During the Xianfeng and Tongzhi periods of the Qing Dynasty, the Twister Army attacked the Jiaodong Peninsula twice. In order to escape the war, the local people have built a large number of polder walls.
In general, polder walls can be divided into village polders (built around villages) and mountain polders (built on a high hill). With the development of the times, the village polder is basically no longer there, but many of the mountain polders in the wild have been preserved to this day.
Previously, we have introduced to you the former sites of the polder wall in Pingdu Linglai Mountain, Haiyang Black Mountain, North Yu Mountain, Qixia Ya Mountain, Yantai Daiwang Mountain and other places, and the place to be introduced this time is Daji Mountain in Laizhou.
Twenty miles east of Dajishan City, there is a Mingquan Spring that originates from the Tuoshui (present-day Nanyang River). The peaks are four arches, and in the middle is the Taoist Valley of the Tsutomu Valley (quoted above from the Old Chronicle). The main peak, Daji Mountain, is 476.9 meters above sea level, and there are 10 peaks above 300 meters above sea level. ”
The so-called "tuoshui" of "tuoshui" is the "tuo" of "tuo county". That is to say, the origin of the name of Ye County is related to Daji Mountain (the birthplace of Ye Shui, which also had the title of Ye Shan in ancient times), and the historical status of this mountain can be seen.
Daji Mountain is widely covered and there are many surrounding villages. During the period when the Twister Army attacked Jiaodong, there should also be many villagers who used this as a place of refuge, and most of the polder walls on the mountain were built at that time (no specific record has been found for the time being, but the "Ye County Chronicle" once said: "When the soil is very popular", Mashan and Beiliangmu Mountains have built anti-twisting polder walls, and Daji Mountain will not be an exception).
Listen to the local friend "Laizhou Bay People" who visited the field, and the remains of the polder wall he photographed were located on the west peak of Daji Mountain. Judging from the pictures taken (taken in summer and autumn, the grass and trees are still relatively lush), this section of the polder wall is quite well preserved, and there is not much difference in the structural form from the ones introduced earlier, all of which are based on boulders on the high slopes, made of local materials, built into polder walls, and stretched on the mountain.
However, the special feature of the ruins of the Weizi Wall on Daji Mountain is that there is also a stone carved notice next to the wall, and the time is set for May 26, 1888, the fourteenth year of Guangxu (1888).
According to the notice, this section of the polder wall was rebuilt during the Guangxu years, requiring the villagers not to damage it without authorization, otherwise there will be corresponding punitive measures, which should also be one of the reasons for the good preservation. Of course, the location here is relatively biased, less affected by the outside world, and it can be better preserved to this day, and there are also factors in this regard. (The photo of this article is taken by: Laizhou Bay people)