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Xiamen Bridge Museum
Bridges are fascinating because they show us the routes people used for travel and trade. And Xiamen is a great place for a Bridge Museum because our province has some of the finest bridges on the planet—both old and new.

Quanzhou’s Luoyang Bridge (see the Quanzhou section) was built 1,000 years ago of massive granite slabs—some of them ten meters long. This bridge is one of the first examples of biological engineering (they used the secretions of live oysters to cement the granite blocks together).

Anping bridge, just south of Quanzhou, was the world’s longest bridge during the middle ages. But I most enjoy the delightful wooden covered bridges that are all over northern and Western Fujian—especially the 700-year-old structure northwest of Fuzhou (on the way to Zhouning).

The Xiamen Bridge Museum, located right beneath the Haicang Bridge, has attracted both tourists and experts with its introduction of famous Chinese and foreign bridges (including the iron arch bridge over the Thames River, the Normandy Suspension Bridge, deng deng). About 1/3 of the indoor area is devoted to fascinating exhibits about the construction of Xiamen’s beautiful Haicang Bridge. I’d tell you more about this suspension bridge but I want to keep you in suspense.

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