Everyone in Foshan knows such a proverb, "If you do something to help the poor, you will have no worries, and everything will be smooth." . The folk activity of "helping the poor" has entrusted Foshan people with their beautiful expectations and wishes for life. Every year on the 16th day of the first month, no one comes forward to organize. Foshan is deserted, and people from some towns and villages in nearby Nanhai, Sanshui, Gaoming and Shunde also come to participate in the bridge for the same hope.
Yu Wanshao, an expert from Foshan Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Office, said that there is a saying in the society that "it takes three years to be sparse, but it can only be used if it is not sealed". However, when they were young, they walked through Tongji Bridge many times without interruption, and they never heard the old people mention this statement. After that, they checked the history books and found no such records. In addition, Foshan people's well-known phrase "do good, no seal" is not recorded in the history books. Other experts generally agree with this statement. Therefore, the slogan of "promoting the economy without closing the door" was later formed.
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Tongji Bridge is located in Tongji Road at the northern end of this Pulan Highway. In the Ming Dynasty, it was Qiaoting Store (i.e. District). It spans Foshan Yong, and the waterway connects Dasha, Bitang, Jiancun, Shiyang and Qicha, which was the main waterway leading to Shunde County at that time. Tongji Bridge was originally an arched stone bridge. Whenever the setting sun shines obliquely, the bridge shape is reflected in the water, just like a rainbow in the sky, rippling in the water. The ancients considered it a spectacle and listed it as one of the eight scenic spots in Foshan: the rainbow at the end of the village. Later generations carved couplets on the stone pillars beside the bridge to describe such beautiful scenery.
Right Union: During the parade in the same gas castle, guests can escape for spring and cross the river to drink horses.
Zuo Lian: It helps thousands of people come and go. The curved bridge spans the water, which is called the rainbow at the end of the village.
The couplet summarizes the characteristics of the original Tongji Bridge, but the rebuilt Tongji Bridge is far less than the original bridge. There is no woven boat, no rainbow bridge like sunset, and most importantly, there is no sincere and cordial feeling of the original bridge here. It is easy to cherish the stars and move the scenery, the ancient bridge is broken, and the wind of helping the economy is prosperous.
Huang, assistant editor-in-chief of Foshan Historical Records, thinks that after Nanji Kannonji and Shetan were built on both sides of Tongji Bridge, people in the four townships walked to Tongji Bridge on the 16th day of the first month, or burned incense at the Shetan, or walked into Kannonji to burn incense. Men have to sign, women pull lanterns and ribbons, and then buy a "traveling windmill" to take the Tongji Bridge, taking a fixed route. Therefore, the taboo of Tongji Bridge is that anyone who walks through Tongji Bridge must walk from the bridge head (north bank) to the bridge tail (south bank) once and can't look back. He has to walk from the end of the bridge next to Daji and go back to Foshan Town to Aokou through the tail sinus, otherwise it will be unlucky.
It is believed that at the end of the grand Spring Festival custom, the whole family, old and young, will happily help each other and pray for good luck in the coming year, so that the Spring Festival custom will be successfully ended and the busy work will begin. Therefore, the ceremony of going to Tongji is to go through the Antarctic Temple, to Tongji Bridge, to the tea pavilion through Yun Tong Society, to turn from the quadrangle to Pujunwei, or to go home in front of Spider Mountain. All the way is smooth, and you can't turn back, so as to get good luck all the way.
The new route of "Tour Tongji": Lingnan Avenue (Tongji East Road)-Tongji East Road-Qilou Passage-Tongji Bridge-Jishi Square-Pulan Second Road (Tongji Road, Tonghuadong First Road and Tonghuadong Second Road).