A weird road
In Nanjing, there is a section called the Anti-Bow Road, which curves and arches long, like a bow pulled open. On both sides of the road are trees and grass or walls, the old road does not have a street lamp, and the branches cover the sky tightly without revealing a trace of light. Even in broad daylight, people feel terrible and gloomy, and there are so many heroic souls with extremely strong magnetic fields around them, so that this road gathers a lot of hot and yin qi, it is rated as one of the top ten horror places by the citizens of Nanjing, and it is also known as the 12 most eerie places in China.
Due to the importance of geographical location, this road from ancient times has been a place where soldiers and families on the battlefield must fight.
In the third year of Xianfeng (1853), the Qing general Xiang Rong led his troops to garrison Xiaolingwei in the east of the city, established the Jiangnan camp, the Taiping Army built the Tianbao City and the Underground Fortress City to oppose, and dispatched troops to fight, once crushed the Jiangnan camp, tens of thousands of beings, in one fell swoop, as if mowing grass, and this bunker city, right at the neck of the dragon.
Dragon Neck, in the east of Nanjing Taiping Gate, because Zhongshan (Purple Mountain) is called Panlong, so the Ming City Wall from Chaoyang Gate (Zhongshan Gate) to Taiping Gate is called Dragon Neck, and this long and winding road is also Dragon Neck Road.
Do you dare to come at 12 o'clock in the evening? Come and experience the chilling sensation.
A stretch of ancient city wall
The wall next to the road, built and ming dynasty, has a history of more than 600 years, the surface of the wall is potholed, and it is covered with weeds, which is very vicissitudes. Many of the bricks were missing from the surface of the walls, as if they had been knocked out in the fires of war. On the surface of the wall in the middle of the city wall, there is a small stone stele with four square blocks, the inscription on it is the eastern boundary, and there is a gap in the wall at the left end of the stone stele, and the city bricks used at both ends of the gap are also different, and the city bricks on the right are smoother.
When Zeng Guoquan attacked Tianjing here, the eastern wall of the Taiping Gate collapsed, and at the junction of the two newly repaired city walls and the potholed dark gray old city wall, there were two stele inscribed on the east and west boundaries.
What I just saw was the Eastern Boundary Stone Stele, and there was a western boundary in the direction of the Taiping Gate, and the section of the city wall between the eastern and western boundaries represented the newly built later.
It is reported that because the Ming City Wall of the Taipingmen Section is a bao gable, every rainstorm season, rainwater seeps into the wall and spews out through its drainage system, forming a unique dragon spit water landscape. The dragon spitting water of the Ming City Wall is the most unique in Nanjing, especially the dragon neck section is the most spectacular.
A sad city gate
Not far from Dragon's Neck Road, there is a city gate,
It is one of the thirteen inner city gates of the Ming Dynasty, originally the Ming Dynasty ChaoyangMen Urn City, named because the city gate is located in the east of Nanjing City, the first to greet the sun. Chaoyangmen Urn City no longer exists, and now the three-arch ticket city gate was opened during the Republic of China period and has now been listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit.
During the Ming Dynasty, the prisons of nanjing's Punishment Department, duchayuan and Dali Temple were just outside the Taiping Gate. Legend has it that the cries of prisoners were often heard in the heavenly prison that year, and they spread farther away at night, making it difficult for the surrounding people to sleep. Kneeling down and praying for rest, they called this place to Taiping, and the gates of this place became the Taiping Gate.
Many historical events have taken place at this gate in history. In 1864, Zeng Guofan Xiang army completed the siege of Tianjing, the bunker city was captured, the Tianjing defense war entered the final moment, the Taiping Army fought to the end with the belief of death, when the Xiang army dug tunnels to collapse the Taiping Gate, the Xiang army rushed in, the Taiping Army fought with the enemy for 3 hours, and finally because it was outnumbered, the Xiang army broke the city. This became a bloody shura field.
History developed to the Hangzhou War period, to 1937, when the Japanese invaded China and besieged Nanjing, this belt road became the main direction of attack of the Japanese army invading China, the Nanjing defense war was carried out fiercely in Zhongshan Gate, and after the prosperous villages and towns at the foot of the Purple Mountain outside the city became ruins, the Japanese army invaded Nanjing City from Zhongshan Gate and Zhonghua Gate, and Taiping Gate became the killing place of the Japanese army invading China.
What was once a history is a thing of the past, but this city gate still stands majestically in front of our eyes, always reminding our descendants that a better life is not easy to come by. Cherish the moment! I hope you will often punch in your spare time!.
