Shaoxing Bridge·History

         China is the hometown of the bridge culture. Since ancient times, it has been known as the kingdom of the bridge. It has developed in Yu and flourished in Song. The bridges spread over the land of China, weaving into a well-connected transportation network, connecting the motherland in all directions. Many ancient Chinese bridge construction art is a pioneering work in the history of the world bridge, which fully demonstrates the extraordinary wisdom of the working people of ancient China.
Shaoxing is a museum without walls. It is a book floating on the water, known as the “Venice of the East”. Ancient called the country. The water channel in the territory is vertical and horizontal, and it has the reputation of the water town. There is a bridge because of the water, because the bridge must have a view, the famous bridge township. According to the "Shaoxing Road Map of Shaoxing" drawn by Qing Guangxu (1893), there were 229 bridges in the city, the city area was 7.4 square kilometers, and there was a bridge every 0.031 square kilometers, with the world famous water city Venice, Italy. In comparison, the density of the bridge before the Second World War was 45 times (the area of the city was 567 square kilometers, there were 378 bridges at the time, and only 76 bridges were now), which was the density of bridges in Suzhou during the late Qing Dynasty. 2 times (the area of Suzhou city is 21 square kilometers, there are 310 bridges in the late Qing Dynasty), Shiqiao is connected to the street, five steps and one board, ten steps and one span. It can be said that there is no bridge, no bridge, no bridge, no bridge. Not a village." Shaoxing has a wide range of bridges. According to statistics at the end of 1993, there are 10610 bridges in the city, which is known as “Wanqiao City”. Among the many bridges, the ancient bridge occupies a large proportion, and it is one of the most preserved areas in the country. It is adaptive to the wooden bridges and wooden arch bridges of Xiaojiang River to the pontoons adapted to the big rivers. Shiliang Bridge, Triangular Bridge, Pentagon Bridge, Hexagonal Bridge, Semicircular Stone Arch Bridge, Horseshoe Stone Arch Bridge, Elliptical Stone Arch Bridge and Quasi-Catsule Arch Bridge to the Advanced Arch Ring Structure of Today's World An extremely complete series of ancient bridges has become a microcosm of the development and evolution of ancient Chinese bridges. It is known as the "Old Bridge Museum" in China. Among the 604 ancient bridges existing in the city, there are 13 ancient bridges before the Song Dynasty, 41 ancient bridges before Ming Dynasty, and 550 ancient bridges rebuilt, reconstructed and built in the Qing Dynasty.