Scorching Fujian and Cantonese flowers · Trip to Shaoguan · Chaozhou · "Seaside Zoulu"
Chaozhou City, an ancient cultural city with a history of more than a thousand years, is located in the middle and lower reaches of the Han River. It is the political, economic and cultural center of East China, and is known as the "Seaside Zulu" and the "Pearl of the South China Sea". Since ancient times, this place has been the seat of county, state, road and government administration: the original Baiyue residents lived in the Zhugan Mountain area of ??Chaozhou three thousand years ago, and later moved to the plains with the Han people. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, it was successively subordinate to Nanhai County, Nanyue County and Jieyang County. In the ninth year of Yixi (413) of Emperor An of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Yi'an County was established. The county was governed in today's Chaozhou City, and its jurisdiction included today's Chaoshan, Xingmei, southwestern Fujian and other places. In the tenth year of Emperor Kaihuang's reign in the Sui Dynasty, the county system was abolished and the state system was established in the following year (591). Because it is close to the South China Sea and "the tides reciprocate", it was named "Chaozhou". Later it was changed to "Road" and "Fu". It was called "Chaozhou Road" in the Yuan Dynasty and "Chaozhou Fu" in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The old saying goes: "If you don't get the tide in Guangzhou, your trip will be in vain." This is not an exaggeration. The economy and culture here are prosperous, and there were superb architectural arts as early as before the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, the Kaiyuan Temple and Li Su Temple were built as ordered by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. The creation of West Lake, Han Yu's expansion of East Lake, and Chang Gun's expansion of Jinshan provided material and technical conditions. During the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, literati and poets came one after another to recite poems and compositions, leaving inscriptions on Hulu Mountain in the West Lake. These are the cliff stone carvings that are a collection of cursive, cursive, official script, seal script, poetry and calligraphy. People summarize the colorful scenery of Chaozhou into eight inner and outer sceneries. The eight inner sceneries are: "Tide Viewing in the East Tower", "Appreciating Chrysanthemums in the West Garden", "Seven Stars Walking on the Moon", "Kui Pavilion Tenghui", "Lotus Shining at Noon", " "The bells of the mansion", "View of the fishing village at night", "Sanskrit singing in the ancient temple". The eight outer scenes are: "Han Temple Oak", "Jinshan Ancient Pine", "West Lake Fishing Raft", "Beige Buddha Lantern", "Spring Rise of Xiang Bridge", "Crocodile Crossing Autumn Wind", "Phoenix Standing in the Rain", "Pagoda Courtyard" Weizhou".
Xiangzi Bridge, also known as Guangji Bridge, is one of the four ancient bridges in my country. It is located in the east of Chaozhou City. It was built in the Southern Song Dynasty. It is the world's first switch-type stone bridge. Its eighteen shuttle boats It can open and close, rising and falling with the tide. It is said that Han Xiangzi, one of the Eight Immortals, once wrote in handwriting "The flood will stop here" on a stone tablet erected beside the bridge. There is also a folk legend about the construction of this bridge: After Han Yu was demoted to Chaozhou, he was very concerned about the suffering of the people. One day, he was inspecting the river bank and saw that the surging river water was making it difficult for tide people to cross the river, so he decided to build a bridge here. He summoned his nephew Han Xiang to discuss it, but Han Xiang only managed to build half of the project if he invited the Seven Immortals to help him. Monk Dadian of Lingshan Temple made suggestions and recommended Master Guangji of Kaiyuan Temple. It was agreed that Han Xiang and the Seven Immortals would build from the east, and Master Guangji would lead the Eighteen Arhats to build from the west. Since then, the two sides have been working intensively, each performing uncanny workmanship, and the project has progressed rapidly. But when it comes to closing, several bridge piers are still missing in the middle of the river. How to connect them? After all, the Eight Immortals have great magical powers. He Xiangu used her eighteen lotus petals on the water to turn into eighteen shuttle boats, and Uncle Cao Guo used cloud boards to transform them into eighteen shuttle boats. The finished ship planks were placed on the boat. Tieguai Li took off his belt, fastened the shuttle boat, and connected its head and tail to the east and west bridge piers. In this way, a flying bridge with a unique structure connected the east and west traffic, which greatly facilitated the people of Li. Therefore, the bridge benefits from both Han Xiang and Guangji, so it is called Guangji Bridge and Xiangzi Bridge. Zheng Lanzhi, a scholar of the Qing Dynasty, once wrote a poem titled "Spring Rise of the Xiangqiao Bridge": "The Xiangjiang River is far away at dawn in spring, and eighteen-shuttle boats are locked on the bridge. Herons are flying on the stone and snow, and the roar of the sea is booming. The peach waves are rising in Yazhou, and the crocodiles are in Zhugisa. The smoke is deep and the wicker branches are in the air. It is a beautiful month in March, and the scenery is almost as high as the sky."