Zhuojiang Bridge

The Zhuojiang Bridge, situated in Zhuojiang Town, Zhuoshui Town, Qianjiang District, built during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912). The story of the covered bridge today is somehow sad. This was a bridge that not only witnessed the vicissitudes of human life, but also suffered terrible disasters itself.

The Zhuojiang Bridge, situated in Qianjiang District, Chongqing, was built during the Qing Dynasty. It was 2 meters wide and consisted of stone piers and wooden beams. In 1936, during the Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the Chinese army had to blow up the bridge to stop the southern advance of the Japanese army. 

Then 40 years later, a once-in-a-hundred-year flood toppled the bridge’s piers and the bridge was nowhere to be found. The local government rebuild the bridge in 2010. It was 303 meters long, 6 meters wide and 12 meters high, with timber structure and stone piers. But just 3 years later, a disaster happened again ---- the bridge was destroyed by fire in 2013.

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Wu Weiping (Instagram @wp_bridges_hunter)

Wu Weiping, co-photographer of Fantastic China: 

20 years, 400,000+ kilometers, 100,000 photos...  for capturing the remnants of ancient Chinese Covered Bridges.