Yongxi Bridge

　　   Yongxi Bridge is a well-preserved wooden covered bridge in Anhua County, located in Xitan Village and spanning the Maxi River. The bridge is 83 meters long, 13 meters high, and 4.2 meters wide, with five stone piers and 34 wooden bridge chambers. In April of the second year of the Guangxu reign (1876), a ferryboat struck a rock and capsized, resulting in the deaths of more than ten villagers. Led by local philanthropist Chen Wuzhi and 21 others, donations were raised to build the bridge, which was completed in October of the seventh year of Guangxu (1881). A shelter was also constructed to accommodate travelers, and an inscribed stone tablet remains to commemorate this charitable act. It is praised with the verse: “Where heaven leaves a gap, man can mend; where stone resists, divine will bend. A fine bridge now both shores connects, bringing smiles to all who trek.”