Yuanhong Bridge

Yuanhong Bridge

Yuanhong bridge is located in a gully of xinqiaotou village, Qinglian village, Donglin town. It was built in the Song Dynasty and has been well preserved and plays a role in transportation since yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. The "Shanyuan bridge" of Jingshan in Wu Xingzhi by Jiatai of Southern Song Dynasty is likely to be the bridge.

Architecture

The bridge is a single span stone arch bridge with a South-North southwest trend. The bridge is 16 meters long, 2.9 meters wide and covers an area of about 46 square meters. The whole bridge is built with Wukang stone. The arch of the bridge is laid side by side in sections. The whole arch is in arc shape, and there is no palpebral stone.

On the top of it, there are pressure stone and raised stone, and tie beams are set at both ends of the pressure stone, and the first end of the tie beam is embossed pattern; the raised stone is flat with the bridge deck, and bridge railings are set on both sides.

The bridge deck is made up of three large stones, which are laid side by side and are generally in arc shape. There is no step on the two slopes, but there is a raceway. The diamond wall is made of rectangular block stones with staggered joints, in which Tianpan stone is used as a transverse pulling structure.

technology

Yuanhong bridge's carving art is tedious. The railings are made into xumizuo style. The two ends of Tianpan stone are decorated with Ruyi pattern, and the breast nail pattern is carved on the pressure stone. The two ends of Tianpan stone are carved with flower pattern by relief method. The bridge's name is "Yuanhong". The double hook face is engraved with regular script from right to left. Villagers call the bridge "fish selling bridge".

This bridge is a masterpiece of Song Dynasty stone arch bridge in Huzhou area. It has high scientific value and aesthetic value. It provides precious material materials for the study of the development and evolution of Song Dynasty bridges, and provides strong evidence for the study of the trend of ancient Huzhou Hangzhou official road. Its shape and decoration style are consistent with shouchang bridge, the national key cultural protection unit. It is the oldest and most complete ancient bridge of Song Dynasty discovered in the suburbs of Huzhou City so far.

value

Yuanhong bridge was found in the third national cultural relics survey in January 2008, and was recommended as a municipal cultural protection unit by the survey team in September of the same year. In December 2009, the expert team of Huzhou Cultural Relics Bureau recommended the bridge as a provincial cultural protection unit.

Address: xinqiaotou, Qinglian village, Donglin Town, Wuxing District, Huzhou City

Longitude: 120.0700235062

Latitude: 30.713331810403

Ticket information: no ticket required.

Chinese PinYin : Yuan Hong Qiao