The paintings stop by the Xingchun Bridge, and the autumn light for ten miles is red. In the middle of the night, the tide is rising and watching the moon. A few people are drunk and leaning on the river pavilion.
The poet closely connects the beautiful autumn colors beside the Xingchun Bridge with the crescent moon, and integrates them into one, setting off the grand scene of the crescent moon on the Stone Lake.
At the beginning of the Shen Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, there was also a poem "Recalling Jiangnan" that said: Suzhou is good, and there are long bridges across the moon. There are many bridges, the lake is wide, and the moon is high with laurels. I love to play the flute this night.
It expresses the author's immersive poetic and artistic conception, and the beauty is indescribable. No wonder pastoral poet Fan Chengda resigned from office and returned to his hometown to live in seclusion here, calling himself "Shihu layman".
"Suzhou is good, there are long bridges to cross the moon." In addition to Xingchun Bridge, Suzhou also has a masterpiece in the history of bridges - Baodai Bridge. The 53-hole Baodai Bridge is like a "Changhong lying on the waves" lying between the Grand Canal and Tantai Lake. It is said that at midnight on the 18th day of the eighth lunar month, the bright moon shines in the middle of the lake, and every bridge is like a moon. The moon in the water rises and falls with the waves, like a string of bright moons.
However, "Baodai Bridge and the Moon" are not as famous as "Shihu and the Moon". This is not only because of the picturesque scenery of Fangfangshan Stone Lake, but also because it is closely related to another custom of Fangfangshan. According to legend, on the 17th day of the eighth lunar month, it is the birthday of the "Wutong God". Devoted men and women in Suzhou go to Fangfang Mountain to burn incense and "borrow debts." In the Ming Dynasty, incense was very popular, and at night, the witches (witches) pretended to be gods and ghosts, making it very lively. On the morning of the 18th, incense boats from all over the country flocked to Shihu. Many boats carried various masters of boxing and martial arts. They beat gongs and drums as the boat crossed the bridge, and also flew the steel fork from the bridge across the bridge, over the heads of the lively onlookers, and waited until the boat reached the bridge to catch the boat. This showed the villagers' strong martial arts skills. At this time, there were crowds of people on the Xingchun Bridge, and there were cheers everywhere. Wen Zhengming of the Wumen School of Painting in the Ming Dynasty once painted a poem about this scene called "Boating on the Stone Lake." He used the association to plot evil. He personally demolished the Wutong Temple. Since then, the superstitious "Five Saints" have stopped, but the news of the stone tide on August 17 still exists and has been passed down to this day.
< p>Nowadays, every August 17th, the night is clear, and Suzhou's tourism industry has opened a "Moon Tour on Stone Lake" tour boat. At this time, on the mountain above, under the Lenggong Tower, the bright moon is in the sky, thousands of miles clear, and the lake waves and mountains are covered with mist. Clear light. Looking at the city of Suzhou, the lights are like stars, and it looks like a paradise on earth. There are also boats carrying wine, and the sound of string songs is heard in the middle of the moon. At midnight, people gather around Chunqiao to wait for a round. The bright moon rises to the sky and magically appears in the center of the wave through the nine bridge holes. Everyone will cheer and marvel at this eternal wonder.