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ОглавлениеThe Yudai (Jade Belt) Bridge, a steep single-arch humpbacked bridge built in 1750, is one of six spans along the western causeway in the Yihe Yuan or Summer Palace, Beijing.
Constructed in the thirteenth century during the Yuan dynasty in what is today Beihai Park, the Yong’an (Eternal Peace) Bridge is a low triple-arch structure leading through the Duiyun (Piled-up Clouds) Arch to Qionghua Islet.
Masked by a modern arched bridge in the craggy Cangyan Mountains of western Hebei province is the Qiaolou Hall, a temple perched on the spanning Jingxing Bridge.
In the rugged mountains of northwestern Fujian province, covered bridges such as the 42.5-meter-long Yangmeizhou Bridge in Shouning county, have been important links in regional trade since at least the eighteenth century.
