Dragon-Belt Bridge

　　The Dragon-Belt Bridge is situated beside Xinxing Street in Huangyao Town, at the foot of Zhenwu Mountain. The bridge is 22.7 meters long and about 3 meters wide; it is composed of a water arch and a dry arch. Normally, water flows through the water arch, but during flood season when the water level rises, water flows through the dry arch. It was originally built by Deng Taihe, a candidate who ranked just below the successful imperial examination graduates in the late Ming Dynasty, but was later destroyed by a flood. In the 23rd year of the Qianlong reign of the Qing Dynasty (1758), the local gentry Gu Zhixian rebuilt the bridge and also constructed a building called the Dragon-Belt Tower beside it. The Dragon-Belt Tower was demolished in 1958, but the bridge remains well-preserved to this day.

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