The Ming and Qing Dynasty Handan City of the Small String City Street was not the great Handan City of zhao (Wang Jingchun)

Some people think that the handan city of the small string city street is the Zhao capital Handan City, not also! As an old Handan person, it is necessary for me to clarify the facts, so I specially use different colors to mark the handan city of different periods in the map, so that people can solve the wrong mystery at a glance;

The green line in the picture above is handan city, the capital of Zhao in the Warring States period; the comprehensive color line is the Handan City of the "five major cities" of the country during the Han Dynasty; the red line is the Handan City in the Ming and Qing Dynasties (now The String City Street).

One. Handan City, the capital of the Zhao Kingdom

The capital of the Zhao kingdom, Handan City, includes two parts: "Zhao Wangcheng" and "Great Northern City". Zhao Wangcheng is the Zhao Wang palace city, which is composed of three small cities in the east, west and north. It is in the shape of a "pin" glyph. The Great Northern City is a residential city in the business district. Its scope: from Pang Village in the northeast of Zhao Wanggong City, to the north of Jianjianling (Zhao Yuan) is the Western City Wall; Shunlian Textile Road to the east to the intersection of Shuguang Road is the North City Wall, ShunshuGuang Road to the south to Hezhuang Village is the East City Wall; from Hezhuang Village to the west back to Pang Village is the South City Wall. A total of 14 square kilometers, of which: the dressing building in the northwest corner of the Great Northern City, the area around Jianjianling (Zhao Yuan), is the nobles of the Zhao Kingdom (the small city in the picture) and the Zhao Wuling King "Hufu Riding Shooting" and the embassy area of various countries, all the way to the east to the "Wuling Congtai", the city of Handan at that time, was the largest capital city in the history of Handan.

Two. The city of Handan in the Han Dynasty after the Qin Dynasty

After the Qin Dynasty, due to the war and the destruction of Handan City by Zhang Handan, it went into decline. After Liu Bang's son Liu Ruyi was named "King of Zhao" by Liu Bang, he built handan city in a big way, but the area of the city was not as large as before. During the Han Dynasty, the scope of Handan City: from the west entrance of the trade street, north of Shunyu New Street, to the west entrance of Wangling Road is the west city wall; from Wangling Road to the east to the Textile Bureau Hospital is the north city wall; from the Textile Bureau Hospital to the southeast to Guangming Road directly to the middle of the Guomian First Factory, which is the east city wall; from the middle of the Guomian No. 1 Factory to the west, to the outside of the west wall of the Guomian No. 1 Factory, Shun Trade Street has been to the west, and the Yuxin Street back to the west entrance of the Trade Street is the south city wall. During the Han Dynasty, the "Zhao Palace" was in the area of the "Wenming Hall" in the west of Weizhuang Village. At that time, Handan City was far less than half of the Great Northern City of Zhao during the Zhao Dynasty. However, it is such a handan city that is not half as good as the "Zhao capital Handan City", with a population of between 400,000 and 500,000, and is also one of the five major cities in the country (Luoyang, Chengdu, Linzi, and Wan).

Three. Handan City during the Ming and Qing dynasties

After the wars of the Three Kingdoms, the Two Jin Dynasties, the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Sui, Tang, the Five Dynasties, the Song, the Yuan, the Ming, and the Qing Dynasties, Handan gradually decayed from a bustling metropolis into a small county that no one cared about and was the most ordinary. And ended her prosperous and glorious history, and became "the wind is depressed, prosperous for a moment; empty traces, a desolate people sigh!" "The depressed scene. A small county town in the land of bullets (now Ming and Qing Dynasty Handan City, now in Kumeicheng Street) under the jurisdiction of a prosperous capital, or in The city of Puzhou, or Wu'an County, or Cizhou (Ci County), or under the jurisdiction of Guangping Province (Yongnian), or under the jurisdiction of DamingDao (Daimyo), the scope is; there is an undemolished old city wall to the south of Congtai, and this section of the city wall goes all the way south (Shuncheng East Street), to the east entrance of Chengnan Street (at the Bathhouse of Peace) is the east city wall; from the east entrance of Chengnan Street to the west, through the west side of the restored south gate, the west side of Gome Electric Appliances, At the intersection with Lingxi Avenue is the South City Wall; to the north of Shunling West Avenue, to the intersection of Congtai Road is the West City Wall; from Congtai Road to the east through the original City No. 1 Middle School, to the north gate of Congtai Park to the south, and back to congtai, which is the north city wall. This is the Handan City in the Ming and Qing Dynasties (String City Street), the city is small and pitiful, really can not be compared with the Zhao capital Handan City, and it is sighing!

It was not until 1906, due to the successive construction of the "Beijing-Hankou Railway", "Handan University Highway" and "Handan Wu Highway", that Handan began a new recovery by relying on the advantages of transportation. Especially after liberation, Chairman Mao proposed that "Handan is to be revived," and only then did Handan embark on earth-shaking and leap-forward development and leap forward into becoming a "larger city in the country."! However, handan city, which is a small string of city streets, has become the ancient city of Handan left over from the Ming and Qing dynasties, and we must cherish and retain this historical witness! It must never be destroyed again.

(Author; Wang Jingchun, a native of Xiguan Street, Handan City, economist, member of the Municipal Writers Association, the year of the elderly, September 1, 2021 (July 25, 2021 of the Lunar New Year)