延安路高架那几根龙柱，传说是桩打不下去才加的

Under the Yan'an Road Elevated Road in Shanghai, there are several pillars wrapped with dragons, painted gold, thick and conspicuous. Many out-of-towners seeing them for the first time all find it strange: under an elevated road, what are coiling dragons for?

The story circulated online goes like this: back when the elevated road was being built, the piles just wouldn't go down; once driven, they would tilt. Some suspected something was pressing down from below, a matter of feng shui and dragon veins. Later someone suggested carving dragons onto the bridge columns, asking the deities to help suppress it. Once the dragons were installed, the piles went in smoothly.

This story has been passed around for over twenty years, and the details differ in every version.

Later, someone in the know said that those few dragon pillars were merely decoration on the bridge deck, having nothing to do with feng shui.

But those dragon pillars stand at the busiest intersection in the city center, and the "dragon veins" that Shanghainese love to talk about happen to center on this area. Shanghai is originally soft-soil ground, and difficult piling is a common occurrence; once construction hits trouble, it's not strange that everyone wants to find a mysterious reason.

Architecture and feng shui—almost every big city has a legend like this: the bridge won't go down, the building won't go up, there's always an explanation that "someone above wants to manage it."

As for these few dragons in Shanghai, every day hundreds of thousands of cars drive underneath them. Not a single person looks up.

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