Things to Do in Zhuoni: Top Attractions & Tourist Spots (2024)

1. Yellow River Steel Bridge

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彪标Zhongshan Bridge was originally known as Lanzhou Yellow River Iron Bridge, the bridge is 234 meters long and7.5 meters wide. It is a steel truss with six piers and five holes + arc steel frame structure bridge. Li Quan, a famous calligrapher in Gansu Province, has five big words, the side of the edge, the strength and the mu, showing the master style. Zhongshan Bridge is a bridge in the modern history of China, Gansu people independently and voluntarily cooperate with Westerners in pure economic and technical cooperation. However, its construction process is not smooth, during the period of friction, after many reasons to strive, finally built, and still stand on the Yellow River 100 years after operation. As the earliest and only modern steel beam bridge built on the Yellow River to date, Zhongshan Bridge has been used, historical and cultural relics value in one. It is like an epic, engraved with the changes in Lanzhou's history from ancient to modern times, showing the paintings of Lanzhou people's brilliant art, Guangxu 32 (1906) September 11, Gansu Foreign Affairs General Administration and Germany Tailai Foreign Bank officially signed the contract for the repair of the Yellow River Iron Bridge; All bridge construction materials were shipped from Germany to Tianjin in Guangxu in 1907, and then transferred from Tianjin to Lanzhou. Thousands of miles from Tianjin to Lanzhou, a long haul of trains and horses, over the mountains and mountains, wind food and sleep, took nearly two years, and finally transferred all the materials to Lanzhou. After the joint efforts of Huayang craftsmen, the iron bridge was completed and put into operation on August 19, 1909, in Xuantong. On April 25, 1910, the Governor of Shaanxi and Gansu Province, the Emperor Xuantong, said on the money used for the iron bridge project, including the price of repair, transportation and various expenses, the iron bridge "practical Kuping Yin 306,000,690,21,8 money,8 cents,4 milli,8,8,8,8,8,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9, In honor of Mr. Sun Zhongshan, the "Zhongshan Bridge" written by Liu Yufen, the chairman of Gansu Province at the time, hung on the plaque on the south of the iron bridge. The "first bridge" has since been renamed Zhongshan Bridge, and has been used to this day; After the expiration of the warranty period of the iron bridge in 1989, Germany wrote to the Lanzhou Municipal Government, and affirmed that the contract expired while asking about the condition of the iron bridge. There is Baitashan Park on the north bank of the bridge. In the distance, the white tower in the white tower temple is faintly visible, standing on the bridge and looking westward to the Yellow River. Qing Zhangye "Lianyou Yellow River Bank" is an isolated city pillow stone Guan, the river flies into the broken clouds. Who can take the lead east, Laiyou Longmen Bottom Column Mountain

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