Chapter 12 Who is willing to do it (Thanks to the leader of 001 @Cheng_Da)

Wan'an Bridge.

Wooden arcade bridge.

It was built in 1090 AD, in the fifth year of Yuanyou in the Northern Song Dynasty.

This ancient bridge has undergone three reconstructions.

In the seventh year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, the twenty-fifth year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty, and the twenty-first year of the Republic of China.

They were 1742, 1845 and 1932 AD.

There are countless repairs in all sizes.

Even so, Wan'an Bridge is still not a ill-fated fate in the wooden arcade bridge.

It's even considered lucky.

The truly ill-fated wooden arcade bridge has long disappeared on the earth.

Some survive in old photos, and more seem to never exist.

In the 21st year of the Republic of China, Nie Guangyi's grandfather was still a child who was only a few years old.

That year, Wan'an Bridge was rebuilt for the third time.

Nie Guangyi's grandfather was young and playful and ignorant, and rushed to the top of the unbuilt bridge arch noisy.

I was not careful and fell directly from a place more than eight meters high.

Free fall.

All carpenters working on the bridge exclaimed.

But it is useless.

Then……

The naughty little boy swam ashore without any harm.

This incident soon became widely circulated in the village.

Some people say that this child is so lucky.

More people think this is a miracle brought by the ancient bridge itself.

Before the incident of falling into the water at high altitude.

The villagers call this bridge Changqiao.

The long bridge is very long.

The kind of invincible one in the same category.

The village where this bridge is located is named Changqiao Village.

After the high-altitude waterfall incident, this long bridge has a brand new name - Wan'an Bridge.

From then on, Wan'an Bridge was no longer just a bridge, but also the belief of people from all over the countryside.

Nie Guangyi's grandfather also had an indissoluble bond with this bridge because of this.

He devoted his whole life to this bridge and gradually became the intangible cultural heritage inheritor of the traditional construction skills of wooden arch bridges.

As early as 2009, the traditional construction techniques of wooden arch bridges were included in the first batch of "Catalogue of Intangible Cultural Heritages that Need to Protect" by UNESCO.

Wan'an Bridge, located in a remote village, may not be well-known to the public.

But there is a wooden arcade bridge that everyone has more or less heard of.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a household name.

It appears in a painting.

A top ten famous paintings in China.

It is the first national ranking.

It is a national treasure-level cultural relic.

It is - "Along the River During the Qingming Festival".

Using real brushstrokes, the prosperous scene of the Northern Song Dynasty capital Bianjing on a painting scroll more than five meters long is recorded.

The natural scenery on both sides of the Bian River, the architectural characteristics of Bian Jing City, and the prosperity of people's livelihood in the capital.

Compared with the other nine famous paintings handed down from generation to generation, "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" is a unique cultural heritage.

It is particularly down-to-earth.

It particularly truly records the urban life of the people of the Song Dynasty.

It provided important historical information for later generations to study urban life in the Song Dynasty.

It has historical value, even higher than artistic value.

Like Dream of Red Mansions, "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" also has its own "school".

The study of "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" includes social history, architecture history, transportation history, shipbuilding history, urban history, commercial history, advertising history, folk history, clothing history...

In the middle of the scroll, the rainbow bridge spanning the Bian River is a typical representative of the wooden arcade bridge.

However, although the bridge on the Bian River belongs to the wooden arcade bridge, it is only similar to the construction skills of Wan'an Bridge.

The construction of Wan'an Bridge uses the most special, narrowest and most mature sub-category of wooden arch bridges.

This subcategory is a pearl that remains independent in the ancient bridge category in my country.

There is only the junction of Zhejiang and Fujian in the world, and bridges built with this technology can be seen.

It’s not that the wooden arch bridge is particularly exquisite.

On the contrary, weaving wooden arch bridges is the most practical technology to use the most limited cost and in the most difficult and dangerous environment.

Leonardo da Vinci actually designed a similar arch bridge structure.

The first of the three Renaissance masters is an unquestionable genius.

But Leonardo da Vinci's achievements in designing arch bridges are far less than those of the Northern Song Dynasty carpenters who were born hundreds of years earlier than him.

Most of Leonardo da Vinci's designs cannot be implemented.

Just like the tank-mounted locomotive he designed.

It's just a fantasy.

The traditional creation skills of wooden arch bridges are the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancients' life.

The wooden arcade bridge was an ingenious effort by ancient carpenters in bridge construction skills.

Wooden arch bridges are the exquisite bridge-building technology that is forced out under extremely backward basic conditions.

The arches are weaved with wood, and the mortise and tenon structure is used to connect pieces of wood.

Practice is the true meaning of life wisdom.

Most of the existing wood-woven arch bridges are already in their twilight years.

From a modern perspective, there is nothing extraordinary at all, let alone amazing.

Many people walk past it and may complain: [What era is it, why do you still keep these broken wooden bridges that can't even drive a car?]

The voices of these people actually represent the vast majority.

This also led to the vast majority of timbered arch bridges being replaced by modern bridges with reinforced concrete.

In the eyes of laymen, the "older" wooden arcade bridge.

However, it is a human intangible cultural heritage that is difficult to restore even modern technology.

To this day, there are only a handful of people who can fully master this intangible cultural heritage skill.

The wooden arcade house in Wan'an Bridge has many piers and spans, entrenched on the stream like a dragon.

As the three, four and five-span wooden arcade bridges that once appeared in the old photos disappeared one after another.

The existence of Wan'an Bridge is no longer just a bridge, a faith, but also a living history.

In the sub-category of wooden arch bridge, Wan'an Bridge with five piers and six holes is the most unrivaled "existent" world.

Unfortunately, the two existing words were burned out of quotes by the fire that made Nie Guangyi's grandfather angry last night.

...

"Broadly speaking, you shocked me today." Xuan Shi insisted that he would drive the car.

His original intention was to let Nie Guangyi have a good rest.

After you have enough energy, go back to deal with things.

Nie Guangyi had no intention of resting at all.

He doesn't close his eyes or speak.
To be continued...