There are countless stone lions on Lugou Bridge. Why?

Speaking of the stone lions on the bridge, there is a two-part allegorical saying in Beijing: "There are countless lions on the Lugou Bridge". Because for more than 800 years, no one can count the number of stone lions on the bridge. Is it true?/You don't say. As long as people look at the various, lifelike and lifelike stone lions on the stigma, they can really understand why there are countless lions. Obviously, there is a big lion on each observation post, with a total of 288 big lions, but it is difficult to count the little lions hidden or in the shadow. The little lion is about 10 cm, and the little one is only a few centimeters. It's so naughty and cute. Some little lions are hugging each other, intimate and interesting, and some little lions are crawling on the back of the big lion. If we can count the number of cubs, then the lions on the Lugou Bridge can be counted. But it turns out that this is not an easy thing.

According to legend, when Qianlong/KLOC-0 visited Lugou Bridge in 736, he was full of praise for the lovely stone lions on the bridge. He asked about the number of stone lions on the bridge, and everyone looked at each other, speechless. When Gan Longchuan asked the local officials, all the officials said, "Since the completion of this bridge, there has been a saying among the people that there are countless lions on the Lugou Bridge." Gan Long didn't believe it, so he immediately ordered several eunuchs to count. Therefore, eunuchs reported different figures. If someone counts it again, it's still different. Gan Long was very unhappy and scolded: "You can't even do a small thing well, and you are greedy." When he finished, he personally counted 409 from Qiaodong to Qiaoxi to avoid mistakes, and then from Qiaoxi to Qiaodong, the total number was 438, which surprised Gan Long. Then he counted it again, this time with a whip, and the result was 4,565,438+0. He counted it three times, but he still couldn't count it clearly, so he had to be unhappy.

So, how many stone lions are there on the Lugou Bridge? People really want to find out this problem, which should not be a difficult problem by rights. 196 1 year, the Beijing cultural relics team counted 485 lions in the whole bridge during the investigation and study, and thought that the "countless" lions had been counted. Unexpectedly, when manpower was later deployed to verify with relevant experts, it was found that there were as many as 2 10 beautiful little lions hidden under the legs and even in the palms of the big lions, and the total number of big lions was 498.

This year, Mr. Luo Wenzhe, head of the ancient architecture expert group of Beijing Cultural Relics Bureau, wrote that there are 502 stone lions on Lugou Bridge, but he also said that "the exact number has yet to be re-investigated".

At this time, the author remembered Cai Guoqing's song "The lions on the Lugou Bridge are so strange that you can't count them ..." Perhaps the ancestors wanted to show us the ancient carving art through unparalleled technology, and its magic lies in countless stone lions.