Nanmen Bridge

Nanmen Bridge

Nanmen bridge was built in the second year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty under the leadership of Hou Gucheng in Zhenyuan. During the Wanli period of Ming Dynasty, Guizhou governor Guo Zizhang wrote "Jihong bridge" in "Guizhou city map" in "Qian Ji", which was called "Xiang Yang Bridge" in "Nanyue Shoushan map", but it was recorded in "Guizhou Tongzhi · city" in Ming Dynasty (Jiajing) "(Jihong bridge) was governing the south of the city, on the Nanming River, and the eight sceneries of Guiyang said" Hongqiao spring rises " Therefore, there are many ways to call nanmenqiao in the old times.

Textual research on history

Nanming River is a section in the south of the city, also known as Nanjin in ancient times, so the old records also said that "Nanjin is outside the South Gate of Zhicheng, and Jihong bridge is on it." It's a record. During the reign of Zongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, Xu HongZu wrote about the Nanming River in his travels of Xu Xiake: "the East three li of Guizhou is youzaoguan, and its water flows to the West The water on all sides is the largest in the south, the second in the west, and the second in the north Xiangyang bridge in the East and wangfengtai in the northeast It's going through the gorge in the East. " Xiangyang bridge in this paper is Jihong bridge, which is Nanmen bridge. Through this passage, we can infer that Jihong bridge was renamed Xiangyang bridge in Chongzhen period of Ming Dynasty. According to Guizhou tujing Xinzhi and Nanyue Shoushan Tu, Jihong bridge has nine holes, 193 years earlier than Fuyu bridge, which was built in the 25th year of Wanli (1579), and it is one of the eight sceneries in Guiyang. Therefore, some people suspect that the old folk saying "nine eyes shine on the sandbank, the Yangtze River flows backward, there are no three generations of rich people, and the upright officials do not end." "Nine eyes" in "nine eyes shine on Shazhou" does not mean Fuyu bridge, but Guimen bridge. Wang Shouwen, an old man aged 90, who works in the office of Guiyang local records, said: "Guangxu thirteen (1887)," Japan's trade organization, "the Japanese Institute of trade research", which is based on trade in Shanghai, is the first scene of eight scenes in Guiyang, which is "nine * * s". The original text is: "nine eyes shine on the sandbank, go down Nanyue (mountain) and pass through Mapeng (Mapeng street, now Xinhua Road), that is to say, to Nanmen bridge. The bridge is built into nine holes and lies on the river for a long time. It looks like a picture of people and horses coming and going from the downstream.". It can be seen that the saying of "jiuyanzhao sandbank" has a long history. However, the jiaxiulou building was half flooded in 1831, and fangduzhou disappeared. The landscape of "jiuyanzhao sandbank" should have existed before the 11th year of Daoguang. "

reconstruction

During the period of the Republic of China, Nanming bridge was renamed Zhongzheng bridge. In 1948, the municipal department reconstructed and expanded the bridge. Guiyang was liberated before it was finished. Guiyang Municipal People's government continued to complete the bridge. It is an arch bridge built with reinforced concrete and stone. The bridge is 52 meters long and the approach bridge is about 20 meters long and 13.2 meters wide. From nine holes to six holes. The bridge deck has a sidewalk about 1 meter wide, which is higher than the carriageway. The railings on both sides of the bridge are carved with stone. There are street lamps with European medieval style. Each pier is built with a semicircular terrace protruding from the bridge deck, which can be used for four or five people to watch the river scenery.

In the mid-1980s, the economic development of Nanming District accelerated. In order to alleviate the pressure of traffic congestion, Nanming bridge was widened once. In 1995, with the reconstruction and expansion of Xinhua Road, Nanming bridge was widened to 40 meters and 84 meters long. On both sides are dolomite carved guardrails, with 14 double fork decorative street lamps added, maintaining the style of the ancient bridge. Around 2003, a number of new commercial and residential buildings, street gardens and leisure squares appeared around Nanming bridge. Nanming bridge becomes a part of jiaxiulou scenic area.

Proper naming

The ancient appearance of Nanming River has long been lost in people's memory, but many people ask this question: "which is the right name between Nanmen River (bridge) and Nanming River (bridge) The new records of Guizhou tujing (Hongzhi) and the general records of Guizhou (Jiajing) compiled in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty are both called "Nanming River", but in the Huanyu general records published in the seventh year of Jingtai (1456) and the unified records of the Ming Dynasty published in the second year of Tianshun (1458), there is only "Nanmen River" but not "Nanming River". It shows that it was also called Nanmen River in Jingtai and Tianshun years, which is related to the fact that the Nanmen (Chaojing gate) was built near the river in 1382. In Guiyang dialect, the pronunciation of "Ming" and "men" is similar. Over time, they change into Nanming River, and the bridge is named after river. Then, until the mid-1950s, the Nanming River was still an important source of drinking water for the residents in the south of the city. When you stand by the river, the river is clear to the bottom; when you stand at a height, the Nanming River is shining white, like a bright jade belt around Guiyang City. It's very appropriate to call her Nanming River.

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