Shanghai ancient city wall

Shanghai ancient city wall is located in the area of Dajing Road, xiaobeimen, Huangpu District, Shanghai. You can see the ruins of a remnant temple and the ruins of the city wall. Here is a section of Shanghai ancient city wall that has been preserved. Through nostalgia, we can know the history of Shanghai's "construction" and "demolition". The moat around the city is 150 feet long, 6 feet wide and 1.7 feet deep. It is connected with Huangpu River on the outside, big and small rivers on the inside and lakes on the West. Since then, the Japanese invaders have attacked the city many times, but they have never been able to invade the city. It can be seen that the city walls of Ming Dynasty maintained the safety of Shanghai.

Shanghai ancient city wall

Shanghai ancient city wall was built in Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty to defend against Japanese invasion. In the area of Dajing Road, xiaobeimen, Huangpu District, Shanghai, you can see the ruins of a remnant temple and the decaying wall of the city wall. Here is the preserved section of Shanghai ancient city wall. Through nostalgia, we can know the history of Shanghai's "construction" and "demolition". The moat around the city is 150 feet long, 6 feet wide and 1.7 feet deep. It is connected with Huangpu River on the outside, big and small rivers on the inside and lakes on the West. Since then, the Japanese invaders have attacked the city many times, but they have never been able to invade the city. It can be seen that the city walls of the Ming Dynasty maintained the safety of Shanghai and reflected the wisdom and superb architectural skills of the ancient working people.

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History Introduction

In the middle of Ming Dynasty, Shanghai was a densely populated, developed commercial and shipping center. Because of the Japanese pirates' harassment and heavy losses. In 1553, the city wall was built and four high platforms were built to look out and defend the enemy. After the Japanese rebellion was settled, temples were built on the high platform. Guandi hall was built on arrow platform, Zhenwu platform was built for Zhenwu emperor; Guanyin pavilion was built on victory platform; Danfeng tower was built on Wanjun platform. The four halls, platforms, towers and pavilions on the walls of the city were built. The ancient city wall of Shanghai was finally unable to be developed in the city, which hindered the development of urban economy and transportation. In July 1912, the construction of the old city wall was started. In June 1913, the northern half of the city was completed at 850 Zhangs, and the Republic of China road was built on the city site. In winter 1914, the southern half of the city was completed at 890 Zhangs, and the Zhonghua Road was built on the city site.

Zhonghua Road and Renmin Road in the southern urban area of Shanghai, a circular road around Chengdu, were built after the demolition of the old Shanghai city wall. It is a sign to identify the boundary of the old city of Shanghai. At that time, Shanghai county was severely punished in the Ming Dynasty for obstructing the city's economy and traffic, so it decided to demolish the city wall, fill the moat and build roads. The project was completed from July 1912 to 1914, forming a circular road around the city. In the process of demolition, a small section has been preserved. This is Dajing Pavilion - Dajing Guandi temple. It used to be an arrow platform, on which a Guandi temple was built. In the Qing Dynasty, Yichun platform was added. Now it has become a scenic spot. Since the establishment of the county in the Yuan Dynasty, Shanghai has not built a city wall, and was invaded by Japanese pirates many times in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, in 1553, it took only three months to build a city wall with a circumference of 9 li and a height of 2.4 Zhang. There were more than 3600 battlements and two enemy towers on the city wall. Along the outside of the city wall, there were a moat with a width of 6 Zhang, a depth of 1.7 Zhang and a circumference of more than 1500 Zhang. In 1557, three more enemy towers and 20 more arrow towers were built. During the Wanli period, when the Japanese invasion subsided and the county was peaceful, Danfeng tower, Guanyin Pavilion, Zhenwu temple and Dajing Pavilion were built on four arrow platforms. Dajing Pavilion, built on Dajing arrow platform, is a three story pavilion with exquisite structure and unique shape. This pavilion was built in Wanli period of Ming Dynasty for the statue of Guandi (formerly known as Guandi Hall). In 1815, it was rebuilt into a three storey high Pavilion. In the first year of Daoguang (1821), the governor Tao Shu went to the pavilion for sightseeing and personally inscribed the plaque of "kuangguan" on the "xichuntai". In the 16th year of Daoguang (1836), Chen Luan, the governor of Liangjiang, visited the pavilion and inscribed the four characters of "Daqian Shengjing" on the Dongshou stone square. As a result, the pavilion gained a great reputation and was listed as one of the eight scenic spots in Shanghai, "Jianggao Jixue" scenic spot, becoming one of the hot spots in Shencheng tourism. On the second floor of dajingge, the exhibition of historical relics of Shanghai's old city is also on display. It is divided into seven parts: the history of the city wall, the important towns in the southeast, the changes of the city, entering modern times, Wenchang Wuhua, and Nanshi prospect. It shows the history of Shanghai's old city in politics, economy, military, education, and culture for more than 700 years in the form of pictures, charts, objects, models, light boxes, and scenery The development of Nanshi and other aspects shows the diligence, bravery and talent of the working people in ancient China.

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brief introduction

In the area of Dajing Road, xiaobeimen, Huangpu District, Shanghai, you can see the ruins of a remnant temple and the decaying wall of the city wall. Here is the preserved section of Shanghai ancient city wall. Through nostalgia, we can know the history of Shanghai's "construction" and "demolition".

The establishment of Shanghai as a county began from the Yuan Dynasty to the 29th year of the Yuan Dynasty (A.D. 1291). In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Shanghai was well-developed in business and densely populated, with ships travelling along the river, becoming the distribution center of goods between the north and the south. The coastal areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang were constantly attacked and harassed by Japanese pirates. Only in the four to six months of the 32nd year of Jiajing, they were looted by Japanese pirates for five times in a row, burning, killing, plundering and burning houses. The counties and cities were almost half burnt, and the losses were extremely heavy.

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Dajing Pavilion of Shanghai ancient city wall is located at Dajing intersection of Renmin Road, xiaobeimen.

In 1990, the representative motion of the third session of the ninth Municipal People's Congress proposed to "repair and open the dajingge of the ancient city wall", which was attached great importance by the municipal leaders.

The project started in July 1993, with 9 units and 31 residents relocated. The project was completed in April 1995. The cost of relocation and repair is 8.62 million yuan. In July of the same year, the dajingge Management Office of Shanghai ancient city wall was established.

On October 26, 1995, the district government held a grand opening ceremony in front of the ancient city wall. Vice mayor Gong Xueping and governor sun Weiguo cut the ribbon for the opening ceremony.

On October 26, 1995, the exhibition of historical relics of Shanghai's old city was held to introduce the 700 year history of Shanghai's old city, showing the changes in politics, economy, military, education and culture.

From April 1996 to July 2000, five patriotic education training classes were held successively for Puxi middle school, Shijiu middle school, experimental primary school and Shishi middle school, training 86 students.

On June 6, 1996, the opening ceremony of the community school of Laoximen street and the first training class for middle school students' commentators of dajingge was held in dajingge.

From 1996 to the end of 1999, the activities of "100 painters painting Pudong", "100 painters painting Daishan", "100 painters painting animals" and "97 Hong Kong return calligraphy and painting donation" were carried out.

From August 1996 to September 1997, "Ode to the breeze - calligraphy and painting exhibition of anti-corruption in Nanshi District" was held twice.

On November 1, 1997, the '97 Shanghai Tourism Festival held "Shanghai folk stunt Exhibition" and "Ma Enpei butterfly specimen Exhibition".

In 1998, he held a calligraphy and painting exhibition with Shanghai laochengxiang calligraphy and painting fair, which was attended by famous artists such as Zhu Qizhan and Cheng Shifa, and a love offering activity to the people in the disaster area. In April of the same year, dajingge, the ancient city wall, was officially named the patriotic education base of the district. The third floor of dajingge is the site of Shanghai Maritime painting and Calligraphy Institute. On December 5 of the same year, "Shanghai software and hardware pen excellent calligraphy exhibition" was held with the Calligraphy Education Association of Shanghai University.

From May to October 1999, the management office and Laoximen sub district office jointly held the "photo exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Shanghai -- the revolutionary history of the old city", and held a mobile exhibition in the city's ten middle schools, some communities and neighborhood committees, with 4500 visitors. The planning scope of the scenic area is determined according to the scope planning of historical and cultural features protection area in Shanghai suburbs and Pudong New Area approved in 2005. It is located at Fengxin highway in the west, nanmengang in the East, Punan canal in the north and Fengfeng highway in the south, with a total land area of 111.7 hectares.

History and culture

Fengcheng old Chengxiang historical and cultural features reserve is the former seat of Fengxian County, located between the urban area of Shanghai and Hangzhou Bay in the East China Sea. As the location of ancient fengxianwei, it has experienced a long historical process from salt farm fishing village to coastal defense fortress, and then developed into a county administrative and economic center. It is also one of the secret strongholds of the early underground party activities of the Communist Party of China. The scenic area has well preserved the basic patterns of ancient Fengxian city, such as moat and cross street, preserved and restored a number of historical sites, former houses of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, rebuilt Buddhist halls and nunneries with certain international influence, and major sites of Japanese atrocities and anti Japanese War, etc., and has rich material and intangible historical relics. Among them, Fengcheng ancient city wall, which was built in the 19th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Shuguang middle school site, which was built in the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, and Wanfo Pavilion, which was built in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, are the most important historical sites and buildings in the protection of historical features. All of them are listed as district level cultural relics protection objects.

Function introduction

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In this emergency, only the construction of the city wall defense can ensure the safety of life and property of the county people. Construction started in September of this year, day and night, and was completed in only three months in November. The city has a perimeter of 9 li and a height of 2 Zhang and 4 feet. There are six gates, namely "Chaozong gate" (big east gate), "Baodai gate" (small East Gate), "Baodai gate" (small East Gate), "Chaozong gate" (big east gate), "Baodai gate" (small East Gate)“

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