Luoyang Bridge is located on the Luoyang River in the northeast of Quanzhou, Fujian

The Luoyang Bridge, located on the Luoyang River in the northeast of Quanzhou, Fujian, is a large cross-sea stone bridge built under the official leadership of the Song Dynasty. It has a solid structure, beautiful appearance, and extremely high bridge engineering technology and artistic level.

Luoyang Bridge is located at the junction of Quanzhou Taiwanese Investment Zone and Luojiang District, Fujian Province. The bridge starts from Caixiang Road in the north, crosses the Luoyang River Waterway, and ends at Qiaonan Road in the west. The bridge is 834 meters long and 7 wide. rice.

On July 25, 2021, Quanzhou: Song and Yuan China’s World Marine Trade Center” was reviewed and approved by the 44th World Heritage Conference and successfully included in the “World Cultural Heritage List”, becoming China’s 56th A World Heritage Site, Luoyang Bridge is one of the 22 representative historic sites.

The origin of the bridge’s name

Before the Tang and Song Dynasties, the Yue people lived in Quanzhou. Due to social unrest and frequent wars, a large number of Central Plains people moved south. Most of the people who moved to Quanzhou and southern Fujian were from Henan, Heshui and Luoshui. The language family used in Quanzhou and even the entire southern Fujian area was called He Luo language is the Minnan language.

These people from the Central Plains brought advanced and developed agricultural technology and experience from the Central Plains, and guided the local people to cultivate and develop. They came to Quanzhou and saw the mountains and rivers here. The terrain is very similar to the ancient capital Luoyang, so this place was named Luoyang, and the bridge was named after it.