, and added six arches of the dry bridge to strengthen flood discharge. The bridge is divided into two parts: the east section is Shuiqiao, 60 meters long, 6.3 meters wide and 8 meters high; the west section is Hanqiao, 65.20 meters long. In 1965, a new hole was added to seven holes. Usually, the flow of the two rivers flows slowly southward from the Shuiqiao, while the flood in flood season is discharged from the ganqiao. After the renovation, the bridge pavilion and the parapet of the dry bridge were changed into concrete structures. Since ancient times, Huaqiao has been a charming place with beautiful scenery and beautiful scenery. Looking at Huaqiao in the north, the four holes and reflections of Shuiqiao are as round as four bright moons. It has the reputation of "Hongying of Huaqiao", which is very spectacular. Here, you can see the moon in the water with the moon, and you can see the moon in the bridge without the moon. Four holes face the water, the full moon can be counted, it is: Huaqiao often have a month, Huiyan number reunion.

On the Xiaodongjiang River in front of Qixing mountain, Guilin, lies a stone bridge shaped like a long Pavilion. From a distance, it looks like a gorgeous ribbon. This is the famous flower bridge. This bridge was built in the Song Dynasty, formerly known as Jiaxi bridge, with only four holes. It was washed down by floods in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. In 1456, he Yongquan, the magistrate of the Ming Dynasty, rebuilt the original site as a stone pier with a wooden bridge surface, which was later destroyed. In the 19th year of Jiajing (1540), Princess Xu, king of Jingjiang, proposed to build a stone bridge. A dry bridge was built to discharge the flood. Because of the beautiful flowers on both sides of the bridge, it is called Huaqiao.

It was renovated and rebuilt in 1965.

The Huaqiao bridge is about 120 meters long and about 6 meters wide. It is built of bluestone. There are white jade railings on both sides of the bridge. The top of the bridge is covered with blue glazed tiles. The arch is very thin and the bridge body is elegant. The bridge hole is connected with the reflection in the water, just like the bright moon on the half floating water and under the half submerged water. The whole bridge is of fine design and unique style.

Guilin Huaqiao bridge is a multi arch stone bridge with multi holes and thin piers. The thin arch piers make the bridge holes almost connected. It is a solid arch bridge with proper treatment of the relationship between virtual and real.

It is said that when the Huaqiao was built to donate money, the leader invited everyone to a table of wine as usual, ate a piece of pork and donated ten Liang silver. There was an old man in ragged clothes who ate more than ten yuan in a row. When he pledged, he promised to donate the money of yikongqiao. People thought he was bullshit and came to his house together, only to see a bunch of money piled up in a room. The old man donated money, people want to engrave a monument, ask his name, he said: "I'm a rower, there is a pig head dragon on the boat." People had to carve a pig's head on the railings. When repairing the bridge, the most famous master in Guilin was invited to hire 100 employees to complete the work in 100 days. After ninety-nine days of repair, when the last day was closed, the master instructed everyone to put a measured stone on the shelf to the last gap on the bridge, but the stone was five minutes short. At this time, an old man in the stonework stood up and said, "my work is not finished. It's not time to close. At the end of Shenmu and the beginning of Youchu, I call you The old man has been burning a fire in Yutu rock every day since he started work. The fire is so big and fierce that no one knows what he is burning. If we can't get together, we'll listen to him for a while. In the evening, the old man pulled out a three foot long, bright sword from the jade rabbit rock. They put the sword and stones side by side on the gap. It was just right, and the flower bridge was finally built.

On the day of completion, we should choose a lucky person to step on the bridge. Unexpectedly, an old man in ragged clothes rushed to the bridge with two baskets of cow dung. He ran to the bridge and spilled cow dung all over the bridge. People scolded him, but he said with a smile: "you see, what is this?" Everyone was stunned when they saw that cow dung turned into molten iron and poured into the bridge.

Before Huaqiao was built, bridges had been built on Xiaodongjiang River, but they were washed down by floods several times. It turned out that there was a dragon in the river. As soon as the Dragon crossed the bridge, the bridge collapsed. As soon as the Huaqiao bridge was repaired, the flood came and the Dragon rose again. However, they did not dare to cross the bridge, so they had to drill through the dry bridge. Because the Dragon chopping sword made by the old man was installed under the water bridge, and the bridge was still filled with molten iron, no matter how big the flood was. The flower bridge is stable. It is said that people who donate money to build a bridge and build a dragon chopping sword. It's all one person - Master Luban!

The legend of Huaqiao

There is also a legend about the origin of the name of Huaqiao.

At the beginning, a bridge was to be built on the Xiaodongjiang river for the people to get in and out of the east gate. Although the project was small, the government made a fuss and sent the supervisor to take charge of everything. The supervisor of bridge building is the elite of the Yamen who scrapes bones and sucks marrow. He is the secret of his own supervisor sent by the government and Taiwan. He apportions the people's money and rice to do it solidly. When the bridge is built, it is rough. If you use a few pieces of wood to drive into the mud, it's a bridge pier; if you use the branches of a few pieces of wood to build on the pier, it's a bridge deck. When the bridge deck was built, the supervisor asked the master to go up, and the slaves showed off their "merits". Not long after the celebration, the flood broke out and the new bridge was washed down. Futai also sent supervisors to ask the common people for money to repair the bridge. In this way, after repairing and toppling, the common people's oil and water was drained, the government's belly burst, and the Jiaxi bridge was still not repaired. This year, the government sent supervisors to ask the common people for money to repair the bridge. A lot of people can't afford it, so they have to run away all night. They ran to erjiangkou and were stopped by the river. When they were in a dilemma, a lame old man came up and asked, "what do a lot of people do when they cross the river at midnight?" The common people cried and said, "it's very easy for him to ask for money." When everyone saw that he had eaten the lantern grass, he spoke lightly. They all said, "old man, if you are full, you don't know the sufferings of those who are hungry. It's easy for you to speak. Then you can lend it to us!" "Yes, yes!" The lame old man promised. Everyone asked in unison: "where is it? Take us to get it The lame old man stretched out his hand and pointed to the river: "don't you see that the river is full of silver dollars?"

Everyone was very happy when they saw that there were countless shining silver dollars in the river. Looking back, the shadow of the lame old man disappeared. No matter where the silver came from, everyone jumped down the river and picked it up. It's strange to say that although we all try our best to pick it up, we can pick it up faster. When we finish picking up the silver dollars, we can count that each of us has just enough money for the bridge. At daybreak, everyone handed over the silver to the supervisor and went home to live in peace. When the supervisor got the money, he sent bricklayers and carpenters to build the bridge. After the completion of the bridge, the people came to the bridgehead and saw that the newly built wooden piers were askew, and the bridge bridge bridge had branches. As long as the wind blows, the bridge would collapse, and many people would cry.

At this time, a lame old man came with a gourd on his back, a bunch of flowers in his left hand and a crutch in his right hand. He saw everyone crying and asked, "why do you cry at the bridge for nothing?" We heard people asking questions piteously and crying about the fact that the government donated money every year and built the bridge every year in order to satisfy their own pocket. We saw that the bridge would collapse again in case of flood, and the common people would have to suffer from repairing the bridge before the end of the year.

The lame old man said, "don't cry. I'll go up to the bridge and see how well the bridge is being built." After that, he pushed away the crowd and limped off the bridge. Everyone saw that the bridge was rickety, like a tofu shelf, for fear that the lame old man would fall off the bridge. It was not easy to see him go to the other end of the bridge, and everyone's heart relaxed. At this time, I saw the lame old man turned around and said, "haha" with a smile. He threw flowers on his hands on the bridge. There were only a few loud noises. The flowers under the bridge turned into stone piers and supports; the flowers on the bridge turned into smooth bridges; the flowers on both sides of the bridge took root and grew colorful flowers. Seeing this scene, everyone likes to dance, just want to run across the bridge to kowtow to the lame old man, in the blink of an eye, the lame old man disappeared. When the breeze blows, there is a smell of flowers on the bridge. Everyone guessed that the old man turned out to be Tieguai Li in the eight cave fairy of Penglai Fairy Island. Therefore, we named this solid new bridge Huaqiao.

The Huaqiao bridge is over 125 meters long and over 7 meters high. It is made of square stones and is divided into two sections. The front section is a dry bridge, which plays the role of flood discharge and ferry, with seven arches, and the arch holes become smaller from east to west; the back section is a water bridge, with four arches, and the arch holes are roughly the same. In the east of the bridge, there is a long corridor decorated with thick vermilion pillars; in the west of the bridge, there is a flower bed surrounded by weeping willows. On the east side of the bridge is a towering boulder called Furong stone, which was used as a water mark in ancient times. There are still two hydrologic data left in Shibei Banyao, which are very precious records of ancient water regime. The arch, pavilion, balustrade and detail decoration of the whole bridge are well proportioned and beautiful, which all reflect the high level of architectural technology.

Address: Xiaodongjiang River in front of Qixing mountain, Qixing District, Guilin City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

Longitude: 110.3088814067

Latitude: 25.27402984496

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