What is the historical background of Anhai Wuli Bridge in Jinjiang?

Wuli Bridge, one of the top ten ancient bridges in China, is located in Anhai Town, Jinjiang City, Quanzhou. Because Anhai Town was once named Anping Road, it was named Anping Bridge. Because this bridge is about 5 Li Long, this village is commonly known as Wuli Bridge.

Wuli Bridge was built in Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty for eight years (1 138) and has been built for more than 10 years. It is a continuous beam slab flat bridge, spanning the bay between Jinjiang and Nan 'an counties, with Anhai Town and Shuitou Town at both ends.

After the completion of Wuli Bridge, it was repaired many times in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the last time was 1985, which was organized by National Cultural Heritage Administration of the Ministry of Culture and rebuilt with state funding, restoring the original appearance of the Song Dynasty.

Wuli Bridge is the longest stone bridge in ancient China, and it has the reputation of "the first bridge in the world". 196 1 year, Anping Bridge was listed as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

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Wuli Bridge was built eight years after the town was built. The bridge from Anhai to Shuitou is exactly five miles. It is the longest sea stone bridge in the world now. The money was given by two people, one is Huang Hu, and the other is a monk from Longshan Temple. These two people each pay 10 thousand yuan. The word "Wan" is an ancient word, which may be a kind of rope. It is used to thread money with a rope.

The bridge is 2,255 meters long, with 36 1 square, boat-shaped and semi-boat-shaped piers, 3-3.8 meters wide, 5-1meter long, with a maximum weight of 25 tons, and stone guardrails on both sides. There are five pavilions on the bridge: Chaoran Pavilion is in the east of the bridge, Chao Hai Temple is in the west of the bridge, Surabaya Pavilion is in the middle of the bridge, and there are two road pavilions at each end for tourists to rest.

"Sishui Pavilion", commonly known as "Zhongting Pavilion", has a pair of couplets and two stone generals on the stone pillars in front of the pavilion. There is an inscription 14 on the side of the pavilion.

At the western end of the bridge pavilion, there are inscriptions rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty, and at the eastern end, there are five-story hexagonal pavilion-style wooden white towers. After 800 years of vicissitudes, Anping Bridge has become a "continental bridge".

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