A bridge that witnessed the historical scene of Ma Xiaoxiao, the earliest wooden bridge found in the world, Vicin stood here several times a week, staring at the rows of dark upside-down wooden stakes.
This is the site of the ancient bridge of Shahe River in Xianyang, about 6 kilometers away from the center of Xianyang, located in the south of Wangdao Village, Diaotai Town, Qindu District. The orderly rows of piles were once buried deep in the fine sand with a thickness of more than ten meters, which was discovered by local people when digging sand pits in 1986. Some people think that wood is thick, straight and hard, so they take it home to make coffin boards. Later, after the cultural relics department cleaned up and excavated, it was identified as a wooden bridge column more than 2,000 years ago.
These black bridge piles stand upright in the white sand, which is particularly eye-catching. Further confirmed by the Provincial Institute of Archaeology, the width of the bridge deck supported by these bridge piles should be above 10 meter, and the length cannot be determined at present. Such a large-scale bridge is definitely not for ordinary people to pass through. It must be a royal bridge carrying heavy vehicles.
This bridge witnessed the historical scene of chariots, Ma Xiaoxiao and each of you wearing bows and quiver on your belts. It is the earliest wooden bridge in the world and occupies a very important position in the history of bridges in the world. Around the ruins of Shahe ancient bridge, a large number of precious cultural relics were unearthed, including bronzes, ironware, pottery and a very rare piece of copper.
These discoveries of Xianyang Shahe ancient bridge were listed as one of the top ten archaeological discoveries in China by National Cultural Heritage Administration in that year, and this place was designated as a provincial key cultural relics protection unit in 1992. Li Ruihuan, former chairman of China People's Political Consultative Conference, visited here and showed great interest in the ancient and magical bridge piles, instructing relevant departments to properly protect them as soon as possible.
Yuan Shang Garden in Xianyang is full of cultural relics. How to effectively protect these scattered cultural relics? After repeated argumentation, careful design and multi-financing, the Cultural Relics Bureau of Qindu District built a spacious and tall antique building on the Shahe ancient bridge in 2002, covering the whole bridge pile. At present, the Shahe Ancient Bridge Museum, with a total cost of 6.5438+0.5 million yuan, still owes 500,000 yuan for the project and cannot be opened for operation. Wei Xin, who is in his fifties, is a celebrity in Qindu District of Xianyang. He is famous for his quick thinking and humorous language. All the cadres in Qindu District don't know Wei Xin.
Wei Xin's father is an old cadre who participated in the Yan 'an Revolution. Later overthrown, he returned to his hometown in Beidu, Qin Dou. After graduating from high school, Wei Xing has been farming in the village because of family problems. The young man is decent and fair, and he was also elected as the production captain. After Wei Fu's unjust case was rehabilitated, Wei Xin took over as the projectionist of Qindou Cinema, and the staff of the whole hospital 1992 elected him as the manager.
After the news of the excavation of the ancient bridge site in Shahe was announced, it aroused great interest of Wei Xin. He ran to the side of the ancient bridge from time to time and felt a little sorry. During 1996, Qindu District organized relevant departments to invest in Guangdong, and Wei Xin participated in the investment delegation and visited windows of the world.
He said that clever Shenzhen people even came up with artificial landscapes to attract mainland tourists when there were not many local historical and cultural resources. Unfortunately, Xianyang is located in a treasure house of history and culture, and there are countless cultural relics, but they have not been effectively used. He told his colleagues in Qindu District that sites like Shahe Ancient Bridge should be developed in a protective way as soon as possible to attract many tourists and benefit the people of Qin Dou. Wei Xing has been to Shahe Ancient Bridge several times since he came back from the south. His idea of protective development is getting stronger and stronger, so that he doesn't think about eating and drinking, and he is fidgeting. After he repeatedly suggested to the bureau leaders and district leaders, the Qindu District Bureau of Culture and Sports finally agreed to his development ideas, and asked him to take the lead in establishing the project in Wei Xing, making it an economic entity of the cultural and sports system. Just as Vicin was actively preparing, a document came up, demanding that all economic entities be decoupled from government departments, and government departments should not set up new economic entities.
Seeing that this project that benefits the country and the people will fall through, Wei Xin looks very worried. After many days of thinking, he firmly said to himself: no unit is allowed to do this, so Wei Xin will take the lead. So he found relatives, visited friends and tried to raise money from the people. The basic idea of Weixin is to rely on historical and cultural sites, show the folk customs in the northwest, and develop and build the Shahe Ancient Bridge Garden, which integrates cultural relics, folk customs, fashion, leisure, catering and entertainment. With the economic integration of Xi 'an and Xianyang, it will become a new tourist hotspot west of Xi 'an and south of Xianyang. After the project passed the evaluation, in May this year, Wei Xin led the troops to Shahe Ancient Bridge. This Shahe used to be a big river around Xi 'an. It was submerged even 20 years ago. Later, the amount of water gradually decreased, and now it has completely dried up, and there are almost no traces of rivers. The valley is overgrown with weeds and sand dunes. After several months of hard work, it has become an open space covering an area of more than 200 mu, and various leisure and entertainment facilities have been completed one after another, so that tourists from all over the world can enjoy it.
Wei Xin said that not long ago, Zhang Liyong, Mayor of Xianyang City, and Xu Xinrong, Secretary of Qin Dou District Committee, made a special trip to the construction site of Shahe Ancient Bridge. Seeing the new changes here, they praised Wei Xing and said that Lao Wei had done a good job, which was not easy. Government departments should give strong support, that is, to really protect and utilize cultural relics in the form of tourism development.
In the amorous feelings garden built in Wissing, some projects are almost lost, which are intangible cultural heritages in urgent need of rescue, such as quack quack and monkey beating, and some projects are extremely traditional and regional, such as dogs chasing rabbits, fighting cocks, donkeys pulling water wheels, swinging, social fires and bamboo horses. Its dog and rabbit performances are the first in the country, and the 200-square-meter cockfighting hall is the first in Shaanxi. The net climbing height of the built modern sports facilities is12m, which is equivalent to the height of a four-story building and the highest in the northwest. There are also women wrestling in the mud pond, and the performance is wonderful.
Wei Xin said that these strange and interesting leisure and entertainment projects will definitely attract tourists from Xi and Xianyang. It was just built this year, and it is rainy in autumn. There are not many tourists at present, but he is optimistic and confident about the future development.
65438+February 65438+June, the reporter saw at the site of Shahe ancient bridge that the tall and spacious bridge pile protection hall is at the eastern end of the ancient river bed, and a large area in the west is the amorous feelings garden. Wei Xin wanders between the ancient bridge pavilion and the amorous feelings garden every day.
He pointed affectionately at the black wooden stakes standing upside down in the white sand and told reporters poetically that these solitary black wooden stakes showed a long history, ancient science and technology, witnessed the cruel military and witnessed the changes of the times. These stupid black stakes hide many secrets to be revealed by present and future generations. Whether it is five years, ten years or twenty years, he is willing to be a lonely old bridge keeper, looking at history and the future.