Anshan post

Located in Liaoning Anshan 219 Park Lake, Dongshan scenic area. It combines with the famous jade Buddha garden to form a complete Buddhist cultural site and a comprehensive tourist site. Its external environment is mainly composed of ancient buildings and classical gardens. The whole layout is magnificent and magnificent, with pavilions, platforms, buildings, pavilions, halls and buildings in a well-organized arrangement, and the golden wall is full of brilliance. In the garden, spring orchid, summer cicada, autumn chrysanthemum and winter snow are different in four seasons, which blend with Buddhist culture and art. On the sacrificial altar stands the 6.19-meter open-air dripping Guanyin, which is the highest in Northeast China. Every day, cigarettes will make you linger, as if in the pure land. In the Luohan cave with a total length of nearly 1000 meters, five hundred Arhats are lifelike with different expressions, filling the gap of Buddhist culture in Northeast China; the 873 meter long picture of five hundred Arhats is the best in the world; the Jigong dining circle, which meticulously cooks the traditional fasts of the royal family, the folk and the temple, is unique to Northeast China.

Anshan post

Anshan Yibao, also known as "Anshan City", is located in East Anshan Town, Qianshan District, the southern suburb of Anshan City, Liaoning Province. It is the most well preserved ancient city of Ming Dynasty in Anshan City. Between East and West Anshan, it is named because the mountain looks like a saddle. Anshan Yibao, the attached building of Liaodong Great Wall in Ming Dynasty, belongs to "isosceles trapezoid" castle, which is a provincial cultural relic protection unit. Anshan post fort was set up in 1387 (the 20th year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty) and rebuilt in 1578 (the 6th year of Wanli). It was built as a brick city. At the beginning, it was used as a delivery post. There were many chariots and horses in the post, and merchants were very prosperous. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was once an important place for military strategists and an important transportation hub. After the railway was set up in the late Qing Dynasty, the post station lost its function and gradually became a mountain village. Now it is called Anshan City. The stone plaque engraved with "Anshan post Castle" on the southwest gate was added when it was rebuilt in 1986. It was inscribed by the famous calligrapher Wen Tongchun. Anshan post is one of the well preserved military city buildings in Liaoning Province in Ming Dynasty. It is the material material for studying the local history of Northeast China in Ming and Qing Dynasties. In 1962, Anshan Municipal People's government announced it as a municipal key cultural relics protection unit, and in 2003, Liaoning Provincial People's government announced it as a provincial cultural relics protection unit. Anshan post fort is the landmark of Anshan, which has great historical value.

Ruins

Anshan post fort is a part of the defense system of Liaoning great wall in Ming Dynasty. It is close to Yangliu River in the East (Anshan River in ancient times). It is located in the middle of East and West Anshan mountains, 0.5km away from each other in the East and West. Anshan Hai highway and Harbin Dalian railway pass under its north wall. To the northeast of the post castle is Qianshan Mountain which originated from the Changbai Mountain, and to the southwest is the beginning of the vast Liaohe plain.

Anshan post castle is an isosceles trapezoid castle with a circumference of one mile and 204 steps. The city is made of brick and stone with rammed earth

The height of the foundation stone layer is 2 meters, the height of the brick layer is 7.5 meters, the thickness of the city wall is 7.5 meters, the width of the foundation is 8 meters, and the height of the wall is 10 meters. The length of the four walls are 276 meters for the east wall and 276 meters for the west wall, 290 meters for the south wall and 283 meters for the north wall, with a total length of 1125 meters. Anshan post castle in Ming Dynasty was built on the Northeast wall of the site

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Because the East and west walls are built on the cliffs, there are only two gates in the northeast and southwest of the old city, and the gates are of arched structure. The southwest gate has been restored and kept in good condition. The gate tower is 13 meters high and the door opening is 3.9 meters wide. The original brick pattern on the top of the door is inlaid with a plaque of "Anshan post Castle", and under the plaque is the inscription of "rebuilt in the sixth year of Wanli". In 1986, when Anshan Municipal People's Government rebuilt it, the plaque of "Anshan post Castle" was carved with black jade as a supplement, and its four characters were inscribed by Wen Tongchun, a famous calligrapher in Liaoning Province. On the lintel of the Northeast gate, there is a plaque with the word "Shugu". The Northeast gate has been destroyed and the base site still exists

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There are only three "Jiaotai" and southwest gate in the northeast, northwest and southwest of the building, and the exterior brick is better. Only the section from southwest gate to southwest "Jiaotai" of Xicheng wall is relatively complete. There is a 4-meter-high official wall preserved. The brick wrapped wall no longer exists. Only the part of the wall is 500 meters long.

The original Guandi temple and Longwang temple in the city were built in the Qing Dynasty, but they do not exist now. There is a stone well outside the southwest gate, with a small mouth and a big bottom, which is suspected to be a legacy of the ancient city of Liao Dynasty.

Located 2.5km from the north to the south of Anshan Yibao, there is a beacon tower, which is a subsidiary building of the same period of Ming Dynasty. The beacon tower in the South has not existed, and the beacon tower in the north still exists (located in East Anshan town of Qianshan District, west of Sifangtai Village, 50m to the east of hada highway), namely Sifangtai beacon tower.

Historical evolution

According to the literature, Anshan post fort was built in the Hongwu Period of Ming Dynasty and rebuilt in Wanli of Ming Dynasty. There were many chariots and horses in the post, and merchants were very prosperous. According to the records of Liaoyang County, "Anshan post castle is 60 miles southwest of the city, with southwest and northeast gates. In the Ming Dynasty, a post station was set up here, and a patrol inspector was stationed. It is said that it was built in the early Ming Dynasty. Outside the southwest railway station, there used to be four big characters "Anshan post fort", but now they are decadent and the handwriting is not there. ". According to the article 15 of Shengjing Tongzhi, Anshan post castle in Haicheng County: "sixty miles to the north of the city, one mile, two hundred and four steps around, two gates. In the 20th year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty, the post was set up, and in the 6th year of Wanli, the city was built. "

It is also recorded in Liaodong annals: "Anshan post, 60 Li south of Liaoyang City, was set up in 1387, and rebuilt in 1578. There are one member of one hundred households (six military officers), who is in charge of the central guard of dingliao. The Anshan Station where diyun is located is in charge of the avant-garde of dingliao. There are 20 walking horses and 10 donkeys, who are specially responsible for literature and newspaper. "

In the Ming Dynasty, Anshan post fort was set up with a hundred households, a delivery station and a granary. There were one hundred households (six military officers) who managed Anshan post station, one hundred households who managed delivery station and one patrol officer who managed public security

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In the early years of the Qing Dynasty, Anshan post fort was still a military important place. In 1644 (the first year of Shunzhi), there were one Manchu Zhangjing and one Han Zhangjing in Anshan City. Since then, it has been renamed Anshan Yipu, which specializes in the delivery of articles and newspapers. In June 1899 (the 25th year of Guangxu), Lishan post office was established; in July 1907 (the 33rd year of Guangxu), according to the records of the Qing Dynasty, "Fengsheng Province set up a literature and newspaper office, and the original post station was abolished to save money." At this point, the existence of 520 years of Anshan post began to end

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Military status

The location of Anshan post castle is very important. It is close to Liaoyang and Haicheng. It is 30km away from Liaoyang in the northeast and Linming Haicheng in the southeast. It is located at the throat of Anshan in the East and West. It is the gateway of the capital of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty to the South and west of Liaoning, and the main point of the ancient road in the south of Liaoning. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was once a place for military strategists and also a transportation hub. Anshan post fort, with East and West Anshan as the screen, has a dangerous terrain, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is wrapped with green bricks on the outside and filled with loess on the inside to prevent shelling. There are wells dug in the city to prevent water cut-off. There is a moat around to prevent sneak attack. It is small and solid

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In 1619 (the 47th year of Wanli), the Ming Dynasty sent Xiong Tingbi to Liaoyang as the governor of Liaodong, and personally visited Anshan post and Sanchahe. In March of 1621 (the first year of Tianqi of emperor Xizong of Ming Dynasty), the Jin army successively captured Shenyang and Liaoyang, occupying more than 70 castles in the east of Liaohe River. Nurhachi moved the capital to Liaoyang, and Anshan post became an important military base of Gongwei capital of later Jin Dynasty. Nurhachi sent babutai as the guard General of Anshan post fort. He defeated Mao Wenlong, the general of Ming Dynasty, and captured Li Meiliang, the guerrilla General of Ming Dynasty. At that time, Nurhachi was about to go on an expedition to kharka, Mongolia. Hearing that there was a police in Anshan post, he took the night to return to Shengjing (now Shenyang) and sent zhubaile to Anshan for rescue. It can be seen that Anshan post had an important military position at that time

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Economy and people's livelihood

Anshan Yipu was not only a transportation station, but also a center of economic activities in Ming, Qing and early Republic of China. Although the city is small and has no three streets and six markets, in addition to the official organizations, there are also inns, pawnshops, cooking pots, oil shops, medicine shops and daily groceries. There are residents engaged in agriculture, industry and commerce. Wei Xiejun, a poet of the Qing Dynasty, wrote a poem "a rest in Anshan post", which describes the scene of the post station in Xianfeng and Tongzhi years

Gallop to Anshan Road, spring breeze to see off the whip.

Bad bridge, wasteful post water, cold village, broken city smoke.

Travel through cars and horses, residents from the city shop.

If you stop feeding, you have to pay for it.

Looking back, the mountain is connected with the white clouds.

Wei Xie was born in Tieling, Liaoning Province. He was a Gongsheng in Xianfeng Period. The scene of Anshan post in the late Qing Dynasty described by him is somewhat dilapidated and obviously lost in repair, but it is still a living picture of life in a small city. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were Yuanxing paper mill, Yuanxing pawnshop, pastry shop, hotel and other businesses in Anshan, among which widow Xu's shop was well-known. In 1905 (the 31st year of Guangxu), the Nanman branch line of Dongqing railway was opened to traffic. Qianshan railway station was set up in Jiubao street of Qianshan District. The business houses of Anshan post moved to the vicinity of the railway station one after another, and Anshan post city gradually evolved into a rural area

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Legend of post Castle

Legend one

It is said that there was no city here a long time ago. Li Shimin, the king of the Tang Dynasty, led his army here when he was in the East. He took a fancy to this important place and decided to stay here. After general Yuchi Jingde received the order, he led 100000 soldiers in the night to demolish a Mujia town on the Bank of Liaohe River in the West. It was the night of the black moon. The wind was blowing, and people were swarming with flying sand and rocks. The next day, the wind stopped and the sun rose. A small town was built by the official road between the two mountains facing the morning light

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Legend 2

In ancient times, in the middle of Hun River and Taizi River, there was a river

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