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To create a beautiful image, some bridges are built much taller than necessary.

This type, often found in east-Asian style gardens, is called a Moon bridge, evoking a rising full moon.

Other garden bridges may cross only a dry bed of stream washed pebbles, intended only to convey an impression of a stream.

Often in palaces a bridge will be built over an artificial waterway as symbolic of a passage to an important place or state of mind.

A set of five bridges cross a sinuous waterway in an important courtyard of the Forbidden City in Beijing, China.

The central bridge was reserved exclusively for the use of the Emperor, Empress, and their attendants.