Guangji Bridge, Ningbo

The wooden bridge, named Guangji, was built in 961, the second year of Jianlong in the Northern Song Dynasty. At the beginning of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1131), the bridge was rebuilt into a corridor house bridge of wood and stone structure, with stone columns as piers and the bridge deck covered with houses.

In the 23rd year of the Yuan Dynasty (1286), Mr. Bo Lu Zhenlong presided over the reconstruction. He built several houses with two pavilions in the north and south.

Qiao Jian, Cheng of Wuzhong County in the Ming Dynasty, repaired the bridge, and it was renovated during the reign of Tianqi.

In the ninth year of Yongzheng (1731) of the Qing Dynasty, Wang Wei, the county magistrate, carried out repairs. In the 37th year of Qianlong (1772) and the 12th year of Jiaqing (1807), repairs were carried out.

The existing Guangji Bridge is a wooden and stone structure Gallery House Bridge, with a total length of 51.68 meters and a width of 6.6 meters. The stone column is a pier with five joints and four holes. There are 6 stone pillars in each seam, with side feet, tenons at the top and bottom, fixed with footstones, stone locks at the head, and fixed with three big pullers. The lock stone is paved with beams, above which is the bridge slab. There are 21 gallery houses on the bridge deck, eight beams with six columns, and the beam frame is a combination of crossing bucket and lifting beam, covered with small green tiles.

In the Yuan Dynasty, there are still some bridge piers which are "rebuilt at the age of 23 in the year of the Yuan Dynasty on April 29 in the year of Yi Chou Jia in Bingwu", "the city resident Shen Sen Xinyou, who was originally ordered to live with his family at the end of March 22 As well as the inscriptions of "Xu Cheng", the stone craftsman of Xiaoxi in Yinxian County, and the stone inscriptions of the Yuan Dynasty. Well preserved.

Guangji Bridge is located on the ancient post road in eastern Zhejiang. Through this post road, the "maritime Silk Road" is closely connected with the land road, making this route of trade and cultural exchange between the East and the West extend to the hinterland of the mainland. It is the only Gallery House Bridge of Yuan Dynasty in Zhejiang Province, and also the only ancient bridge left in the ancient post road of the north-south traffic trunk line in the east coast of Zhejiang Province.

The bridge is located in Nandu village, Jiangkou Town. It was first built in the Jianlong period of the Northern Song Dynasty and then destroyed many times. The existing pier is a four hole langwu flat bridge built in the Yuan Dynasty. East West, across the county river (Fenghua River upstream). It is 51.68m long and 6.6m wide. Four columns of stone columns are used as piers, and each column is composed of six vertical stones. The column head is set with lock stone, and the groove is chiseled on the lock stone, and the middle is set with pulling wood to fix the lock stone. On the bridge pillars are engraved the names of the people who built the bridge and the stone workers. On the bridge, there are 15 porches with five beams in the middle. The two porches are 1.80 meters wide. There are six cottages on both sides of the approach bridge, in which there are six stone inscriptions, such as bridge building inscriptions and forbidden steles.

Address: Nandu, Fenghua, Ningbo, Zhejiang

Longitude: 121.42747901451

Latitude: 29.710644129908

Tour time: 2 hours