According to legend, during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Hengzhou was known to lead people to replace wood with stone and rebuild Haitang Bridge. The state government posted a list of donations for bridge repair, and people responded one after another, with money and strong donations. Soon, the bridge will be repaired and the craftsmen are preparing to go home after a busy day. They found a white-haired old man standing by the bridge with a smile. The craftsmen asked him what he would donate to repair the bridge. The old man said, "I am old, how can I have money?" I'm willing to donate three feet of soil as a token of my gratitude. "The somebody else see he is an elderly man, how can have the strength to donate soil? The old man smiled and replied, "I can't do it." So everyone shook their heads and went home.
? The next day, the flood surged, and the stone arch bridge was submerged by the flood in Tao Tao.
A few days later, when the flood receded, the craftsmen found that the bridge had been repaired overnight, and suddenly there were three feet of wet mud on the bridge deck. They couldn't help jumping for joy. Recalling the saying that the old man donated three feet of soil before the flood, everyone was amazed, calling the old man a father of begonia.
Since then, the story of Grandpa Haitang donating three feet of soil for Haitang Bridge has been passed down from generation to generation. Today, the three-foot loess on the bridge deck of Haitang Bridge has experienced wind and rain and wasted years, but it has not lost an inch.
Legend is also a kind of historical and cultural evidence. This Haitang Bridge, which is only 30 meters long, bears an extremely rich history of Hengzhou and reproduces the Millennium Haitang culture in Hengzhou, Nassu Town.