Natural Bridge

The stone bridge spans the two banks, forming a natural beauty of "a long rainbow lying on the waves". Since then, the Tiansheng Bridge has become famous. In the early 1990s, Professor Hu Jiaming, the president of the National Water Transport Planning and Design Institute, called it "unique in the country and even the world". Yanzhi River-Natural Bridge has now been listed as a "Jiangsu Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Unit". One of the new 48 scenes of Jinling-Ningzhi Chenxia, ​​because the two banks of the river are steep, beautiful and deep, it is also known as the "Little Three Gorges in Jiangnan". According to records, when the Yanzhi River was excavated, "a huge stone surface was left as a bridge, and a stone hole of more than ten feet was drilled in the middle to pass boats. The bridge was formed according to the situation." Hence the name "Tiansheng". Leaving stones on the artificial canal as a bridge was actually an innovation of the craftsmen at that time. Unfortunately, the South Bridge collapsed as early as 1528, leaving only the North Bridge. The existing Tiansheng Bridge is 34 meters long and 9 meters wide. There is only one natural bridge in China that is made of huge stones on the artificial canal.