Wuli Bridge is not only a bridge, but also closely related to this "old Shanghai" story ｜ Share before bedtime

Author:Jiefang Daily Time:2022.08.26

On April 16, 1993, the rain was rainy. The lowest temperature in Shanghai was only 13 degrees Celsius on the day. In a construction site in the Puqiao area, the workers who were working suddenly touched something hard. When the hard corner gradually exposed the whole picture from the soil, all the people present exclaimed: in the rain, an ancient tomb appeared.

According to the Shanghai Media report the next day: "Shanghai Cultural Relics Management Committee, Shanghai Natural Museum experts, etc., cooperated with the police and construction site staff of the Puqiao Police Station, and dug the tomb for more than 5 hours. There are hard glutinous rice slurry, and there are also inner layers. The wooden and coffin are closed with lime, and the inner and outer layers are used to use coffin. The tomb is buried in the tomb. The name of the male corpse is not rotten, wearing official hats, folding folds, yellow and white skin, the hair must still be dark, and the joints can still move. It is rare to save the corpse.

Who is Gu Congli?

"Huangpu District Chronicle" shows that Gu Congli, the word Ru Yu. During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, he was recommended by good calligraphy, awarded the middle school scholar, the house system and the Hanlin Academy classics, participated in the compilation of "Cheng Tian Da Zhi", "Jade" (royal spectrum) and copying "Yongle Ceremony". Scriptures, in the inner court, later to Taidi Temple, and Guanglu Temple Shaoqing, plus four grades. After returning to his hometown, he was wealthy and righteous.

The Jiefang Daily reported in April 1993 and March 1998, respectively.

This "old Shanghai" proposed to build the Shanghai City Wall and donated 4,000 stone to the pirate to violate the coastal to build a small South Gate City Wall (now there is no). Bridge, rebuilding Fu'an Bridge in the city. "

The place name of the "Wuli Bridge" today is named after the Wuli Bridge, where the sleeping is only about 1 kilometer away from Gu Congli.

The Gu family is the southeast Wang family, and the legend of Shanghai has stretched for several generations. So far, in Shanghai's place name, you can also see the traces left by this family.

In the three years of Tianshun in the Ming Dynasty (1459), Gu Yingzhong of the Gu family was held. Yingbaijin returns bribes during the trial to make the two feel ashamed. " During his tenure, he was not afraid of responsibility to open up positions, and also appeased the people and calmed the civil strife. After Gu Ying retired to his hometown, in the south of Zhaojiabang, the "Nanxi Cottage" on the east side of Luwan Middle School in Shanghai today. In order to praise his life, in today's old city compartment, Zeng Lizhong's doctoral workshop, "worship as the vanity of the country." It is said that today's "Doctor Fang" of the small Dongmen community is named here.

During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Gu Dingfang of the Gu family, named Dongchuan, was called to be imperial doctors because of his proficiency in medicine. According to the "Luwan District Chronicle", when the doctor answered the reason of the Emperor Jiajing, he intelligently answered "medication such as drug use", and then asked the way of health, and answered "clear heart" and got the emperor's promise. After returning to his hometown, Gu Dingfang "set up a hundred acres of academic fields in Yiyi, supporting poor students ... serving parents, named Yizhong with filial piety, and worshiping the virtue of the ancestors."

During the Jiajing and Longqing years, Gu Congli, this child from the Gu family, not only studied deeply like his ancestors, he is good at appreciation, but also good at appreciation of strange stones, good at calligraphy and painting, and good at gold and stones. Hong Pavilion is next to Nanxi Cottage, with Shu Xiaotai, Qiubeting, Tanhua, Binghe Creek and other scenery. " Gu Congli also loved engraving. Zeng Yingchun Chunhua Pavilion Post ten volumes, Liucheng Xuanlan Pavilion and so on. Like the ancestors in the family, he is also an official and gentry who is generous, righteous, and willing to contribute to the local.

Shanghai has not been built since the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty. In the thirty -two years of Jiajing (1553), from April to June, the pirates brought up Shanghai five times in a row, "killing the soldiers and the people, the fire burning the house and the county office, and the Yili as the market." The people of Shanghai are decided to build the city.

It was that year, Gu Cong played the court: "For more than 600 miles of households today, Yin Ji’ s family rate is more in the city, with more than 400,000 money and food ... There are so many goods, but the county is only Huangpu. Difficult to defend ... The cover thief enters from the sea and loots by the tide. "You can keep the measure".

After the discussion was allowed, Songjiang Zhifu Fang Lian ordered the solicitation of donations, determined the base, and rushed to build the wall while the pirates were temporarily retreated. People compete for funding and have emerged many senses: Wang Xiangyao, a doctor of county studies, dismantled the house and donated land to help; Gongsheng Zhangjin not only scattered the family to fund the service, but also participated in Tsuki City. Topping the earth transportation. The lunar calendar started in October, until December, a city rose up. In only January, the pirates came again. In the thirty -five years of Jiajing, the pirates were surrounded by the seventeenth day. Because of the city wall, they did not succeed. ("Shanghai South City Chronicle · Old City Chamber Wall")

This first city wall in Shanghai is built with a mud version, 9 miles long, 2.4 feet high, and 6 gate gate. Among them, Gu Cong donated 4000 stone to the small south gate.

The radius of the Gu family has also expanded from the old city compartment to the west, until the area of Zhaojiabang and Rihui. Later, under the donation of Gu Culi, there was Wuli Bridge and the Wuliqiao area named after the bridge. The adjacent Datuqiao and Wuli Bridge have a garden of the family

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Gu family moved towards the micro. But this area in Huangpu Binjiang was not silent.

In the sixth year of the Tongzhi of the Qing Dynasty (1867), Jiangnan Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, the most important military and ship repair enterprise in modern China, moved to this place. After continuous expansion, there were more than a dozen branches and nearly 3,000 mercenaries. Ammunition, ships, machines, and cultural institutions such as translation halls, Guangjiao Museum, etc., bringing new technologies and cultures to the Wuliqiao area.

In addition to condensing a large number of talents, the Jiangnan Machinery Manufacturing Bureau also has a telegram house, and the water supply and power supply facilities are laid to directly drive the infrastructure level of the entire area. The manufacturing bureau has formed a residential area and market, and there have been 25 roads such as Longhua Road (now Longhua East Road) and Xieqiao South Road (now manufacturing Bureau Road). Rihui Port replaced Zhaojiabang into a shipping road, and the Wharf was forming inner Rihui City and Wai Ri City. By the 1930s, Gaochang Temple (now Kaohsiung Road and Manufacturing Bureau Road) to Rihui Port along the oblique soil road and Longhua Road, and initially formed the along the river industry belt. Longzhang Machine Paper Company, etc. In the "Shanghai Plan" in the 1920s and 1930s, it was classified as the Shanghai -South -South Industrial Zone.

Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau Gate and Gun Factory House (Tuyuan Shanghai Archives Collection)

It is also "Jiangnan" and witnessed the important battle for Shanghai.

On November 3, 1911, the Shanghai Uprising broke out in Zhabei. In the "Declaration" on October 31, a notice of "Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau was martial law" was published. At that time, there were more than 300 people in the manufacturing bureau, and the weapons and ammunition were sufficient. On November 3rd, Zhang Shizhen, the nephew of the General Office of the Manufacturing Bureau and Li Hongzhang's nephew, heard that Zhabei had an accident, and immediately transferred the artillery to enter the bureau to help the guards. He ranked 6 artillery in the river. war. At about 3 pm that day, a group of death teams with the party as the main body as pioneer, from the oblique bridge to the back door of the manufacturing bureau to the back door of the back door, the leader of the insurgents, Chen Qimei, led a dare team of more than a hundred people and then followed. At 5 pm, on the occasion of the manufacturing bureau to work, the death team sneaked from the west fence to the door of the bureau and rushed in. At 9 am on November 4, the Revolutionary Army finally captured the manufacturing bureau. Shanghai recovered here, and it became the ammunition store of the revolutionary army.

In 1953, "Jiangnan" was officially renamed Jiangnan Shipyard. The first submarine in New China, the first designed frigate, the first 10,000 -ton hydrocarbon, the first self -designed ocean cargo ship, the Chinese Navy's first global sailing warships ... all sailed from here. In 2008, "Jiangnan" was relocated to Changxing Island as a whole. The Shanghai World Expo opened a new page on its former site.

Today, the names of the manufacturing bureau road and bureau road still have traces of "Jiangnan". From the east manufacturing bureau, there is a Wuliqiao Road named after Wuliqiao in the west. The exquisite and elegant Wang family gardens and Lin standing and heavy factories standing here change with the changes in the times, but the heavy history they leave still overlap in these road names, maintaining the concept of city security and the happiness of citizens.上 Continue on this land, printing China's important footprint to modernization.

Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau Platform Full Map (Tuyuan Shanghai Archives Collection)