Linhanmen

Linhanmen

Linhanmen is one of the six gates of Xiangyang City, also known as the small north gate. Located in today's Xiangyang ancient city, Hubei Province. "Jinliang in the Han Dynasty" and "the key to the North Gate" are another praise for its strategic importance. Xiaobeimen tower is built on the arched gate hole, with four columns and three rooms, double eaves and top rest, seven purlin beam lifting frame, brick and wood structure. It is a Qing Dynasty building. The xiaobeimen tower is characterized by the steadiness and profundity of northern architecture, as well as the agility and flying of Southern crafts. The ridge kiss and ornaments are mostly made of Xiangyang local traditional crafts. The platform is 13.75 meters long and 22.6 meters wide, with a buttress wall on the outside and a parapet on the inside.

Construction history

Today, the brick with the word "Yue" can be found on the wall near Hanmen in Xiangyang. The brick is about 37cm high, 18cm wide and 6cm thick (the shape of the brick is not very regular), each word is about 5cm square, and the brick body is full of lime and glutinous rice juice. Therefore, we can know that Xiangyang City began to pack bricks in the Song Dynasty.

city wall brick

In 1641, Zhang Xianzhong led the uprising army to conquer Xiangyang and destroyed the battlements and towers. In 1648, Xu tengmao and Zhang Zhong rebuilt the xiaobeimen tower. In 1826, Zhou Kai, the governor of Xiangyang, rebuilt the linhanmen tower.

According to Chen Jiaju, the former chief engineer of Xiangyang City Planning Bureau, at the beginning of the founding of new China, there were cadres and urban construction workers from the Municipal Engineering Department living on the gate of xiaobeimen. Because the gate of xiaobeimen was in disrepair for many years, the wall tiles were seriously eroded, and the beams and columns were decayed, in the winter of 1952, the north wind was strong, and the tottering gate of xiaobeimen almost disappeared with the wind. Feng Jianye, a cadre of the municipal engineering department who lives in the xiaobeimen building, and Gao Chongxing, a technician of the hydrological station, jointly discussed and decided to draw 7000 yuan from the funds for Jiefang Bridge and Jiefang Road project as the maintenance funds for the xiaobeimen building. In order to maintain the old appearance of the xiaobeimen tower, the craftsmen at that time were invited from Chen Jiaying in Fancheng. Old Feng (Feng Jianye) also praised that these craftsmen were really good at restoring the xiaobeimen tower as it is. In order to save money, ancient building components such as ridge pressing tiles, buckle tiles, tube tiles and tiles are all found from old houses. The kissing pieces and animals on the ridge are made by craftsmen themselves. During the "Cultural Revolution", no one paid attention to the maintenance and management of the xiaobeimen tower, and the tower was in a state of dilapidation. At night, the area was dark and dirty, and even people in the city didn't want to come here. After that, the city tower became the library of the winery, and the environment changed. On December 8, 1986, the State Council approved and transmitted the report of the Ministry of construction and the Ministry of culture on publishing the list of the second batch of national famous historical and cultural cities, and Xiangyang was included in the list. In 1988, Xiangyang literature management office carried out a major overhaul of the dilapidated xiaobeimen. Because the xiaobeimen tower was occupied by the brewery's library, the historical style of the building has been partially changed. For example, some walls use modern red bricks and cement walls, and the original big partition door has also become a wall with cement windows. This overhaul strictly followed the traditional craft in the process of wood, tile, stone, paint, color painting, building materials and so on, restored the original historical appearance, repaired the old as before, and reappeared the historical style of xiaobeimen tower. In ancient cities, the city gate building is the highest high-rise building in the city. They constitute the main skyline of the city, depict the outline of the whole city, and become the most intense and main scenery. The impression of chengmenlou has almost become people's impression of the city in ancient times. The xiaobeimen tower in Xiangyang, which has experienced many vicissitudes and has the flavor of North and south, is as good as ever and has become the symbol of the ancient city.

Tourism development

Nowadays, xiaobeimen is an important tourist destination of Xiangyang ancient city. It is an important part of Xiangyang City, with dabeimen (gongchenmen) in the East, Madame city in the west, Beijie and zhaomingtai in the south.

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

Longitude: 112.151557

Latitude: 32.026224

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