● Guangji Bridge was built in 1 17 1 year (the seventh year of Song Trunk Road). Zeng Wang, the magistrate of Chaozhou, opened the curtain for the construction of Guangji Bridge, and was presided over by state officials from then on. Historically known as Jikang Bridge, Dinghou Bridge and Jichuan Bridge.
● 1435 (the tenth year of Xuande in Ming Dynasty), Roy, the magistrate of Chaozhou, presided over an unprecedented reconstruction, and built 12 tall buildings on the bridge, with a plaque on the east and west, called the twenty-four-story platform. The bridge was renamed Guangji Bridge, becoming a traffic bridge, a commercial bridge and a sightseeing bridge with both traffic functions and strong regional customs. Houses and shops are built on the bridge deck for people to drink tea, drink, do business and enjoy the scenery in the pavilion.
● 1503, Qiu qiren, the magistrate, built a bridge, "with two pavilions in the east and west, and right columns in the north and south", reducing the original 24 ships to 18 ships. From then on, it was called "18-shuttle boat".
● 1724, the magistrate Zhang Ziqian cast two cows.
● 1842, a cow was washed away by the flood. Since then, there has been a folk song "Two flies, Niu Yi only slips away".
● 1958, Guangji Bridge was completely repaired, and the "eighteen-shuttle pontoon bridge" was demolished, replaced by two reinforced concrete high-pile cap double-column piers, and a three-hole steel truss was erected to make the whole bridge run through. The rebuilt Guangji Bridge was once called Yuejin Bridge.
● 1 959 April1day, the whole bridge was completed and opened to traffic, and cars crossed the river for the first time in history.
● 1977 and 1979 decks are widened into two-lane pedestrian bridges.
● 1988 1, the State Council announced Guangji Bridge as a national key cultural relics protection unit.
● On April 30th, 1989, Hanjiang Bridge was completed and opened to traffic, and then Guangji Bridge was changed into a footbridge.
● 1990, National Cultural Heritage Administration hosted the "Chaozhou Guangji Bridge Restoration Demonstration Meeting" in Chaozhou. More than 20 experts on cultural relics and bridges from all over the country were invited to attend the meeting and made scientific arguments on how to protect and repair Chaozhou Guangji Bridge.
● In March, 20065438+0, our city decided to maintain and protect Guangji Bridge and set up Chaozhou Guangji Bridge Maintenance Committee.
● In July, 20001year, our city officially reported the maintenance plan of Chaozhou Guangji Bridge to the Provincial Department of Culture and National Cultural Heritage Administration, and it was approved by National Cultural Heritage Administration in February, 2006, 5438.
● In 20031October 20th 10, maintenance works of Chaozhou Guangji Bridge started.