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History of Huajiang Tiesuo Bridge
The history of Huajiang Tiesuo Bridge is as follows:

According to Volume I of Guanling County Records, "In the 24th year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty, Governor Jiang of Guizhou donated a stone bridge to help pedestrians, and the bridge was about to be completed before sharpening. Suddenly, a sudden flood, it collapsed. Later, the iron cable bridge was built a few feet away from the bridge, but it collapsed because the iron cable rocks at both ends were not firm. Twenty-six years of determination to repair. " "Another site cast iron cable 15 ... The cable is 2 1 4 feet long and 9 feet wide. ..... from the height of more than 30 feet ... to the age of 27, there is still a bridge. "

It was crushed by sheep in 34 years of the Republic of China, and then it was jointly restored by the Heguanling County Government of Xingren Agency. After liberation, the Provincial Communications Department repaired it and engraved the words "Maintenance of Huajiang Iron Cable Bridge" on the south bank. There is a hexagonal pavilion and a stone tablet bridge on the north bank. The post roads on both sides of the strait have also been repaired, and banyan trees, bamboo and wood have been planted, making it a tourist attraction to visit ancient times.

geographical position

Huajiang Tiesuo Bridge is located on the Beipanjiang River at the junction of Guanling Buyi and Miao Autonomous County and Zhenfeng County in the west of Anshun. It was the transportation hub of Guizhou and Yunnan in ancient times. The cable-stayed bridge is suspended between two mountains and consists of 14 thick chains, each of which consists of 262 links. The total length of the bridge is 7 1 m, the width is 2.9 meters, and it is about 70 meters away from the water surface. Hundreds of large squares were paved on the bridge deck.