"Building Dreams On Lounge Bridges" tells the story of Taishun People and "bridges"...
The one-year-taken documentary "Building Dreams On Lounge Bridges" was broadcast on CCTV 9 at 17:30 on November 24th. The film tells the story of people being not afraid of obstacles, overcoming all the difficulties, cooperating with each other for repairing the bridges. This film, which combines the narratives of “Bridge”and ”Human”and condenses them into a precious historical archive, displays the wholly record of the long lounges from ruining to rebuilding.
The bridges of the hometown are connected with unforgettable feelings
Building Dreams on Lounge Bridge, Continuing Our Homesickness
On September 15, 2016, affected by the typhoon “Moranti”, Taishun suffered a torrential rain in such a magnitude which had never happened in a hundred years. In just one and a half hours, three national treasure-level lounge bridges—Xuezhai Bridge, Wenxing Bridge and Wenzhong Bridge were shocked to collapse by raging flood. A story of people saving bridges, building bridges, and guarding bridges then start writing...
All Taishun people's wishes:
Can not let the century-old lounge bridges become "ruins".
The old shapes of Xuezhai Bridge, Wenzhong Bridge and Wenxing Bridge before got collapsed
The villagers can't wait to go out of home door and search for the bridge components. Even though the wooden components are weighed eight or nine hundred kilograms, they pull together and work hard as a team to remove them back.
The repairing site of Wenzhong Bridge
Wenxing Bridge in repairing process
The restoration of the three lounge bridges was finally completed in the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2017 after one entire year hard work.
The first completed Wenzhong Bridge
In the cluster of Pinnacles in Taishun, Wenzhou, more than 30 ancient lounge bridges left by the ancient dynasties Tang, Song, Ming and Qing are known as the “living fossils” among the world bridges. The wooden arch lounge bridges, with its ingenious and beautiful structural modality, reproduces the image of Hong Bridge in the famous painting
