Yongjia Bridge

Yongjia Bridge

Yongjia Bridge is a cultural relic protection unit of Luxian County.

Yongjia Bridge, built in the first year of the Jiaqing reign during the Qing Dynasty (1796), had part of it washed away by floods in the year Yiyu of the Daoguang reign (1825) and was repaired in the year Bingxu of the Daoguang reign (1826). The bridge is a stone arch bridge with four piers and five arches, stretching from northeast to southwest across the Jiuxi River. It serves as a vital transport link on National Highway 321, specifically the Luzhong-Lungang Road section. The bridge is 50.12 meters long, 7.13 meters wide, and approximately 12.7 meters high, constructed with strip stones. The sides of the bridge deck are lined with strip stone railings that are 0.8 meters high and 0.4 meters wide. Originally, there was one dragon sculpture on the spandrel of each of the four piers and one on the top of each of the five arches, totaling nine dragon carvings, all of which were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. At the southwest corner of the government office courtyard of Jiaming Town stands a stone stele that is 2.62 meters wide, 0.135 meters thick, and 0.9 meters high, and is relatively well preserved. The front side bears three large characters — “Yongjia Bridge” — carved in running regular script, each character being 0.65 meters wide and 0.77 meters high, with the inscription at the bottom reading “Composed by Huang Shiying of Sichuan Fen□Ning□.” The reverse side is inscribed with the bridge’s commemorative text, signed at the bottom as “Written and respectfully composed by Peng Daxun, a successful candidate in the imperial examinations at the county level; completed after the Grain Rain Festival in the first year of the Xianfeng reign, on an auspicious day.” This bridge reflects the political, economic, social, and transportation conditions of Luxian County at the time, and holds significant importance for the study of ancient bridge architecture and related fields. In April 1995, it was designated as part of the third batch of county-level cultural relic protection units by the People’s Government of Luxian County.