Qingyuan Covered Bridge Museum adopts the architectural concept of "the integration of bridge and museum" to interpret the covered bridge culture. Its appearance is simple and elegant, with a total area of about 2,060 square meters. Taking the covered bridge as the theme, the museum interprets the covered bridge culture from the aspects of history, science and technology, nature, humanities and protection, and integrates collection, display, education and research, which is of great significance to the integration, innovation and promotion of the covered bridge traditional culture.
In order to give visitors a more authentic feeling, China Qingyuan Covered Bridge Museum adopts multimedia high-tech means such as fantasy mapping, 3D animation and infrared sensing. In the exhibition, a certain number of models of covered bridges were also made for tourists to visit. This move not only embodies the exquisite carpentry covered bridge construction skills owned by Qingyuan, but also combines the display of physical materials with modern art display means, which is the all-round display level of the covered bridge museum.
It is reported that qingyuan county is located at the junction of Zhejiang and Fujian, with beautiful scenery and pleasant climate. It is the largest and most concentrated county of existing ancient covered bridges in China, and is known as "the natural museum of ancient covered bridges" and "the hometown of covered bridges". The longest existing life span in China is Rulong Bridge, Huangshui Long Bridge with the longest single-hole corridor, Lanxi Bridge with the largest single-hole span, the earliest recorded Shuangmen Bridge and Futian Bridge, and the longest covered bridge Mengzhou Bridge are all in qingyuan county.
The moving feature of Qingyuan covered bridge culture lies not only in its exquisite skills, but also in the close relationship between Qingyuan covered bridge and local people: in addition to daily transportation, it also affects people's leisure and entertainment, folk sacrifices, classical architecture and so on.
The covered bridge in Qingyuan is of high scientific, cultural and artistic value. It is like a thread that connects the history of Qingyuan. At the same time, Qingyuan covered bridge is also a pearl in history.