An ancient bridge, like a mirror of history, illuminates the wisdom, civilization and development of an era. Located in Tanbian Village, Duwei Town, Xianyou County, Putian City, Luming Bridge is a stone bridge advocated by Shangshu Zheng Ji of the Ming Dynasty, and it is also the main traffic route from Yongchun to Xianyou County to Fuzhou, and it is also a historical evidence of the prosperity of the ancient road in the past.
The ancient bridge is leisurely and long. From the front of the Longjing Palace on the edge of the pond, along the ancient road, along the winding field path, a clear stream comes into view, and under the shade of ancient trees, you can see a simple and vicissitudes of the ancient stone bridge. This ancient stone bridge is the Luming Bridge advocated by The Ming Dynasty Hubu Shangshu Zheng Ji.
Zheng Ji (1433-1508), a native of Shangzheng (now Puwei Village, Duwei Town, Xianyou County), successively held the posts of Hanlin Shujitu, Guozi Sacrifice, Deputy Envoy of Zhejiang, Hubu Shilang, Hubu Shangshu, etc., and went through the three dynasties of Yingzong, Xianzong, and Xiaozong, known as the "Elder of the Three Dynasties". Zheng Ji was the official Qingzheng, and Emperor Xianzong risked his death to play the "Ten Strategies of Taiping", hoping that the emperor would "be far from adultery and evil, Ren Zhongliang, sympathetic to the lives of the people, and promote the religion of etiquette", but he was loyal to the ear and was not adopted, and angrily resigned from the official and returned to his hometown. The construction of the Luming Bridge was precisely during his retreat to his hometown.
▲The ship-shaped piers show vicissitudes
Luming Bridge is a bluestone slab structure, with a boat-shaped pier in the middle, the bridge deck is made of 4 evergreen stone slabs spanning the piers, forming two arches, the total length of the bridge is 19m, the width is 1.5m; the double stone slab in the middle of the bridge deck is made of 4 evergreen slabs balanced and interwoven with paving, each evergreen slab weighs about several tons. The stone bridge has a unique structure, flat and sturdy, and the shape is atmospheric, which can be described as ingenious. At the head of the west bridge, there is a large banyan tree of the same age as the bridge, with lush branches, like a large umbrella covering the bridge, shading passing pedestrians. According to legend, this large banyan tree was planted by Zheng Ji himself.
▲The bluestone bridge spans both sides of the river
▲The yo-yo ancient road is still there
Zheng Ji recorded in the "Record of Rebuilding luming bridge": "There is a bridge in Bitan in Guidexiang: Dongxi. To the east of the stream flowing out of the house, the name of the name is also its land. Its founding Mokau years. Ming and Jia Noon, Hebo was a disaster, the old site was gone, had to cross the wood to replace it, with the easy to decay, in vain and sick. After six years of self-succession, he gave his hometown to the old Wu Jun Tingrui and Yu Junyu Xi. It is night, staying in Wumen, there are deer singing in the mountains. Sui Ming, the Wu family returned from a deer; and then it was the same. Congratulations: The Song of Deer Singing, so Heung Hyun Neng also. The deer singing in the present bridge, the deer singing is the virtuous; the two deer are singing one after another, and their omens are accidental! Therefore, Dongxi was changed to the current name. The second gate of the bridge, the beam with stone, because of its old four, easy to its new two also. It began in October and was completed in the first month of next year. Because it is a swallow, a diligent person is salty, so the book is based on zhizhi, and it is waiting for Fang to come! ”
▲ Luming Temple Society enshrines Zheng Ji
Zheng Ji mentioned in the "Record of Rebuilding Luming Bridge" that Luming Bridge was originally named "Dongxi Bridge". There is no need to examine the date in which it was built. Ming and Jia Wu refers to the Ming Dynasty's Chenghua Decade (1474), mountain flood disasters, bridge collapse, and traffic disruption. The townspeople had to replace the bridge with horizontal wood, although it was simple, it was easy to corrode, and pedestrians were afraid to pass by. In the fifteenth year of Chenghua (1479), Zheng Ji was invited by Wu Tingrui and Yu Yuxi, the old townsmen of Tanbian Township, to discuss the construction of the bridge. That night, Zheng Ji stayed at the Wu family, and at night there was the sound of deer chirping on the mountain; the next night, the sound of deer chirping was heard again. Zheng Ji was overjoyed, thinking that the deer was singing a song, and the group of sages was complete, it was no accident! Therefore, the Dongxi Bridge was changed to Luming Bridge. Construction began in October of the year of Hehai (1479) and was completed in the first month of the year of Gengzi (1480), which took three months of work. The second gate of the new bridge, bluestone slab beams, a boat-shaped stone pier in the bridge, impenetrable, and personally wrote "Rebuilding the Luming Bridge".
▲ Towering tree shade pedestrians
▲Rong Jin bouldering to leave a green history
▲The ancient and modern situation of the stone case altar
(Source: Putian Qiao Xiang Times Reporter: Lin Jintang Editor: Cai Yang)