When is the best time to visit Luoyang Bridge?

The best time to visit Luoyang Bridge: The best tourist season is generally from April to November every year.

It is the earliest existing cross-sea beam-type large stone bridge in my country. It is located in Luoyang, the eastern suburbs of Quanzhou. The river is the beginning of the raft foundation of the world's bridges and is a national key cultural relic protection unit. Luoyang Bridge, formerly known as Wan'an Bridge. Cai Xiang, the governor of Quanzhou in the Song Dynasty, presided over the bridge construction project. From the fourth year of Huangyou (AD 1053) to the fourth year of Jiayou (AD 1059) in the Northern Song Dynasty, it took seven years and 14 million taels of silver to build this large stone bridge across the river and the sea. According to historical records, when it was first built, the bridge was 360 feet long and one and a half feet wide, with warrior statues on both sides. The current bridge is 731.29 meters long, 4.5 meters wide and 7.3 meters high. It has 44 boat-shaped piers, 645 handrails, 104 stone lions, 1 stone pavilion and 7 stone towers.

As early as the Northern Song Dynasty, our ancestors used their amazing perseverance and infinite wisdom to create a new type of bridge foundation raft foundation that was not recognized until modern times. The so-called raft foundation is to throw a large number of stones at the underwater bottom along the central axis of the bridge to form a short stone slab connecting the river bottom as the bridge foundation, and then build the bridge piers on top. This construction method has created a great impact on China and the world. Bridge Science is a great contribution. In order to strengthen the bridge foundation, a large number of oysters were cultured under the bridge. The oysters' strong adhesion to the shells and fast reproduction speed were cleverly used to firmly cement the bridge foundation and the bridge piers into a whole. This was an ingenious move in the history of bridge building in the world. The oyster seed consolidation method is also the first precedent in the world to apply biology to bridge engineering.

There was no modern lifting equipment at that time, so the floating girder method was used to erect large stone slabs on the bridge deck by taking advantage of the rising and falling sea direction, which showed the extraordinary ingenuity of our ancestors in building bridges. The boat-shaped bridge piers are also distinctive, which is beneficial to water distribution. Luoyang Bridge has successfully built my country's first large stone seaport bridge, which is a great pioneering work in the history of ancient bridge construction in my country. Professor Mao Yisheng, a famous bridge expert in my country, praised: Luoyang Bridge is the number one bridge in Fujian. The sound of the tide in Luoyang has always been one of the ten scenic spots in Quanzhou. Tourists stand on the bridge and watch the tide pouring in under the shade of pine trees and the hundreds of feet of rainbows slanting across the sunset, which is another kind of fun. After liberation, Luoyang Bridge was listed as a national cultural relic protection unit. In order to protect the old bridge, a new bridge was built to the west of the old bridge in the 1960s for motor vehicles to travel to reduce the pressure on the old bridge. In recent years, the government has allocated huge sums of money to rebuild Luoyang Bridge, which is extraordinary. Nowadays, the old and new bridges run side by side on the river, together with the newly built railway bridge, like three rainbows lying on the waves, with beautiful peaks, which is very spectacular.