Three kilometers outside the city the canal was spanned by a rainbow-arch bridge, with wharves and warehouses along both banks and porters busily unloading grain and goods from great barges. Some six million piculs of rice from southern China arrived here every year.
城外三公里有座虹橋，沿途兩岸碼頭與倉庫林立，搬運工人忙碌地自大型的貨船搬卸各種糧米、貨物，其中單是來自南方的米每年就達六百萬石。