Taishun is a mountainous county in southern Zhejiang Province. It borders Wencheng to the northeast, Jingning to the northwest, and Fujian Province to the south. It has a total area of ??1,700 square kilometers. It is known as "nine mountains, half water and half farmland". say. The territory has high mountains and long roads, with green peaks. There are 179 peaks over 1,000 meters above sea level, with an average altitude of more than 490 meters.
In history, many celebrities and wise men migrated to Taishun, a "paradise" with undulating hills and inaccessible people, to avoid disasters and chaos, creating a local civilization with mountain pastoral characteristics and leaving behind an extremely precious history. cultural heritage. Taishun Covered Bridge is the most outstanding representative among them.
Taishun is known as the "Hometown of Thousands of Bridges" and the "Bridge Museum of Southern Zhejiang". There are 958 bridges and 248 stone steps. There are also various structural types, including embankment-beam bridges (i.e. Ikari step), wooden arch bridge, wooden flat bridge, stone arch bridge, stone flat bridge, etc. In particular, the wooden arcade bridge, with its ingenious and beautiful structural shape, reproduces the image of the Hongqiao in "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" and is known as a "Chinese treasure". The Sixi Sisters Bridge is the most famous.
Taishun is known as the "Hometown of Ancient Bridges in China". There are more than 900 bridges of various types in the territory. It is also known as the "Kingdom of Covered Bridges" because it has the largest number of existing covered bridges. Taishun people have long called the covered bridge the "centipede bridge"
On New Year's Day in 2012, the Taishun Turtle Lake Covered Bridge was officially completed, becoming the world's longest and youngest covered bridge with the largest single-hole span in the country. The Turtle Lake Corridor Bridge was constructed entirely using traditional wooden arch bridge construction techniques. The span of a single hole reaches 40.3 meters. The largest piece of wood weighs 6,000 kilograms and the smallest weighs 500 kilograms. It was built with more than 8 million yuan raised by local villagers. During the on-site interview, the reporter learned that the existing wooden arcade bridge with the largest single-hole span in the country is the Ming Dynasty Lanxi Bridge in Qingyuan County, with a single-hole span of 36.8 meters. The successful completion of the Turtle Lake Covered Bridge broke this record.
There are more than 30 ancient covered bridges from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, including 6 wooden arched covered bridges, including Sixi Sister Bridge (Xidong Bridge, Beijian Bridge); Sankui Xuezhai Bridge; Luoyang Xianju Bridge; Xiaocun Wenxing Bridge and Santiao Bridge. Among them, Beijian Bridge and Xidong Bridge are the most famous, while Santiao Bridge is the oldest of the Taishun covered bridges. Santiao Bridge was built on September 13th, the seventh year of Shaoxing (1137) in the Song Dynasty, and rebuilt on the 23rd year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty (1843). It is said that when it was built during the Daoguang period, old "Zhenguan" tiles of the Tang Dynasty were discovered. She appeared in "The Hunt for Hongqiao" broadcast by CCTV.