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The Tongji Bridge (traditional Chinese: 通濟橋, simplified Chinese: 通济桥, pinyin: Tōng Jì Qiáo), is a famous stone arch bridge located in Yuyao, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. "''Tongji Bridge''" ("''Tong''" means transport/transportantion, "''Ji''" means aid or cross a river) is a very common name for bridges in ancient China. ==History== The bridge has a very long history. It is the first large-sized arch bridge in the Eastern Zhejiang region, so it's also called the ''First Bridge of Eastern Zhe'' (traditional Chinese: 浙東第一橋, simplified Chinese: 浙东第一桥, pinyin: Zhè Dōng Dì Yī Qiáo, "''Zhe''" is the short name for Zhejiang Province). The construction of the bridge started first during the Qingli (traditional Chinese: 慶曆, simplified Chinese: 庆历, pinyin: Qìng Lì) Era (1041–1048) of the Northern Song Dynasty, and it was wooden structure. Its original name was Dehui Bridge (traditional Chinese: 德惠橋, simplified Chinese: 德惠桥, pinyin: Dé Huì Qiáo). And its name later was changed to Hong Bridge (traditional: 虹橋, simplified Chinese: 虹桥, pinyin: Hóng Qiáo, "''Hong''" means rainbow). It was destroyed in wars and reconstructed for several times.〔 In Yuan Dynasty, a Buddhism monk named Huixing (traditional Chinese: 惠興, simplified Chinese: 惠兴, pinyin: Huì Xìng) started rebuilding the bridge using rocks, but he died when the construction was half-finished. Then a Taoist named LI Daoning (traditional Chinese: 李道寧, simplified Chinese: 李道宁, pinyin: Lǐ Dào Níng, his surname was Li) continued his unfinished work. In the third year (year 1332) of the Zhishun (tradition Chinese: 至順, simplified Chinese: 至顺, pinyin: Zhì Shùn) Era of the Yuan Dynasty, the bridge was finally finished, and was renamed as "''Tongji Bridge''". There was a stone tablet aside the bridge, and there were eight characters on the stele - ''Hai Bo Guo er Feng Fan bu Xie'' (traditional Chinese:, simplified Chinese: 海舶过而风帆不解, pinyin: Hǎi Bó Guò ér Fēng Fān bú Jiě ), which means ships can go through the bridge's arch without any obstacles.〔〔 From the seventh to the ninth year (1729–1731) of the Yongzheng Era in Qing Dynasty, the local government repaired and rebuilt most part of the bridge again, and that's the bridge nowadays looks like.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tongji Bridge (Yuyao)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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