The Nanmen site is an important part of the ruins of Yangzhou City (Sui to Song), and is praised by archaeology, historians and architectural circles as "the general history of the city gate in ancient China", and is a national key cultural relics protection unit. A few days ago, the "2022 Yangzhou Urban Construction and Environmental Upgrading Key Project Plan" was officially introduced, and this year the city will implement many ancient city protection projects, including the renovation and upgrading of the Yangzhou South Gate Ruins Protection Facilities.
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Four major projects make the South Gate site more beautiful
At the intersection of Nantong West Road and Wenhe Road, there is a large glass building, which is the Yangzhou South Gate Site Museum, and the south gate ruins are under the glass. The museum is located in the core area of the ancient city, east of the ancient canal wharf, west of the South Gate Street, covers an area of 13,000 square meters, construction area of 2,700 square meters. The Shangjin Bridge on the west side of the museum is a single-hole brick and stone arch bridge, which is a Ming Dynasty building, and there are many remnants of the ancient city wall in the museum, and on these broken walls, the words "The South Wall of the Urn City" and "The West Wall of the Urn City" are marked.
According to experts, the historical South Gate is the hub of waterway transportation, the eastern part of the South Gate ruins is the Ruins of the Land Gate including the main city wall, the main city gate, the urn city wall, the urn city gate, etc., and the western part of the site is the Water Gate and the Shuiguan Ruins across the Wen River, and the Tang, Five Dynasties, Two Song Dynasties, Ming and Qing Dynasties have built or repaired the city gate many times. On September 24, 2010, the Nanmen Site Museum and Square was completed, and as the main venue of the opening ceremony of the 2010 China Yangzhou World Canal City Expo, guests from all over the world touched the historical glory of the millennium ancient city here.
"This year, the South Gate Site Protection Facility will be renovated and upgraded." According to experts, in the future, the South Gate site will implement four major projects, including the rectification and upgrading of existing protection facilities, the protection of cultural relics, the restoration and display project, and the surrounding environment improvement project.
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It was discovered in 1984 and fully excavated more than 20 years later
How was the South Gate site discovered? What is the untold story behind it? According to experts, the site was first discovered when Nantong West Road was built in 1984, when the staff of the Nanjing Museum and Yangzhou Museum carried out archaeological excavations, and after excavating some of the remains, due to the comprehensive factors such as economic conditions at that time, this ancient site was backfilled and protected.
This major discovery attracted great attention from the cultural relics and archaeology circles across the country at that time. In May 1986, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Department of Culture of Jiangsu Province, the Nanjing Museum and the Yangzhou Archaeologists held the "Yangzhou Tangcheng South Gate Ruins Demonstration Meeting" in Yangzhou, and experts unanimously agreed that the South Gate Ruins from Tangluo City to Ming and Qing Dynasty Cities solved the problem of the southern boundary of Yangzhou City and was known as the "General History of ancient Chinese City Gates".
From the beginning of 2007 to September, 23 years later, in order to cooperate with the construction of the South Gate Ruins Square, the city carried out large-scale demolition of modern buildings built on the South Gate ruins, and at the same time carried out archaeological excavations again. In this archaeological excavation, the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and other units jointly formed the Yangzhou Tangcheng Archaeological Task Force, a comprehensive archaeological excavation of the site, the excavation area of about 2500 square meters, tang, northern song, southern song, Ming, Qing and other periods built or repaired Lumen remains and Watergate, Shuiguan site, displayed in front of the world, but also unearthed some inscription bricks, text tiles and other architectural components of the relics, archaeologists basically figured out the overall layout of the South Gate site.
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The location of the main city gate has remained unchanged for more than a thousand years
It is reported that the results of archaeological excavations in 2007 show that the south gate and urn city of Yangzhou City were originally built in the Middle Tang Dynasty, and were used and repaired from the five dynasties to the early Northern Song Dynasty, and the two Song Dynasties to the Ming Dynasty were built or repaired several times, and the Qing Dynasty built the south gate only the remaining part of the main doorway.
"Through the excavation of the ruins of the south gate of Yangzhou City, it is clear that the southern line of the city wall of Yangzhou City from the late Tang Dynasty to the Ming and Qing dynasties is on the line of present-day Nantong Road, and the main city gate and the urn city gate after the late Tang Dynasty have a gradually shrinking and narrowing trend. This is in line with the change in the historical status of Yangzhou after the Tang Dynasty. The results of archaeological excavations also show that the location of the main gate of the South Gate has remained basically unchanged for more than a thousand years, which is related to the confluence of the Wen River, the Moat and the Canal at the South Gate. Experts introduced.
"The South Gate Site Museum is located southeast of the intersection of Hehuachi Road and Nantong West Road, with a total land area of about 1.3 hectares." Experts said that the museum consists of a display hall and an underground floor, with a total construction area of about 2700 square meters. Among them, the exhibition hall is about 76 meters long from east to west, with a north-south span of 40 meters, a total height of about 8 meters, a single-layer large-span steel structure, the periphery is dominated by a glass curtain wall, and the underground layer is mainly a multimedia demonstration hall. The museum is vividly called the "South Gate Bird's Nest" because it looks like the "Bird's Nest" in Beijing.
Reporter Zhang Kongsheng