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The ancient street of Lishui travels Wenzhou of China

The ancient street of Lishui travels Wenzhou of China

Write: Rosaline [2011-05-23]

The ancient street of Lishui travels  Wenzhou of China

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The ancient street of Lishui is built on the water storage dyke of the east edge of village of head village of rock, the water storage dyke is built in the Jiajing Year of Ming Dynasty, only let to grow flowers to plant trees and build the pavilion on the fixed dyke of local clan at that time, is forbidden to build the room and engage in trade. By Qing Dynasty, village head s dyke of very beginning of rock became that took on the salt guest s only road. When the latter stage of Qing Dynasty, the long dyke developed into the business street beginning to take shape.
Lishui street of today is that the rock head village relatively has a business street of scale. Total length is more than 300 meters, have it more than 90 shops, each face width is about 3 meters, it is 10 meters deep that enter, it is two floors of buildings. In front of Cheng Lie s shop, vacate 2 meters road 2.5 meters wide. There are eaves that are wrapped and built, in order to facilitate the pedestrian sunshading and taking shelter from rain. The south of Lishui street is the south gate on the wall of stockaded village, there are pavilions with fair wind on the high-order by the door. Less than 50 meters from the pavilion, another one meets officer s pavilion, the layers of eaves are collected together and carried, simple and serious. Two pavilions have added a beautiful scenery for commerce of Lishui,etc. together with ancient bridge of Lishui.
Meet officer s pavilion: So-called meet the officer ,There is meaning which yearns for the scholarly honor of official rank of imperial examinations. There is antithetical couplet that says in the pavilion the great teacher leaves the miracle, blame craftsmans to banter the pedestrian . Lie in the intersection of rock and the intersection of head and the intersection of Lishui and the intersection of street and side of lotus pond of the south have another name called and spend the pavilion. Meet officer s pavilion and was established in the 35th year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty ( 1556) . Four columns in the pavilion, four columns outside. The upper level is collected together and carry for the square layers of eaves, fold the octagonal sunk panel in the five storeyed sets of brackets on top of the columns, the Eight Diagrams of the five elements of the metaphor. Eight backs of roofing of layers of eaves, erect Chang Kuo-Iao rides the white donkey separately The statue, Liu Hai offers the money for the sculpture of end of spine Pattern, the structure is tight, the appearance is sincere.
The ancient bridge of Lishui: Have another name called celebrate the bridge forever ,Lie in front of pavilion with fair wind, it is a stone bridge which crosses over the lake of Lishui, call Lishui bridge in name. It s time to build ( 1558) in the 37th year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty ,Although this bridge passes the experiencing many changes of several numerous more than years, still firm as before so far.
Lishui bridge three hole arch slab bridge, form by 48 strip stones, belong to 48 not implying . The bridge is 12.3 meters long, 3.8 meters wide, the bridge floor is divided into three segments, every segment 9 slabstones, play and are supported by the stone step of stone pillar, 14 all strip stones. Carved with separately on two curbstone strings of the bridge Lishui bridge , it is built at dawn that the fifth of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty is lucky in midautumn of noon Wait for words, simple and unsophisticated and esthetic, and integrate in nature.