Day 7 of the 2024 Spring Festival Tour: Follow the Jianshui Mini Train Self-Drive: Shuanglong Bridge Station

Originally planned to take a ride on the Jianshui mini train, but the tickets for the mini train are hard to come by, so I completely gave up. Driving along the route of the Jianshui mini train is also an option. The train starts from Lin'an Station, which is in the city area. There are many people taking the train early in the morning, so I decided not to join the crowd. I chose to go to the second station, Shuanglong Bridge Station, to see the Jianshui Seventeen-Arch Bridge. Last night, I stayed at the Vienna Hotel (Jianshui High-speed Railway Station Expressway Intersection) in the suburbs of the city. I had a bowl of rice noodles in the morning. I added some mint, and it was my first time eating mint rice noodles. It has a unique taste. At 8:30 in the morning, it takes about 15 minutes from the hotel to Shuanglong Bridge Station. It does not pass through the city area, the road is smooth, and there is a free parking lot, which is very convenient. Shuanglong Bridge South Rice Field Market, now planted with rapeseed, it is the season of rapeseed blooming, a golden yellow. ✅Shuanglong Bridge Located at the confluence of the Hujiang and Tachong rivers west of Jianshui County, Yunnan Province, it is named after the two rivers winding like twin dragons. Known as the 'Daguan Tower of Southern Yunnan', it is one of the famous ancient sites in Yunnan Province. Shuanglong Bridge is a typical gallery bridge architecture. It was initially built with three holes 5 meters wide, and later fourteen holes 3 meters wide, with a total length of 148 meters, a bridge height and width of 8.6 meters, and a bridge base height of 5.3 meters. Shuanglong Bridge is a single-hole bridge with a span of 13.5 meters. The bridge of the entire bridge is made up of 6 large wooden columns with a diameter of about 60 cm and a length of 25.7 meters. The body of the bridge is built with about 500 flat stones. Round wood is stacked on the base stone as a cantilever, extending crisscross to the middle. The three holes at the north end of the bridge were built during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty (1736-1795 AD), and 14 holes were added in the 19th year of the Daoguang period (1839 AD), so it is commonly known as the Seventeen-Arch Bridge. There are three pavilions on the Shuanglong Bridge, south, middle, and north. In the sixth year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty (1856 AD), the three pavilions were destroyed by war. They were rebuilt in the 22nd year of Guangxu (1896 AD) and completed in the 24th year of Guangxu (1898 AD). In the fifth year of the Republic of China (1917 AD), the Yi nationality Nalou Tusi Pu Juntang led the army to attack Lin'an and failed. When he retreated, he burned the north pavilion of Shuanglong Bridge. The central pavilion is square, with a side length of 16 meters and a height of 20 meters. The upper two floors are covered with a hip roof; the bottom floor is a bridge passage, and there are stairs to climb the building to overlook. Shuanglong Bridge is the largest and most artistically valuable multi-hole arch bridge in Yunnan Province; it is an important cultural relic for studying the history of ancient Chinese bridge architecture. Shuanglong Bridge inherits the traditional style of Chinese arch bridges, integrates bridge architecture science and modeling art, and is a masterpiece among ancient Chinese bridges. Chinese bridge expert Mao Yisheng listed it as one of the more than ten large stone arch bridges existing in China. In February 1965, it was announced as the first batch of provincial-level cultural relics protection units. In 2003, a special stamp of Shuanglong Bridge was issued, which increased the popularity of Shuanglong Bridge. In May 2006, it was announced as the sixth batch of national key cultural relics protection units.