Guangfu Bridge

( chinadaily.com.cn )

Updated: 2011-04-18

   

The Guangfu Bridge, also known as the Xiyuan Bridge or Kaiyuan Bridge, is located in the north of Lingxia Village, extending along a southeast-northwest direction, originally built in the first year of the Yuantong regime of the Yuan Dynasty (1333), and rebuilt during the 12th year of the Jiaqing reign of the Qing Dynasty (1806).

In 2005, it was approved as a provincial cultural protection relic. The Guangfu Bridge is made of rubble stones, with 13 spans and 52 columns on the right and left side, 30 meters long and 4.75 meters wide, 24.17 meters of single arch span, double slope top, with four columns and seven purlins supporting the front and back cornices. The Guangfu Bridge has a post-and-lintel frame made up of five beams.

The wooden beam is used as a tablet whose column is made from four beam columns, on which the building process and the contributor’s names were carved. An ancient bridge monument stands on the bridgehead, in which there is a shrine for worshiping Guanyin and five other Gods.