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The 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.