Dazhong Bridge has a history of nearly a thousand years. As early as the Six Dynasties period, the current Dazhong Bridge area was the east gate of the "Baixia City" acropolis of Kangcheng built at that time. Yang Wu (later Nan When the city was built in the Tang Dynasty, a moat was dug along the Qingxi River, and a bridge spanned the moat outside the east gate. The Qingxi River in front of the gate crosses the bridge, which is named "Baixia Bridge". This is the original bridge.
In the ninth year of Emperor Wude of the Tang Dynasty (626), Jinling County was moved to Jinling County and renamed Baixia County. The east gate of the city became Baixiamen, and the bridge over the Qingxi River in front of the city gate was named Baixia. Get off the bridge. In the Tang Dynasty, there was a post pavilion called "Baixia Pavilion" next to Baixia Bridge, across the river from Baixiamen, with weeping willows reflecting the green stream and green grass stretching to the sky. It was included in the Eighteen Scenic Spots of Jinling in the Ming Dynasty. Wen Boren, the nephew of Wumen painter Wen Zhengming, carefully drew it into the "Eighteen Scenes of Jinling". It is also famous because it was a place where literati and scholars were sent to welcome and bid farewell. Li Bai, the great poet of the Tang Dynasty, lived here when he visited Jinling. In "Jinling Baixiating Farewell", he wrote: "Yiting Sanyang Village is right at Baixiamen." After leaving Jinling and going west, he wrote in "Xian Congshu Dang Tu Zai Yangbing" ("Congshu" is his father's Li Yangbing, a sworn brother, famous philologist, calligrapher, and magistrate of Dangtu County, said in his poem: "My son said goodbye to Jinling and came from Baixiating." It can be seen that Li Bai has a hard time letting go of his feelings for Baixiating. The play "Take off your boots at the Jinluan Palace and go down to the pavilion to ask for wine" by Ren Si'an, a poet of the Song Dynasty, vividly outlines the bold character and chic demeanor of Li Bai, the poet and wine saint.
Jiankang Fucheng in the Song Dynasty still followed the old system of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the Baixia Bridge and Baixia Pavilion are still there. After Wang Anshi resigned as Prime Minister, he lived in Banshan Garden. Entering the city from the east gate, you must pass Baixia Bridge and Baixia Pavilion. He once wrote, "The autumn water in front of the door can float the water, and I want to look for Baixia Pavilion in the west." Wang Anshi took Su Dongpo to Jinling to visit Zhongshan. Later, he paid a farewell visit to Su Dongpo at Baixia Bridge and wrote a poem: "If you are poor, don't cross the Qingxikou. When seeing off guests, you pass by Baixia Bridge every time." Wang Anshi also wrote poems such as "The white pavilion at the east gate destroys the cold flowers and vines". There is also Baixia Temple built next to the pavilion, with a plaque written by Kou Zhun, a famous minister of the Song Dynasty.
Wen Tianxiang, the national hero of the Southern Song Dynasty, was captured by the Yuan army and escorted to Dadu (now Beijing) of the Yuan Dynasty. When he passed through Jiankang, he lived in a post pavilion near Baixia Bridge.
According to the Yuan Dynasty's "Zhizheng Jinling New Chronicles": "Baixia Bridge, also known as Shangchun Bridge, is outside the east gate of the city, with Baixia Pavilion on its side." By the Yuan Dynasty, Baixia Bridge was also known as Shangchun Bridge. The bridge has been renamed Shangchun Bridge (also known as "Changchun Bridge"), and the reason for the change of name is "it is not appropriate to raise a son in the name of Bai Xia". That is to say, people at that time tabooed the word "Bai Xia" because it was easy to misunderstand. For "no descendants (descendants)". Therefore, it was renamed Shangchun Bridge.
According to the records of Shangyuan County in Wanli Ming Dynasty, there used to be a big bridge (now Huaiqing Bridge) and a middle bridge (now Sixiang Bridge) here. In the early Ming Dynasty, the two bridges were merged into one bridge, so they were collectively called Dazhong Bridge. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Baixia Temple near Dazhong Bridge was expanded, covering an area of ??30 to 40 acres, and was very popular. It has since disappeared in the vicissitudes of life.
In the first year of Hongguang in the Southern Ming Dynasty (1645), after Nanjing was occupied by the Qing army, Mingqi Jinshi Huang Daozhou and Zheng Zhilong supported Emperor Longwu in Fujian and were awarded the title of Bachelor of Wuyingdian. He invited himself to Jiangxi to recruit troops to fight against the Qing army going south. When traveling to Wuyuan, he suddenly encountered a large group of Qing troops. Because he was alone and without support, he was defeated and captured, and later died by the Baixia Bridge. Emperor Longwu posthumously awarded him the title of Uncle Wenming and the posthumous title of Zhonglie. To commemorate the heroic sacrifice of Huang Daozhou in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Nanjing people changed the name of Baixia Bridge to Dazhong. Later, to avoid the literary inquisition of the Qing Dynasty, it was renamed Dazhong Bridge. The bridge has become famous ever since.