Zeya Reservoir
When Zeya Reservoir was brought down to store water on April 19, 1998, a thousand-year-old ancient town of Paper Mountain turned into a memory hidden in the mind. In addition to the fields, ridges, water mills, pickled ponds, and old houses that once filled the fireworks of the Paper Mountain, there is also a bridge built with stones - "Leaping Bridge". As the link that once came out of the mountains on the west bank of the Paper Mountain, the memories it carries are still vivid.
Zeya Paper Mountain has a long history of handmade papermaking. By the 1950s, the screen paper transactions produced were all based on Quxi, Guoxi and Xiongxi, and with Quxi Old Street as the center. Paper farmers had to carry the finished screen paper products to Quxi with their shoulders.
There are four main mountain roads leading to Quxi from Zeya Paper Mountain, namely Tianchangling, Zhongtongling, Huangling and Fengshuling. The west bank of the Paper Mountain generally passes through Huangling to Quxi. Huangling is a mountain ridge from Da'ao to Linqiao. The west bank of the Paper Village Villager starts from Tangzhai Shuling, and passes through Shangpan, Xiachen, Shangchen to Da'ao and then through Huangling to Linqiao to Quxi. It takes more than 20 kilometers of mountain road.
former screen paper distribution center Quxi Old Street
. In addition to locally grown water bamboo , most of the raw materials for producing screen paper are purchased from other places. Tengqiao farmers near Zeya plant more water bamboo, making it the first choice for Zeya paper farmers to purchase water bamboo. Before the 1950s, Zeya paper farmers along the sheep intestinal path next to the stream on the west bank to Tengqiao, Avene and other places. In the morning, they took more than 20 kilometers of mountain roads from their homes. After purchasing water bamboo in Tengqiao and other places, they carried it back with their shoulders and walked more than 50 kilometers a day. Sometimes I couldn’t purchase raw materials on that day, so I had to live in the homes of villagers in Tengqiao and other places, and I could only carry them back after purchasing the raw materials the next day.
can be seen that at that time, the screen paper industry was greatly affected by backward transportation, which restricted the development of the screen paper industry and caused the life of paper farmers to be very difficult. There is a folk song in the Paper Mountain singing this way: "Paper is good, one head is white and one head is rice, one head is tired, one head is sloppy and the other head is quilt." When the year is not good, the paper farmers have no food to eat, so they have to go out to beg for food.
In order to change the backward traffic of Zeya Paper Mountain and improve the lives of paper farmers in the paper mountain, after the opening of Wenzhou City to Zeya Highway in the 1950s, in 1965, the "Yuejin Bridge" connecting Zeya Highway on the west bank of the Paper Mountain was built. This bridge, which is all built with stones, is located in a section called "Longkong", and is also called "Longkong Bridge" among the people of the Paper Mountain.
Yuejin Bridge construction site (data picture)
This bridge is designed with 3 holes, 50 meters long, 5 meters wide, 8 meters above the water surface, and a load-bearing of 10 tons. The project was completed on May 12, 1966. In July of that year, the West Bank Commune of Yuanzhishan organized paper farmers to build a simple highway (Longxi Highway) from Huangkeng to Zeya, a 6-kilometer-long simple road (Longxi Highway) connecting Yuejin Bridge. In December 1967, the entire Longxi Highway was built. After the construction of the Longxi Highway, the traffic landscape of the west bank of the Paper Mountain was changed. Paper farmers sold finished paper products and no longer had to "take the road" or "carry the shoulders" for purchasing paper raw materials. The 1970s was the heyday of Zeya screen paper production. The finished paper made by West Bank paper farmers can be transported directly to the acquisition station by cart or tractor. The name of the screen paper agency purchased and sold by the government has also developed from the original "joint purchase office" to procurement stations, daily necessities, daily necessities companies, etc. The office for purchasing raw materials was moved from Avena Harashi Fujibashi to Datang (next to the hall), with more convenient transportation, and built three buildings, equipped with nearly 4,000 square meters of outdoor venue for stacking water bamboo. The paper farmers transported the finished paper products here to purchase, and then transported the water bamboo here back. The village collective also sent a large number of buyers to Fujian and other places to purchase water bamboo, and paper-making raw materials were continuously transported back to the paper mountain.
Old appearance of the ancient town of Zhishan
With the development of transportation information, the sales of screen paper are constantly expanding, the village collective economy is accumulating more and more, and the lives of paper farmers are increasing.In the early 1980s, Yukeng Village, on the west bank of the Paper Mountain, was a "millionaire" village. There were more than 400 households and more than 1,800 people in the village, and there were 7 factories, 2 farms and 2 stations, namely: hardware factory, embroidery factory, painting curtain factory, electrical appliance factory, stone carving factory, grinding ash factory, rice noodles dry factory, pig farm, chicken farm, hydropower station, and cooperative medical station; there were 14 collective buildings, 9 warehouses, 27 carports, 3 carports, 1 5-ton carriage ship, 1 transport ship, 1 tractor, 51 beating html, 14 water mills, 45,000 jin of toilet paper raw materials, and more than 300,000 yuan of working capital.
After the reform and opening up, the screen paper industry is facing shrinking because the original handmade papermaking is no longer suitable for the growing market demand. Paper farmers in Zeya Paper Mountain went out to work and do business one after another, and moved to Pingyuan Market Town or urban areas to live.
In the early 1990s, in order to solve the problem of difficulty in water draw among citizens, the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government planned and designed and built the Zeya Reservoir in Zhishan Zeya. Construction of Zeya Reservoir started on March 11, 1996, and the gate was removed from the gate to try to store water on April 19, 1998, and the trial supply of water to Wenzhou city began on May 23. After the Zeya Reservoir is completed and put into operation, it effectively ensures 30% of the annual raw water supply in Wenzhou city. Its peak storage and peak control and disaster reduction benefits during the typhoon flood season have been significant, and good social and economic benefits have been achieved.
Zeya Reservoir Ring Road
Reservoir 4 After the gate is removed from the gate to the west bank, the Longxi Highway leading to the west bank is diverted from the mountain in front of Linao Village and connected to Huangkeng Village through the Ring Road. The "Yuejin Bridge" connecting the west bank of Zhishan disappears from people's sight and gradually becomes submerged in the clear reservoir.
On January 29, 2015, Zeya Reservoir invested more than 46 million yuan to build a drainage hole, and rebuilt the diversion hole, project started. The project is located in the mountain on the left side of the reservoir dam, intersecting with the Wenzhou-Zeya Highway in three-dimensional manner. Due to the needs of project construction, the reservoir drains and lowers the water level. The reservoir area has a large area of exposed area, with the water level as low as more than 60 meters. At this time, in the two mountain canyons not far from the reservoir dam, the "Zujin Bridge" underwater reappears. The four big words "Zujin Bridge" exposed above the water surface are magnificent and powerful. The lines of "Self-reliance and hard work" and "Western Coast People's Commune built in 1965" on both sides are clear and distinguishable, attracting many tourists to stop and watch.
2015 Yuejin Bridge Deck (Photo by Lin Aifei)
"Leap Bridge" four big words (Photo by Lin Aifei in 2015)
self-reliance (Photo by Lin Aifei in 2015)
In 2016, this drain hole project with an investment of more than 40 million yuan was completed, and the reservoir was once again stored in water, "Leap Bridge". This bridge that witnessed the paper farmers in the paper mountain from poverty to wealth and carrying the children of the Paper Mountain is full of nostalgia.
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