Xian county people follow the ancient wind, attach importance to academics, and have simple folk customs.
After the Ming Dynasty made Beijing its capital, people in the north and south of Hutuo River traveled by car, which was very inconvenient. The local people built wooden bridges, but the Hutuo River surged and the wooden bridges were repeatedly destroyed, which consumed a lot of manpower and material resources. Wang Fengyuan, the magistrate of Hejian, proposed to build a stone bridge. Xian county magistrate Cui Li donated money for his major, and Liu Yijiu, Shi Shouzhi and Zhang Jiuxu donated money to raise funds, which made this move possible. Countless people have contributed to this, and even the stones have been transported from Taihang Mountain thousands of miles away by merchants. After eight years of hard work, it was built in Chongzhen in the second year and became the traffic throat in the southeast of Beijing.
Since the Ming dynasty, the single bridge has been heavily guarded throughout the ages. When the Japanese invaded North China, they adopted the methods of avoiding the village and cross-country, cutting corners and taking a straight road, moved 1 km to the west and built a new bridge. The single bridge that has flourished for hundreds of years has been neglected and depressed, and the stone bridge is well preserved.
At present, Mr. Sun Yingjie, an entrepreneur from xian county, wants to build a cultural town in China with a single bridge as the center, so as to revitalize the economy of his hometown and reshape the wind of respecting teachers and valuing morality in xian county.
As a xian county native, I was moved by Mr. Sun's example and wrote a poem.
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(1) Today, xian county, Cangzhou City, Hebei Province, built Lecheng in the early Qin Dynasty and Lecheng County in the Western Han Dynasty. From the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it belonged to Hejian County and was under the jurisdiction of Hejian State. In the 18th year of Emperor Kai of Sui Dynasty (598), Lecheng was changed to Guangcheng. At the beginning of Renshou, Guangcheng was renamed Leshou, because the word "Guang" was taboo for the monarch Yang Guang. In the seventh year of Emperor Taizong of Jin Dynasty (1 129), Leshou was promoted to Shouzhou, which was ugly.
(2) Qin burned books to bury Confucianism. At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, Hejian offered Liu De, the king who loved learning in ancient times, and ordered the Rihua Palace to be built. "There are more than 20 guest houses for bachelor students", and "only the ashes are left". There are dozens of books such as Poems, Zuo Zhuan, Zhou Guan and The Book of Rites. The number is so large that it is full of pavilions and pavilions. It is said that "its number can be compared with that of the Han Dynasty".
③ Single bridge, located on the old road of Hutuo River, 6 kilometers south of xian county, Hebei Province, is a five-hole quad stone arch bridge, which was built in the second year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty (1629). The bridge deck is paved with bluestone, and the bridge railings on both sides are composed of 64 sentries and 68 stone fences carved with 18 taps at both ends of the vault. The fence boards and posts are carved with different animal patterns. Up to now, there are still "3000 lions, 600 monkeys and 72 dragon monuments" on the local single bridge. This bridge is a national key cultural relic protection unit.