Jimingyi ancient city

Jimingyi town is located in jimingyi village, jimingyi Township, Huailai County, Hebei Province. It is a Posthouse site built in Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). The post city covers an area of 22000 square meters, nearly square in plane, and 1891.8 meters in circumference. The outer layer of the city wall is made of brick, and the inner layer is rammed earth. The wall is 8-11 meters wide at the bottom, 3-5 meters wide at the top and 11 meters high. Four corner platforms are evenly distributed around the wall. East and west each opened a gate, built a tower, outside the city there are buttresses. Five roads crisscross the city, dividing the city into 12 areas of different sizes. The buildings in the city are orderly distributed. The post office area is in the center of the city, the horse's name is in the northwest, the post warehouse is in the northeast, and the post road passes East-West near the city in the south. There are also shops and houses left over from ancient times in the city. Jiming post city is a precious legacy of Chinese post and military post, which has high cultural value. traffic

Jiming post city

synonym

Jimingyi ancient city generally refers to jimingyi city

Jiming post city is located at Jiming mountain on the North Bank of Yanghe River, Xiahuayuan, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province. Jiming post village is 145 km away from National Highway 110. It is a post station remains built in Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).

The post got its name because of the mountain, and the city was set up because of the post. According to the research of experts, Jiming post city is the largest and most characteristic Post Building Group in China, which has important historical, artistic and scientific value.

In 2001, it was announced as a national key cultural relics protection unit by the State Council.

Historical evolution

In September 1982, Jiming post city was designated as a provincial key cultural relics protection unit by the people's Government of Hebei Province.

In 1986, the cultural relics department of Huailai County restored the four gates of Jiming post city.

In 1990, the Hebei Provincial Bureau of cultural relics took charge of the construction of the East and North walls and parts of the west wall.

In August 1995, the former Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications issued a set of two commemorative stamps "ancient post station", one of which is Jiming post station.

In 1999, some repairs were made to the inner city temple, the God of wealth temple and the Dragon King temple.

In June 2001, the State Council approved Jiming post city as a national key cultural relics protection unit.

In July 2003, Huailai County hired the school of architecture of Tsinghua University to formulate the overall plan for the protection of Jiming post city cultural relics. The plan is divided into three phases and takes 10 years to complete the repair work.

In 2003, Jiming post city was listed as one of 100 world endangered cultural heritages by the world Memorial Building Protection Foundation in the United States. In 2005, it was once again listed as one of the 100 world endangered cultural heritages by the world Memorial Building Conservation Foundation in the United States.

In September 2005, the State Administration of cultural relics and the Ministry of construction jointly named jimingyi village, where jimingyi city is located, as "a famous historical and cultural village in China".

In June 2006, Huailai County launched a special construction fund of 500000 yuan for tourism projects. At the same time, the government appropriated 500000 yuan. Later, more than 6 million yuan was donated by enterprises to carry out the first nationwide repair project for Jiming post city.

On December 12, 2008, the State Administration of cultural relics and the people's Government of Hebei Province held a "comprehensive launching ceremony of Jiming post city emergency repair and protection project". According to the grand plan, 500 million yuan will be injected into the development and protection of jimingyi in the next three years.

In 2009, the city wall was restored; in 2010, the cultural relics and buildings in the city were restored; in 2011, the development was carried out.

In November 2013, jimingyi in Huailai County was selected as the national ancient village protection pilot.

In August 2014, "China Jiming post Museum" and "post culture theme post office" were officially completed.

geographical position

The city is located at the foot of Jiming mountain on the North Bank of Yanghe River and jimingyi village 145 km away from National Highway 110. Its geographical coordinates are 115 ° 18 '- 20' e and 40 ° 27 'n, with an altitude of 550-540 M. From Beijing to Badaling Expressway and then to Shacheng (Huailai) Expressway, the toll is 45 yuan per way. Jimingyi is located 20 kilometers west of Shacheng and south of the highway. Jimingyi is about 150 kilometers away from Beijing.

History and culture

Jiming post is named after its back on Jiming mountain. In Jimingshan, it is said in shuijingzhu that Zhao Xiangzi killed Daiwang in xiawu and merged with his native land, and Xiangzi welcomed his elder sister in Daiyu. His elder sister Dai's wife said that Dai was dead, and I was going to return. So she molted her hairpin in the mountain and committed suicide. It is also called Jiming mountain because it is named Moji mountain and pheasants sing on the ancestral hall every night. It is said in the Ming Dynasty unified annals that Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty heard Jiming when he arrived at the mountain during the northern expedition, which was named Jiming mountain.

Jiming post is located on the post road, which is the predecessor of National Highway 110 beside it. As early as the pre Qin period, Jiming post was famous for its "Shanggu trunk road". This thousand year old road ran over the rolling chariots of Emperor Hanwu attacking Xiongnu in the north. I have seen Li Zicheng's Dashun army attack the flag of the capital city, and heard the horse neighing of Emperor Kangxi's extermination of gardan. I don't know how many sobbing stories this ancient road deduces. Of course, the ancient road also sent Cixi and Guangxu, who had fled in a hurry. There are many famous towns and post stations along this ancient road, and the first station is Jiming post city. At that time, Jiming post, as a military and civilian post station, also became a place for merchants to gather. According to many existing inscriptions in the post city, there were six pawnshops in the most prosperous time, as well as nine shops, four oil shops, teahouses, chariots and horse shops.

The post station once played an important role in the history of China. It can be said that it was the lifeline of a country. In ancient times, fast horses were used to deliver messages and official documents. Later, due to the limited physical strength and running distance of the horses, they had to change horses halfway to complete the transmission of hundreds of kilometers. Therefore, many horse stations were built along the way. Later, this kind of Horse Station evolved into a temporary place to receive past officials and businessmen The post station, which can deliver information and mail at the same time, also functions as a military castle. It can be said that the post station played the role of modern post office and military base in ancient times. Jiming post is the largest post station in the surrounding area of Beijing. It was built in the early Ming Dynasty and is also the best preserved post station. Jiming post is also the transportation and military fortress from Beijing to Zhangjiakou. With a history of 500 years, jimingyi's wall is square, about 300 meters long on each side. The wall is built with green bricks and rammed with loess. The wall is as high as 15 meters, with crenels on it. The walls around it are basically the same. Some sections have collapsed. There are two gates on the wall, East and West, between which there are big roads for people, carriages and vehicles to go in and out. There are some old houses in the city.

Cultural relics

Ancient city building: the East and West gates are set in the post city, and the upper and lower towers are built respectively. The wall platforms are built on all four sides. The Yuhuang Pavilion is built in the middle of the north wall, the Shouxing temple is built in the middle of the south wall, and the corner platforms are built in the four corners of the city. There are also water retaining walls called shadow wall and urn outside the East and West gates. It is worth mentioning that the ancient city building of Dongmen is the background of zhizunbao and Zixia kissing in the movie journey to the West. However, it has been renovated and lost a lot of sense of vicissitudes. Cixi West escape Palace (he's courtyard): at first, he's courtyard was the headquarters of that year, and it was also the highest standard building in the whole post city. When the Eight Power Allied forces entered Beijing, it was also the place where Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu stayed. The courtyard was full of brick houses with carved dragons and painted phoenixes. Up to now, there are four regular script characters "Hongxi Jiefu" carved on the gables of the second entrance courtyard, As a memory of Empress Dowager Cixi's residence here. The original five into the courtyard, has become an independent courtyard. Mount Tai Temple: when you come to Jiming post, you have to look at the murals of Mount Tai Temple. Built in the 8th year of Shunzhi reign of the Qing Dynasty, Taishan temple has a history of more than 300 years. However, the murals in the temple are still clearly visible. The painting effect with a sense of hierarchy is amazing. The humorous and unique three and a half sentence explanatory text can be regarded as the best. Post office: the post office was the core of the post office in Qing Dynasty. It was an important administrative organ, which was responsible for all the affairs of the post office. Wenchang Palace: Wenchang palace is a place dedicated to the emperor of Wenchang. Since its completion, it has been a place for the children of the post station and the children of the rich families in the city to go to school. Therefore, it has the function of a Confucian temple. Gongguanyuan: the "gongguanyuan" is a Ming Dynasty building, which is specially used for dining and lodging of past officials and postmen. The north house of the three entrance courtyard is exquisitely made with wooden bolt heads on the partition fan. Each wooden bolt head is engraved with different images of Qin, chess, calligraphy, painting, lotus, bat, cicada and so on, which is lifelike, ingenious and interesting.

architectural composition

Jiming post city is the most complete, the largest, the most functional and the most characteristic post building complex found in China so far in 2015. The five crisscross streets in the city roughly divide the post city into 12 districts. Qianjie is the place where the military and political organs are located, that is, the post office and the command office, followed by the service entities such as daily necessities, bar room, cylinder room, flower yarn, wine shop and pawnshop. West Street is the post station facilities, namely the residence yard, horse horn, military horn. The northeast is the post storehouse, and the north is the post school. There are also Taishan temple, Wenchang palace, Dragon God Temple, God of wealth temple, Pu du Temple, Town God's Temple and other Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian temples. The murals of Ming and Qing Dynasties in many temples are still colorful and vivid.

Address: jimingyi village, jimingyi Township, Huailai County, Hebei Province

Longitude: 115.30724

Latitude: 40.45132

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