Yongtong Bridge
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| Coordinates | 37°45′14″N 114°45′39″E / 37.75397°N 114.76097°E / 37.75397; 114.76097 |
| Crosses | Qingshui River[1] |
| Locale | Zhao County, Hebei |
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| Construction start | 765[2] |
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Yongtong Bridge (simplified Chinese: 永通桥; traditional Chinese: 永通橋), also known as Small Stone Bridge (小石桥),[3] is an old single-hole circular arch bridge. It is located outside the west gate of Zhao County on the Ye River (冶河, now the Qingshui River).[4]
Yongtong Bridge's construction date, due to the lack of original information, so there have been a variety of opinions.[5] There is a view that it was built in the Mingchang period (明昌年间) of the Jin dynasty (1190–1196).[6]
According to the bridge stone components and inscriptions excavated from under the Yongtong Bridge in 1986,[7] the Bridge began construction in the early years of Yongtai (永泰) in the Tang dynasty (765).[8]
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