{"id":20042,"date":"2020-01-30T19:43:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T19:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/chinese-architecture-zhaozhou-bridge-zhong-guo-jian-zhu-zhi-zhao-zhou-qiao\/"},"modified":"2020-01-30T19:43:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T19:43:39","slug":"chinese-architecture-zhaozhou-bridge-zhong-guo-jian-zhu-zhi-zhao-zhou-qiao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/chinese-architecture-zhaozhou-bridge-zhong-guo-jian-zhu-zhi-zhao-zhou-qiao\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Architecture: Zhaozhou Bridge \u4e2d\u56fd\u5efa\u7b51\u4e4b\u8d75\u5dde\u6865"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p>  \tThe <em><strong>Zhaozhou Bridge <\/strong><\/em>is located in Zhaoxian County of Hebei Province. The bridge was named after the county, which was called Zhaozhou in ancient times. The Zhaozhou Bridge was built in the<em> <strong>Kaihuang Period<\/strong><\/em> (595-605 AD) of the Sui Dynasty by <strong>craftsman<\/strong> Li Chun some 1400 years ago. It is China&#39;s and the world&#39;s oldest and best preserved big stone arch bridge, having a far-reaching impact on the bridge building of later ages. What <strong>deserves<\/strong> a special mention is the &quot;open spandrel&quot; <strong>structure<\/strong> of the bridge, which was unprecedented in the world&#39;s bridge building history. In Europe, the earliest open spandrel arch bridges are those in France and Luxemburg, but they were built about 1100 years later than the Zhaozhou Bridge of China.<\/p>\n<p>  \tThe Zhaozhou Bridge <strong>spans<\/strong> 64.4 meters and has a width of 9 meters. The arch foot is 9.6 meters wide with a beam span of 37.02 meters and an arch rise of 7.23 meters. The overall structure of the bridge is a single-hole arch stone bridge, with the central arch made of 28 thin, curved stone slabs arranged in longitudinal direction. Thanks to the good position and proper strains and stresses on the bridge base, the bridge is still in good condition after numerous floods and <strong>earthquakes<\/strong> over more than 1,000 years.<\/p>\n<p>  \tThe Zhaozhou Bridge is not only <strong>ingeniously<\/strong> built, but also bears unique Chinese artistic styles, which are mainly reflected by the iron dovetails, lotus-pattern decorations, patterns on the rails and the carvings on the columns. The bridge builder integrated all <strong>mythological<\/strong> elements into the design in which romantic approaches were used to make the bridge more beautiful and stable. At the same time, the builder expressed his whishes for the stone bridge&#39;s power to <strong>permanently<\/strong> keep floods at bay. The bridge is a perfect combination of ancient Chinese architectural art and superb techniques, reflecting the wisdom of ancient craftsmen.<\/p>\n<p>  \tIn September 1991, the Zhaozhou Bridge was dedicated as the 12th International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers and a bronze monument to the event was <strong>set up<\/strong> on the east side of the north end of the bridge.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Names:<br \/>  \t<\/strong>\u8d75\u5dde\u6865<script language=\"Javascript\">GetWord(\"\u8d75\u5dde\u6865\");<\/script>zh&agrave;ozh\u014du qi&aacute;o: Zhaozhou Bridge<br \/>  \t\u5f00\u7687\u65f6\u671f<script language=\"Javascript\">GetWord(\"\u5f00\u7687\u65f6\u671f\");<\/script>k\u0101ihu&aacute;n\u0261 sh&iacute;q\u012b: Kaihuang Period<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Words:<br \/>  \t<\/strong>\u5de5\u5320<script language=\"Javascript\">GetWord(\"\u5de5\u5320\");<\/script>\u0261\u014dn\u0261ji\u0251n\u0261: craftsman<br \/>  \t\u503c\u5f97<script language=\"Javascript\">GetWord(\"\u503c\u5f97\");<\/script>zh&iacute;d&eacute;: deserve<br \/>  \t\u7ed3\u6784<script language=\"Javascript\">GetWord(\"\u7ed3\u6784\");<\/script>ji&eacute;\u0261&ograve;u: structure<br \/>  \t\u8de8\u5ea6<script language=\"Javascript\">GetWord(\"\u8de8\u5ea6\");<\/script>ku&agrave;d&ugrave;: span<br \/>  \t\u5730\u9707<script language=\"Javascript\">GetWord(\"\u5730\u9707\");<\/script>d&igrave;zh&egrave;n: earthquakes<br \/>  \t\u5de7\u5999\u5730<script language=\"Javascript\">GetWord(\"\u5de7\u5999\u5730\");<\/script>qi\u01ceomi&agrave;o de: ingeniously<br \/>  \t\u4e0d\u53ef\u601d\u8bae\u7684<script language=\"Javascript\">GetWord(\"\u4e0d\u53ef\u601d\u8bae\u7684\");<\/script>b&ugrave;k\u011bs\u012by&igrave; de: mythological<br \/>  \t\u957f\u4e45\u5730<script language=\"Javascript\">GetWord(\"\u957f\u4e45\u5730\");<\/script>ch&aacute;n\u0261ji\u01d4 de: permanently<br \/>  \t\u5efa\u7acb<script language=\"Javascript\">GetWord(\"\u5efa\u7acb\");<\/script>ji&agrave;nl&igrave;: set up<\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1304117187\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zhaozhou Bridge is located in Zhaoxian County of Hebei Province. The bridge was named after the county, which was called Zhaozhou in ancient times. The Zhaozhou Bridge was built in the Kaihuang Period (595-605 AD) of the Sui Dynasty by craftsman Li Chun some 1400 years ago. It is China&#39;s and the world&#39;s oldest and best preserved big stone arch bridge, having a far-reaching impact on the bridge building of later ages. What deserves a special mention is the &quot;open spandrel&quot; structure of the bridge, which was unprecedented in the world&#39;s bridge building history. In Europe, the earliest open spandrel arch bridges are those in France and Luxemburg, but they were built about 1100 years later than the Zhaozhou Bridge of China.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2857],"tags":[119],"class_list":["post-20042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-travel-chinese","tag-ancient-chinese"],"views":230,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}