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Post by blackcloud on Apr 21, 2014 4:25:11 GMT -5
Flower Bridge is located in the confluence of the Small East River Yangtze River tour and the Spirit Sword River in the Seven Stars Park. In the Song Dynasty the bridges and Flower Bridge were built, however the names have changed many times. In the Song Dynasty, it was named Jiaxi Bridge. And in Ming Dynasty, it changed into Flower Bridge. In Qing Dynasty, the east of the bridge had began to protrude upwards and changed into column shapes. Therefore it changed its name to Column Bridge. In the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the bridge collapsed beacuase of flooding. In 1456, the Guilin government built a wooden bridge in its former place. In 1540, the princes of Jing River ordered to rebuild the bridge into the four holes stone bridge to increase the ability to release the flood. The Flower Bridge top 10 China tour packages has two sections. The east section is the water bridge, 60 meters long, 6.3 meters wide and 8meters high. The west section is dry bridge, 65.20 meters long. Flower Bridge is very beautiful. You can see the shadow of the moon and the holes of the bridge in river. tags: China tourism| travel to China
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