Maple Bridge: Famous around the world because of a poem
During the Sui Dynasty, once the canal was excavated, Maple Bridge became a station on the waterway transportation route heading north from Jiangsu to Zhejiang Province, bustling with merchants and boats. The poem 'Night Mooring at Maple Bridge' by Zhang Ji made the Maple Bridge outside Suzhou City a cinnabar mole in countless people's hearts, a place everyone yearned to visit.
As the main thread of the scenic area, Maple Bridge combines the ancient bridge, ancient canal, ancient pass, ancient temple, and ancient town into an organic whole. The well-known 'Night Mooring at Maple Bridge,' these touching verses, lie quietly among the flowers. Nearby, there is also a statue of the author Zhang Ji, receiving the admiration of tourists from all directions.
Maple Bridge is a famous ancient site in Suzhou, with an unknown construction date. The Tang Dynasty ancient bridge that Zhang Ji saw during his night mooring no longer exists; this semi-circular single-hole stone bridge was rebuilt in the sixth year of the Tongzhi era of the Qing Dynasty (AD 1867). The bridge is 39.6 meters long, 5.27 meters wide, with a span of 10 meters, connecting the east bank to Tie Ling Pass.
Maple Bridge has a simple and ancient design. In the Jiangnan region, such stone arch bridges can be seen everywhere. Even though the old Maple Bridge area in Suzhou was a major thoroughfare for water and land transportation, with boats and carriages gathering daily and merchants and travelers coming and going, if it were not for the Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Ji's famous poem 'Night Mooring at Maple Bridge,' it would have been just an ordinary stone arch bridge in history, once bustling and noisy.
Originally named 'Feng Bridge,' this place was not only a major canal port but also a necessary route for the ancient post road. From the beginning of its construction, it became an important transit station for merchants and travelers, as well as a strategic military location. Whenever grain was transported through the canal, the river and city gates would be under martial law and sealed, hence the name.
'Feng Bridge' was later renamed 'Maple Bridge' all because of Zhang Ji's 'Night Mooring at Maple Bridge.' The poet, staying here during his travels, saw maple trees growing by the river and mistook 'Feng Bridge' for 'Maple Bridge,' using it in his poem. Subsequent generations continued the error, changing the name of the bridge.
A thousand years after Zhang Ji, Maple Bridge is revisited, and the elegance, classicism, and romance of the poem's 'moon falling, crows cawing, frost fills the sky, river maples and fisherman's lights, I sleep filled with sorrow' still flow endlessly.
It is worth a visit. The Fengqiao Scenic Area includes Hanshan Temple. They are all in a scenic area. Fengqiao is a stone arch bridge on the tributary of the canal. It separates Hanshan Temple from the scenic area. The whole scenic area is not very big. It is a delta formed by the Grand Canal. A small island surrounded by water, the island is picturesque. There are many monuments. Zhang Jiye Boyin poetry was here at that time. In addition, on this island, you can enjoy the scenery of the modern Grand Canal Golden Waterway. The canal tours in Suzhou City are all ancient canals in the past. The spectacular transportation of the real modern canal is busy. All kinds of large inland river shipping ships shuttle, so the connotation here is really rich.
20230702 Morning: 1. The "Fengqiao Night Bo" monument is located in the "Hanshan Temple" in the scenic spot of 4A. Hanshan Temple is the famous temple in the western suburbs of Suzhou on the banks of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. It was built in the Southern Dynasty during the Xiaoliang Tianjian Year (502-519). It was founded by the Hanshan monk, one of the "Hehe 2 Holys". It was once one of the "Ten famous temples" in China. Afterwards, it was due to the famous poem "Fengqiao Night Po" by Zhang Ji, a poet in Tang Tianbao years. "Gusu City outside Hanshan Temple, the bell to the passenger ship in the middle of the night" is famous in the world, the incense is extremely strong, and there are famous footprints such as Zhu Yuanxu, Yue Fei, Tang Yu, Wen Zhengming, Wang Shiqi, Lin Zexu, Dong Qichang, Kang Youwei and other famous people in history. The temple is large in scale, roughly five-in-one courtyard, covering an area of 1.3 10,000 square meters. ① Address: No. 24 Hanshan Temple Lane, Fengqiao Road, Gusu District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province ② Transportation: direct bus access, easy to stop by car. ③ peak season: no. ④ Time: 1 hour. 2, "Fengqiao Night Bo" poetry monument: the inscription by Qingdao light and Xianfeng years famous scholars, Hanlinyuan compiled and repaired the handwriting, he was invited by Suzhou governor to re-issue this monument, the original monument is one of the Ming Dynasty "four talents" Wenzhengming handwriting, after the number of printing began to blur. During the war of aggression, Japan's commander in Shanghai, Matsui Ishigen, was entrusted by Emperor Hirohito, took pictures of this stone monument and wanted to steal it. After the abbot learned that the master of stone carvings in Suzhou, Qian Rong, was first imitated a monument, but was known by the traitors to transport the replica monument back to Nanjing Presidential Palace. In order to make the emperor believe the curse of "the death of the engraving and the obscenity of the monument", a patriot who looked like Qian Rongchu committed suicide in front of the real monument, forcing the Japanese to abandon this plan and keep the monument.
[Fun] Everyone can recite this poem: Hanshan Temple outside Gusu City, the bell to the passenger ship in the middle of the night, this is Fengqiao. [View] The tower of Hanshan Temple across the river and the city gate is really beautiful. [Cost-effective] The scenic spot is free (Hanshan Temple requires tickets), how to say this price-performance ratio.
Gusu City, Fengqiao Town, famous for poetry, Suzhou travel must punch in. Fengqiao Scenic Area, listen to the clock bridge stop, listen to the bells of Hanshan Temple; walk on the maple bridge; experience the maple river cruise; watch the freighter shuttle by the Grand Canal; White wall and Daiwa Su-style houses in the ancient town, which building has a historical story ~🎫 Fengqiao Scenic Area, free. [View]
Yebo Fengqiao Moonfall Wuxu ~ Jiangfeng Yuhuo Hanshan Ancient Temple ~ Outside Gusu City in the middle of the night ~ Taosheng is still the same