As "looking for home away," Hong Kong Phoenix TV Chinese Channel, Zhao Qun, deputy director of legislation went so far as to risk their lives and pay homage to civilization; at 12:24 on September 2, 2001 while driving a helicopter filming Yongjia Lam ancient village pit when killed. Prior to that, which I arrived in June 9 this year, called "covered bridges Museum" Taishun, in Zhejiang, which is Zhao Qun Li in the "search for distant homeland" in the shooting object, to commemorate his dedication to human civilization and a hero , close-down "Umayabashi dream trip."
This is a people to the ancient, and the people honest place, this is a more than 1000 years ago was his best praise is to be forgotten in today's wonderland. I believe in a very short future, she will be renewed as a gem of the collection.
Umayabashi Dream Tour
Liu, Wei-Ming / photo by
A weekend afternoon (June 8, 2001), I was a bit trance-like as usual, a little bit wait a bit distraught. Suddenly, the Internet saw a called "the most covered bridges in the world" place, but also on Taishun County, Zhejiang Province in China. Perhaps it is because I have once read a "Bridges of Madison County" in American movies, and once the film's male protagonist, Robert Kincaid and Francesca heroine of the period of unforgettable beauty and intoxicating to have a good a while reason, I immediately actually excited. "Go, I immediately go!" So, hurrying on the Internet about two strangers who decided to left the same evening.
1, the starting
21:30, I and my appointment of two people met in Shanghai Railway Station, and two boys. They seemed very disappointed to see me and asked, how can you will be interested? Heard I was a little uncomfortable. However, they are not necessarily wrong, maybe I'm really a little "shameless," a Ben 50-year-old person has the gall to catch Zhefan fashionable? They both a securities company's "red vest" is a foreign company's engineers have only Ershibajiu-year-old. Can we not envy.
22:15, we are riding the train of K811 meeting started. On the train, I began to study the specific itinerary Umayabashi dream trip. Read map that I know, Taishun, Zhejiang, one of the most south county, and Fujian is only one mountain away, is a mountainous area south of Zhejiang. Due to historical reasons, where the preservation of many ancient left "covered bridges." These built deep in the mountains, once as the main transport corridors of the large wooden arch bridge, in order to increase its stability, but also on the bridge built Langpeng and, therefore, referred to as "covered bridges." As the road to get around, these "covered bridges" has lost the function of traffic, combined with remoteness, they rarely attract the buyers. Many of the "covered bridges," so the old land shortage in the days where the silent way through the year after year. It is said that there are dozens of Taishun only such "covered bridges," and, combined with the adjacent surrounding areas, a total of more than 200 seats, could be called "the most covered bridges in the world," the.
6:50 the next morning, the train to the city of Lishui, Zhejiang Province. We get off to buy the next day immediately after the 22:14 separate train ticket to Shanghai K834 times, followed by 6 yuan to spend money, "playing" to the long-distance bus station, take the 7:20 from the Lishui bound Taishun berth Coach, tickets 45. Until 2 pm, we reach the county seat of Luoyang Zhen Tai-shun, spent seven hours on the road. The road walk is difficult, one way in the construction (repair of new roads) and the other will have to climbing mountains. Car for a while turn left, turn right along the stream, while they climbed the hill turn right and turn left. No wonder, many have been to this place is also a great poet of the Tang and Song dynasties, laments: "far away Luo, as in heaven," "a relatively remote mountain heard the phrase before, cross around the valley a few miles." It is noted that the difficult journey. However, this road Daoshi breathtaking scenery. I saw slowly flowing stream, middle of the river sandbar covered humilis seems to drift along the stream, the distant ridge diffuse the veil, flying out of a Mama beautiful clouds. Like with the scenery along the way there are many beautiful names, such as Fei Jiang, color dove village and so on ... ...
Can not think of Taishun county (that is, Luoyang Zhen) is also very busy, it seems there are numerous bus station CMB, and out, car owners are very enthusiastic, very much buying power to pull the passengers on the train. I have also seen two cars head stuck, "Taishun - Shanghai" luxury bus, a bit weird. In Shanghai, may have never heard of Tai-shun this place, but do not know long-distance bus can be directly here.
Second, leaving countless surprised to future generations and questions Wen Hsing Bridge
The people pointing, we have to take an Sasa village on the CMB, because there are two "covered bridges." Pakistan and China are mostly locals, who see the three outsiders a little bit curious, take the initiative to ask us come, come here to do? When I heard that from Shanghai, just to look at several bridges, they feel a little unreasonable , but still very warm to us about what they know is not too much everything.
Car to Sasa village, we got out, China and Pakistan do not trust the owner a bit, waited for us a few minutes, and so we inquired at junctions where there are covered bridges to this only when safely drove off. Side of the junction in the town there are 56 three motor (such as Shanghai have been popular in previous years, a burst of "handicapped"), including an owner knows that the town 2 "covered bridges," the location, we have no hesitation on the ground of his car. 3 motor driving south out of town, port, 78 minutes will be stopped. Said the owner. We are out of the car, but there is no trace of the bridge. Owners at a very slow slow acoustic cavity to say that I take you to. Owners out of the car toward the left side of a ridge road walking path, and we followed. Then I found an owner walked Shui Po 1, the original is a "cripple." I am moving.
Ridge Guailegewan, a rather imposing a "covered bridges," leapfrog into the eye. "Ah"! I could not help but exclaimed, share of amazed, share of excitement, would the goal and the joy, suddenly remember with affection. I could not help slow down the pace, threw himself to have a completely relaxed feeling. In front of this "covered bridges," to do so in the ridge of the Department, the Cangshan feet, streams head in silence, deserted to wait for us.
I finally embarked on a bridge, at this moment I think it is so long, in fact, came here from the roadside, but 45 minutes off the time. I think, no matter who, when he for the first time is so truly, in the face of the share of long-admired "If you want to", there will be such a feeling.
This "Covered bridge" called Wen-Xing bridge deck at least 30 meters long, either overlooking, or are very close view of the style. Such a long bridge, there is not even the middle of a bridge pier is really stunning. Our ancestors is one such, in the casually left for posterity the numerous surprises and questions.
In the other side of the bridge, a good few stone on end, remember the bridge above and beyond the experience of each building bridges and, most recently in building bridges and is Jiajing. Many years later, Wen-Xing Bridge a bit of aging, body skin has spots for hundreds of years ago, dull red paint Yiyi Xixi, but it is still a strong physical physique can be seen. I was standing on the bridge jumped several times, foot-wide bridge deck to "Dong Dong" ring, beams erected buildings silk pattern intact. Is not difficult to imagine, when the Wen Hsing bridge is how out of color.
In the "lame" the repeated urging of the owner, only reluctantly bid farewell to Man Hing Bridge. Bend ridge walk in, I turned to look at it one, leaving the sentence: "Be sure to see you again, sooner rather than later."
3, leaning against the foot of the mountain is very far very far toward the east molten bridge
Back to You-3 Motorcycle villages and towns, they westerly direction, Yuemo 10 minutes and stopped. Here is the You-a subsidiary of a village, towns and villages, on both sides of the road are residential, many of the street also opened up the shop, there are many elementary school students to ride bikes play a very fashionable. The owner pointed to an alley that went from here to the left saw the bridge had. This time he did not accompany us to. We walked 23 minutes to see a "covered bridges," this bridge called the "East molten bridge", a dozen meters long, the entire bridge is flat, there is no arc, very chic. A wooden deck in the rain for hundreds of years of erosion have been issued under the dark black, yet the flavor dependent. On a bridge close to the foot of the mountain, a stream around the foot of leisurely by. I want people to be leading to the molten bridge must be far far away, otherwise, why take such a big effort to build such a bridge here, then?
4, there is the world's most beautiful bridge, known as sixi sisters
See getting late, we rushed back to the roadside, waiting for the main three-wheeled motorcycle, where he knows that we go to the next town - sixi town. Helpless, road too far, his car could not send us to. So he still did not help us to inquire about Pakistan. Some villagers said that there should be no, but sometimes maybe there will be cars behind schedule vehicles passing through here. Suddenly there is a small "face" in the roadside stop, the original driver of the village people, had just finished business home. He heard that we are going sixi very happy to send us to, but also want us to pack his car a day, 280 yuan.
"Well, first get on the train to say." We take on the "surface" to sixi fled the town. The sky began to dim, then it began to rain, but the "surface" driver's interest is very high. He said the non-stop along the way, saying that he had worked several years in Shanghai, the business, but also tell a lot of Shanghai's names, and said many people in Shanghai to make money Taishun. I say, how not heard. He added: "A lot of啦in Shanghai Tiaodan selling porcelain are our men in Tai-shun, the development in Shanghai, the Gallery is our woman in Tai-shun." No wonder we never heard of.
Car to sixi about 17:30, and the rain has stopped. Fortunately, two "covered bridges" are in town, a stream called the North Bridge, one called the East bridges, the locals also called Sisters Bridge. According to experts, these two bridges in China and even the world's most beautiful "covered bridges." We first Kitama underneath the car. The bridge is quite distinctive, and the bridge 2 are two blocks, street are shops on both sides. Hidden entrance to the bridge in the middle of the street, generally it is not easy to see. Is not difficult to imagine that the bridge then take the number of busy Merry, the number of noisy flourish.
Then we came to the East, bridges, bridge 1 is sixi secondary school, and there is a modern construction of the bridge parallel to the concrete highway bridge. The central top of the bridges in the East the "Decade of the Qing Emperor Qianlong (1745) Construction" message, there are three stone bridge at the entrance, where an engraved "Twenty-nine years the Qing dynasty (1849) rebuilt records. calculation, the East is 256-year-old bridges and old, and built in the thirteen years of Kangxi (1674) of the North Stream bridge much longer then it is 71 years old?
As the saying goes, Saatchi bridge. Do not look at these mountains Pirang was also the "Could Huang soil" areas. Reportedly still Canglongwohu place it?
Documented that the Tai-shun, "since the Song after the teeth on complex, burgeoning heritage, Kejia Hatsuoki, talented people." Especially in the sixi town, there is a Lin family, ancestor of Lin Jian, who granted the Cabinet Eliot, Chijie Fujian, and then sticks were multiplied, since the Song dynasty onwards nine consecutive World, the chin-shih 43 people, or father and his sons with the table, and younger brother, or grandparent and grandchild generations Jinbangtiming. This is probably the history of the Chinese imperial unique.
5, although surrounded by residential areas but still in the happy house Xue Bridge
Leave sixi town days have been completely dark. Because time is tight, we decided to spend the night went to three Quebec town. Vehicle to three Quebec town about 19:00 o'clock, the driver helped us find a private hotel. We have also decided not chartered, and with the driver good-bye, paid him 120 yuan more to the 10 yuan.
We lived in a triple room, relatively clean, there are health and have hot water baths, each 20 yuan. Dinner, we lived in a hotel eating, five dishes, soup, two bottles of beer, a total of 60.
After dinner, I stroll the streets alone. 3-kui Taishun County town can be considered a large town, when the street most of the shops have closed, nor did they see hotels, guest houses, like signs. Not closed, only those who have been referred to as "drinking ice room" of the shop, which stood pop music. I walked into a decorated fairly good, "drinking ice room", one inquire, but it was a drink shop, similar to Shanghai, Hong Chafang. I want a cup of plum juice on the rocks, 3 yuan, and women took the opportunity to chat with the owner. She graduated from secondary school, went to Shanghai to battles before, without success. After returning home not any suitable job done, and her husband borrowed this shop, there are about 100 square meters, the monthly rent 700. Since the streets were the same shops are open too many businesses have suffered losses, barely able to present. While a group of boys and girls walked into the shop, a lively atmosphere, a lot. I do not understand their dialect, they will have got the message to go.
Back at the hotel until the next morning woke up a fall, this felt really sleep incense. 7 o'clock the next morning, we are out of the hotel, we saw the creek in front of the hotel there are a lot of people standing in the water fishing, quite leisurely for. We understand that there are two three-Kui town, "covered bridges," Xue told a town house on the bridge, another bridge Jiaoliu house in the countryside, had to take a tractor to go.
We walk along the town side of the creek, and soon saw the Xue house bridge. Today, this "covered bridges" has been surrounded by new houses, I find both sides of the bridge more than one angle, line of sight can not be excluded in the total new houses. To facilitate the passage of the town residents in the town although the number of new bridge was built, but this "covered bridges" Always still preserved, is gratifying.
6, sub-floors house two-tier bridge Liu
Then we pack the house a three-wheeled motorcycle to see Liu bridge. Car on the road in a small summit toss for half an hour is really no way, and we walked off. Fortunately, not far, walk about 10 minutes to go. Although Liu bridge was abandoned house in the wilderness, and now no one has gone, but it is still luxurious style. The bridge deck from the next two-tier composition of the lower passage for people to cross the bridge with the upper with shrines for worship by the villagers, as well as for the lighting can be used in wood lattice windows open can be closed; up and down the stairs is also very good, I tried to go down, feeling is still quite solid.
7, as delicate as the name of the Yuwen Bridge
We are back to three-Kui town, another ride to the Island Zhen Pakistan. Island Ridge and Fujian Fuan mountain apart, both Taishun is the border of Zhejiang and Fujian, but also a gateway to the land exchanges between the two provinces, transportation hub. Zhou Zhen Pakistan to the nearly 11 o'clock, and we rushed to see the bridge from the town, not far Yuwen. Went to the bridge, could not help to bridge the delicate and elegant of the dumping. On both sides of the bridge deck is a wooden lattice fence, "contour bridges" to stir up the top of the housing along the two upturned, the most middle is also decorated with tall spire, whether seen from afar or near-sighted, have 100 people watching tire. I think that if Yuwen Bridge moved into the Summer Palace, also has its place in the.
8, contented life is good for the three bridges
Zhou Zhen there is a very worth a visit of the three bridges, this is the year from Fujian, Zhejiang, leading to the trunk, but now no one patron. Passionate Pakistani driver borrowed a motorcycle and finally sent for a three-wheeled motorcycle for us, and we calculate the time. It is 11:30, 3 motor must hold 40 minutes, but also walk about 20 minutes, flip over a mountain, you can see three bridges, and have to go back to the roadside for 20 minutes, all 80 minutes away, the CMB 12:20 assigned to street car waiting for us, this is the last one to return the same day the county seat of the bus has. Otherwise, you can only be here overnight, and much less time for the evening to return to Shanghai by train.
Brisk walking. We are three people to jump on a motorcycle 3. 40 minutes later, the coachman pointed to a nondescript roadside path that have chosen to see if a slate path, do not beat bending. We trot along, 10 minutes later, finally saw lying in the three bridges between the two mountains. Two days have seen many "covered bridges," but in front of three bridges still let me surprised, amazed. It is quaint no lack of energetic, simple, dimly visible Aura, though hidden in the mountains Cong Ling, Zhang Yang without losing momentum. Seen such a bridge is good for the lifetime of the contented. I said.
According to records, three bridge is the oldest Tai-shun, "covered bridges," it may be the world's first building, "covered bridges." We now see three bridge is 158 years ago, the reconstruction of (the Qing dynasty, twenty-three years "1843"). Back when the old bridge demolished found Zhenguan era name of the old tile, so it was speculated as early as three bridges built in the Tang Dynasty, according to Zhenguan 23 years of the last year of the reign of Emperor Taizong of dollars, which is some 1352 of the. If so, that the "covered bridges," Architectural History of the rewrite.
If people must say this is true, but also you can come up with some corroboration. Status of the great Tang Dynasty poet, Gu was born in 725 and died in 814 years, he was 46 years old (Tang-ta-li for six years, which is some 1230), Bu Tao, "Land of Peach Blossoms," the rhyme, wrote a famous article, "Sin Anew" - "Wenzhou Ting and so on, Da Li chop the tree up into the mountains for six years, fans do not know road, Yao Jian expansive water, smoke, someone's waiting just a few kilometers. Xunsheng Dushu, hurried to one, there are good fields, springs, bamboo, fruit medicines, multi-span aircraft insurance, three hundred ... ... "" even ritual, Zhaxian outsiders are also quite surprised, and asked come from? ... ... "" Jier farewell chop trees, Kee Road, also at home, and complex before the trail, hills 10000, can not find province. "Xanadu faction good picture. This Xianyou that Taishun county Sin Nim Township Xianju village also. By year comparison, Taishun was on one side rich soil, the construction of three bridges should be strong and therefore I is also possible.
Not from the three bridges are intoxicated in the fascinating stats, but time is very cruel, they go back to the roadside. At this point just after 12 o'clock, thinking that should be enough time. I did not realize they had left a few steps panting. Original, when the mountain downhill, uphill, when coming out. Farther tired, farther slow, and had to reluctantly throw away the bag, two bottles of water, reduce the load and went out walking, I just feel the heart almost jump out of his chest ... ... we must finally embarked on the highest point, at the foot flat, and mean the road not far away. Then came waves of distant trumpet, on our side bolted while Kuang Hu, wait ... ...
When I stepped into the carriage of CMB, and only days at the turn in the moving feeling, good a while before slowly over. I see a woman conductor in the smile, is so brilliant. Although strangers, but many of the Taishun who gave us a lot a lot of care and help, really forget them. This is really a people's hearts to the ancient, and the people honest place, this is a more than 1000 years ago and have been doing all praise today been forgotten wonderland. I believe in a very short future, she will be renewed as a gem of the collection.
9, to go home
14:20, CMB Taishun county opened to the bus station, I insisted on for the driver and the conductor sister and brother took a few photos, and leave their addresses, to a good time to sent the photo.
2:50, we take the sleeper bus, but also the voyage, at 21:30 assigned to the water city of Dali. At this time, I set the heart. 10:14 our time by train on the return to Shanghai the next day, more than 6:00 to Shanghai Station, rushed to the unit to work exactly.
Two days and three nights, like dreaming in general and hopefully will not be "a pillow utopian," will not be "Remember the Road is also home, and the resumption of pre-trail, hills 10000, can not find province."
"Covered bridge" We will be good-bye!
(Travel and fees)
The first day of 22:15, Shanghai K811 times traveling in a train station, hard sleeper 150 yuan ticket;
6:50 the next morning, the train to the Lishui City, Zhejiang Province;
Followed by 6 yuan to spend money, "fight" to the bus station, take the 7:20 from the Lishui bound the sleeper coach Taishun, tickets 45 yuan;
13:00, arriving Taishun county seat of Luoyang Zhen bus station;
In the car station, take Pakistan to the You-Wen Hsing village to see the bridge and Japanese Bridge, the ticket 8;
14:30 From the You-town by town look at the CMB to sixi Kitama Bridge and the East bridges, ticket 8;
16:00 From sixi the town by the CMB to the three-Kui town, tickets 6 yuan, night live three-Kui town, accommodation in private hotels, double rooms are clean, hot water bath, 20 yuan, you can eat a la carte 20 Yuan enough, a total of 40 million can go to town at night sit teahouse;
The next morning at the hotel entrance you can watch others fish the small stream, and then look at the bridge and Liu Xue house house bridge;
8:00 from the three-kui Zhou Zhen Zhen by China and Pakistan to look at three bridges and Yuwen Bridge, tickets 6 yuan;
12:00 From Zhou Zhen by CMB to Taishun county Luoyang Zhen, tickets 8;
14:00 From Taishun County, Lishui Luoyang Zhen take the sleeper bus to the city, tickets 45 yuan;
8 pm to Yeosu, separated by 10:14 train to Shanghai K834 times, hard sleeper 150 yuan ticket;
6:00 am on the fourth day in Shanghai, rushed to the unit to work exactly.
Two days and three nights to spend a total of 500 yuan, saw the world's most beautiful covered bridges.
(Summary 1, Profile: Taishun, Zhejiang, one of the most south county, and Fujian is only one mountain away, is a mountainous area south of Zhejiang. For historical reasons, where the left to save a lot of ancient, "covered bridges." Built on these deep in the mountains, once as the main transport corridors of the large wooden arch bridge, in order to increase its stability, but also on the bridge built Langpeng and, therefore, referred to as "Covered bridge." Because the road to get around, these "covered bridges" has lost the function of traffic, combined with remoteness, it is highly unlikely someone is interested. many of the "covered bridges," so the old land shortage in the days where the silent way through the year after year. It is said that Taishun County, there are only dozens of such "covered bridges," and, combined with the adjacent surrounding areas, a total of more than 200 seats, could be called "the most covered bridges in the world," it.)
(Summary 2, time: can use the weekend 3 nights 2 days, starting Friday night, arrived Monday morning to return unit to work, if the extension of two days during the National Day can be played with better.)
(Summary 3, cost: all self-help tourism, the local has not yet developed, do not spend a penny tickets, all transport and accommodation will cost about 500 yuan.)
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