In 1900, the Eight-Power Alliance attacked the city of Beijing, the Qing army and the Boxers in the southeast corner of the East Gate icon fought to the death, and finally lost because they were outnumbered and their weapons were backward, and the invading army climbed the corner tower, plundered it wantonly, and carved Russian and English on the brick surface of the southeast corner tower, which was the ironclad evidence of the invasion of China by Tsarist Russia and the US invading army!
Beijing Ming City Wall Ruins Park icon from Chongwen Gate in the west to Dongbianmen Corner Tower in the east, built in the first year of the Ming Dynasty (1436 AD), in 2002 began to vacate the local residents, the ruined city wall and corner tower repairs, the southeast corner tower of the city is the country's largest remaining city wall corner tower.
