by “On the morning of July 7, Zhenhai Bridge (also known as Tunxi Old Bridge) in Huangshan City, a national key cultural relic protection unit It was washed away in the mountain torrent.
After the incident, Huangshan City immediately deployed relevant work on the construction of the ancient bridge and will salvage the ancient bridge components after the flood receded.
As the flood receded, some components of the washed out Tunxi old bridge in Huangshan City emerged from the water.
At present, with the gradual receding of the flood, the water level of the Xin’an River has dropped significantly, and some of the components scattered in the river of the Tunxi old bridge have come out of the water.
On July 16, reporters from Xin’an Evening News, Anhui Network and Da Wan Client learned that, in order to find out the location of the components in the water, the Shanyue Emergency Rescue Center, a non-governmental volunteer organization in Huangshan City, sent out a lifeboat and carried out preliminary exploration around the old Tunxi Bridge through advanced professional equipment such as sonar detector, underwater camera and underwater unmanned aerial vehicle.
According to the person in charge of the center, the preliminary detection results show that the large components are still in the waters near the original site of the old bridge, which is only a few tens of meters away from the bridge, and there may be some small components in the waters far away.
When the water level continues to drop and the detection conditions permit, more detailed exploration will be carried out to try to find out the distribution of the old bridge components in the Xin’an River, and the detection results will be reported to the relevant departments of Huangshan City.
It is also understood that the salvage plan for the Tunxi old bridge has been formulated and is currently being approved.
After the water level drops, the salvage can be carried out according to the plan.
The Tunxi old bridge was built in the Ming Dynasty and rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty.
It is one of the 20 ancient bridges with a long history and characteristics in our province.
It also played a traffic function before being destroyed by floods.
Wu Yongquan, a reporter at the Anhui client of Xin’an Evening News Anhui Netcom, took photos and reported that the netizen left a message: News review: Huangshan was washed away and there were no technical problems in the repair of the Ming Dynasty ancient bridge.
Experts have been present to check “Anhui Netcom reported on July 8: in the morning of July 7, the national key cultural relics protection unit – Tunxi Town Seabridge in Huangshan City (the Ming Dynasty old bridge) Washed away by flood.
In the afternoon of the same day, experts from the Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics came to the scene to investigate the water damage of the ancient bridge, and the State Administration of Cultural Relics also expressed concern that night.
It is understood that there are no technical problems in the repair of the old bridge.
Reporters from Xin’an Evening News, Anhui Network and Da Wan Client learned from the relevant departments of Tunxi District, Huangshan City that at 9:35 a.m.
on July 7, the “grid man” in Tunxi found that the bridge body at the middle of Zhenhai Bridge (also known as Tunxi old bridge) was partially damaged during the flood season.
At the same time, some citizens of Huangshan also found this situation in time and took videos to remind relevant personnel.
The two ends of the bridge were quickly cordoned off.
At 9:51, starting from the damaged part, the bridge was gradually destroyed by the roaring flood.
No casualties occurred due to timely discovery and measures taken.
According to the reporter from the Anhui website of the Xin’an Evening News, the Haiqiao (old bridge) in Tunxi Town was destroyed by the flood, which attracted the attention of the national and provincial cultural relics departments.
In the afternoon of July 7, ancient bridge experts and ancient construction experts from the Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics arrived at the old bridge in Tunxi to inspect the water damage.
Due to the completeness of the surveying and mapping data of the old bridge, there are no technical problems in the original restoration, and the flood damage of the old bridge has also been timely reported to the national and provincial cultural relics authorities.
On July 7, the State Administration of Cultural Relics also sent a message saying that since June this year, there have been floods and waterlogging geological disasters in many places.
According to incomplete statistics, as of 16:00 p.m.
on July 7, more than 130 immovable cultural relics in 11 provinces in the south have been damaged due to the flood, and some cultural relics units have been seriously damaged.
Zhenhai Bridge, a national key cultural relics protection unit in Huangshan City, Anhui Province, and Lecheng Bridge, a provincial cultural relics protection unit in Xuancheng City, Anhui Province, The Dawei Huishi Bridge, a national key cultural relics protection unit in Aba Prefecture, Sichuan Province, and the Mongolian Extension Bridge, Hal Bridge, and Asjiu Bridge, provincial cultural relics protection units, were destroyed by floods; The ancient buildings, such as the Dragon and Tiger Hall of the Wulong Palace in Wudang Mountain, Hubei Province, the Zhujia Courtyard, the Tiren Hall, the Qujia Courtyard in Longshan, and the Wu Yang Ancestral Hall in Hunan Province, were seriously collapsed due to the flood, and the safety situation of cultural relics in the flood season was relatively severe.
Recently, the State Administration of Cultural Relics issued an urgent telephone notice to the relevant provinces, requesting local cultural relics departments and cultural relics and museum units to comprehensively strengthen the safety of cultural relics during the flood season, promptly organize the investigation of disaster and hidden dangers in cultural relics units, and effectively take effective flood control measures to ensure the safety of cultural relics and personnel.
The State Administration of Cultural Relics stressed that in case of any loss of cultural relics, it should immediately report it and, together with the relevant local departments and units, properly carry out the follow-up protection work, collect and preserve the cultural relics components or parts to minimize the loss of cultural relics.
Torrential rain in mountainous areas is easy to cause mountain torrents, and the flood season is frequent every year.
For hundreds of years, the Tunxi old bridge has also suffered a lot in mountain torrents.
In the Ming Dynasty, after the Zhenhai Bridge built by a rich merchant in Huizhou was destroyed by water, Cheng Yuqian donated 6.7 million yuan to rebuild it in the Qing Dynasty, and then it was destroyed by water.
It was rebuilt by a sole proprietorship.
The bridge died without success.
His son Cheng Yue inherited his father’s ambition and finally built the bridge.
In 1884 of the Qing Dynasty, four piers were damaged, and Huizhou merchants and people rebuilt them again.
At the beginning of July 1996, the catastrophic mountain flood brought serious disasters to Tunxi.
The flood exceeded the bridge deck of the old Tunxi Bridge by almost one meter.
Fortunately, it was safe.
This time, the Tunxi old bridge was destroyed in the flash flood, which made countless people sad.
The Tunxi old bridge has irreplaceable unique value for carrying the emotional memory of Huizhou culture and history and for cultural tourism in the downtown area of Huangshan.
The old bridge was destroyed.
Many citizens and netizens expressed their strong desire to rebuild the old bridge.
They hoped that after the flood season, Huangshan City and Tunxi Government would find the destroyed components, reproduce this precious and beautiful ancient building, and retain the historical memory of hundreds of years.
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