Chuansha ancient city wall

Located in Chengxiang primary school, 171 Xinchuan Road, it was built in the Ming Dynasty. Now it still has a southeast corner, on which there are Kuixing Pavilion, Yuebei Pavilion, pen tower and other buildings. Chuansha ancient city wall was built in 1557 to resist Japanese invasion. With this wall, the people of Chuansha successfully repelled the Japanese invaders. This wall is the material evidence of the Chinese nation's indomitable resistance to foreign aggression.

Chuansha ancient city wall

Chuansha ancient city wall is located in Guanlan primary school, 171 Xinchuan road. Built in 1557, it was built by the people of Chuansha at that time to resist the invasion of Japanese pirates. When the ancient city wall was built, it was 2 kilometers long and had four gates. Now, only one gate and nearly 80 meters of the city wall still exist.

Yue Fei's handwriting

The ancient city wall is still more than 60 meters, covering an area of about 2000 square meters. There is a Yuebei Pavilion (district level cultural relic) on the city wall, in which there is a stone tablet carved with Yuefei's handwriting. The handwriting is a poem by Yue Fei encouraging his friends to fight against the enemy. His calligraphy is forceful, straight and detached, which is commensurate with the content of poetry and prose, showing a heroic spirit. Kuixing Pavilion, Wenbi tower and other buildings on the city wall are hidden in the ancient trees and flowers.

protect

In recent years, some cracks have appeared in Chuansha ancient city wall due to many reasons, such as old age, unreasonable building structure and so on, and with the passage of time, the cracks continue to expand. This problem has attracted the attention of the cultural relics protection administration of Pudong New Area and other relevant departments. Last week, the repair plan for the ancient city wall was submitted to the relevant departments of Pudong New Area for approval, and the repair plan for the ancient city wall will be launched within this year. According to the relevant person in charge of the ground cultural relics administration office of Shanghai Municipal Cultural Relics Administration Commission, there are seven existing ancient city walls in Shanghai: in recent years, the renovation of Nanhui, Jiading and Huangpu ancient city walls has been started one after another, and more large-scale protection projects will be started in the future.

position

This section of the Ming Dynasty ancient city wall in Chuansha campus is now located in a primary school in Chuansha town. Yesterday afternoon, the reporter came to the school by car, because it was the summer vacation, the whole school was very quiet. Walking along a small road to the east of the school for about 100 meters, you can see a garden marked "Wenchang Palace". One of the first buildings to come into view is an antique building, which was founded by Mr. Huang Yanpei in 1903 and is now the school history museum of the primary school. In the east of the exhibition hall, the tall ancient city wall is very eye-catching. Against the lush trees, the gray wall brick seems to carry the vicissitudes of history. At present, the old city wall and the school are separated by locked iron doors. Zhou Yizhi, a former vice principal of the primary school and a member of the Chuansha cultural relics protection and Utilization Group, told reporters that the ancient city wall was built in the Ming Dynasty and has a history of 450 years. It was built at the same time as the moat and was 2 kilometers long. Today, the moat is still surrounded as it used to be, but the ancient city wall has only been preserved for nearly 80 meters due to the damage. Now there is only one of the four gates built at that time. In the past, because the ancient city wall was in the campus, in order to avoid external influence on school teaching and damage to the ancient city wall, the ancient city wall is not open to tourists at present. Only organized visitors are allowed to visit it for free. Now, the ancient city ruins park has been built, which can be visited independently.

past

Once helped local people resist Japanese pirates, in the east of the ancient city wall, there is a path, along this path to the south, you can see the whole face of the ancient city wall, the ancient city wall is about 9 meters high. Some of the bricks on the walls of the ancient city have been covered with moss for a long time, and they vary in size. According to Zhou Yizhi, this is the most unique place of Chuansha ancient city wall. The wall was built spontaneously by Chuansha people to resist the invasion of Japanese pirates, so there is no unified specification for the city bricks. At that time, with this wall, the people of Chuansha successfully fought back the invasion of Japanese pirates. Later, the reporter came to the ancient city wall along the stone steps, on which there are three buildings: Kuixing Pavilion, yuebeiting and Wenbi tower. In the east of Kuixing Pavilion, two hundred year old trees magically "twined" together and grew on the edge of the fort of the city wall. These two ancient trees are praised by landscape experts as "rare natural bonsai in Shanghai".

present situation

When we first went to yuebeiting, the reporter saw a 12 meter long crack on the ground to the east of the pavilion. In the east of Kuixing Pavilion, a crack also appeared. Later, the reporter came to the road on the east side of the city wall to observe, and noticed that there was a long gap on the east wall of the ancient city wall. Many plants had grown out of the gap, and a thick ancient tree had also "explored" from the gap. In addition, many cracks also lead to the tilt of the ancient city wall. On Monday, some of the cracks in the walls of the ancient city existed long ago, and some of them were caused by the reconstruction of Kuixing Pavilion, yuebeiting and other buildings in recent years. It turns out that in the past, yuebeiting had only one floor, and the ancient city wall could still bear its weight. But in the 1980s, yuebeiting was rebuilt as a two-story building, which virtually increased the burden of the ancient city wall, making the wall inclined, and cracks gradually appeared. The present situation of seven existing ancient city walls in Shanghai is not optimistic. There are seven existing ancient city wall relics in Shanghai: two in Pudong, one in Chuansha and the other in Gaoqiao; one in Huangpu, one in Dajing Road, Renmin Road and the other in luxiangyuan road; one in Nanhui No.1 middle school, Jiading County, Jinshan and Fengxian. However, the current situation of the existing ancient city wall in Shanghai is not optimistic, such as the rammed earth in some walls of Jiading ancient city wall has been exposed. In recent years, Nanhui and Huangpu ancient city walls have started renovation plans one after another. Repair work started within the year. In order to prevent the city wall from further tilting, the principal of the school designed some rockeries on the west side of the city wall to beautify the environment and "hold up" the city wall at the same time. In the 1980s, the ancient city wall of Chuansha was in a state of disrepair. When Tao Boyu, a native of Chuansha, came to the wall, he felt very sorry. He invested 200000 Hong Kong dollars to renovate the old city wall and rebuild the Kuixing Pavilion and yuebeiting Pavilion. For the restoration of Chuansha ancient city wall, as early as two or three years ago, the relevant departments of Pudong New Area commissioned Cao Yongkang, an expert in ancient architecture of Shanghai Jiaotong University, to survey the architectural structure of the ancient city wall. Cao Yongkang told reporters that due to the heavy weight of yuebeiting and other reasons, the wall of the city wall has some uneven settlement. If it is not repaired, the settlement may further aggravate. In response, the relevant person in charge of the cultural and Social Security Department of Pudong New Area said that the project of "protection and repair of Chuansha ancient city wall and yuebeiting" was submitted to the relevant departments for approval last week. Once the plan is approved, the protection work will start within this year. At that time, new maintenance methods and traditional techniques will be used to repair the ancient city wall, and the yuebeiting will be restored to a one story building. In addition to the restoration of the ancient city wall, the relevant departments of Pudong New Area are currently working out the plan of "Chuansha historic preservation area". According to the staff of the Management Committee of Chuansha functional area in Pudong New Area, the plan will restore a large number of historical and cultural heritages in the whole historic area, such as repairing the ancient city wall and moat, and rationally developing and utilizing them. At the same time, the reporter also learned that the relevant departments are preparing to completely separate the ancient city wall from the school, and use it as a tourist attraction after repair.

Ming Dynasty ancient city wall and Kuixing Pavilion in Chuansha

Today, there are not many people who have seen the old Sichuan sand city. According to records, the old city has four gates in the East, South, West and North, zhenhaimen in the East, yingruimen in the south, Taipingmen in the West and Gongjimen in the north. Each gate has a suspension bridge. The trench is 12 feet wide and 1.5 feet deep. There are 4 moon cities, 372 pheasant towers and 12 battery on the city wall, which is quite large.

It is said that the city wall has not been built since the middle of the Qing Dynasty. A hundred years of wind and rain, the city wall has collapsed in many places, showing a dilapidated scene. In the Republic of China, the city bricks were simply removed to lay the streets. In 1922, Qi Xieyuan, the governor of Jiangsu Province, ordered the counties to demolish all the city walls except the military needs and the preservation of historical sites, and to enrich the educational funds of the counties with the bricks, stones, bases, etc. In 1925, Chuansha convened all the guilds and regiments in the city and agreed to demolish the city. At the meeting, it was unanimously agreed that the education bureau should submit a document to the Zhun County Department, and only two sections of zhenwutai, about 50 meters in the north gate, and about 200 meters in the Southeast corner of the city should be reserved. Kuixing Pavilion historic sites should be preserved, and gardens should be set up for the primary schools in the county. Construction of the rest of the city walls should be started immediately.

Now?

The southeast section of the city wall that can be seen can be called the gathering place of Chuansha city's historic sites. There are Kuixing Pavilion and yuebeiting on the wall, and Guanlan academy, now Guanlan primary school, is under the corner.

In 1810, Chuansha hall Tongzhi Zhouyuan built Wenchang Palace on the southeast wall. Because of the short history of Chuansha and the underdeveloped education, in 1834, he Shiqi, a member of the hall of Tongzhi, was determined to change this situation, saying that "in five steps, there must be Zhi Cao.". I dare not say that culture and education can be delayed in a corner of the seashore. " He donated a low salary of 1000 liang of silver to build two to fifteen houses on the right side of Wenchang palace, which is called RI Guanlan Academy. All the smart students from inside and outside the city are selected to study here. All the scholars are given "plasters" by the government. Those who have made outstanding achievements are also given "bonus".

Cornices on the wall

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