On the Gongchen Bridge

I have been living by the canal at Gongchen Bridge for twenty years.

On the Gongchen Bridge, I have stood countless times to look around and reverie. Tonight, the moonlight is as bright as the flowing water under the bridge, thousands of tender willow branches lightly stirring the surface of the river at night, willow branches mischievously deep into the body of the river, the river is silently moistened with willow branches, they tacitly understand as a couple of three lifetimes, they are seasonal as a secret language, snuggle together. The spring breeze myrrh, lightly brush my face, the rich spring fragrance, let the heart fascinated. The noise of people can no longer disturb me, at this moment, I detailed survey of Gongchen Bridge, east and west, north and south, twenty years, never so carefully. Moonlight and flowing water silently as a companion, I want to connect the sky to the ground to connect the time and space, and Gongchen Bridge for a long conversation.

One

Looking south, ahead of a ship sailing slowly, the prow of a young and spirited official.

Ming Wanli six years (1578) in April, Jiangnan exuberant spring is near the end, 32-year-old Zhejiang Linhai scholar Wang Shi sex, has long packed all the luggage to stop, is about to go north to serve. A year before that, he was finally awarded the title of "Golden Rank" and was granted the title of Governor of Zhishan County, Henan Province. Obsessed with the history and humanities of the landscape, Wang Shixian set out from Linhai, through Ninghai, Fenghua, through Ningbo, through Shaoxing, which arrived in Hangzhou. The view, poetry, drinking, to enjoy the main scenery of Hangzhou addiction enough, Wang Shi sex will be a comfortable from the Wulinmen on the boat, along the canal all the way north, he will be a show.

When the boat passed Hushu, he stood on the bow and looked around, and the prosperous scenes on both sides of the canal made him sigh.

Hangzhou city north Huzhou, south Zhejiang stage, salty extended ten miles, well house scales, hundreds of thousands of fireworks, not only the residents of the city also. And as Ning and Shao people are seven outside, I do not know how to have so many teeth. And Hebei county is a few dozen miles without settlements, not even half of the city of Hangcheng North and South post, is not the sky and earth pulse rotation sometimes, Sheng and decline can not be one?

With the natural geographer Xu Xiake famous human geographer Wang Shi sex, his observations, naturally, more than a point of reflection, the north of Hangzhou, Hushu this place, a 20-mile radius, why so prosperous? It turns out that this is the end of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, known as Huzhou City or Lake City in the Southern Song Dynasty, an important commercial area of Hangzhou. The Southern Song Dynasty Wu Zimu "Mengliang Record" contains, public and private ships moored in the north of the city many, Beiguan, half red, Hushu, river up bridge and other places, the docks are lined up. Residents on both sides of the thick stack of houses, dockside market moorings gathered, the river to and from the ship shuttle non-stop, Wang Shi sex looked at the river full of hustle and bustle, a deep memory, will be written in the "wide Zhi Est" Volume 4 "Jiangnan provinces" chapter of Zhejiang.

Three thousand miles away a water, this water is Hangzhou prosperous canal. Bai Juyi, Su Dongpo, the Japanese monk Cheng Xuan, the Italian Marco Polo, how did these ancient Chinese and foreign celebrities come to Hangzhou? They must have arrived by boat amidst the sound of the canal's oars.

In April 1072, the Japanese monk Naruharu crossed the wide waves of the East China Sea and arrived at Mingzhou in the Northern Song Dynasty, where he was going to visit Mount Tiantai and Mount Wutai.

Jinya are tile repair, building door intersected. The sea side of the stacked rocks a ten feet high, more than ten towns long, and the mouth of the river, the river around the same as before, the bridge across the river, such as the Japanese Uji Bridge, sell and buy small and large ships, I do not know how many. Back to the boat into the river ten township, under the bridge to stay under the boat, the river around the home are tile repair, no gaps, and made solemn. Large boat can not be counted.

Hangzhou for the first time to give the impression that the city is all the river, the river is all the big boats, the river boats and the shore houses are gorgeous and majestic, really a big international city, into the search of Hangzhou, seen, often sigh.

In fact, the prosperity of Hushu that Wang Shisheng saw has continued for nearly a thousand years. The prosperity is due to the water, which began with the Grand Canal cut through the Sui Dynasty. It began with the Grand Canal, which was opened during the Sui Dynasty. The 1,000-mile Grand Canal reached the north of Hangzhou, and then communicated with the Qiantang River, making Hangzhou the starting point of the Grand Canal, which connects China's five major water systems.

Although the Hangzhou section of the canal is only 39 kilometers, it has made Hangzhou a famous county in the southeast, while the Hushu Canal north of Hangzhou city, a short 12 kilometers, but "south to Fujian and Guangdong, west across the Yuzhang, north of the Wu will be connected to the Kong Road" (Qing Dynasty "North New Guan Zhi"). In the map of the Grand Canal, Hushu is a small black dot, but we should not underestimate this small dot, because the south is connected, the west is crossed, and the north is connected. To use another analogy, the Grand Canal is like a wonderful drama, and Hangzhou Hushu is the key to the finale, the final climax of the finale.

Back to the prosperous city of Hangzhou under the Southern Song writer Zhou Mi.

Around 1270, the city had 186,330 households, a total of nearly one million, making it almost the largest city in the world. The grand banquet in which the Qinghe County Wang's family received Song Gaozong with high specifications in "The Old Story of Wulin" is mind-boggling. Not only does it list more than 200 dishes served at the banquet, but it even notes the order in which they were served. Forty-one of the dishes were made of fish, shrimp, snails, pork, goose, duck, lamb, and pigeon, and the cooking methods included frying, grilling, deep-frying, and boiling. Another 42 dishes are fruits and preserves, 20 are vegetables, 9 are different congees made of various ingredients, 29 are dried fish, and there are 17 kinds of drinks, 19 kinds of cakes and 59 kinds of snacks. A simple question is, where did the food come from for this population of millions? In addition to the official's residence has salary rice can eat, the people of the city daily need rice no less than two thousand stones, these Su, Lake, Chang, Xiu, Huai, Guang and other places to bring the rice, all to the docks of Hushu unloaded, at that time, Hushu rice boat, morning and evening, rice market bridge to the river up bridge area, is full of rice line. There is a proverb in Hangzhou in the Southern Song Dynasty: East Gate dish, West Gate water, South Gate firewood, North Gate rice. This north gate rice is the flourishing Hushu rice market.

Two

The eyes look deeper into history, I saw Lu You.

During the Southern Song Dynasty, Hushu in the north of Lin'an City, collectively known as Beiguo, was also called Beiguan.

In the sixth year of Qiandao (1170), on the 18th day of the leap month of May, a June day in the south of the Yangtze River, the prelude to the scorching summer heat, the stifling heat. In the evening, Lu You led a large family to start a long journey into Shu from his old home in Shangyin, where he was going to Kui Prefecture as a general judge. The next night, he stayed at the Mengpen Stage in Xiaoshan County. The next day, at four o'clock, the boatman untied the cable and the boat headed for the Xixing ferry port on the Qiantang River. The day dawned, good weather, the river was flat and wave-free, so it crossed the river smoothly and reached the capital Lin'an. After having tea in Xianlin Temple, Lu You took a boat directly from the canal out of the North Pass, why? He was anxious to see his big brother Lu Song.

The next ten days, Lu You have been staying in the capital, eight years did not come, friends are also many, need to walk, will be a while, big brother's home for four days, Ye Mengxi Squire invited to drink, the State Scholarship Rui State Weapons Supervisor invited to drink, clan brother Lu Zhonggao, writers Zhan Daozi, editor Zhang Shu Qian accompanied, and Zhonggao tour with the West Lake, visit the temple, the Prosecutor Shen held to invite to drink, accompanied by Zhao Dezhuang, Secretary of the Imperial Household.

In the following decades, Lu You went to the capital several times to serve, Beiguo, is where he often came, as evidenced by a poem: "Beiguo that resigned ten miles away, get on the car and use to comfort boredom. The nine quarters of the vast city sound together, four fields hearty snow intention proud. The mirror is freshly sharpened at the green pond, and the rainbow crosses the vermilion bridge. When I return to my home, I will be asleep, and I will listen to the neighboring wall in the morning." （This poem was written in the winter of the second year of the Jia Tai period (1202), when Lu You, at the age of 78, was a historian in the capital for the last time. From the poem, the North Gate, is the place that can make him feel at ease, only ten miles, it is not far, the road will look at the scenery to take a nap to arrive. The reality of the unsatisfactory, his long buried in the heart of the anti-Jin restoration of the ideal, few possibilities to achieve, and here in Beiguo, there are good scenery in all seasons. After the snow of winter, the four fields are white, so that he was relaxed; or, the spring breeze blows green in March, spring is burgeoning, wandering on the bridge in the canal, look at the bustling market and pedestrians, worries for a while away. View full, talk through, drink enough wine, the night is four to arrive home. However, age is not forgiving, really some tired, sleep well ah, a night to dawn, young children still embrace the coverlet has not yet risen, in the next door in the sound of snoring, he has been refreshed to go to work on the road!

When Lu You was first official, he called his long and narrow house "smoke boat", and his good friend Zhou Bidai lived next to him. This Zhou Bidai, later became a very big official. Zhou Bida's diary says that in the eighth year of Qiandao, "at the dawn of the chen ...... Trail North Pass, hang a reed, gallop 30 miles to the red shore, high pavilion peak, landing more than 100 steps to wait for the museum" ("Qiandao nonin southern return record"). Zhou Bida this early morning, in a small boat directly out of the North Pass, rushed 30 miles to the red bank waiting for the Pavilion, this Pavilion is the Southern Song Dynasty reception of foreign messengers Ban Jing Pavilion. It turned out that he had a reception task. At that time, the envoys of Liao, Jin, Xia and overseas Japanese countries, who wanted to see the emperor, had to come here first and wait for an appointment.

Time passed, Hangzhou Beiguan like an important artery in the human body, became more and more important. Zhili, Shandong, Henan, Anhui, northern Jiangsu cotton, jujube pear, bean goods, etc. to the south, Jiangsu and Zhejiang silk, cotton, tea, porcelain, paper, iron, etc. to the north, such a good place, the rulers are naturally concerned, they want to cut off gold here. Ming Dynasty Xuande four years (1429), the Ministry of Finance in the North New Bridge near the establishment of the banknote customs, the canal passing transport ships, are charged material banknotes, because of the North New Bridge, this pass is called the North New Pass, one of the country's eight major taxes. The tax money brought by the ships to and from Beixin Pass was constant and reached 50,000 taels of tax money in the late Wanli period. In the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, the tax was more than 100,000 taels, and there were also several sub-gates and more than 20 inspection sub-gates under Beixin Pass, and the amount of tax levied was the fifth highest among the 25 tax-gates in the country at that time.

The Beixinguan, which is now Qingsha Park, can only be seen as a monument, but the passing water can testify to its former prosperity. Guangxu "Hangzhou Prefecture" contains, in the Qing Dynasty, in addition to presiding over the work of the director, a total of 127 staff members of the North New Pass, the patrol, by the system book, the draft room, the repair booklet check the number, the total armor guards fence, singing chip fishing chip, the watchman, the guard, patrol service. I reckon that this is a very large divisional customs.

Qing Sha Park, Chen Cong Zhou's former residence is also here. He was a famous contemporary ancient architect and garden artist. This place was originally called Qing Sha town scattered flowers beach. Scattered flowers beach, beach is the river, so what is scattered flowers? Isn't it a collection of flowers? In spring, various wildflowers bloom along the river, while in autumn, the canals are lapped by the river and the reeds sway with the breeze. My conjecture is based on the imagination of the ancient town of Qingsha that I see now, but Chen Congzhou, born in 1918, recalled in his own article that: Sanghuatan, also known as Cangji, was probably the place where food was hidden during the Southern Song Dynasty, surrounded by water on all sides, with three bridges leading to the city. The original Sanghuatan, but a small island by the canal. The teenage Chen Congzhou, standing by the river, looking at the distant river, he knew that his grandfather, when he picked a load of earth goods from Shaoxing, hiked to this place before settling down.

Three

The moonlight pulled me back from the dark hook of history.

The sound of high heels touching the green stone slab rang out next to my ears, one by one, heavy and powerful. I worry, wearing such shoes walking Gongchen Bridge, easy to fall; I know, the bridge on the slate, have been through the vicissitudes of the old man as broad-minded, will not care about those shoes impolite knock. Now, I turn from the direction of the south, looking north.

In front of me on the right, the second hospital affiliated to Hangzhou Normal University (referred to as City II), a large courtyard with three chic red buildings, from those three buildings, all the way to the left bank of the garden where I live, the former Zhejiang hemp spinning mill lot, all have a painful history.

In the afternoon of September 17, 1894, the Yellow Sea, Dadonggou sea, the Japanese combined fleet and the Qing government spent millions of taels of silver to build up the Beiyang navy fierce battle, known as Asia's first Beiyang navy, suffered a crushing blow, the Qing government was forced to sign the humiliating "Treaty of Shimonoseki". The sixth paragraph of the treaty includes the "opening of ports of commerce in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province", Hangzhou was in a moment of panic and anger, Gongchen Bridge in the north of the city then became the British, the United States, Italy and other countries of the public trading field and the Japanese concession, the scope is roughly: south from today's Deng Yun Bridge, north to the Wajiaotou River, west to the canal, east to the Hongjian River to Huzhou Street, straight Three miles, about two miles across.

"It was a Japanese inspection agency set up by the canal near Gongchen Bridge, and this customs office was the same as the customs offices of other ports, and the foreign officers headed by the tax collector held all the power and important positions All important positions were occupied by foreign officers. The foreign customs office consisted of Building A (taxation division), Building B (customs office), Building C (residence of helpers) and Building D (dock inspection factory), covering an area of more than 2,000 square meters. We can now see the three red-colored buildings of ABC, conspicuous as the red building looks good, but the general public does not know that this alternative building is full of national shame. From the establishment of customs in May 1896, until August 1945, the Republic of China government took over the customs stop, Gongchenqiao Japanese Concession, the actual existence of a full fifty years.

Tetsujin Uno, a representative of the modern Japanese Neo-Confucianism school and sinologist, who traveled through China for two years when he was young, visited Gongchenqiao and left this impressive text.

Gongchenqiao is about two miles north of Hangzhou, and it is a distribution center for ships traveling between Shanghai and Hangzhou and Suzhou and Hangzhou. In addition to the Chinese street, there is a rented area of various countries, and the Japanese are in charge of the rented area downstream of the river. The same as Suzhou, this concession is also the result of the 278 years of war (Sino-Japanese War). ("Chinese Civilization")

Although the descriptions of Tetsujin Uno are plain, they are not lacking in braggadocio.

On November 22, 1937, Feng Zikai began his decade-long artistic escape across more than ten provinces. That night, he took a boat from his hometown Shimenwan to under the Gongchen Bridge with his family, and had no choice but to throw the draft of his work "Cartoon History of Japanese Invasion of China" into the canal. He wrote this in "The Escape of Art": "It seemed like a punch to my heart, and it was painful. I had never abandoned my drawing. I have been examining it several times, composing it several times, and refining it several times, and I don't know how much effort I have piled up, but now it is all gone! I hope it flows east to my hometown, rooted in the edge of the Yuan Yuan Tang by the Woodfield Bridge, part of it into countless torpedoes, expelling all demons; part of it into countless free flowers, redecorating the beauty of Jiangnan."

The Left Bank Garden, where I lived for twenty years, is located in the center of the Japanese Concession.

The neighborhood has four exits, southeast and northwest, and during the New Crown Pneumonia epidemic, only the north gate was open, except for the south gate, which was connected to the Wajiaotou River, a tributary of the canal, where my three-year-old granddaughter Rui Rui and I used to go to see the egret. Most of the time, the egret stood at the water's edge at the foot of the opposite bank of the river, occasionally staring at the river and moving a few steps back and forth. "The egrets and the "Tarantulists" do not disturb each other, and each of them is peaceful.

When we were sitting on the chairs, there was a new willow hanging down over our heads, and Rui-rui looked up and called it "green silk ribbon", which became thicker and softer day by day, and Rui-rui often wanted to touch it. She was so familiar with He Zhizhang's "Winging the Willow" that she called all the new leaves on the roadside "the spring breeze in February is like scissors". When we passed a sign, Rui-rui asked, "What is this?" She asked, I had to explain, although she did not understand, I said: "This river is called the Wajiaotou River, this was the original site of the Zhejiang linen mill."

The history of this place goes further back in time, without thinking about it, it is the rented area that Tetsuo Uno wrote about. Rui Rui, let's go forward again, walk to the Hongjian River side of the Huzhou Street entrance and then turn back.

Four

I turned around again, facing east, with the Gongshu District Government Building on my left and the Canal Museum in front of me on my right. On the right is the theater building called "Rong Hua Theater", which has a high-pitched singing voice that seems to reach the clouds.

As with the opening of Hong Kong, it was thought that some desolate side of the Gongchen Bridge, a sudden influx of many gold seekers. 1895, Tian Xian Tea Garden opened under the attention of the public. A decade or so later, Gongchen Bridge East has been Tian Xian, Rong Hua, Tan Gui and other famous tea garden. May 1908, Jiangnan gradually hot weather, the British Stevenson came, he looked at the lively wharf, the comings and goings of merchant ships, immediately decided that he also opened a tea garden. He seems to be familiar with Chinese culture, the teahouse named "Yangchun foreign tea garden". This S's, in the end, have seen the world, brain, the teahouse opened, quite a lot of noise, phonograph singing loudly, the country's beautiful women dancing, the most critical thing is that he will be just invented soon after the introduction of the film, people running around on the screen, vividly. It is said that Hangzhou people flocked to Gongchen Bridge, 10,000 people empty lanes, Yangchun tea garden thus became the first movie premiere in Zhejiang.

Said the teahouse, the main attraction is the singing. Opera is the main lifeline of the economy of the teahouse, the teahouse are making every effort to invite the famous actor, the singing voice of the famous actor, the tea guests naturally foot not tiptoe to run.

The singing voice first started from Tan Xinpei thick soprano.

Tan Xinpei's father was a Beijing opera Dan. The young Tan Xinpei, whose stage name was "Little Caller", went to Beijing with his father at the age of 11 and began to perform at the age of 15. Six years later, he was chosen by the Qing court to be the civil tutor of the Inner Court's Shengping Office and performed in the palace. By the beginning of the 20th century, Tan Xinpei had already become one of the most famous actors in the Peking Opera world, and was known as one of the most famous actors in the world. Guangxu thirty years (1904), Tan Xinpei to Hangzhou to give performances, the location is in Gongchen Bridge, Yangchun Tea Garden, Tian Xian House, "Dingjun Mountain", "Empty City Scheme", "Li Ling stele", "Qin Qiong sold horses", Hangzhou people a scene to enjoy watching, the teahouse owner's silver as the canal water under the bridge does not move bubbling.

Gongchen Bridge teahouse good play after good play.

Tan Xinpei Hangzhou two years after the performance, "red raw progenitor" Wang Hongshou also came. What is a "red student"? It is the role of hooking red face. On the stage, there are actually not many "red students", Guan Yu, Zhao Kuangyin, Chang Guanchun, Xu Da, etc., the most famous of course is Guan Yu. Wang Hongshou portrayed the image of Guan Yu, brave and elegant, rigid and solemn. One day, the Tian Xian tea garden, Wang Hongshou performance gap, look at the seven-year-old boy Zhou Xinfang's performance, a look can not stop. In the end is a connoisseur, vision, in the eyes of Wang Hongshou, this little guy is not simple, solid foundation, is a good seedling to sing opera, immediately interested in taking him as a disciple, which is naturally a good thing; then, Wang Hongshou and Zhou Xinfang master and disciple of the cooperative play, in the Tianxian tea garden stunning debut. Since then, the teacher and disciple relationship is close, the theater industry is of the view that the qilin child Zhou Xinfang later became a master, and teacher Wang Hongshou's guidance is inseparable.

With Tan Xinpei, Wang Guifen together called the old student "new three" of the famous Peking Opera veteran Sun Juxian, the originator of the bangzi cavity flower Dan "13 Dan" Hou Junshan, known as "China's first theater improver" Wang Xiaonong, who is the "first master of pear playwriting", Yao Shuijuan, Xiao Dangui, Yuan Xuefen and other famous actors and actresses, all made dazzling appearances on the stage of Tianxian Tea Garden and Dangui Tea Garden by Gongchen Bridge.

There are also inspirational stories in the tea garden interpretation.

A teenager named Zhang Yingjie, fourteen years old to sing in the Tianxian tea garden. At that time, the "little shouting Tian" Tan Xinpei is being held here, Zhang teenager admired Tan everyone, he thought, why not name their own stage name "little shouting Tian"? Unexpectedly, this stage name was sarcastic. Zhang teenager is extremely sad, but he is not willing to give in, the master can not be surpassed? So a "Gai Yatian"! Thought, no diamond, not to take the porcelain work, the young man Gai Youtian in the Tianxian tea garden to a stunning debut, four days to play four completely different roles: the first day is "Tianshui Pass" in the old student Zhuge Liang, the second day for the "Cui Ping Mountain" in the martial arts Shi Xiu, the third day is the "Broken Queen" in the old Dan Li Queen, the fourth day is actually "eighteen tears" in the flower girl Kong Fengying. The result, as we all know, Gai Yutian acting skills are really excellent, 14-year-old boy, a hit, later known as "Jiangnan first martial arts student". Gai Yutian these four performances, naturally sensational Gongchen Bridge, Master Tan was curious, he carefully observed this evaluation of Zhang teenagers: in addition to singing, Gai Yutian really overshadowed himself!

I went to the West Lake scenic area next to the Zhao Gong dike, to see Yan Nan sent hut. It is Gai Yatian former residence, Yan Nan is Zhang Yingjie's number. Within the white walls and tiles, the image of Gai Yatian's artistic life is displayed. "Yan north really good man, south of the live Wu Song", the middle of the couplet is Gai called Tian acting Wu Song's art painting, Huang Binhong handwritten "learned old" as the banner. Tian Han presented Gai Yutian with a couplet with his name inscribed in Chinese characters, giving a precise summary of his artistic life: "The fame of Gai Yutian is three forks in the world, and the masterpiece is astonishing cross slope." Wandering in the former residence of Gai Yutian, I seem to see the heroic young man Zhang Yingjie on the stage by Gongchen Bridge again.

Five

The bright moon seemed to move somewhat towards the bridge from the high sky. From the south, to the north, and then to the east, my eyes from the RongHua theater collected, began to gaze at the foot of the Gongchen Bridge, this is a kind of bridge?

This Hangzhou City, the most magnificent existing ancient stone arch bridge, about its construction date there are several views, are based on: one, the end of the Ming merchants Xia Mujiang initiative to build (Kangxi, "Hangzhou"); two, the end of the Ming dynasty, Zhu Huafeng initiative and fund-raising set built (Kangxi, "Qiantang County"); three, Zhang Shicheng open new canal to this, the rapid flow, so the bridge to calm the water (folklore).

No matter what people built the bridge, in short, as an important bridge on the canal, "Gongchen Bridge" the three words in the Ming Chongzhen four years (1631) began to appear. What does it mean exactly? "Gong" that is, two hands arched in an arc to respectfully greet, naturally also has the meaning of arch around; "Chen" is the emperor's palace, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal Hangzhou end of this stone arch bridge, at any time to welcome the holy emperor, who dares to say bad? However, the name "Gong Chen", the fate is a mixed bag, it has been constantly destroyed and built. Shunzhi eight years (1651), the bridge collapsed. Kangxi fifty years (1711), Zhejiang Province, Duan Zhixi initiative, monk Hui chariot fund-raising reconstruction, six years later completed. Soon, the bridge and cracks, gradually to collapse. Yongzheng four years (1726), Zhejiang governor and the two Zhejiang salt government, Li Wei, the rate of officials donated funds to rebuild. The following year, the bridge was repaired, just promoted to the governor of Zhejiang shortly after Li Wei, also wrote "reconstruction of Gongchen Bridge" to explain. After the Xianfeng, through the war and collapse of the Gongchen Bridge. Eleven years of Guangxu (1885), Hangzhou people Ding C presided over the reconstruction.

Speaking of this Ding C, and is a big article.

Zhejiang Qiantang Ding family book collection, Ding's "eight thousand volumes building", for the late Qing Dynasty, one of the country's four major book collections, a collection of more than 200,000 volumes, Song and Yuan and the Ming and Qing dynasty engraved books and other good books up to more than two thousand. Ding C and brother Ding Shen risked their lives to save the book story, is moving. Qing Xianfeng ten years (1860), the Taiping army in Hangzhou and the Qing army fierce battle, West Lake Wenlan Pavilion "four books" in the war scattered, Ding C brothers, the remaining more than 10,000 volumes of "four books" smuggled to Shanghai for safekeeping. Twenty years later, Wen Lan Ge was rebuilt, Ding C sent the books into the collection, and collected many copies, and eight years later, Wen Lan Ge "four books" basically restored to its original appearance, Ding C made a significant contribution. Ding C is not only a book collector, but also a scholar and poet, he collated and published many local documents in Hangzhou, such as "wulin to philosophical legacy" 96 volumes, in addition to notes and poetry "gengxin weeping hang record" "wulin square alleyways," "Yu Gong shrine tomb record" "north Guo poetry account" "north corner embellished record" and so on, but also in cooperation with brother Ding Shen edited "wulin story series" 26 sets of 208 volumes.

Ding C repair bridge, he left little record, I only know that I now walk across the Gongchen Bridge every day, is his 1885 presided over the construction of: the bridge is 21 feet 4 feet long, 1 feet 3 feet wide, three holes under the bridge, the hole wide four feet 6 feet, left and right hole wide two feet 6 feet.

From the east to the west of the bridge, more than seventy meters long bridge, although it is an arch bridge, there is a certain curvature, but walk up and down, to less than two minutes, if running on and off, the average person is about ten seconds. For hundreds of years, people coming and going, not too much to pry how the bridge was built up, Gongchen Bridge is just a tool to cross the river at their feet, or even tools to talk about, just the usual ground and ground connection. More than four meters wide bridge, side-by-side also can not stand ten people, if the present day traffic, but also only a one-way channel. People on the bridge, at most stand for a while, look towards the south, south of the line of boats to drill through the hole in the bridge, or, then turn around, look towards the north, north of the line of boats to drill through the hole in the bridge. Clueless children sometimes exclaim as they spot a yellow dog tilting its head to greet them by the side of a moving boat.

However, because of the enduring ordinary, ordinary Gongchen Bridge from the main traffic, geographical coordinates, evolved into the significance of today's great and grave. Beiguo, Beiguan, Hushu; anger, sadness, pain; lively, prosperous, affluent. Gongchen Bridge is the big name cast by countless key words, loud and rich. Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal Hangzhou end mark Gongchen Bridge, has become an important mark of the total history of Hangzhou city north of a thousand years.

Six

This night, Gongchen Bridge and I look at each other not tired, up and down the ancient and modern, chatting so smoothly.

The night is late, wearing the moonlight home.

Another day of spring grass burst. Rui Rui and I stood by the canal, reciting aloud "the twilight of spring, spring clothing both into ...... chanting and return". The willow branches move gracefully with the wind, egrets sometimes across the river.

Ahead is the Gongchen Bridge, Chen Chen (Hangzhou Asian Games mascot one) is leaping around the bridge and raise their hands, to greet passers-by enthusiastically. There is a big white cruise ship, through the hole, a number of loud, long wind breaking waves, to our sudden burst and.