[Commentary] A video in Xinzhou City, Shanxi Province, where "an ancient bridge was restored after the Jin and Yuan period was completely unrecognizable" was recently circulated on social media and attracted netizens' attention. The Cultural Relics Bureau has established an investigation team with the director as the team leader to conduct a detailed investigation of the entire repair process of the Tieliang Bridge.

　　Tieliang Bridge is located in Liansigou Village, Zhuangmo Town, Xinzhou City, Shanxi Province. In June 2007, it was listed as a Xinzhou-level cultural relics protection unit.

　　Lian Da, an ancient architectural painter and author of a series of books on "Looking at Ancient Temples in Shanxi", was the first person to discover that the ancient bridge was damaged destructively. In May 2019, accompanied by Shanxi friends, Lianda came to Tieliang Bridge for the first time.

　　[Same period] Ancient architectural painter Lian Da: I originally went to the village to paint a temple in their village, and then the villagers in the village told me that there was a bridge in the ravine, so I went to paint that bridge. Look at the arch underneath and the stones at the bottom of this bridge. The method of arching the voucher is the same as that of some ancient bridges of the Song Dynasty I saw in the south. Bridge stone. At first glance, this method is very old. It was built horizontally until the ancient bridges of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. There is another inscription on the north side of the voucher from the Yuan Dynasty to the 17th year, which at least shows that it was before the Yuan Dynasty.

　　[Commentary] Sitting in the gully under the bridge, Lianda painted the ancient bridge.

　　[Same period] The ancient architectural painter Lian Da: A very quiet small mountain ditch, dotted with an ancient bridge. This artistic conception is just like the artistic conception in our traditional Chinese ancient paintings, and now it is completely gone, and it has become a brand new Dashiqiao.

　　[Commentary] After 10 months, on April 18th, Shanxi friends who had traveled with Lianda went to visit Tieliang Bridge, but the stone bridge was completely unrecognizable.

　　[Same period] The ancient architectural painter Lian Da: The bridge railings feel like they are all new. You seem to have the inscriptions on the bridge railing pillars that were rebuilt in Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty in 42 years. Now, it seems that this railing is all new, that is, the inscription is gone. Then you look at the railing. If there are any stone carvings in the Song and Jin Dynasties, I do n’t know if he still kept it or kept a few pieces. If you look at the value of cultural relics, this basically has little cultural relic value.

　　[Explanation] In June 2007, Tieliang Bridge was listed as a Xinzhou-level cultural relics protection unit. In August 2019, Xinzhou City Cultural Relics Bureau approved its protection and repair plan. In September of the same year, the Xinfu District Cultural Relics Management Office of Xinzhou City determined the construction unit through bidding and started construction in early October. The Shanxi Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau responded on the official website on the 21st that the Bureau had sent an investigation team to lead the experts to understand the situation on April 20. The Xinzhou Cultural Relics Bureau has established an investigation team with the director as the team leader. Conduct detailed investigations during the repair process.

　　Reporter Qu Lixia from Taiyuan, Shanxi

Editor in charge: [Wang Kai]