Yongtong Bridge (), also known as Small Stone Bridge (小石桥), is an old single-hole

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. It is located outside the west gate of

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(冶河, now the Qingshui River).

Construction times

Yongtong Bridge's construction date, due to the lack of original information, so there have been a variety of opinions. There is a view that it was built in the Mingchang period (明昌年间) of the Jin Dynasty (1190-1196). According to the bridge stone components and inscriptions excavated from under the Yongtong Bridge in 1986, the Bridge began construction in the early years of Yongtai (永泰) in the

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(765).

References

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