Half a hundred years old!There is such a story behind a couple in Quanzhou

The road building and bridge, whether in ancient times or today, is a very important livelihood project. It not only makes traffic more convenient, but also makes people's communication closer. The name that people take for the bridge expresses their hopes for a better life.

There is a lion bridge (also known as the "Four Son Bridge") in Lixi Village, Leifeng Town, Dehua County, Quanzhou. This small stone bridge built in the early Ming Dynasty has a history of more than 600 years. It is still an important channel for villagers in Lixi Village.

This Lion Bridge has a history of more than 600 years

The no -bridge on the stream can pass the villagers to work together to build a bridge

After a period of rainstorm, a day in late June, the reporter went to Lixi Village to visit the Lion Bridge.

This is the stone slab bridge hidden in Maolin. On one side of the bridge is farmland, and on the other side is the newly built cement village road. The bridge deck is more than 2 meters wide, the bridge is 16 meters long, and the bridge surface of the long stone pavement has some grass. Under the bridge is the stream of streams, and a bridge pier made of stone barriers. Outside of traces, it is still strong.

Bridge pier built by stone

Chen Xianzong, 61, is a villager in Lixi Village and a primary school teacher. He told reporters about the origin of the bridge.

Lixi Village has a stream called "Daxi", also known as Meikuixi. Although the stream is not wide, the water flows. The ancestors cultivated along the banks of the stream. However, every rainstorm, the floods are affected, and there are no bridges on the stream. According to legend, in the early Ming Dynasty, the Xin family of Lixi Village worked hard and worked hard. The couple discussed the decision that for the sake of the villagers, they were on a bridge on the stream. With the support of the neighbors, the couple had built the bridge in the eleventh year of Yongle in the eleventh year of Yongle (1413). The couple of the Xin family had four sons after half a year, and ended with high life. So people call the bridge the "Four Son Bridge".

Waterfall hangs the mountain between the stone bridge with Shutan under the stone bridge

The Sizi Bridge is also called the Lion Bridge, so there is a Shi Lake not far from the lower reaches of the bridge.

Along the narrow ancient post road, under the leadership of Chen Xianzong, the reporter and his party went to Shitan. "Green bamboo entering the ginseng path, the green Luo wipes out." Lixi Village under Dai Yunshan is lush and the ancient trees are in groups. Walking through the ancient tree of bamboo forests, listening to the sound of flowing water shaking the quiet mountain forest. I saw a waterfall flying down from the cliff, and the mist rose.

Shitan and Waterfall

"This is the Lion Tan. The stone is the lion head of the lion, and the stone on the cliff is the lion head of the lion. They jointly guard the villagers' lives and work." There are legends in the people. In ancient times, the small yellow dragon, which had been cultivated for thousands of years in ancient times, was often chaotic. Shangtian sent Dai Yunshan's male lions, the lioness of Tiger Mountain, and the lion in Jinde Mountain. For some fight, Xiao Huanglong defeated the line, and drilled a large hole from the stone wall of the stream to dive into the water. In order to prevent Xiaohuanglong from doing evil again, the male lion took his head and sat on the pool, while the lion lion was lying down in the pond, the golden chicken lion was sitting on the half mountainside of the Jinji Mountain, and the big tiger on the tiger was looking high. As a result, this large deep pool is called "Shitan".

Inheriting farming culture to create a farming culture village

According to reports, there is also a Daxi Bridge that was opened to traffic in 2018. Although the new bridge shares the traffic, the Lion Bridge is still an important channel for villagers.

Lixi Village is located under Tiger Mountain, northwest of Leifeng Town, about 15 kilometers away from Dehua City. It is a traditional ancient farming village. In the midsummer season, the layers of stacked onion and rice waves in the fields fluttered like a green belt. The terraces extend from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, which is beautiful. Between the terraced fields and the lush bamboo sea, several cows are leisurely grassy grass.

Lixi Village Terrace

According to reports, in the thirty -four years of Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty (1555), the surnames of the Chen family of Lixi Village opened the mountains here to build the fields and build a groove, and gradually form a custom of honor, and the villagers will spend the festivals for cultivating cattle. Chen Huazhen, secretary of the party branch of Lixi Village, told reporters that since 2017, the Eighth Lunar New April of the lunar calendar is held in the village.

In recent years, based on the local farming characteristics, Lixi Village is trying to build a farming and cultural village. At present, the farming and cultural museum has been built, showing the various farming cultural atmospheres such as plows, wind drums, and soil of the villagers. In the next step, Lixi Village will rely on the natural ecology of 100 acres of terraces and thousands of acres of bamboo to create the most beautiful terraces that integrate tourism, sketching, picking, and experience, and build a terraces camping.

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There is a "Shilin Bridge" in Hongfu Village, Penglai Town, Anxi. This bridge is located in the west of Hongfu Village. It is surrounded by dense woods. The wind blows through the leaves with a large wind, so people also call the Xiyu as "lion". Li Cunjin, secretary of the Party Branch of Hongfu Village, told reporters that there is a Xiyuxi River in the middle of the farmland and village of Xizhen. The former villagers needed to go out of the country to go around, which was very inconvenient. In the 1990s, this stone arch bridge was built through the method of donating funds and villagers to raise funds for overseas Chinese, named "Shilin Bridge". Although the Shilin Bridge is only a dozen meters, it can allow the villagers to take more than 300 meters less. It not only facilitates the villagers of Xizheng, but also allows Xizheng to connect with the surrounding Yangyang, Shangzhi, Shangxi, Shangdong, Lingmei and other villages.

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Source: Southeast Morning Post

Reporter: Chen Xiaofen Wang Baifeng

Intern: Lin Xianjing

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