Where is Kaizhou Zhuangyuan Bridge?

Kaizhou Zhuangyuan Bridge is located between the office building and the gate of the former county party committee compound. Zhuangyuan Bridge is a part of Confucian Temple (Confucius Temple) complex in Hanfeng ancient city. After the founding of New China, it was changed to the headquarters of Zhongxian County Committee, and its buildings were demolished or rebuilt one after another. Especially due to historical reasons such as the Cultural Revolution, the Confucian Temple complex almost disappeared.

Archaeological Excavation of Zhuangyuan Bridge in Kaizhou;

In June 2008, the ancient city of Hanfeng was about to be submerged due to the impoundment of the Three Gorges Reservoir. Under the organization and coordination of Kaixian Immigration Bureau, at the invitation of Kaixian Cultural Relics Management Office, the 12 archaeological team composed of Liu Zhibiao and Yan Qixin, engineers and technicians from Oriental Archaeological Research Center of Shandong University, undertook the rescue archaeological excavation of the "Champion Bridge". In order to find out the exact location of "Zhuangyuan Bridge", the archaeological team, without any cultural accumulation, only based on the information provided by insiders, used manual exploration, shovel exploration, trench exploration and other methods, and obtained the burial range of the ancient bridge after more than 10 days of inquiry, and finally formed an excavation with a width of 17 meters from north to south, a total area of 24 meters from east to west and an area of 408 square meters. Through archaeological excavation, it is found that the bridge is three bridges running parallel to the north and south, with the middle distance of about 1.8m, and each bridge has three piers and four arches. The pier spacing of each of the three bridges is inconsistent, the middle bridge is longer and the two bridges on the side are shorter. During the excavation, the archaeological team paid special attention to collecting various specimens in the fill, such as fragments, bricks and tiles of porcelain, pottery, glazed pottery and other utensils, with the aim of judging the exact age of the ancient bridge and the relevant information such as the time of construction, use and abandonment. From the analysis of specimens such as construction waste and brick fragments covered on the ancient bridge, we can see that it dates from Han and Tang Dynasties to the late Qing Dynasty and even modern relics, thus confirming that the ancient bridge was abandoned in the 1950s and 1960s.