Wan'an Bridge

Wan'an Bridge

Wan'an bridge is located in Changqiao village, Changqiao Town, Pingnan County, Fujian Province. Its original name was "Longjiang Gongji bridge", later renamed "Rainbow Bridge", and now known as "Wan'an bridge".

Types of Wan'an Bridge

Wooden arch bridge is also called guanmu arch Fengyu bridge, commonly known as "CuO bridge". It forms an arch bridge by inserting beams and trees, which looks like a rainbow. It is the most technical category of traditional Chinese wooden bridges. The Hongqiao bridge across bianshui in the famous painting Qingming River in the Northern Song Dynasty is a typical representative of wooden arch bridge. Tang Huancheng, a famous bridge expert, wrote "the history of science and technology in China - bridge volume", saying that corridor bridges "are unique to China in the history of bridges in the world.". The wooden arch bridge in eastern Fujian, with its long history and exquisite skills, occupies an important position in the history of Chinese bridges. Mao Yisheng, a famous bridge expert, called it "Jurassic Park" in the history of Chinese bridges.

features

Wan'an bridge is a five pier six hole wooden arch roof bridge. The bridge is 98.2 meters long and 4.7 meters wide, with boat shaped piers and unequal spans. The shortest arch span is 10.6 meters and the longest arch span is 15.2 meters. The bridge house has 38 bays, 156 columns, bucket type wooden frame, double slope top and wooden benches on both sides. There is a stone tablet embedded in the pier in the middle of the pier. The inscription says: disciple Jiang Jishe Qian thirteen Guan Gu thirty-two stone, stone pier one built, for the sake of the good reason, and for the family men and women and their own begging for peace. In September of the fifth year of Yuanyou. There are 10 stone steps at the east end of the bridge, 36 stone steps at the west end of the bridge, and 13 couplets under the eaves of the bridge. In the northwest of the bridge, there is a bridge pavilion with double eaves. The craft is exquisite, magnificent, simple and dignified. It is worthy of being the most ancient wooden arch bridge in China, and has great value for the study of ancient bridge architecture.

history

Wan'an bridge is located in Changqiao village, Changqiao Town, Pingnan County, Fujian Province. Its original name was "Longjiang Gongji bridge", later renamed "Rainbow Bridge", and now known as "Wan'an bridge". According to Yutian Zhilue, the bridge was built in the Song Dynasty. It has a history of 917 years. It was burned in the 47th year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, rebuilt in the 7th year of the reign of Emperor Qianlong (1742), and repaired in the later dynasties. It was approved as a county-level cultural relic protection unit on October 9, 1990, a provincial-level cultural relic protection unit on March 1991, and announced as one of the "Northeast corridor bridges in Fujian Province" on May 25, 2006 as the Sixth Batch of national key cultural relic protection units.

Address: 921 County Road, Pingnan County

Longitude: 118.85043912706

Latitude: 26.821131879629

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