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  Tiger crossing the bridge the first complaint call Jiangdong Xiamen Tourism complaints Tel :0592 -5,318,985
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  Jiangdong Bridge, formerly known as Tiger Bridge, located in Kowloon Jiangbei River downstream, Zhang Fu on the highway. Koto bridge is the bridge in ancient China one of the top ten. It Luoyang Bridge in Quanzhou, Jinjiang, Anping Bridge, collectively referred to Fuqing Longjiang Bridge, the ancient "four stone bridge in Fujian." In recent years has been "the world" books as the world's largest stone beam bridge. According to "Reading History Yu minutes," said: "South of stone, tiger crossing the first." Koto bridge this stream, ancient Liuying Jiang, Tong-chun, was originally a ferry, Koto bridge for "parties in the county of Yin" Yin is a tiger, tiger crossing it said. This cross-strait confrontation mountains, myriad and increasingly, Jiangkuan rapid current, choppy, take a boat to cross the river, back into the inch ruler, shocking. Song Chen to the "Tiger Garden Bridge rehabilitation in mind," Cloud: "East Ben as thunder, into the earth unfathomable, then re-Tao Li defended the current site into, like grasses and ghost workers in the Carpenter, monensin Cuoshou." Description of the dangerous bridge crossing the river here. Southern Song Shaoxi years (1190-1194) Mayor Bo Zhao Di even here the construction of pontoon boats, bridge-building history of the prelude to open here. But the floating bridge "dangling flip toss, over those cold tolerance", and destroyed by the wind and rain damage, tired of repeated easily. Jiading seven years (1214) Mayor of this village began in the summer base stone pier, the construction of wooden bridge. But deep current is swift, riprap have been broken up, the delay in work. One day to find that the negative sub-tiger cross the river, swam across a stream, that is habitat for a moment, then swim further information, and finally reached the other side. Bridge construction craftsmen, seeing suddenly realize, through the trace exploration, discovery tours tiger line, a stone, such as underwater Fu. So shop location Liang bridge pier construction, and roof shingles, named said, "Tongji Bridge", also known as "Tiger Garden Bridge." Song Jiaxi first year (1237) wooden bridge was destroyed by fire. Zhangzhou Mayor Lee Shiu stone bridge reconstruction initiatives, and private money donated 50 million. Yi Zhong Shang Yan Azeri Ministry of Personnel, and the son of the summer so keep dream village into the Dagon said. Silver million is allocated library cord, but also mentoring four monks launched the Ting Rui Description of the economy of the. Two-month, three-year, resulting in stone, "the long three thousand feet, site hundred feet high, Shai water (the bridge opening) fifteen, fifty-beam cross at the site are eight, eighty feet long, are extensive six feet high and strange. something to open between those who end pavilion. "At this point, the tiger ran stable razed hundreds Garden Bridge for decades. After The Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, repeated destruction of repeated repair stone, a total of more than ten times. Sixteen years in particular Jiajing (1537) on behalf of the patrol to seek construction of stone beam bridge Xiang Li, Yu Sun by the Mayor organize construction, and soon, because the transfer failed; Jiajing eighteen years (1539) on behalf of the Tour of paternity allocation of public funds in the Qing Wang irrigating the sand again , four subjects raised by the Mayor's Advisory Board Civil construction work by the people, every winter, the newly built stone beam bridge was completed. "Shiliang long eighty feet wide, each five feet thick, Shai water fifteen, a three-beam thinning of the Canton of its channel to the board of its stone cross stitch Mi, twenty feet wide, two thousand feet long , are the new system also. "beam nearly two hundred tons the heaviest stone. So great to be mined in ancient stone beam, the degree of difficulty is unimaginable. And in what way, what tools will be transported to the river so Shiliang, shelf pier, it remains a mystery. This "top-heavy firm, with peace and quiet to solid. Up can not, turbulence can not be angry, fire can not heat, hurricanes can not dump." Is indeed a miracle in the history of bridge. Today, still stable frame piers on Shiliang become a major spectacle, attracting many scholars and foreign tourists. Needham visit the UK after their visit, in the "History of Science and Technology of China," a paper commented: "In other parts of China and abroad can not find anywhere else compared with it." Today, Jiangdong stone bridge across the Jiulong River is still on as State Road 324 fortress.
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