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Shouning Woven Timber Arch Lounge Bridge

Located in Shouning County, Ningde City, Fujian Province, and 150 kilometers to Downtown Ningde, Shouning Woven Timber Arch Lounge Bridge is constructed with straight timbers interwoven together in the shape of rainbow with houses built on the bridge locally called "House Bridge". According to textual research, there are now only 100-odd woven timber arch lounge bridges in actual existence throughout the country. Shouning County boasts 19 of them and is one of the counties that have discovered largest number of woven timber arch lounge bridges. The bridges can be traced back to Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China era, and postliberation. They are extremely rare in China, and Shouning is praised as "Hometown of woven timber arch lounge bridges of the world" by the famous bridge expert Tang Huancheng, the author of "History of Chinese Science and Technology--Bridge Volume".  
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