The Story and Origin of the Twenty-four Bridges, a Superb Scenic Spot on the Shore of Slender West Lake

"The Twenty-four Bridges are still there, the center of the waves are swinging, the cold moon is silent. I remember the red herbs by the bridge, and I know for whom they were born every year." In Hangzhou there are countless beautiful scenery, the most famous than the West Lake, and in Yangzhou also has the same Slim West Lake next to the stunning scenery.

So, this installment of the West Lake folk tales to understand the story of the twenty-four bridges and the origin.

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"Twenty-four bridges" name, the reason why it has been passed down for thousands of years, thanks to a famous poem of Du Mu. "The green hills are hidden and the water is far away, and the grass has not withered in Jiangnan at the end of autumn. On the night of the bright moon at the Twenty-four Bridges, where does the Jade Man teach his blowjob?" Speaking of the twenty-four bridges in Yangzhou, there is no way to avoid an ancient mystery: is it a bridge, or twenty-four bridges? So far, it has not been able to solve the problem.

According to legend, in the Tang Dynasty, someone in a moonlit night, the breeze, to see the 24 graceful fairies, wearing a feather veil, the hands of the piper, bulging pink cheeks, gently open the red lips, floating on a small stone bridge, so that the soothing and soft melody from the 24 pipers slowly flowed out.

At the end of the 50s of the last century, there was a stone bridge and a wooden bridge in Yangzhou, 3-5 miles north of Ximen, and the distance between the two bridges was about 24 paces, which was considered by the village elders to be the "twenty-fourth bridge". When they were young, they were all held by elders little hand "counting the bridge" experience: across a bridge, from one bridge to another bridge, "one step, two steps ......" General It's all about twenty-four steps. According to this statement, "twenty-four bridges" is a collective term for two bridges.

In fact, from the Song Dynasty, "twenty-four bridges" has become a mass of conflicting and inconclusive eucalyptus: some people say it is a bridge, some people think it refers to twenty-four bridges. The thesaurus and poems of the past generations have also collected the two schools of thought, and do not dare to take it easy.

Jiang Baishi, a Southern Song Dynasty poet, came to Yangzhou in early winter and wrote "Yangzhou Slow", a song of the ages: "Twenty-four bridges are still there, the waves are swinging in the center of the heart, and the cold moon is silent. Remembering the red herbs by the bridge, who do I know to be born for year after year?" From the specific language environment of the word, "twenty-four bridges" seems to refer to a bridge.

Some people think that the famous twenty-four bridges is a false thing, in fact, never existed, it is only a general term for the bridges in Yangzhou in the Tang Dynasty. The earliest explanation for this is the Song Dynasty, a great scientist Shen Kuo, he thought "Yangzhou Tang Dynasty, the most prosperous. The old city was fifteen miles and 150 paces north and south, seven miles and thirty paces east and west, and there were twenty-four bridges that could be documented."

And in the volume from the city's Wenhe Chayuan Bridge, to the east of the Shanguang Bridge stops one by one listed the name of the bridge, but counting the name of only 21 bridges. It is also believed that Du Mu poem "where" two words, clearly conveys the belief that the twenty-four bridge is never a bridge.