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==See also== |
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* [[Covered bridge]] |
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* [[Chengyang Bridge]], another large ''lángqiáo'' ([[wikt:廊桥|廊桥]]) in [[Guangxi]], China |
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Revision as of 19:10, 2 January 2010
Xijin Bridge 西津橋 | |
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,_China.jpg) Xijin Bridge in 2007 | |
| Coordinates | 28°53′43″N 120°01′34″E / 28.89536°N 120.026°E |
| Crosses | Yongkang River |
| Locale | Yongkang, Jinhua, Zhejiang province,  People's Republic of China |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | Covered bridge |
| Longest span | 166 m (545 ft) |
| No. of spans | 12 |
| History | |
| Construction start | Ming Dynasty (wooden) Qing Dynasty (stone piers) |
| Construction end | 1718 |
| Location | |
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Xijin Bridge (traditional Chinese: 西津橋, simplified Chinese: 西津桥, pinyin: Xī Jīn Qiáo), is an ancient Chinese covered bridge or lángqiáo (廊桥) now located in Yongkang, Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, People's republic of China. It's the largest covered bridge in Zhejiang Province, and one of the largest in China.
It's also called Xijin Langqiao (traditional Chinese: 西津廊橋, simplified Chinese: 西津廊桥, pinyin: Xī Jīn Láng Qiáo). "Xi" means western/west, "Jin" means ford or ferry, so it literally means the bridge of the western ferry.
History
The bridge was constructed in the Mid-Ming Dynasty, and at beginning it was wooden[1]. In the 57th year of Kangxi Era (1718), the bridge was rebuilt, and in the early period of Yongzheng Era, it started replacing the bridge's piers by stones to improve its load capacity, thus became a stone bridge[2]. At the beginning of the Qianlong Era, the construction of the bridge was fully finished. In Jiaqing Era, the bridge was repaired once; and in the 12th year of Jiaqing Era (1807), one stone stele (cenotaph) was established to praise bridge constructors and summarize the history of the bridge, the inscriptive article is known as Xijin Qiao Zhi (traditional Chinese: 《西津橋志》, simplified Chinese: 《西津桥志》, pinyin: Xī Jīn Qiáo Zhì, literally means the inscript of the Xijin Bridge)[3].
When it was a wooden bridge, it had a total length of 206.3 meters, with 15 piers and 16 spans[3]. After the replacement to stones, it was changed to 12 piers and 13 spans.
The bridge is a mixed stone and wooden bridge, with piers are built of large stone bars and its upper structures are almost wooden.
Structural parameters
At present, it has a total length of 166 meters, with 12 piers and 13 spans[2]. Each pier has a length of 5.6 meters, a width of 3.3 meters and height of 4.6 meters. Between every two piers, there are 6 or 7 huge girders spanning on the tops of piers, and each girder has an average length of 13 meters[1].
See also
- Covered bridge
- Chengyang Bridge, another large lángqiáo (廊桥) in Guangxi, China
References
- 《永康县志》 (Archive of Yongkang County), official/governmental archive of Yongkang (Qing Dynasty version). Now Yongkang is no longer a county, but a city.
- 《西津橋志》 (Inscript of Xijin Bridge), a Jiaqing-Era article about the bridge.
- 《中国桥梁建筑史》 (History of Chinese Bridges), a book on the history of Chinese bridges, written by Mao Yisheng.
- ^ a b "西津桥 (Xijin Bridge)" (html) (in Template:Zh icon). 中国园林网 (Chinese Garden - the category of ancient structures). 2008-6-25. Retrieved January 1, 2010.
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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ a b "西津桥 (Xijin Bridge)" (in Template:Zh icon). 金华旅游景点，联合网 (Tourism sites in Jinhua, Associated Websites). Retrieved January 1, 2010.
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