Since late January 2020, due to the impact of new coronavirus pneumonia, public places and scenic spots have been closed, and the wind and grass are everywhere, and only the houses can be covered. In addition to going to work and going out when necessary, it is no longer possible to go out and enjoy the spring at will.

On the morning of March 1, I passed through the new station of Shanghai Metro Line 16. Seeing that I had time, I went to the nearby Jiuru Bridge to have a look.

Jiuru Bridge, also known as Nijiamiao Bridge, is located in Renyi Village, Xinchang Town, Pudong, Shanghai. It was built in the 22nd year of Jiaqing of the Qing Dynasty (AD 1817) and spans a small river called "Xiaoerzao Port". It has been more than 200 years since. The name of the bridge "Jiuru" is taken from the name of the person who invested in building the bridge that year.

I visited this bridge several years ago. After years of wind and rain erosion, the bridge name inscription on the bridge stone and the bridge bridge on the bridge pillars became more and more difficult to distinguish.

There is an ancient ginkgo tree behind a farm house in the south of Jiuru Bridge. I specially saw this ancient ginkgo tree a few years ago, and the age of the tree is recorded on the protection sign. I can't remember it now. It should be much less than the two ancient ginkgo trees at Xinchang Nanshan Temple that are more than 500 years old. It seems to be one to two hundred years old. Ancient bridges and ancient ginkgo trees are also a scene.

There is also Baoshan Bridge on Erzao Port not far north of Jiuru Bridge, which was built at the same time as Jiuru Bridge. The bridge, also known as the Qujia Stone Bridge, is better preserved than the Jiuru Bridge. I also visited the bridge a few years ago, and I did not revisit it this time due to time constraints.

At the beginning of March, magnolias bloomed, rapeseed flowers turned yellow, and the spring breeze gradually green and willow banks. The scenery around me gradually became brighter, and the haze of the epidemic seemed to have eased a little.

On the afternoon of March 8, I passed through Xinchang Town again. I wanted to visit the Ming Dynasty Boulu Bridge located on Wuzao Port, but I didn't go there again due to time constraints. I saw a traditional Pudong house hidden by bamboo forests not far from the roadside. When I got closer, I realized that it was the Kang Family House that I had visited in January 2013.

Walking through the field paths that were once paved with green bricks among the bamboo forests, I came to the Kang family's house.

Kangjiazhai is a Qing Dynasty building and is a cultural relic protection site in Pudong New District. However, the Kang family house in front of him had obviously been renovated in recent years and had lost its original charm.

I still like the original appearance of the Kang family house I saw seven years ago. Although it was a little dilapidated, it retained the charm and vicissitudes of traditional Pudong houses.

After leaving Kang's house, I came to a nearby rural bridge called "Xielugang Bridge".

This cement arch bridge in the style of Zhaozhou Bridge was built in the 1970s and 1980s. It is a common bridge in the suburbs of Shanghai. It is connected to tractor roads, making it easy to pass through agricultural tractors. The emergence of this kind of cement bridge gradually withdrew the narrow ancient stone bridge, which could only be used for pedestrians but not vehicles, from the rural historical stage. As the stars move by, today this cement arch bridge has been replaced by wide and solid cement girder bridge, and the increasingly mottled and disrepair cement arch bridge has gradually become abandoned.

Against the backdrop of the blooming rapeseed flowers by the bridge, this cement arch bridge built thirty or forty years ago looks a bit vicissitudes and lonely. Over time, these half-new and half-old bridges, which are gradually fading, will become monuments for people to pay homage to, like those ancient stone bridges built before the beginning of the last century.