What is the historical background of Anhai Wuli Bridge in Jinjiang?

Anhai, which belongs to Jinjiang City, is near the sea area more than 20 kilometers south of Quanzhou. It was called "Bay Sea" in ancient times, called Shijing Jin 'an Haicheng in the Northern Song Dynasty, and called "Anping Town" in the Southern Song Dynasty. Jinjiang and Nan 'an counties, located at the crossroads of land and water, were one of the important ports for Quanzhou's overseas traffic during the Song and Yuan Dynasties. According to Shu Min, Jinjiang chronicles, An Haizhi, etc. In the second year of Yuan You in the Northern Song Dynasty (1087), Quanzhou opened ports and set up shipping companies, and Anhai gradually became a foreign trade port. There is a natural deep well of stone spring in Anhai Wharf, and the well water is clear and sweet ... Jinka is located by the stone well and moored at the seaside. Quanzhou Prefecture sent officials here to collect passenger ship tax, which is called "Shijingjin" (that is, "customs clearance"). Today, this website still exists. In the fourth year of the Southern Song Dynasty (1 130), Shijing Town was established in Anhai, and Zhu Song (the father of Zhu, see "Quanzhou People's Directory Zhu Song") was the first town supervisor, and the establishment of Anhai began.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, Anhai "Shijing Gold" set up Shijing Town, which was also both the public security sea and Shijing, so it was called "Shijing Gold Opens Double Shijing". Although Anhai and Shijing took different natural scenic spots as place names, they were actually the same town at that time, because the anecdote used by the two towns was the same historical event, that is, Zhu Song (Zhai Wei) supervised taxes in Shijing Town in the Song Dynasty.

Later, Shijing Town in Nan 'an was always called Shijing, Shijing Town in Jinjiang was called Anping Town in Ming Dynasty and Anhai Town in Qing Dynasty. At the peak of Erythrina Port in Song and Yuan Dynasties, Anhai became a very prosperous "southern port" of Erythrina, "the port was connected with merchant ships from various countries, and Jiahu traded with residents". An Hai Zhi in the Ming Dynasty: "Merchants in the Song and Yuan Dynasties brought rivers and lakes and traveled all over the world, such as pearls, jade in Shang Yue, places where they went, places where they were tattooed, and countries with inscriptions." The newly compiled Annals of Anhai said: In Song Dynasty, Anhai had an old city in the east and a new city in the west. Because of the competition of profits, a town was established. The city is called Anhai City and the town is called Anhai Town. Today's cities are scattered in straight streets and alleys, and there are no more than 1000 shops, which must be sold by people from all directions. "

The distribution of huge amounts of goods has promoted the rapid development of coastal land transportation. Anhai on the east side of the port is still a peninsula from northeast to southwest. The only land route is Chema Avenue from Caodian to Wuling Tongzhou in the north, and the connection with Daguan Road in the north and south is to cross the river by boat. At that time, there were tens of millions of people crossing the ark in Anping to help each other, but "the boat handed over water" was "a great disaster for the people".

So in the twenty-first year of Shaoxing (11), Anping Bridge (see Quanzhou Bridge Anping Bridge for details) was built, spanning five miles of Anhai and Shuitouwan, claiming to be the longest stone bridge in the world and becoming a transportation hub in southern Shanxi. 3 1 year after the completion of Anping Bridge (in the ninth year of Song Dynasty, 1 182), Zhen 'an Bridge was built three miles north of Anping Bridge, and it was juxtaposed with Anping Bridge in the same section of the harbor (see Anqiao Bridge in Quanzhou Town for details). Therefore, it is also known as "Anping straddles two Anping".

Known as "the longest bridge in the world", Anping Bridge (commonly known as "Wuli Bridge").