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China has been building bridges throughout its long and storied history, and many of these bridges are vividly depicted in a variety of literary works and paintings, offering a unique perspective into the lives of the people who built them, which brings us to the subject of today’s podcast – the Zhouqiao Bridge: a single-arch stone bridge with huge beautiful ancient stone murals that reveal the exquisite carving techniques of more than 1,000 years ago.
Today we are going to talk about the excavation of the once-lost Zhouqiao Bridge, which reveals the former opulence of the Northern Song Dynasty’s capital city, as well as the mystery it still holds.
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