Garden Bridge

This is the scene-seeing place in the TV series of the deep rain and the royal scene in many movie and TV plays. It seems that if you don't come here in Shanghai, you have not been to Shanghai. It is not a pity to have been there and have passed.

The Baidu Bridge is the first all-steel riveted bridge in China and the only remaining non-contained high-trusion bridge, and the fourth bridge in the same position near the Suzhou River Estuary since 1856. Because it is at the junction of Suzhou River and Huangpu River, it has become an important traffic road connecting Huangpu River and Hongkou. This bridge has a very special feeling for the old Shanghai people, it witnessed the great changes of Shanghai in the past century.

A bridge with historical senses is the first all-steel bridge connecting China and the only remaining non-steel-truss bridges built in Shanghai. The first generation of Waibaidu Bridge, named "Wales Bridge", was built in 1856. In 1876, the second generation of Waibaidu Bridge was built, named "Park Bridge". In 1907, Waibaidu Bridge was built and continued to use until now.

Waibaidu Bridge, located on the Suzhou River in central Shanghai, is about to be merged into the Huangpu River, from the north Suzhou River Road to the south to the south Suzhou River Road, linking the Huangpu and Hongkou District, the first all-steel riveted bridge and the only remaining bridges with different high-trusion truss structures. Waibaidu Bridge is one of the landmark buildings of old Shanghai, and it is very well photographed.

The Waibaidu Bridge, which stands at the intersection of Suzhou River and Huangpu River, is the first fully steel riveted bridge in China, and the only remaining non-contained high-trusion bridge, which has a history of more than one hundred years. 🌸 In 1843, 1842, the Treaty of Nanjing was signed between China and Britain. The next year, the British station in Shanghai, George Baful, departed from Guangzhou to Shanghai. On November 8, 1843, after the Baful and his team arrived in Shanghai, they began to plan to deal with the land lease. He had a good eye for Shanghai, and he thought it would be a port city with a booming business, so he chose the site where the Suzhou and Huangpu rivers meet and set out to build the British consulate, even though it was a tidal flat at the time. 🌼 In 1856, as Bafuer had expected, commerce on both sides of the Suzhou River gradually flourished, but there was no bridge on the Suzhou River at that time, and people could only travel by ferry. At this time, a British named Welles, who was considered profitable, in 1856, in the vicinity of the Waibaidu Bridge (now near the Waibaidu Bridge) invested in the construction of a large wooden bridge, and it named "Welles Bridge", also known as "Yangqiao". Because the Wells Bridge is located at the ferry crossing, the Shanghainese call it the "external ferry bridge". Businessmen are not to blame for the profits, but foreigners get across the bridge free, while Chinese pay taxes. This discriminatory tax collection rule, caused public anger of the Chinese people in Shanghai, protested to cancel the bridge tax. 🌻 In 1873, the Ministry of Industry forced the public to be angry, and built another wooden floating bridge, about 117 meters long and about 12 meters wide, next to the Wells Bridge. Because the bridge is adjacent to the Bund Park, it is named "Park Bridge". The people who cross the bridge no longer pay for it, can "Baidu" Suzhou River, then changed the word "Shu" to "Bai", calling it "Waibaidu Bridge". 🌹 In 1885, because Waibaidu wooden floating bridge has been worn down, the Ministry of Industry want to re-build. Since the main public transport was not only rickshaws but trams, the wooden bridge could not be laid on the tramway, it was decided to build another steel bridge. The new bridge was completed on December 29, 1907, and this was the first steel bridge in Shanghai. 🌷 In 1953, the Shanghai Public Works Bureau was responsible for the repair of the Baidu Bridge and wanted to erect a famous Chinese bridge for the bridge. At that time, Xu Jiaji is a young bureau of works, he wrote a good hand, in the bureau of a small reputation, after receiving the task, he wrote in the office in the old newspaper "Waibaidu Bridge" four Weibei large characters. After writing, there is no sign name, then asked stoneworkers carved stone. From then on, "Waibaidu Bridge" has its Chinese nameplate. 🌺 In March 2008, Waibaidu Bridge was the biggest renovation in a century. In order to follow the principle of old as old, engineers did not repair it in place, but moved the upper steel truss beams by barge and sent them to Shanghai Shipyard for major repair. During the major repairs, in order to restore the style of 1907, also specially re-laying Longnao incense board on the sidewalk. In April 2009, the restoration of a new Waibaidu Bridge north and south two spans repositioned, re-“on duty.”

Waibaidu Bridge should be the most famous bridge in Shanghai. When I went to Singapore, there was a bridge very similar to Shanghai Overseas Baidu Bridge. It was the same designer. Walking on the Waibaidu Bridge, the car passed, you can always see the wedding photos, tourists take photos, etc., it is a place that Shanghai must punch in. It is still there after the storm.