Description
, in Chinese ” Lugou Bridge ” , was first built in1189, renovated in 1444, it was destroyed in 1697 by flood, and it was rebuilt in 1698. Now on the Yongding river has no water, but it was filled with water because of the Olympic Games 2008 in Beijing . To east of the bridge is Wanping County, also a old square city, was built in 1638. Now the bridge is still preserved very well, we can see 485 stone carved lions squatting on the bridge in the deferent posture.all of them have extremely vivid expression.
In the thirteenth Century, Lugou Bridge is famous all over the world. The famous Italian traveler Marco Polo came to China, highly praise the bridge, it is the only one in the world”.” And especially enjoy the bridge column carved lion, saying that they are beautiful wonders!” and wrote the bridge in to his book, so it has the present name “Marco Polo Bridge” .
In July 7, 1937, the ” Lugou Bridge incident” happened here,Chinese people started the 8 years nationwide fighting against The Japanese aggression.