"Tai-shun" This is very origins of the name, as if a "tranquil and peaceful people wanted Shun" meaning, I do not want to carefully check the information, and on the bar so understanding. In fact, Taishun in the "11" ahead of the holidays, it is also very strange, first in September's "Traveler" magazine saw an article about, and later a friend called Rainbow recommended to me covered bridges network, so I know that in China there is a piece of land south of Zhejiang, where like a rainbow covered bridges, chic anchor step, well-preserved ancient residential areas.
Honest, peaceful Taishun
Taishun in Zhejiang province's southern tip, close to Fujian, and surrounded by mountains. Taishun first joined, it was green everywhere. When the car in the winding when the winding mountain road galloped through the window and saw streams horizon, the boat was driven forward scratched the surface of the stream as a mirror. Waterside people are busy, the shore Maozhu Qing Qing, in clusters and clusters to grow with joy. Down the mountain, step by step with terraces comparisons to see who is the highest, Tanaka rice has matured and is gratifying Fanchu golden yellow, heads bowed shyly waiting for harvest. Feixia get late, smoke curl, the immediate landscape has been enveloped lightly lived, looking like a Chinese ink painting - Yangtze River Delta map.
To three-kui, and this is the first to visit a small town. The edge of a small hotel at the station stayed down, they are anxious not Nye rent a stroll around a tricycle. Cycling, 55-year-old uncle to whom, and the body lean, Daohai tough. Taishun dialect is difficult to understand, slowly, chatting along the way we are. Town population of small, almost all young people working in the field or do ceramics business, the town is mainly the elderly and children, and already the town is more quiet and seemed a bit deserted, but fortunately, those of us travelers, but also for the town bring a trace of anger. Old folk are very friendly, with the bridge I saw Jiang and Liu house bridge house, for I have talked a lot about the bridge story. Came back, and perhaps chat with some familiar along the way, and he embarrassed to ask me for money, and finally asked for a 20. I think he and my poor father can not teens, do not bargain with him, and directly paid for.
Dinner, in a small shop to eat powder dry. Town shops and more shops are very small turnout, I heard that I was from Beijing, even more enthusiastic. Just in time for them to eat dinner, then eat them with enthusiasm for the wide of a fried rice flour filled with a small-to me Let me taste, the taste than my powder dry to eat better. Before he came here, I heard that Taishun famous tea, tea with a ratio of Hangzhou, we look to open a tea shop. Road side in a tea shop, so that an elderly pick two better, like a cup of brew. Kung Fu tea and the elderly such as chat, conversation is difficult, mainly because of dialect problem. Fortunately, the elderly son, and his work in the town government, Putonghua say better, we are continuing Liaoliaohenduo the customs related to Tai-shun. The steep the tea is very general, at least not as good as I imagined. The son of the elderly to talk about for a very long time left, they bought a little tea, until I left, Wenzhou, just when you finish.
Returned it after late, showered, bought the Longjing tea on the steep, and so the arrival of the Rainbow a pedestrian. Want to change the call live in the West-yang, I gingerly put forward for the hotel, the boss is very readily agreed, and have not received a penny, and said rest bar you first go to when I call you. I can be embarrassed to do so.
The next morning, open the windows, breathe the fresh air, watching the mist hanging over the town was far away from the hubbub seemed so fresh, well-being.
Such as the rainbow covered bridges
Chu Shi Covered bridge or in the movie "Bridges of Madison County", the Tai-shun of the covered bridges can be described as illuminating as heavenly Morningstar to spilled on this piece of land, either from the number, age, technology, etc. relative to the United States, covered bridges absolutely not, and it had been. It has been integrated into to people's lives, it is for the local people are so mundane and ordinary, not worth mentioning. For the children, that is, play park, more than once to see the ten-year-old played as a child there, or three or five people there playing games, or a few people in cke climb the pole. Some covered bridges are located in the town, until now, it is people's access to the road, but I do not like it, because it is a modern style with the surrounding architecture incompatible covered bridges in there is like walking in the Wangfujing street suddenly saw a jacket to wear, and if possible I would certainly be willing to go the natural environment, Look at the rainbow has been landscape holding ring.
I am most interested are five covered bridges, which is located in the sister sixi Bridge - River East, North Stream, is being hailed as the world's most beautiful building scientist Hongqiao. Their stunning beauty let me have nothing to say, another three were to form, King, temperament let me impressed.
Wen-Xing Bridge is located in Shinomura, its shape is very peculiar, while the high side of the low, crooked. There are many legends of this, an argument is apprentice chef carrying a rush, causing the error; another way of saying was a local teacher, a field master two amendments separately from, the local master deliberately make life difficult for foreign masters, bridge base from The high and the pace of work, will be the task of the bridge close up to the field instructors and field instructors will be competing bridge close up. Of course, this is only legend, in fact, with the geographical location of the bridge, was an Creative design.
Yuwen Bridge is located in Island Ridge, all the covered bridges with the best view of cross-dissolve. Covered bridge into the soul for the scenery, with it, showing great vitality here competing, but adding to the landscape to its enchanting charm. The opposite direction the distance, tall and straight of the mountains, Qingqing of the stream, green trees, can not help but want to give birth to their wings, Sailing with wind.
Three bridges are located in Island Ridge is the most unique temperament, like the valleys orchids. In order to appreciate its hosting the Games, we walked a half-hour mountain, it is the only not been disturbed by the covered bridges of modern civilization, away from the hubbub around the only streams, green hills and trees as partners. I asked a local people, in such a remote of the Department, why do bridges? The original long time ago, here is a thoroughfare in Zhejiang, Fujian access, due to flash floods will be a town completely destroyed upstream Since then, after this road on the slowly forgotten. Way back when, this bustling commercial Road, every day there are countless people from this passage, or vice versa of the merchants will be stopping for a rest stop on this, talk with far apart things. A lot of friends, lovers will be such a difference, describes the endless affection. No wonder the bridge there will be questions I do not know the situation where species masterpiece:
"Point purple-red lips"
Chang Yi May, and Jun Xie Yiyi fun laugh. San-ching Water Pik, faces of the people where to go?
People from the passionate, Yin Yin Li waterside. Qianwan Lv. Streams difficult to send, he served as a eastward course.
Today, only those of us admiring travelers will remember it, it only tells a century of vicissitudes to the breeze, the moon has.
Step chic anchor
The so-called "anchor" is a stone anchor, fixed the boat, so the pace of anchor step is to fix the stones. Yang Shi-step and Shouning anchor anchor steps have more features, but because of time reasons only to see Shi-yang anchor step. Shi-Yang anchor step 222 teeth, said to be the highest in China. Anchor-step looks very simple, put a few stones in the river Bale. In actual fact, I step on the anchor carefully observed for a long time, in order to build anchor step, first step in the construction anchor on both sides of the local shops with stones from the riverbed on a long gentle slope, to alleviate the water, protect anchorage-step basis. Then granite and bluestone two-story two-color stones piled high and low. Finally, in the direction of flow of each tooth facing the puzzle on a triangular-shaped stone, to ease the upstream flow impact. It is divided into two layers of high and low tone, the book said that in order to identify the night, I felt quite like a two-way lanes. Not look like much of the anchor step carefully, seemed to have filled with wisdom. I like to anchor step, it is so simple, practical, simple and unadorned. In many places I can see it's shadow, regardless of step as in the Shi-yang anchor the river was very wide, or in a very narrow unnamed stream, it can be competent. No Covered bridge is so the beautiful, brilliant, but it is very unique.
Covered bridge with Furui
Covered bridge and the ancient home has a natural connection, both in the building structure and style almost exactly the same, closely linked to. Taishun the ancient home of most of both the Ming and Qing dynasties left behind, save very well, there are still people.
Chinese officials have always been heavy and light industry, Shi-NGS, official came in first, business at the last point is particularly evident in the ancestral hall. Many ancestral hall, in the beam on the display "Scholars and third," "champion and third" or the promotion of the Herald, has seen a hundred years of wind and rain erosion, but the handwriting was faintly discernible, can be traced back to Tao-kuang, Xianfeng years, some of more particular about where is the plaque hanging. Ya Yang Li in the Ancestral also found a person is promoted to high school in the Republic of the Herald. Can be seen at the time school official is indeed a glorious lintel pieces of things.
Xu Ao Village, Wu Qianlong juren House, one door you can see on the ground with the stone-paved鲤鱼跳龙门patterns, as well as with the bat, deer, peach and other paved pattern, a symbol of fortune and longevity hi. Plaque was placed in the living room "straight side foot type," is written by a certain scholar, I asked now live here, Wu descendants what it meant, gave the answer: "Do not know." They also preserved the portrait of the time the lifts, Wu, covered with official mandarin, and is pretty powerful. In the room next to the book case, there is a weight of 86 kg Qinglong Dao, reportedly tired when the lifts, will be brandishing some studies, like the original Guan Yu Tsing Lung Yan Yuedao much better than this but he did Wenwuquancai rare!
11 Zhang Lian Village house is also very good. Zhang 11's heirs took us to visit this house. Zhang is the Top 11 in the 11th, this Zhaizi his grandfather built up on the four items served as a result of Zhang 11 military taotai, later called the Zhaizi Zhang 11 house, which is China's official standard ideological work. Regulation of the construction of the houses, neatly structured, work fine, Lang Yan, roof carving patterns, patterns are very beautiful. According to the posterity say that he also did carpenter, like this house, and now very difficult to do them, we can see craftsmen at that time the level of the high. The houses in the plaque, many couplets are a prominent high-ranking officials were presented, it is said was the well-known honest and upright official Zhang 11. Chang future generations with this chat, the accident that, he still preserved Chang family tree. While flipping through a book, which this book, which sandwiched a contract, King is a half century Kangxi set, and where his life has been touched the most ancient things.
Taishun like a museum without the door, where a brick and tile, plants, and can assure you the story about that distant era. Time flies, time in silently changing everything, things passed away were non-, leaving only those covered bridges, ancient home, to remember the old downtown where the infinite.
Author: kevin_shaw
