Guzhen Congqiao, also known as Congqiao, is an important town connecting Chengdu with Kangzang in the west, Yunnan and Myanmar in the south in ancient times. It is also the first stop of the Southern Silk Road. "Cluster" is an apparatus for silkworms to spin silk and make cocoons, which is made of crop straws such as rape stalks and wheat stalks. Before the Ming Dynasty, Jiqun Bridge was a bamboo cable bridge, namely Ruxiang Bridge, which was the same as the Ruxiang Bridge in Dujiangyan. During the period of Wen Jian in Ming Huidi (about 1400), it was rebuilt as a five-hole stone arch bridge with a span of 30 meters, under which boats could sail, with stone railings on both sides (1972 was rebuilt as a cement flat bridge). In the early Qing dynasty, the cluster bridge was officially named and still used today.
Jin Ju Town is rich in silk. Since the Qin and Han dynasties, mulberry planting and sericulture have flourished, and the trade in silk products and raw silk has also flourished. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, due to the prosperity of silk trade, the cluster bridge was once called the "cocoon bridge". During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, no matter Zizhou (Ziyang) on the East Road, Tongchuan (Santai) on the North Road, Jiazhou (Leshan) on the South Road, guanxian on the West Road, or silk merchants from Shaanxi, Hubei, Jiangxi, Guangdong and other places, they all gathered in the ancient town and were still brightly lit after 10 every night. With the expansion of the trading market, there are more and more silk shops, including Confucian Temple, Lingguan Building (formerly known as Yaoqiao Township Industrial and Commercial Bureau), Tiefo Temple, Wenchang Palace, Huguang Club (Yu Palace), Jiangxi Club (Wanshou Palace), Guangdong Club (Nanhua Palace) and Shaanxi Club.
These four halls are all three-bay quadrangles, with the gate facing the street, and the second bedrooms on the left and right, with wide bays. The whole house is two to three inches deep and has two patios, one large and one small. There is generally no stage in the yard, but there is a very spacious dam in the backyard, where flowers and bamboo are planted. The area is as small as three to four acres, and as large as six to seven acres, all of which are the Sichuan folk houses with brick and wood structures.
The building street of Huguang Club is located in the southeast to northwest, and the main bay is slightly larger than the two bays. The main entrance is a double-eaved gold column, and there are three overhangs above the eaves column. The figures and flowers on the overhanging column cover are exquisite. The roof is a rest mountain roof with upturned eaves and a high roof ridge. The ridge of the tile is carved with pillars of fire and birds. The whole hall has three deep entrances and double patios, surrounded by corridors and wings, and cypress houses are tall and strong. The guild hall has clear regulations on the residence of young and old. The upper room has one room and one bottom, which is the room where ancestral tablets and deliberations are placed. On both sides of the wing are villagers' houses, the upper house in the yard is the room of the elders, and on both sides of the wing are the younger generation behind the hall. There is a well dug in the backyard, and the kitchen toilet is located in the front and rear wing. The clubhouse is tightly closed, only one side door can lead to the backyard, and Maolin Xiuzhu is next to the compound. The building is solemn and the structure is reasonable.
According to the statistics of 19 1 1 year, there were more than 300 companies engaged in spinning brocade in the town at that time. Later, due to the massive invasion of Japanese artificial silk, years of warlord melee and War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Tuqiao's silk weaving industry gradually declined. By 1950, there were only six silk shops in the town, but they disappeared after 1966.