On the bridge, you can enjoy the large-scale relief, terraced waterscape and the beautiful scenery of "flowing water under the bridge" with the theme of Tang poetry and Song poetry, and visit the love journey of "Meet on the Covered Bridge" in person. There is also the only bridge restaurant in Chengdu, with antique decoration and unique flavor. It is an excellent place to watch the water at night and think about the past and the present.
Xinnanmen Bridge (Fuxing Bridge)
Next to Jinjiang Bridge is Xinnanmen Bridge. There is neither a bridge nor a road here. 1939, in order to make it easier for residents in the city to get out of the city when avoiding Japanese air strikes (it was called "running alarm" at that time), a hole was temporarily opened in the city wall, and a new city gate was added, named Fuxingmen. The new bridge on the South River outside the city gate is also called Fuxing Bridge. For convenience, people call Fuxingmen the New South Gate and Fuxing Bridge the New South Gate Bridge. After liberation, the new South Gate Bridge was expanded at the original site, and 1997 was expanded and rebuilt again. Perhaps most people in Chengdu didn't notice. To this day, this bridge is also called Fuxing Bridge on some maps of Chengdu.
Old South Gate Bridge The location of the old South Gate Bridge, which Chengdu people are familiar with, is the location of Changxing Bridge among the Seven Bridges. Changxing Bridge, because Zhuge Liang bid farewell to Soochow here during the Three Kingdoms period? Some people say that "the road to Wan Li begins with this bridge", so it has always been called Wan Li Bridge, which is the oldest famous bridge among the ancient bridges in Chengdu. Laonanmen Bridge is a stone bridge, which was rebuilt in the fifth year of Qing Emperor Kangxi. Due to the expansion of South Street and the demolition of 1995, a wide concrete bridge was built on the original site. In 2003, a more magnificent viaduct was built on the bridge.
Jiuyan Bridge Jiuyan Bridge, formerly known as Hongji Bridge, also known as Zhenjiang Bridge, was built in the 21st year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1593) and was built by Yu Yilong, a political envoy at that time. A large arch bridge with a stone railing and a stone bridge surface is 4 in length, 3 in width and 3 in height. There are 9 holes under the bridge. In the fifty-third year of Qing Qianlong (1788), Governor Li Shijie rebuilt it and renamed it Jiuyanqiao. Qianlong was rebuilt in 55 years (1790).
1988 build a new cross-steel-framed cement precast bridge on the west side of Jiuyan Bridge. From the base point of the bridge, it is about120m long and 25m wide. There is a car passage at the north lower end of the bridge to cross the east and west, forming a semi-vertical cross bridge. 1992 Demolition of the ancient Jiuyan Bridge in winter.
1992 Demolition of Jiuyan Bridge and Reconstruction of Jiu bridge opening Concrete Bridge. The old wharf actually came in handy, and cruise ships with night flights sailed from here to Huanglongxi, but the days when Chengdu's water transport flourished were gone forever.