Nomination Award of Architecture
Simple Bridges around South China
Tian Xiaoping(China)

Jinyun County is located in the mountains of south Zhejiang Province, where is charming and gentle scene with green hills and purling water. There has kept lots of ancient bridges of flagstone the shape of which like a Chinese word '¶ˇ', so they are also named 'dingbu bridges'.
1ˇ˘Jichuan Bridge, one of the 'dingbu qiao' is located at the village Xiayang in Xiandu. The bridge is 173 meters long with double poles and girders, 73 holes, and 9 dingbu dang with stone bars construction. A pile of early woods to be backbone exists under the bridge, and so are pillars with rivets in horizontal line.
Built in Ming Dynasty

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