How was Luding Bridge built? Who is the designer?

The designer of Luding Bridge is unknown and not recorded. The construction adopts the principle of cable crossing. First, tie thick bamboo cables on the river bank, each bamboo cable is covered with more than 10 short bamboo tubes, and then tie chains on the bamboo tubes. Finally, the rope tied to the bamboo tube is pulled from the other side to complete the iron rope transportation.

After the iron rope crossed the river, people built strong bridges on both sides with big stones, then dug deep wells at both ends of the bridges, and cast horizontal Wolong piles and vertical earthworm piles with pig iron at the bottom of the well; Finally, all the chains are connected with earthworm piles, wooden boards are laid on the bottom chains to form a bridge deck, and the chains are interlocked to form a bridge.

Influence of Luding Bridge

Luding Bridge is the longest iron bridge on the Dadu River and the crystallization of the wisdom of ancient working people. As an important hub of the ancient tea-horse road and the core of the battle of flying away, it has a profound historical culture and red cultural heritage.

It is of great scientific value to the study of China's revolutionary history, frontier development history and Tibetan social history. In addition, the unique architectural style is unique to the world and China.

Chen Yunhe commented with the poem Luding Bridge that human beings have never seen such a bridge, such a rugged bridge, an amazing bridge, a bridge crossing rapids, a bridge crossing canyons, a bridge built with Mao Zedong's poems, and a bridge illuminating thousands of generations with the dawn of new China.