In 2000, when the city was rebuilt, the Municipal People's Government decided to rebuild the bridge, and the Transportation Bureau was fully responsible. Municipal Road and Bridge Company and Dongyang Woodcarving Ancient Garden Company have successively built it. It started in June of that year and was completed in September of 2002, with a total cost of120,000 yuan.
The new bridge is 70.8 meters long and 44.6 meters wide, with a design load of 20 tons and a hanging weight of 100 tons, which can resist the flood with a return period of 50 years. The gallery is divided into three floors and has 60 rooms, which are connected by an overpass. Six roofs built on the mountain, shining; Rosewood doors and windows, hanging screen bluestone railings, the statue is lifelike. Bridges and balconies are excellent in engineering.
Today's scenery is a bridge with huge claws and a golden dragon soaring, beautiful and magnificent. Looking at the tower, the peaks are green and beautiful; Ruifeng echoes Shoufeng's sister tower from a distance, and the county river is like a belt, with hundreds of miles of waves. People on both sides of the strait are busy with traffic and neon flashes; Surrounded by buildings and green grass; Birds are singing and flowers are fragrant. The river is cool and breezy, the fish in the water are playing, and it is refreshing to be on this bridge. Zheng Hui Bridge has really benefited the people! People love bridges and protect them, which is even more touching. Today is a monument to inherit the virtues of the sages, enlighten future generations and let the spirit of patriotism and love for the countryside spread through the ages. According to the inscription.
Fenghua has set up a political center and a commercial center since it was founded in the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty. The distance between the two places is about one kilometer. The former is at the foot of Fengshan, backed by Jinxi, with mountains and rivers as natural barriers, and the terrain is relatively high and dry; The latter is close to Linxian River and located on Mingtai Post Road, with convenient land and water transportation and frequent exchanges between officials and people. In the Tang Dynasty, there were academy post offices, also known as Fengchuan post offices, post offices and post offices. In the Ming Dynasty, there were 32 sailors, mules and donkeys 10, with four rooms and eight shops. Around it, there are fish, rice, hemp, bamboo and wood firewood in the plain water town. These goods are gathered here for exchange, and people and goods are prosperous, which naturally becomes the commercial center of a county.
In the Song Dynasty, the business of Da Qiao Town was very prosperous. In 2000, a Song Dynasty winery site was discovered underground near the eastern end of the bridge site. The complete wine bottles are neatly stacked together, which is tens of meters long. The residual bottles and debris accumulation layer is 50 to 60 cm deep and hundreds of square meters wide, which shows that Da Qiao Town has become a place with a large population and prosperous business. In the Southern Song Dynasty, it was recorded in Baoqing Sizhiming that the bridge was the boundary, which was called the East City and the West City in the east. It can be seen that the commercial activities at that time were mainly around the bridge. After describing the names of 32 market towns in the county, Fenghua County Records in the Qing Dynasty said that "the bridge is the heaviest, and every Monday and Saturday is the city, and the sea and things come from the lake, and the mountains and things gather in Fenghua and Song Lin, and the trade is especially prosperous, followed by Quankou and Jiangkou".
During the 30-odd years that Emperor Gaozong lived in Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty, the Zheng Hui Bridge was destroyed and built, and it was built and destroyed, which was probably a stopgap measure and badly repaired. At this time, there are two brothers who are willing to do public welfare. My brother is Wang Mi and my brother is Wang Fen. They took the lead in donating 5 million copper coins, and the enthusiastic people in the county donated more than10 million to build a strong stone bridge. The bridge has two holes, and there is a hole in the middle pier to speed up the water flow. Stone fences are set up on the bridge to ensure safety, and the banks on both sides of the bridge are made of stone. The Wang brothers not only donated money to build the No.1 Bridge, but also invested in the construction of Guangji Bridge and Beidu Ferry, and spared no expense to help all the people, which is worth remembering by future generations.
After the completion of the Zheng Hui Bridge, it passed safely 400 years later. Until the seventh year of Zheng De in the Ming Dynasty (15 12), the county magistrate Tao Lin, a native of Suzhou, asked the monks in the county to raise funds to rebuild and build a house on the deck, following the example of Du Nan Guangji Bridge. This is the beginning of building houses on the deck of Zheng Hui Bridge, which makes full use of the deck, protects the bridge and facilitates pedestrians. During the Apocalypse period in the late Ming Dynasty and the Qianlong period in the Qing Dynasty, Qiao Wu was successively changed to Yan Guan Sheng in Taoism and Siyuan Temple in Buddhism, and he owned land property. This is about the government's consideration of the charity of the believers as the cost of bridge protection. In the eighth year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1869), 1 Bridge was rebuilt again, and it was still the bridge body of the stone bridge, and the bridge deck was built.
1935 65438+1On the night of October 23rd, the shop opening on the bridge caught fire and the Zheng Hui Bridge was destroyed. In the same year, it was converted into a reinforced concrete bridge with stone piers. There are piers in the middle and stone dikes on both sides. It is 9 meters high, 52 meters long and 8.5 meters wide. The bridge deck is slightly inclined, and the retaining wall is more than one meter high. The pier is equipped with a fish head at a certain height as a hydrological sign. There is a saying that "the fish head is flooded and the city is affected". Bridge forehead is the name of the bridge inscribed by Yu Youren, a veteran of the Republic of China and a famous calligrapher.
Before 1935, there were many shops on the south side of Zheng Hui Bridge deck, including large cotton Li Tiancheng, fruit shops and grocery stores. There is a god in the middle of the north side of the bridge deck, and there are boatmen's lounges at both ends, because there were many night boats and Wushan boats moored under the bridge at that time, heading straight for Ningbo, and the pedestrians on the bridge were bustling and endless. After the completion of the new bridge, there were no houses on the bridge, but many businesses gathered on both sides of the bridge, such as Fu Ruixing and Ding Hengli's rice wine, Heyuan and Xintai's sauce garden south goods, Yonglingtang,
Jieshoutang's traditional Chinese medicine and other specialized trading places, such as Chai Chang Tou, Gu Chang Tou and Yang Chang Tou, as well as commercial streets such as Beach Street and Zhi Street, are the heyday of the town's business. When War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out, the Japanese aggressors bombed Fengcheng four times. Although the bridge survived, the market was affected. In l94 1 year, Fengcheng fell, the Japanese army entered, people panicked, people's livelihood dried up, everything was depressed, and Zheng Hui Bridge naturally gradually cooled down. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zheng Hui Bridge has always been the commercial center of the city, and the market is unprecedentedly prosperous.
After 65 years of wind and rain, the Zheng Hui Bridge built in 1935 still stands tall. However, due to its insufficient load capacity, cars cannot pass, and its deck is narrow, which is far from being able to adapt to the new situation of reform and opening up. In June 2000, the old bridge was demolished and the new bridge was rebuilt. Designed by Zhejiang Communications Design Institute and constructed by Fenghua Road and Bridge Company. This reinforced concrete bridge is 70.80 meters long and 44.6 meters wide, and can withstand the flood once in 50 years (attached drawings 16, 17). '
During the Republic of China, there was a Chiang Kai-shek in Fenghua, Ningbo, so it had a special historical position and attracted the attention of people at home and abroad. During the period of 1949, Chiang Kai-shek was "out of the office", party and government officials poured in, and Xikou Road of Zheng Hui Bridge was busy with traffic, which once became the national decision-making center. 1April, 949, Chiang Kai-shek left his hometown for Taiwan Province Province and never came back. Fenghua was liberated in May.