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Guanyin Bridge 观音桥Guānyīn Qiáo
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Jiujiang, Jiangxi
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Jiujiang
- Region
- Jiangxi
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Guanyin Bridge
A single-span granite arch bridge over the Sanxia Stream at the southern foot of Mount Lushan, built in 1014 under the Northern Song and one of the oldest surviving stone arch bridges in China. It is made of 107 granite blocks joined by tongue-and-groove joints without mortar, and the date is carved on the arch. Poets from Su Shi and Huang Tingjian to Zhu Xi wrote about it, and it stands beside Qixian Temple.
How to get to Guanyin Bridge
On the southern slope of Mount Lushan, about 7 km north-north-west of Nankang and about 18 km south-south-east of Jiujiang.
Nearby
- Mount Lushan 庐山 under 10 km
Misty peaks, waterfalls and a hill station of stone villas above the Yangtze
Also within 20 km: White Deer Grotto Academy 白鹿洞书院 (under 10 km), Xiufeng Scenic Area 秀峰 (under 10 km), Ziyang Embankment 紫阳堤 (under 10 km), Tangtaizong Hot Spring Resort, Lushan 汤太宗温泉 (10 km), Tianmu Hot Spring Resort, Lushan 庐山天沐温泉 (10 km), Virtuous Mothers Park, Jiujiang 中华贤母园 (20 km).
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