The Lugou Bridge in my heart

Author Hua Shuangyu(Beijing)

TranslatorJin Zi(Beijing)

After living in Beijing for 20 years, I can't remember how many times I have set foot on this bridge. Every time I will stand on the edge of the bridge for a long time, and I will touch the stone lions of different shapes and shapes. River,delusion. Sometimes, I will walk down the bridge and walk along the river,then stand on the river farther from the bridge, quietly look at the Lugou Bridge,and look at the stone lion that sat quietly on the bridge for hundreds of years.

Whether it is spring or summer,whether it is autumn or winter, whether it is early morning or evening, whether it is sunny or rain, those stone lions have always been like that, or lying still, or playing, or looking at the sky, or looking up at Yuntian. Some of the embarrassing little lions climbed on the backs of the lions, some kneeling under the lioness's knees, some playing hydrangea, and some turning sideways, opposite each other, as if talking. Whether male or female, they are happy and happy. It seems that the world is so beautiful, it seems that nothing has happened.

However, whether it is a bridge,a lion, or every one passing through the bridge, it is impossible to forget.193777, that is a series of painful numbers, it is a day worthy of our eternal commemoration. No one in China will forget.

On the south side of the bridge,there is a lion, an ear, always standing tall, like a guardian full of vigilance,always listening, listening to the water flowing under the bridge, listening to the whispers of past pedestrians... Maybe it still exists Fear, fear of a gunshot, fear of sudden attacks, fear of the Lugouqiao Incident that changed history and changed the world.

Speaking of the Lugouqiao Incident, I don’t think anyone in China knows it. We knew its history as early as the middle school. The famous Lugouqiao Incident, also known as the July 7 Incident, was the beginning of the Japanese imperialist war of fullscale aggression against China and the starting point for the Chinese nation to carry out a comprehensive war of resistance. The incident occurred on the Lugou Bridge, 15 kilometers from the urban area of Beijing.

On the night of July 7, 1937, a gunshot roused the 502 stone lions on the Lugou Bridge and awakened every Chinese on the land of China.Lugou Bridge was forever recorded in the annals of history because of this gunshot.

That night, the 8th Squadron of the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Wing of the Japanese Army’s Infantry Brigade, the Japanese Army, held a military exercise outside Wanping City. A soldier named Shimura Kijiro broke his hand from the diarrhea to the glutinous rice field by the roadside. When he returned, the team had already gone. Because Zhicun was a recruit newly recruited from the country and did not receive training in the direction of nighttime discrimination,he lost his way in the dark night and was separated from the big forces. According to this, the Japanese army used the missing soldier as an excuse to take the soldiers around Wanping City and asked to go to the city to search. The stern words of Ji Xingwen, head of the 219th Regiment of the 37th Division of the 25th Army of the Chinese garrison, were rejected by the Japanese army captains.The Chinese garrison in Wanping City rose to resist. This opened the prelude to a full-scale war of aggression against China.

That war was fierce! In order to defend the dignity of the motherland, the heroic 29th Army fought bravely against the long-planned Japanese army. The arrogant and angered Japanese army surrounded Wanping County like a wild wolf and waved a butcher knife to Wanping County.On the side of the couch, let others sleep? ! Under the leadership of the military commander Song Zheyuan and the deputy commander Qilin Pavilion, the twentyninth army soldiers bravely took the guns, waved t h e b r o a d s w o r d, a n d counterattacked the arrogant Japanese army. The Kirin’s commander: "Oath to death and the bridge to live and die together "Do not retreat.""Let the Lugou Bridge become the tomb of Er." In the face of the madness and ferocity of the enemy, the heroic officers and men have no hesitation and retreat. In the end, the death and injury were heavy,and the deputy commander, Kirin Court,also bravely fought the country in the war. The blood of the soldiers dyed the Lugou Bridge and dyed more than 500 stone lions on the Lugou Bridge.

Lugou Bridge, this vicissitude bridge, this humiliating bridge. It was built in the 29th year of Jin Dading(1189) and was built in the 3rd year of Jinzhangzong Mingchang (1192). It is the oldest surviving stone arch bridge in Beijing. As early as 700 years ago, it was famous for the Italian traveler Marco Polo. At that time, Marco Polo entered Beijing from this bridge. In "Marco Polo's Travels" it was described as a magnificent stone bridge, Marco Polo said "She is the best and unique bridge in the world." So foreigners call it "Marco Polo Bridge" ".

"The Emperor Jingjing Scenery"records: Lugou Bridge spans Lugou water, Jin Mingchang was first built,and I was repaired in nine years. Two hundred steps of the bridge, the stone column column head, the lion breast,Gu Bao, negative 赘, the state of color,the number is inexhaustible. Vulgar: Lu Gong lost the class of God also. "Lugou Bridge is an eleven-hole arch bridge.The arches gradually increase from the two sides to the center of the bridge.The span of the arch is from 12.35 meters to 13.42 meters. The center of the bridge is slightly convex 93.5 centimeters. The slope is gentle. The bridge length is 213.15. Meters, plus the approach bridges at both ends, the total length is 266.5 meters. The total width of the bridge is 9.3 meters and the bridge deck is 7.5 meters wide. The bridges are wing-shaped on both sides, the bridge surface is flared, and the entrance is 32 meters wide. There are 140 pillars on the south side and 141 pillars on the north side. The distance between the pillars is about 1.8 meters to 2 meters, and the height of the columns is 1.4 meters. The columns are inlaid with columns and the height of the columns is about 0.85 meters. The whole bridge is The stone structure, the key parts are silver ingots and irons, which is the longest ancient stone bridge in North China. The most distinctive feature is the construction of the pier. The pier is shaped like a boat,and the water surface is built as a watertip. A pointed bow that acts to resist the impact of running water.

The stone carvings on the bridge are very beautiful. Each column is engraved with a rosette, with a lotus leaf pier and a stone lion carved on the top of the column. On the pillars, there are stone lions of different sizes and shapes. There are probably hundreds of stone lions, how many? I do not know.How many times, I tried to figure out the number of them, but when I counted it,I was dazzled, never figured out, and finally only gave up. The folks have a saying after the break: "The stone lions of the Lugou Bridge are countless."Listening to the local old people said that in 1962, the relevant departments specially sent people to do an inventory,register one by one, and counted 485 large and small stone lions. At this point,it should be said that it is "the fascinating ice release." Unexpectedly, in the 1979 review, 17 more were discovered. Thus,the total number of large and small stone lions is 502. However, is this number correct or not? No one can play a security ticket.

昔日垃圾坑，今日锦绣谷

Every time I was on the Lugou Bridge, looking at the lions on the bridge,I could not help but sigh the ingenuity and endless wisdom of the ancients.The folk legends recorded in the "Bijing Scenery" are the wonderful carvings of Lu Guogong's class (ie Luban), showing how sophisticated the workmanship is.The famous bridges in the world are all good at winning the field, but the Lugou Bridge is superbly built with its superb bridge construction technology and exquisite stone lion carvings. It is a great wonder in the world.

When you arrive in Beijing, you can't go to the Forbidden City without going to the Great Wall, but you can't go to the Lugou Bridge. Because it is not only a unique and well-built unique ancient stone arch bridge, it also carries the dream of a revolutionary hero,stands the soul of China, the nation. It witnessed the suffering of a nation and accompanied the growth of a nation.That one lion, each with a story, each can tell you a story.

I remember that the next day I came to Beijing, I couldn’t wait to embark on this sacred bridge. I know that he is in Fengtai District and knows that he is crossing the mother river of Beijing, Yongding River. From then on,I remembered Fengtai, remembered Yongding River, remembered Lugou Xiaoyue, and remembered the poem of Zou Yu’s "Lugou Xiaoyue" in the Ming Dynasty； "The river bridge was a dying moon, and it saw Lugou. Wild water yellow. The trees enter the Pingjiao sub-division, the sky is broken and the surface is shimmering. The north tends to ban the gods and Beijing, and the south to the levy of the passengers. The number of pedestrians is here and the horseshoes are going to do five more frosts." From this poem can be seen on the Lugou Bridge The prosperity of the year.

Lugou Xiaoyue is one of the“Yanjing Eight Views”. On the full moon night, especially on the Mid-Autumn Festival night, standing on the Lugou Bridge and looking up at that bright moon, it is extraordinarily bright and clean. The sacred and majestic lions on the Lugou Bridge under the moonlight added a bit of solemnity and solemnity to the moon. Perhaps the grandeur of the Lugou Bridge, perhaps the warmth of the mother river, the vastness of the river, standing on the Lugou Bridge to see the moon, there is always a different feeling. The moon,it seems to be talking, seems to be wrapped in a fairy, holy, noble, elegant,blurred. The distant mountains, in the beautiful moonlight, and the bridge, the river, and the moon, constitute a pair of ink paintings with a distant artistic conception. At this time, you will realize that the Emperor Qianlong’s "halfhooks are left in the three autumns, and one is divided into waves and mirrors."Lugou Bridge, in the moonlight under the moonlight, the water under the bridge flows quietly like a mirror. On the bridge,502 lions of different sizes and sizes guarded the ancient stone arch bridge from beginning to end, silent silence,silence, and silent play. What kind of grief and silence is that !

I like to walk on the bridge deck of the Lugou Bridge wearing cotton shoes.The bridge deck is inlaid by a polished smooth blue stone with different sizes and convexities. Walking on it, there is a vicissitude and solid weight. I feel that I can smell the taste of the years.

Follow the north of the bridge and enter Wanping City. Wanping City is in the north of Lugou Bridge. In ancient times, it was called Gongbei City. It is a city built in Ming Chongzhen for ten years. The city is not big and square.The east and west are about 640 meters long, and the north and south are only 320 meters long. The east and west, north and south are less than two miles. Only two north and south gates are set. . However, because of the Acropolis, the gates are majestic and heavy. "The bureau system is small,but the Chongzhen hundred 雉, 俨若雄", the thickness of the city gate is about five meters, the degree of honesty is comparable to the Yongdingmen and Qianmen in Beijing. A Yongding River straddles to the south, and the Lugou Bridge facing the south gate directly slams into the throat of the Jing-Jing,becoming the only passage connecting the outside, an important gateway. At that time, Lugou Bridge was a busy market in the county. I often stand on the Lugou Bridge and close my eyes.I think of the once Wanping City. Once upon a time, the Lugou Bridge was a place where the pedestrians walked and walked, and there was a scene like Zhang Zhiduan’s clearing in the river. The world was peaceful and the people lived and worked in peace... ..The water of the Yongding River flows through the bridge. In the era when there is no pollution, the water must be clear. Otherwise, how can Chen Gao’s phrase “mountain white and clear waves”? "Lugou Bridge West Car Maduo, the hills are white and clear. The Lulu also has Jiangnan women, and listen to the Jin people out of the song."Today, there are no horses and horses on the bridge, the bridge is also clear,the water is in the tide, Only the legends of the golden maidens and the mottled walls and the large, small and dense bullet holes left behind after the war,telling the history of the past, remind us,don’t forget the heroes as guards. The blood shed by the motherland and the precious life of sacrifice also remind the world to cherish this hard-won peace.

I don't know why I like to come to this bridge so much. I often stand on the bridge thinking about life, thinking about life, the whole world is the home of the day, Xiao Xiao Lu Qiuqiu. I saw that there are many vicissitudes of the Lugou Bridge. I expected the Lugou Bridge to look like I should. Every time, the stone lion that only survived the vicissitudes of life has made me a man who wanders in the city and struggles in the workplace,and the tired and exhausted people are full of power like chicken blood. The countless stone lions, though baptized by war, were soaked with blood and draped in the weather of the years, but still so stubborn and strong, why can I be overwhelmed by what is life? What reason do I have to fail when I encounter some setbacks?

The stone lions on the hundreds of stone pillars of Lugou Bridge always give me endless power. They are high in the rain, and they are magnificent in the sunset. They used to face the Japanese guns and rain. They, because they witnessed one The soldiers who fell in the flames of war, wept. However, they are still so firm and straight, hiding their sorrow into their hearts, and every day,greeted with the Big Dipper.

Nowadays, the smoke has already been exhausted. Wanping has a treelined city, and the butterfly dances on the Yongding River. The river is a cluster of lotus flowers. The lotus in the midsummer is a beautiful scenery on the Yongding River. The lotus flowers that stretch for dozens of miles are so touching in the moonlight and the moonlight in the sun! I have seen the lotus flowers of Hangzhou West Lake,a small cluster and a small cluster, it is not a climate, it seems too little； I have also seen the 10,000-acre lotus in the Hongze Lake wetland, stacked and stacked, it seems too How wild is it, and the lotus on the Yongding River? The lotus flower of the Yongding River was formed by the horticulturists using the original natural conditions and doing some just the right trimming. Between high and low elevations and dense gatherings, it is just right. Every place is like natural heaven, and it is like a work of artisans. Every place is different and every place is unique.

Under the clear sky, Li Tian held a small umbrella and stood on the bank of the river. The lotus pond filled the pool from the shore to the shore, the river was so long and wide. The wind blows from afar, and the water in the lotus pond rises from the river surface.Suddenly, there is a cool feeling, and the cool and cool people are refreshing,making the soul stable and physically and mentally fit. As the soul fluctuates with the fragrance, the body and mind are comfortable and clean in the fragrance of water, flowers and willows.

The Yongding River in the rain has a unique charm. Wearing a coat and holding a long pole, sit firmly in front of the lotus pond. In the slanting weaving drizzle, in the dampness of the sky,listening to the sound of the lotus leaf in the rain, watching the crystal clear water pearls dance lightly on the lotus leaf, the paintings are clean, Clear and peaceful.In this peace of mind and satisfaction,look at the lotus, drink a nectar of the lake, and leisurely fishing, that is a kind of leisurely and elegant fairy life!

The Yongding River under the moon is more beautiful. "Hollywood Moonlight", that is the famous article left by Mr. Zhu Ziqing, but I dare say that the moonlight in the Yongding River is much more beautiful than the lotus pond in Zhu Ziqing's pen. On a moonlit night,standing on the banks of the Yongding River, whether it is a full moon or a half moon, there is a unique charm.The moonlight sprinkled on the river and sprinkled on the lotus leaf of the lotus pond, showing a patchy shadow.When the wind is out, the reflection of the moon is washed in the water,dancing with the lotus flower of Nana,such as the beautiful and harmonious.The high and low, high and low, the lotus leaf, the posture of the lotus leaf,washes his green and round body with the moonlight, the graceful posture of the graceful, the heart can not help but tremble. Occasionally a few frogs, far and near, scratching the moonlight,scratching the night sky, the more the moonlight night. From time to time, I passed a few light clouds, changing the shape, flying quietly over, and flying quietly, like who is hiding and hiding...The Lugou Bridge in the distance is a twilight, faint, if it is dark, on the shore Mao Liu lazily stretched his body and swayed, seemingly singing a lullaby to the fragrant lotus in the water. The clouds are light, the wind is light, the lotus, the moon is bright, the willow is comfortable, and the frog is comfortable.Light lotus, faint wind, flowers and water,water love flowers, flowers and shadows interlaced, moon shadows overlap,swaying, like a fairy. "There are several acres of pools in front of Wanliutang,Pingshuyunjin cover. Who knows that there are infinite Wanlisi outside the capital city." Such a landscape will surely make the stone lions on the Lugou Bridge temporarily forget the pain left by the war. However, the huge holes in the walls will remind them of the arrogance of the Japanese invaders. In their hearts, there are too many sorrows hidden. However, they don’t say no words, no anger, no anger, how is it light? And calm heart!

When the old people of history pushed the time into the 21st century,they were no longer the soldiers of the Acropolis. However, in the years, people did not forget them. Therefore, they did not lose the glory of the past. They and the bridge are always witnesses of history. They, like a veteran general who has been through battles, will always be loved and admired by people.

I saw the scenery on the bridge,and the people watching the scenery looked at me at the bridge. Strolling on the Lugou Bridge！