Lover's Bridge, Cauliflower Jade (Series 7)

Lover's Bridge, Cauliflower Jade (Series 7)

I was going to the Rhinoceros Cave on Sunday, but I didn’t go out because of the rain. This is the only daytime rain since I came to Puzhehei. The other two rains were at night, and the sun was still shining during the day.

This week we wandered around after three o'clock in the afternoon, including going to the strange bridge. I also tricked some tourists to see it, and everyone praised it highly.

But the question is, the basic definition of this bridge is whether it is an old bridge or a new bridge, whether it is intentionally designed after being divided into three sections or repaired after damage, and even whether the abandoned piers of the old bridge are real or deliberately made when the bridge was built. Most importantly, it is doubtful whether the two piers in the middle are natural boulders or man-made.

No wonder everyone is confused, because cement and lime are originally fired from limestone with a small amount of clay (modern cement is also added with steel slag). Calcium carbonate turns into calcium oxide, which turns into calcium hydroxide when it meets water, and then reacts with carbon dioxide in the air. Combined with calcium carbonate, it is reduced to calcium carbonate. Therefore, there is basically no difference between the simulated and real limestone with calcium carbonate as the main component, and it is difficult to distinguish with the naked eye.

In addition, there are many Puzhehei lakes, and there are no high mountains around, only some small hills and they are all broken geological structures. When it rains, the rainwater naturally seeps into the cracks in the rocks, so the water level rises naturally. There is no raging flood, and the drop is extremely small. Bridges Without driving, it is impossible to collapse naturally, so the whole bridge should be designed like this on purpose.

In the end, I think that although these two seemingly natural piers are very similar to the boulders in color, they are too regular. No matter the distance, orientation, size, height, shape, etc., it is impossible to be so coincidental. Therefore, the conclusion is that this strange bridge, It is completely man-made. Of course, this does not detract from the ingenious conception of this bridge, its exquisite and bold design, and its weird and out-of-the-box, unconstrained and eclectic style.

Especially the design on the side where the old bridge seems to have collapsed, and a section of the new bridge is connected to it, cleverly exploiting people's misunderstandings, thinking that the piers below are old, but in fact they are man-made new ones. The designer's ideas are really amazing!

Additional explanation later: Although my above analysis is in place, the result is actually very artistic. That is, I occasionally found an old photo on the Internet, which restored the original appearance of the bridge.

It turned out that the bridge was rebuilt after it collapsed, because in that photo, both sides of the bridge were cement bridges, but later, for unknown reasons, one end collapsed, so a section of steel bridge was repaired on the original site of the cement pier.

Therefore, the strange bridge was not designed by humans (the original design was okay, but far from the level of rare strange bridges), but was caused by tofu engineering, and later the newly built bridge was combined with the original design, On the contrary, it makes the fake come true, resulting in the strange and unique style of this bridge. It is true and false when it is true, and it is also true when it is false.

　Unfortunately, I saved this photo at the time, but I don’t know where I put it, and I can’t find it on the Internet, but I did see it, so I know the truth. In the photo above, remove the tall steel pipe bridge on the left and replace it with a concrete bridge that is exactly the same as the one on the right.

After seeing the strange bridge, we continued to go around Qinglong Mountain. I felt that the activities here were tiring, and I felt a little out of breath. This is because of the high altitude. This is the shortcoming of Puzhehei. Although I don’t feel out of breath , but climbing the mountain is very tiring.

Because the trail to Qinglong Mountain was cut off here, we came back after walking for a while, sitting on the Lover Bridge, also known as Siting Bridge, to rest, watching the sunset, next to Hebutou, village girls—mostly Middle-aged and elderly village girls do their laundry.

As I said last time, it is hard to see people washing clothes in Hebutou now. This custom is still preserved here, and there are many people, who use a basket to carry a large basket of clothes to wash. I have never seen it outside of Puzhehei. Such a spectacular scene.

At this time, the old cows went home through the Lover's Bridge one after another. When people who didn't know it saw it, they felt so embarrassing.

I don't see my lover in the front, but I see the old cow in the back. I think about the long distance between the world and the earth, and I feel sad and weep.

The next afternoon, we went to Sansheng Sanshi.

Walking on the promenade on the side of the mountain, I sang loudly, and the passing tourists applauded.

In fact, I sang nonsense.

The song says: The thatch is green, the reeds are vast, and there is a herd of old cows, on the side of the water; the thatch is luxuriant, the reeds are blurred, and there are a herd of old cows, living by the water...

Very realistic song.

The photo of the old cow living by the water, look carefully

There is a simple wharf parked by the lake, similar to the one we saw at the foot of Qinglong Mountain yesterday. Could it be that it was moved here?

Not long after, I saw a three-leaf sports boat on the lake—I don’t know what to call it. Three young men and women paddled quickly to the pier, which turned out to be their base.

I sat for a while in the pavilion where Sansei III was filmed, then continued on, from the walking trail to Caihuajing Village, and then planned to return along the road.

After a short walk, there is a construction site on the left side of the road, which seems to be a commercial housing project. On the right side, there is a hill with a height of 30 to 50 meters. It is actually a stone pier, straight up and down, and at the bottom, there is actually a hole.

This is very interesting.

There are also some karst caves on this hill, which are similar to some Solitary Beauty Peaks in southwest Guangxi.

Continuing along the highway, the shooting location of Sansheng III is a huge depression surrounded by peaks, about three to five square kilometers. It is a little closer from Sansheng III to Caihuajing Village, and it is much farther back by the road.

We walked onto a bridge. On the field next to the bridge, there were old cows grazing leisurely and a group of ducks. Just as we were about to take pictures, we saw the three-leaf light boat flying towards us.

We took pictures, and the three-leaf light boat passed through the bridge hole and entered a small river.

The small river turns to the left side of the mountain and continues along the mountain.

I saw a small road in front of the mountain on the left, and went forward along the mountain, and suddenly thought whether it would lead to the side of the strange bridge, and it was possible to be stable.

Yesterday we saw a small road on the side of the mountain opposite the strange bridge, and wondered if it was connected to Sansheng III. As a result, when we just entered the valley of Sansheng III, we saw a cliff directly facing the lake at the foot of the opposite mountain, so we guessed that the road might pass I didn’t come, but I didn’t expect that if you can’t pass in front of the mountain, you can go behind the mountain. In this karst peak cluster depression, there is water in front of and behind the hill, but the water here is only a small water surface, about two or three meters wide. , a small bridge, solved the problem.

Of course, we can’t be sure. Puzhehei is like this. Where it seems to be very close, there is often a surface of water, which is too close to pass. Practice is the only criterion for testing the truth. You can only try it out.

After a short walk, just after turning around the foot of the mountain, a giant forest appeared in the distance, and I felt relieved. It was the forest next to the weird bridge. Because it was tall, it appeared first. After a while, the weird bridge also appeared. Walking along the mountain here, There will be no unexpected situation of being cut off by water.

On the other side of our mountain road, there is a small river. There are tall thatch and reeds along the river and in the river. The three-leaf light boat, along the narrow waterway inside, disappears into the green gauze tent. Although they are moving forward, we are walking along Turn left on the mountain and parted ways, but looking at the direction, they will still go to the Weird Bridge from the waterway behind the hill in front.

Sure enough, when we were approaching the Weird Bridge, their boat passed by too. We only had to chase the back of the boat and take a few photos with the bridge as the background.

After crossing the bridge and returning to the Torch Cave at the foot of Qinglong Mountain, I found that the men and women rowing had already arrived here and were resting.

Lover's Bridge is also called Siting Bridge, because there is a pavilion on each of the four corners. We like to walk here to watch the sunset and wash clothes with village girls. I think the artistic conception is very beautiful.

Today's Lover's Bridge or Siting Bridge, in the pavilion, there are girls who are studying and have a holiday, sitting on the bridge with bags of things and chatting. Time flies so fast, and it's New Years Eve again.

Well, today is almost done, let's go home.