Xiangyang ancient city wall

Xiangyang ancient city wall

Xiangyang ancient city wall is located in Xiangcheng District, Xiangyang City, Hubei Province. It was first built in the early Han Dynasty (there is no research on the specific age). It has been renovated many times (as evidenced by the words "Dengcheng", "Taiping Xingguo", "Yue" and "Guangxu" on the wall bricks), and is slightly square. There are Zhongxuan tower (commonly known as Huixian tower) and Kuixing tower in the southeast corner, lion tower in the southwest corner and Madame town in the northwest corner, reflecting the architectural style and planning ideas of the Han nationality in the Ming Dynasty. On June 25, 2001, Xiangyang City wall, as an ancient building of Ming Dynasty, was approved by the State Council as a "national key cultural relics protection unit".

brief introduction

In the early years of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty, the Duke of Wei kept Xiangyang more and more. While renovating the old city, he extended the northeast corner of the city wall to the riverside, and built two gates (the big north gate and the long gate, namely Zhenhua gate), together with the original four gates (see the section of "County town" for details), and built one tower each (now only the small north gate is unique).

The six gates (the east gate is Yangchun; the south gate is Wenchang; the west gate is Xicheng; the small north gate is Linhan; the big north gate is Gongchen; and the East long gate is Zhenhua) have their own urn cities outside. The urn cities of the East, South and West gates have their own sub cities, and there are suspension bridges (later changed to stone bridges) outside the urn cities and the sub cities.

The perimeter of the city wall is 7.6 km, with an average height of 8 meters and a width of about 10 meters. It is rammed with soil layers and built with large blocks of green bricks (there are only one section of xiaobeimen, dabeimen and Xiangyang Park). In the north of the city, the Han River is used as the pool, and Chenghao is chiseled on the East, South and west sides. The width of Chenghao is 130 meters to 250 meters, and the depth is 2 meters to 3 meters. The water waves all the year round, just like Pinghu (now Xiangyang Park is used for boating), which is rare in the country.

Because the city is high and solid, Hao is wide and deep, and Han Xiantian is set up, mountains and rivers are protected, so it is known as "the iron hit Xiangyang".

On June 25, 2001, Xiangyang City wall, as an ancient building of Ming Dynasty, was approved by the State Council as a "national key cultural relics protection unit".

Xiangyang ancient city wall scenery

Linhanmen (small North Gate), near the North Street (Antique pedestrian street) on the building

Zhongxuan tower, in the southeast corner of Xiangyang City

Gongchenmen (dabeimen) Wengcheng, when I was in high school, I used to watch the scenery on the wall every day (the water of Hanjiang River is called Yiqing). From the right side down is the riverside, where people often swim

Madame City, in the northwest corner of the city

Cultural relics protection

Netizen "Fang Zhanbo 123" tweeted: the moat wall was dug a hole by catering merchants to discharge waste oil fumes. This picturesque microblog immediately aroused heated discussion among netizens. Many netizens said that Xiangyang City Wall is a relatively complete ancient city wall in China. I hope you don't just focus on immediate interests to destroy it.

The reporter rushed to the inner ring road and saw that 12 holes were dug in the 200 meter long city wall on one side of Zhongxuan building, of which 7 holes were installed with range hoods, and two holes had sewage pipes. There are 11 businesses on the inner side of the wall, including seven restaurants.

Ms. Wang, the operator of the restaurant, said that they have paid the rent and have the right to use the city wall. Although there is something wrong with digging holes in the city wall, they are also in a dilemma because there is no place to drain the fumes. Ms. Wu, a resident nearby, said that the pollution discharge phenomenon had existed for a long time. Someone had blocked it before, but it was still chiseled.

The relevant person in charge of the Municipal Administration of cultural relics said that since 2001, the commercial operation mode of "external walls and internal rooms" has been implemented in this section of the city wall. The outer wall is the city wall, and the inner part is commercial. The investor has the right to use it for 40 years. Because there was no ventilation system designed during the construction, the operators began to "dig holes in the wall".

The person in charge said that the law enforcement officers had been on the scene to investigate and educate the merchants, but the effect was very poor, and they had reported the matter to their superiors.

Address: South Bank of Hanjiang River, Xiangyang District, Xiangyang City, Hubei Province

Longitude: 112.1568299

Latitude: 32.0103653

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