Puji Bridge

Puji Bridge

Puji bridge, commonly known as South Bridge, spans the river outside the South Gate of Guyang Town, 20 kilometers north of Yuanping City. Founded in the third year of Jin Tai He (1203 AD)

brief introduction

Commonly known as Nanqiao, it spans the river outside the South Gate of Guyang Town, 20 kilometers north of Yuanping City. Puji bridge was founded in the third year of Jin Tai He (1203 A.D.), and has been repaired in successive dynasties. It still retains the majestic appearance and magnificent art of the stone bridge in the song and Jin Dynasties. The main bridge is 30 meters long, 8 meters long and 7 meters high. There is an approach bridge and two small coupons at each end to divide the flood. The large and small openings are made of stone, and there are exquisitely carved stone reliefs beside them. On both sides of the big entrance, stone lion heads are carved in the middle, and the rest are evenly distributed, with 16 relief paintings of story figures; on the side of the small entrance, dragon water and nine needle patterns are carved. The reliefs are elegant, simple, profound, beautiful and exquisite. It is the second batch of key cultural relics protection units in Shanxi Province.

On October 7, 2019, it was announced as the eighth batch of all key cultural relics protection units by the State Council.

modelling

The large and small openings are made of stone, and there are exquisitely carved stone reliefs beside them. On both sides of the big entrance, stone lion heads are carved in the middle, and the rest are evenly distributed, with 16 relief paintings of story figures; on the side of the small entrance, Jiaolong water and nine needle patterns are carved. The reliefs are elegant, simple, profound, beautiful and exquisite. Yuanwang Puji bridge, five tickets eyebrows scattered orderly, a fupuji bridge, commonly known as South Bridge, across the river outside the South Gate of Guyang Town, 20 kilometers north of Yuanping City. The stone curve is flat, and the columns, columns and slabs are neat and uneven. If you look closely at the convex and concave sides of the bridge wall, you can go in or out. The columns on the bridge deck stand upright and the slabs lie down, rising and falling. It's really solemn and simple, and the construction is strange.

history

Guyang Puji bridge, commonly known as South Bridge, spans the river outside the South Gate of Guyang Town, 20 kilometers north of Yuanping City. It was founded in the third year of Jin Tai He (1203 A.D.), and has been repaired in successive dynasties. It still retains the majestic appearance and magnificent art of the stone bridge in the song and Jin Dynasties. The main bridge is 30 meters long, 8 meters long and 7 meters high. There is an approach bridge and two small coupons at each end to divide the flood. Across the river outside the South Gate of Xiaoyang Town, 20 kilometers north of Yuanping City. Puji bridge was founded in the third year of Jin Tai He (1203 A.D.), and has been repaired in successive dynasties. It still retains the majestic appearance and magnificent art of the stone bridge in the song and Jin Dynasties. The main bridge is 30 meters long, 8 meters long and 7 meters high. There is an approach bridge and two small coupons at each end to divide the flood. The large and small openings are made of stone, and there are exquisitely carved stone reliefs beside them. On both sides of the big entrance, stone lion heads are carved in the middle, and the rest are evenly distributed, with 16 relief paintings of story figures; on the side of the small entrance, Jiaolong water and nine needle patterns are carved. The reliefs are elegant, simple, profound, beautiful and exquisite. In the old days, Puji temple was destroyed beside the bridge.

Location

Puji bridge, commonly known as South Bridge, spans the river outside the South Gate of Guyang Town, 20 kilometers north of Yuanping City.

Gu County was renamed Yuanping County on December 7, 1958. The county-level organs were moved from the county seat to Yuanping town. Yuanping county was set up in the third year of the Yuan Dynasty in the Western Han Dynasty, and Yunzhong county was set up in the last year of the Western Jin Dynasty. In the second year of Yongxing in the Northern Wei Dynasty, Shicheng County was established. In the tenth year of kaihuang in the Sui Dynasty, it was changed into Pingkou county. In the second year of Daye, it was renamed as Gu County. Shuijingzhu: the water of Xiaochuan flows out of Gushan County, so it flows south of the city and out of the mountain in the west, which is called Xiaokou. Therefore, Xiaoxian county also has the name of Xiaokou.

Witness history

Xiaoyang town is the old county seat of Xiaoxian county. Today, this historical and cultural city, which integrates human wonders, Confucian ideas and feelings of serving the country, as well as its ancient history, has been gradually forgotten. Even those who are not very far away have been rarely mentioned: "kuxian Massacre" records the atrocities of Japanese aggression against China; Xu Yongchang and Xu Fanting are two figures of the Republic of China who went out from kuxian. There are more than 30 graduates from Huangpu Military Academy in Kuiyang County alone. Although Kuiyang is not an important frontier town, it is an important transportation road and a place for military strategists since ancient times. Xiaoyang, an important border town with a history of nearly 1700 years, recorded in the summary of Fang Yu's history reading: "if there is something wrong with Datong, you can garrison here with heavy troops. In the East, you can defend Yanmen, in the west, you can help Pianguan, in the north, you can respond to yunshuo, and you can benefit from the land." In 615 A.D., Sui Yang emperor hunted Yanmen in the north and encountered the Turkic army. Forty one cities of Yanmen county were conquered by Turks and 39 of them were occupied. Sui Yang Emperor himself was besieged in Daixian County and was in danger. It was only by the garrison of Gu county that the Sui army won reinforcements to break the siege of Dai County; in the Northern Song Dynasty, it was close to the song and Liao battlefields; in the Ming Dynasty, in order to guard against Mongolia, Gu county built three walls, namely, Luocheng and Weicheng.

Today, there are no more than one ancient city wall, but there is a city in the city of Guyang, and the pattern of connecting the city outline is still vaguely visible. The tall and majestic Jingming gate is the only intact Ming gate in Guyang. Walking into the city, the streets are winding and winding. There is no market. It is cold and desolate. There are not many new houses in the old street, but there are also no old buildings that people can stop and take a close look at. Like many other ancient counties in Shanxi, Kuiyang was also devastated by the Japanese aggressors: on October 8, 1937, the Japanese aggressors occupied Kuiyang, an important area in northern Shanxi, and then the famous Xinkou campaign in the early days of the Anti Japanese war began.

After the Japanese invaders occupied Gu County, they burned, killed, looted, and committed all kinds of crimes. Only in Gu County, about 2500 people were killed. There were 1020 people in 204 households in nanhuahua village, more than 100 households were killed, more than 700 people were killed, cattle, sheep, pigs and other livestock were all slaughtered, and more than 1000 houses were burned. In Yanzhuang village, 700 people were killed and 40 or 50 women were raped by Japanese invaders in one day, and most of the villages were burned to ashes Ember In October 1937 alone, as many as ten thousand innocent people were killed by Japanese aggressors. Urbanization as rubble, the past prosperity has become a thing of the past, and never recovered. In September 1937, facing the superior Japanese army, the Chinese army held the garrison in Kuiyang for seven days and nights, which was the most fierce and exciting battle in Shanxi in the early period of the Anti Japanese war. The Chinese army finally broke through from the east gate. In order to avoid the killing, under the leadership of the president of the chamber of Commerce, the businessmen in Xiaoyang knelt down at the gate of the west gate to welcome the Japanese army, holding the Japanese flag, and expressed their willingness to be obedient. More than 300 years ago, Yangzhou people also welcomed Dorgon into the city in this way. History is so strikingly similar. Almost all the businessmen who knelt down to receive the Japanese army into the city were killed, followed by a more bloody massacre. According to records, the Japanese army slaughtered nearly half of the population in Guyang and burned down more than 2000 houses and temples. Unfortunately, in today's Xiaoyang City, we can rarely see the commemoration of this tragedy. According to the research, in the history of Gu County, in the Ming and Qing Dynasties alone, there were more than 2000 scholars, Juren and Zhugong in the examination. A place once full of people and culture, but now it's so broken, it's really strangling. When you climb up the old rammed earth wall beside the Confucian temple, you can see that Xiaoyang is quiet and desolate in the dusk. The city wall that once defended Xiaoyang for thousands of years is still surrounded by a few tall mounds. An ancient city with a history of more than 1700 years, her glory and vicissitudes, her history and tradition, her rise and fall and honor and disgrace, how many can continue another 1700 years.

Nearby attractions

Guandi temple in Guyang: it is located in the east gate of Guyang town. According to the stele, Guandi temple was built in Ming Dynasty and rebuilt in Qing Dynasty. From north to south, the original Guangong hall, stage, east-west rooms, Notre Dame hall, Sanyi hall, Longwang hall, Mountain Gate and other buildings form a rectangular overall plan. At present, the stage and the West Wing room are all intact. Guangong hall is three rooms in width and depth, with porches in front and brick platforms, stone railings around, four railings on the left and right, and eight railings in front. The inscription was rebuilt in the first year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty. Behind the Guan Gong hall, there are three small wooden maiden hall, Dragon King Hall and Sanyi hall, all of which are built in the late Qing Dynasty. There are 14 steps in the mountain gate, and there are eight steps step by step. There is a brick platform, and there are brick flower railings around. On the forehead of the mountain gate is written "Guandi Temple", in front of which there is a Zhaobi and a stone lion. The existing buildings have ancient architecture and artistic value, and are the key cultural relics protection units of the county.

Daishan Temple: there is a main hall with five East and five West verandas. The front hall is composed of four pillars and three rooms, with straight curved corners, a top of the hill, carved roof and animal heads at both ends. The front and rear halls are connected tightly and integrated, with exquisite and unique shape, free and easy. In addition to the blue and gray tiles on the top of the hall, there are green and yellow glazed tiles. There is a broad platform in front of the hall, paved with green bricks, surrounded by stone railings and stone railings, and stone steps in the middle. According to the records of Gu County, "Daishan temple was founded in the third year of the reign of the Yuan Dynasty. Xu Shou, the magistrate of Chenghua County in the Ming Dynasty, Yan Zhuang, the prefect of Chenghua County, and Du Feng, the senior official of Chenghua County, donated money to rebuild it. The founding date of Daishan temple has been recorded but not verified. Recently, a beam was pulled out during the renovation of the main hall of Jixiang temple, with the words "renovated in the 18th year of Ming Chenghua" written on it. In addition, many pieces of broken murals were excavated from the collapsed Gables, which still show the characteristics of gorgeous colors and smooth lines. The picture of "dog barking at the moon" on one side is still very complete. During the renovation of the courtyard, a 1.5-meter-high bluestone lion and two 1-meter-square stone tablets were unearthed