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Jinze Travel Guide: 1 reviews and 3 photos

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Jinze is a small town within Shanghai municipality. It is famous for its collection of antient bridges. one of the most famous (due to NOVA show on PBS) is the rainbow bridge (Pu Qing) built recently, a replica of the bridge in the famous Song Dynasty painting Qingming Shanghe Tu.

For the story of the Rainbow bridge:
http://www.stickyourneckout.com/travel/travel21.htm

Rainbow Briridge (Pu Qing)

Rainbow bridge, Jinze, Shanghai

If you are interested in bridges per se, this site has some info:http://www32.brinkster.com/redjeep/bridges/famous.htm

The oldest famouse Chinese ancient bridge is Zhao Zhou Bridge, in Hebei province, northern China, which has 1,300+ years history.

Last visit to Jinze: Sep 2002
Intro Updated Aug 20, 2006
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Reviews (3)

Tiang1 Huang2 Ge2 Bridge Things to Do (3)

Another old bridge, this one is a 3-arch stone bridge, though part of it reconstructed. Later more travel advice

Pu3 Ji4 Bridge Things to Do (3)

Jin Ze is one of those towns claimed to be the museum of antient bridges. Pu Ji bridge is one of them. More details... more travel advice

Rainbow Bridge (Pu3 Qing4 Bridge) Things to Do (3)

Jin Ze is a typical so-called "watertown" - those villages/towns along canals of the area, crosscrissed by the small... more travel advice

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Sharrie May 31, 2009 at 4:34 PM

I still haven't made it here but finally got to Zhouzhuang just last Feb. So, now I've 4 counts including Xitang, Tongli & Wuzhen :-)
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Confucius Jan 30, 2004 at 11:10 AM

Xin Nian Kuai Le! I'm a big fan of old bridges too. I always look for them during my travels in China.
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orlikins Jul 10, 2003 at 3:09 AM

like ur photos