Chengyang Wind-and-Rain Bridge is the great synthesizer of architecture. It’s the combination of bridge, corridor and pavilion, and has an unique charm in the history of the bridge construction. It embodies the intelligence, wisdom and the creative power of the Dong People.
The bridge is located in Ma’an village, Sanjiang Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guangxi. It was first built in 1912 and finished in 1924, it is 77.6 meters long, 3.75 meters wide and 11.5 meters high, all the project was in the mortise and tenon work, without any a single iron nail, on both sides of the bridge had long benches for people taking a rest. Visitors sitting on the stools and looking into distance, you can enjoy the river winds its way flowing by slowly, the emerald tea-garden on the slope of the hills, farmers are toiling in the beautiful arable lands, the water from the river is irrigating the farmland.
So far, it is the well-preserved, largest scale of the Wind-and-Rain Bridge, it is the master work of the Dong People, and the arttreasure of China’s architectural complex. It is the only Wind-and-Rain Bridge that has listed as national key units of cultural relics protection in China.