Seventeen-Arch Bridge (Shiqikong Qiao) at the Summer Palace, Beijing, China.
There are some thirty bridges in the Summer Palace and this is the largest one; at 150 meters long and 8 meters wide It is a popular attraction at the Summer Palace. Connecting the eastern shore of Kunming Lake and Island in the west, the Seventeen-Arch Bridge was built during the reign of Emperor Qianlong (1711-1799).
The Seventeen-Arch Bridge looks like a rainbow arching over the water. There are 544 distinctive lions on the columns of the white marble parapets. On each end of the bridge is a carved bizarre beast which looks like kylin, an auspicious animal in Chinese legends. With the biggest arch in the middle of the bridge flanked by nine arches in different sizes from the middle to each end of the bridge. Number nine was believed to be the biggest yang number favored by the emperors.