Changting ancient city wall

Tingzhou ancient city wall

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Changting ancient city wall generally refers to Tingzhou ancient city wall

Tingzhou ancient city wall is located in Tingzhou Town, Changting County, Fujian Province. The ancient city wall of Tingzhou was built in the fourth year of the Dali Period of Tang Dynasty. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the total length of the ancient city wall of Tingzhou was more than 5000 meters, with 12 gates, "pillow mountain and river as the city", forming a unique pattern of "City in the mountain, water in the city" and "Buddha hanging beads". Superb architectural skills and immortal artistic value fully reflect the industrious wisdom and outstanding ability of the ancient working people. The well preserved wall is nearly 3000 meters long, connecting Chaotian gate, Wutong gate, Huiji gate and Baozhu gate. In 1996, Tingzhou city wall was listed as the fourth batch of provincial cultural protection units, and in 2013, it was listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit.

Development history

In Chengguan, Changting County. In the fourth year of Dali (769) of Tang Dynasty, Chen Jian, the governor of Tingzhou, moved Zhouzhi from daqiutou of dongfangkou (about 5 li away from Chengguan) to the present site and built an Earth City in the sun of Wolong mountain. In the third year of song Zhiping (1066), the prefect Liu Jun expanded the city. The perimeter of the city wall was more than 5 Li, the base width was 3 Zhang, the height was 1.8 Zhang, and the trench depth was 1.5 Zhang.

There are six Gates: Jichuan in the East, Qiucheng in the west, Xuantiao and Yinjiang in the south, Tongyuan in the southeast and Xingxian in the northeast. In 1371, the city wall was renovated and covered with brick and stone to close "Xuantiao gate", "Jichuan gate" to "Lichun gate", "Qiucheng gate" to "Tongjin gate", "Tongyuan gate" to "Zhennan gate", "Yinjiang gate" to "Guangchu gate" and "Xingxian gate" to "Chaotian gate". In 1499, Guangchu gate and Lichun gate were built. In the ninth year of Chongzhen (1635), the city wall was rebuilt, and the "Baozhu gate" and "Huiji gate" were built. After the reign of emperor Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, most of the city walls were demolished in 1924 after several renovations, and the rest were two thirds.

The ancient city wall was built in the fourth year of the Dali Period of the Tang Dynasty. It is close to mountains and rivers, reflecting the superb architectural skills and immortal artistic value of ancient China. The well preserved city wall is nearly 3000 meters long, and it was listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit in 2013. In November 2014, the Jichuan gate rebuilt by Changting County government was completed.

Main attractions

The ancient city wall used to have four gates. Chaotian gate is one of the four gates of Tingzhou Prefecture. It is commonly known as the east gate. It was originally named Xingxian gate. It was repaired in the fourth year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty. It was built with brick and stone. There was a gate tower on it. The gate was high and the situation was magnificent. So it was renamed Chaotian gate. In the Qing Dynasty, Yan Yiming, the governor of Tingzhou, rebuilt the building again. The main building of the building is on the high platform of the city gate, with layers of cornices and flying high in the air. It is listed as the "Dongqiao Shuxiao" of Tingzhou. Baozhumen, located in the South Street, is named yuzhumen because of the Southern Dynasty. It was renovated in the 10th year of Chongzhen reign of Ming Dynasty. It is a special ancient city gate, which is still intact. People used to call it "Baozhu tower".

According to the records, in the 40th year of Jiajing reign of Ming Dynasty, the magistrate Yang Shifang led the magistrate Wang Miao to build the city tower, which was renamed yiqingmen. When the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty entered Fujian, Emperor Longwu fled to Changting with his entourage officials and imperial concubines. The city was heavily guarded and its gates were closed. Many people volunteered to guard the city. The soldiers of Qing Dynasty set fire to Yiqing gate, and the guards died in the gate. Until the Republic of China, because of the expansion of the road gate was demolished, but the west end of Shuidong bridge is still used to be called "Yiqing gate".

The gate tower of Sanyuan Pavilion today is the oldest gate. It was originally named yinjiangmen, but later changed to guangchumen. It was the gate when Chen Jian, the governor of Tingzhou, moved to build the Earth City during the Dali Period of Tang Dynasty. It has been repaired in all dynasties. In the Qing Dynasty, it was a three story building. The base of the pavilion is the original gate, which is made of square stones, and the upper side is made of wall bricks, and the cornice is very spectacular. In the past dynasties, the ancient city wall was continuously repaired and expanded, and many city gates were added, such as the South Gate of Gujun, Wutong gate, Shuiji gate, west gate, etc. some of them were later demolished in the road expansion, and some of them were still preserved and became historic sites, which were listed as county-level cultural relics protection.

The existing city wall is 1125 meters long from Chaotianmen to huijimen near the river, and there are three gate buildings. The gate buildings are of brick and wood structure in Ming and Qing Dynasties, which is magnificent. Guangchu gate tower is located on Heping Road in urban area, with granite foundation and green brick bucket arch. It is 8.55 meters long and 3.4 meters high, with one span of 4.4 meters and two spans of 6.1 meters. It is left with octagonal compound basin stone column foundation in Tang Dynasty. Chaotian gate tower is located on East Street, with brick gate. The corridor is 4.88 meters long and 3.3 meters long. It was rebuilt in Qing Dynasty. It is a pavilion type double-layer brick and wood structure, with 3 rooms in width and 2 rooms in depth Baozhu gate tower is connected by South Street, double city gate, skylight in the middle, two corridors and manger, with unique architectural style. In the face of this treasure in the cultural heritage, we have to praise the rich wisdom and great creation of the ancient Chinese working people.

Tourism information

Tourist routes

The ancient city walls of Ting Zhou City, Ting Zhou trial yuan, Ting yuan three yuan Pavilion, Chaotianmen, five gate, Shui Ji gate, pearl gate, Whigimen, Ting Zhou Confucious'temple, Ting Zhou Zhu Xi temple, Ting Zhou sect temple, Arctic tower, cloud Pavilion, Ting Zhou government Town God's Temple, Ting Zhou Thean Hou Temple, Ting Zhou South Chan temple, Tang Song Mingqing ancient street ancient residence (Wushi lane, five Tong Street, Dongmen street, South Street, Hui Ji Lane Street, shop head) There are many sites in the world, such as the double Yin pagoda of Tingzhou Gujing, Tingzhou Zhuangyuan Pavilion, dingguangpi of Shilipu in Datong, Jiuting and 18jing of shenzhai in front of the museum, Guangfu courtyard of Tongfang Pingyuan mountain, Ziyun Temple of Tingzhou, laishitan Temple of Tingzhou, Shuitou temple complex of zhuotan, Yonglong Bridge of Cewu, ancient cultural site of wushidong, ancient porcelain kiln site of Nanshan, ancient city Ailing and Tianlin ancient post site of Datong.

Traffic information

Go to the ancient town to do the train is the ancient city station, or get off into the County West Bus Station (motorcycle about 3 yuan) transfer.

Address: near No.1 Zhaozheng Road, Changting County, Longyan City

Longitude: 116.360157

Latitude: 25.833054

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