Jiaxing Zicheng

Jiaxing Zicheng

Jiaxing Zicheng is the earliest city wall of Jiaxing. City calendar for the county, government, military, road, government office. In the Yuan Dynasty, the first floor was built on the main gate of Zicheng, which was named "Liqiao". Qiaolou was rebuilt twice in Ming Dynasty. The existing Zicheng qiaolou and the East and west walls were rebuilt in 1908. It is the only ancient city building on the existing city wall in Zhejiang Province.

structure

The city gate is an arch gate, 5.4 meters high and 4.5 meters across. The arch gate is built with brick interlocking, and a city building is built on it. The plane is three with corridors, the two-story double eaves rest on the top of the mountain, and the beam frame is five beams with double corridors. Lattice doors are set in the three rooms of the front eaves, lattice doors are set in the open room of the back eaves, lattice windows are set in the two rooms, and lattice windows are set around the second floor. The west wall of the tower is embedded with the inscription of rebuilding Jiaxing Fu Zhi.

history

The former site of Wangfu

Jiaxing Zicheng is the seat of Jiaxing government and the former site of tingwang mansion of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

The name comes from Jiaxing Zicheng, which was built in 231, the third year of Wu Huanglong in the Three Kingdoms. It has a history of more than 1700 years. Zicheng has a circumference of two Li and ten steps, a height and thickness of one Zhang and two feet, covering an area of 75000 square meters. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Luocheng was built outside Zicheng, so the original city was renamed Zicheng (in addition, Zicheng was formerly called Zicheng, but later renamed Zicheng).

Sub city structure

From the Three Kingdoms to the Qing Dynasty, Zicheng was the seat of Jiaxing (Xiuzhou) government or military administration. According to the records of Jiaxing government by Guangxu, the main gate of Ziqiang in the Yuan Dynasty had Liqiao, and in the Song Dynasty, the Tianwang hall, arrow tower and other buildings were built on the city. The qiaolou in Zicheng was rebuilt in 1908. It is a brick and wood structure three Ying building with double eaves on the top of the mountain, fancy roof ridge, four water ridges, hairpin Ruyi head, carved dragon head at the corner of the berm, and corridor cornice. It has the special characteristics of ancient Chinese buildings. There are arrow buttresses in the east of the city, which are still well preserved.

Existing sub cities

The existing Zicheng and qiaolou were rebuilt in 1990. They are about 100 meters long. The walls are of brick and stone structure. There are crenels on the city and gates below. The gates are made of wood and guarded by stone lions. You can have a panoramic view of Hecheng and Nanhu.

Old Zicheng

In the old days, there was a Jindai bridge outside the Zicheng, and catalpa trees were planted beside the river. The scenery was beautiful. Liu Yuxi of Tang Dynasty, Zhang Xian of Song Dynasty, Shen Kuo, Lu menglao and so on all had well-known works. Lu menglao's poem "Piyun Pavilion" says: "the towering railings at the corner of the city see the end of the sea, and the curtain of the spring breeze is warm. The cloud and smoke break across the broad Cangjiang River, with a cluster of buildings of 100000.

In June 1860, Chen Bingwen, king of hearing and Chen kunshu, King protector of Li Xiucheng, loyal king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, occupied Jiaxing. In the second year, Chen Bingwen built Qijin king of hearing mansion. In 1864, Jiaxing was conquered by Pan Dingxin and Cheng Xueqi, and the project was not completed. In the 1980s, eight murals of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were found in Yao's old house on Zhongshan Road.

Address: No.65 Fuqian street, Nanhu District, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province

Longitude: 120.75329279471

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