The earliest recorded "Broken Bridge" is Zhang Hu in the Tang Dynasty. His poem "Broken Bridge is barren and rusty" shows that the broken bridge is an ancient stone bridge with mottled moss. At the beginning of the heavy snow, the snow on the mossy ancient stone bridge has not disappeared, and there is inevitably some residual water in the mountain, so the rare landscape of the West Lake, "Broken Bridge and Residual Snow", was drawn up.
I. History and current situation
Broken Bridge is located at the eastern end of Bai Causeway of West Lake in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. According to the Ming Dynasty's West Lake Tour, Broken Bridge was named after Bai Causeway, a lonely mountain, came here. It was called Baojou Bridge in the Song Dynasty. In the Yuan Dynasty, there lived a couple who made wine for a living, so it was also called Duanjia Bridge. The current broken bridge was rebuilt by 19 14. There are waterside pavilions and stone pavilions with broken snow in the east of the bridge.
Broken Bridge is the most famous bridge in West Lake, and it is also one of the three lover bridges in West Lake. Its name is associated with the sad love story in China's folk story The Legend of the White Snake. White Snake and Xu Xian met here, helped each other back to the city, and made a promise with an umbrella. Later, we met here and made up. In the Yue Opera "Legend of the White Snake", the white snake sang: "The scenery of the West Lake is still the same ... I feel heartache when I see the broken bridge, and my family is gone!" It has always been a tear-jerker, leaving endless memories for every visitor who visits the broken bridge.
Broken bridge and broken snow is one of the top ten scenic spots in the West Lake, and it is a unique scenery in the West Lake in winter. Because the broken bridge faces the mountain at the back of the city, it is at the dividing point between the outer lake and the Beili lake, and its vision is wide, so it is the best place to watch the snow scene of the West Lake in winter. Whenever Xue Rui Chuqing looks out from the Baoshi Mountain, the positive side of the bridge has been melted by ice, so when he looks out to the sunny side, "the bridge is broken with snow", while the negative side of the bridge is still covered with snow, so when he looks out from the negative side, "the bridge keeps breaking".
The earliest recorded "Broken Bridge" is Zhang Hu in the Tang Dynasty. His poem "Broken Bridge is barren and rusty" shows that the broken bridge is an ancient stone bridge with mottled moss. At the beginning of the heavy snow, the snow on the mossy ancient stone bridge has not disappeared, and there is inevitably some residual water in the mountain, so the rare landscape of the West Lake, "Broken Bridge and Residual Snow", was drawn up.
There is a quip in Amin Wang Keyu's "Talking about Picking Vegetables in Xizi Lake": "The victory of the West Lake, Yang Lake is not as good as Yin Lake, Yin Lake is not as good as Moon Lake, and Moon Lake is not as good as Snow Lake ... How many people in the world can really lead the landscape!" Hangzhou, located in the south of the Yangtze River, has a short snow period every year, especially in heavy snow days. Once the silver makeup is wrapped, it will create a snow lake that is very different from the usual time and scenery. Whenever it snows in Chuqing, I come to the broken bridge and look to the west and north. The terraced fields in Gushan and Geling are like jade, crystal clear and have a kind of Leng Yan beauty.
Li, a painter in the Ming Dynasty, once wrote "The Sleeping Map of the West Lake, the inscription of the broken bridge in spring": "When you go to the lake, when you look at the broken bridge, your soul will die. It is also said that, as far as we know, the lake is like a tree in the morning and the moon is in Lu. Covered with mountains and rivers, there is a huge immersion there, which is not as good as it is. " From this point of view, if you look at the broken bridge, you can get the essence of lakes and mountains, and you can get the remnant snow alone!
Today's broken bridge is 192 1 an arched stone bridge with single hole and round hole. It is 8.8 meters long and 8.6 meters wide, and the clear distance of a single hole is 6. 1 meter. It was overhauled years ago, but its simple and elegant style remained basically unchanged. On the east side of the bridge, there is a tablet pavilion with Kangxi imperial theme, and a water pavilion is built on the side of the pavilion. The inscription "Clouds in the Water", green tile bamboo columns and cornices, together with the bridge pavilion, constitute a classical picture in the northeast corner of the West Lake.
Second, the origin of the name
Statement 1:
The West Lake began to snow, climbed the Baoshi Mountain, overlooking the south. Bai Causeway is as white as a silver chain. Sunrise reflects the melting of the snow on the sunny deck of the broken bridge, revealing the traces on the brown deck, as if a long white chain was broken in the middle, so it is called "broken bridge residual snow".
Statement 2:
Because Bai Causeway in the autumn moon in Pinghu is broken here, it is called a broken bridge. In winter, Yukime, standing on the broken bridge, looks like silver, and the frozen lake is like ink, black and white, which is particularly touching. Therefore, it is called "broken bridge and residual snow".
Statement 3:
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Dai didn't mention it. In Dream of the West Lake, he wrote: Bai Causeway planted peaches and willows along the embankment, "All the trees are broken, and the branches and leaves are restored, and the moonlight leaks like broken snow." The original meaning is "broken bridge and residual snow", or the moon shadow.
Statement 4:
There is also a saying that is not unreasonable: in winter, standing on a broken bridge, looking around, but seeing the snow as silver, the ice lake as ink, black and white, particularly moving.