Yingyue Bridge

The Yingyue Bridge is known as the first bridge in the upper reaches of the Minjiang River. During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, advocated by the government, rich merchants invested in the project of constructing this bridge while common people contributed to its construction.

“Yingyue” refers to the reflection of the moon in water in Chinese. It is said that a luminous stone on the head of the Buddha of Dabei Temple, which is located on a rock outcropping beside the bridge, casts light on the surface of the water under the bridge like a bright moon. As a result, the bridge is called the “Yingyue Bridge.”

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Wu Weiping, co-photographer of Fantastic China: 

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