1, say twenty-four bridges.
According to Shen Kuo's Meng Qian Bi Tan Bu Bi Tan, there are many waterways in Yangzhou in the Tang Dynasty, including Chayuan Bridge, Daming Bridge, Jiuqu Bridge, Maxia Bridge, Zuofang Bridge, Xima Bridge, South Bridge, Oichi Bridge, Zhoujia Bridge, Xiaoshiqiao Bridge, Guangji Bridge, New Bridge, Ming Kai Bridge, Gujia Bridge, Si Tong Bridge, Taiping Bridge, Liyuan Bridge and Viva Bridge.
During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, there were only Xiaoshi Bridge, Guangji Bridge, Ming Kai Bridge, Si Tong Bridge, Taiping Bridge and Viva Bridge. Today, there are only the names of Ming Kai Bridge and Si Tong Bridge, and this bridge no longer exists. ?
2. Name the bridge "Twenty-four", or Twenty-four Bridge.
According to Li Dou's "Yangzhou Painting Boat", record 15: "Twenty-four Bridge is a brick bridge in Wu Jia, a red medicine bridge, behind Zaixi Chuntai." Yao Hongqiao's name comes from Jiang Kui's Yangzhou Slow: "Twenty-four Bridges are still there, but Leng Yue is silent. Read the red medicine by the bridge, who do you know every year? " Wu Jia Brick Bridge is in the western suburb of Yangzhou.
Liang Yusheng adopted this theory and wrote that Gu Xiaofeng's home in Zhuxi Lane in Yangzhou is near this bridge. (See Liang Yusheng's Record of Gong Ming Yun Feng)
3. It is a general reference and a pronoun.
In China, the concept of numbers has always been expressed in a subtle, hazy and exaggerated way, especially in poetry to illustrate extraordinary things and emotional excitement, exaggerated numbers are often used instead of absolute numbers.
For example, "white hair three thousands of feet", "flying straight down three thousands of feet", "eighteen bends in the mountain road" and "three hundred and sixty lines" are all inaccurate. So did Du Mu's 24 Bridges refer to so many bridges in Yangzhou in this way? This is also a speculation, a guess.
This is a bridge.
Since the Song Dynasty, several opinions about the Twenty-four Bridges have gradually taken shape. Among them, the great poet Jiang Kui was the first to mention a bridge.
In the third year of Xichun (1 176), he came to Yangzhou by winter solstice and wrote the poem "Yangzhou is slow, Huaizuo Du Ming", in which he wrote: "Twenty-four bridges are still there, but Leng Yue is silent. Read the red medicine by the bridge, who do you know every year? " This way of writing seems to be a bridge. There were several poets in the Song Dynasty, and the twenty-four bridges they described can also be considered as a bridge.
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Related poems
Letter to Han Chuo, Yangzhou Magistrate
Don: Du Mu
There is water in the green hills,
The grass in the south of the Yangtze River has not withered in autumn.
On the moonlit night of Bridge 24,
Where does Jade Man teach oral sex?
Appreciate:
This poem was written by Du Mu when he returned to Chang 'an from Huainan. Yangzhou in the Tang Dynasty was the most prosperous metropolis in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. There are many shops, businessmen and restaurants dancing kiosks everywhere. "Every city is full of tens of thousands of scarlet lanterns, shining in the air, and the streets in nine miles and thirty paces are full of pearls and greens, just like a fairyland" (Taiping Guangji, volume 273, quoted Don Wen Que).
Du Mu, a "bohemian", often haunts brothels to advocate his family background in such an environment, and has many affairs. Han Chuo is his colleague in this respect, so he wrote poems as a gift after returning to Chang 'an. The first two sentences of this poem describe the scenery.
The first sentence is a telephoto lens, and the lush mountains around Yangzhou in the distance are blurred, giving people a sense of confusion; The river flows eastward for a long time, giving people the feeling of brisk flow.
The second sentence is to imagine that although the beauty of Jiangnan is autumn, the vegetation is not completely yellow. These two sentences are about the phenology of Yangzhou's mountains and rivers, which paves the way for the latter two sentences to ask Han Chuo what happened after he left. The focus of the last two sentences is to ask Han Chu if he played the flute and sang with a geisha and danced all night on a clear breeze and bright moon night.
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