This day, 24 April, in 1189, construction commenced on the Marco Polo Bridge or Lugou Bridge in today’s Beijing, that would be setting for the Incident marking the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War. In “The Travels of Marco Polo”, Rustichello da Pisa quotes Polo as saying of the Bridge, “Over this river there is a very fine stone bridge, so fine indeed, that it has very few equals in the world”.
这一天，1189年4月24日，今天的北京马可波罗桥或鹿沟桥开始施工，这标志着第二次中日战争开始的事件。 在《马可波罗游记》中，Rustichello da Pisa引用了Polo在桥上的话：“这条河上有一座非常精美的石桥，确实如此精美，以至于世界上很少有人能与之媲美。”
