Tongjing Bridge

“Tongjing” means “towards the capital” in Chinese. It used to be a small bridge made of natural vines and canes, but it was rebuilt into a new covered bridge because of a legendary opportunity.

A villager nearby once saw a hundred white sheep enter a nearby cave in his dream. Since in Chinese, the four-character word that means “white sheep entering caves” has a very similar pronunciation to another one that refers to “silver coins and gold mountains”, villagers believed that this place had buried treasures.

Surprisingly, after digging around, they discovered a large silver mine. Since the excavated silver needed to be transported to the capital, the small bridge was reconstructed and named “Tongjing”, hoping that all treasures could be successfully sent to the capital.

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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.