The bridge culture of the Han people uses bridges as entities to reflect the ideological and cultural achievements and scientific and technological cultural achievements of each era. It is a typical specimen of the level of social productivity in various historical periods, showing mankind's ability to conquer nature.
1. Bridge culture has rich connotations. Politicians focus on creating a bridging political culture. In ancient times, it was the ideal of upright officials to "serve as an official for one term and bring benefit to one party". Building bridges and roads was an important political goal. It was an excellent political and cultural tradition that the person in power personally presided over the construction of bridges.
2. Religious believers inject religious culture into the bridge. Religious believers who donate money to build the bridge will leave the names of faithful men and women on the bridge and bridge monuments. The lotus stone carvings on the bridge belong to Buddhist culture. The Eight Immortals pattern belongs to Taoist culture. The Han people believe that the three religions have the same origin, and there is a cultural phenomenon of the same bridge among the three religions in ancient bridges.
3. Bridge craft designers create wonderful sculpture art on bridges. Craftsmen design various bridge decorative art works according to the needs of folk culture. The stone lions at the head of the bridge and the stone carvings of various water-absorbing animals play the role of guardian saints of the bridge. The stone carvings of lions, unicorns, elephants and gourds on the bridge pillars, and the stone carvings of double dragons playing with unicorns and double lions playing with hydrangeas on the bridge railings all have different local characteristics. The cast iron inlaid railings on the railings of the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge are even more exquisite and are still admired today.
4. Various scholars and literati are creating bridge culture from different angles. Such as numerous bridge couplets, bridge monuments, bridge names, bridge paintings, bridge photography, bridge calligraphy, bridge science and technology theory, bridge social science theory, bridge monographs, bridge papers, bridge stories, bridge literary works, bridge film and television works, bridge websites They are all products of bridge culture.
5. Historical events and historical figures related to bridges will also give specific connotations to bridge culture. For example, Luding Bridge has the military culture of the Red Army's forcible crossing; Marco Polo Bridge has the political culture of the "July 7th Incident" which kicked off the Anti-Japanese War; Tingsi Bridge has the celebrity culture of Ye Ting, the famous Northern Expedition general, and so on.
6. Bridge culture has many sociological contents. In ancient Han society, there was a social morality in which all people donated money to pave roads and build bridges, and volunteered to build bridges. This special ancient bridge has a rule that "civilian officials dismount their sedan chairs and military attachés dismount their horses." This is the ancient bridge ethical culture and folk culture. There are specific methods and methods for the financing, management and use of ancient bridges, bridge construction and maintenance management, and the establishment of checkpoints, inns, docks, temples, bridge pavilions, towns, markets and stages in the construction of ancient bridges. Regulation. This is Guqiao’s organizational management culture. Research on bridge culture is giving rise to new categories of bridge culture. Such as bridge archeology, bridge tourism economics, ancient bridge value evaluation, ancient bridge maintenance and protection, antique bridge architecture, etc. These new cultural categories will drive the development of new industrial categories.