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Long-lived in Yiling, or a kind of luck: Eastern Wu LuXun's "Lucheng" and "Burning Company Camp" in Si, Zhang Fei's "Baling Bridge" and "Drum Platform" in Si, Zhao Yun's great battle Cao's "Long Plate Slope", Guan Yun's defeated "MaiCheng" are all in Siyi... Think about it, when you were young, you were a "Fan of the Three Kingdoms", and you actually lived in the rich cultural atmosphere of the Three Kingdoms for a long time, and occasionally felt that you were a Three Kingdoms person.
The neighbor of Guyi Ling is Gu jingzhou. The name of Jingzhou is reminiscent, and the appearance of Jingzhou is even more admirable.
Peng Zi Puming, sent "Brother Kong Fang" to lead the way, and sneaked to the ancient city of Jingzhou with his wife.
Jingzhou and Shashi, now unified as Jingzhou City, were divided into two districts. The boundaries of the two districts are the moats that are in sight. Standing on the ancient and modern "Chu River Han Boundary" one by one new East Gate stone bridge, looking at the towering ancient city wall, looking at the turquoise and spacious moat, I really want to be a native of ancient Jingzhou.
It was noon, and after meeting with his friends Wang Yunsheng and his wife at the stone bridge, they rushed into the ancient city.
Around the ancient city wall of Jingzhou in my mind, there were originally 6 city gates, namely: East Gate, XiaoDong Gate, North Gate, Small North Gate, West Gate, and South Gate. In addition to the small east gate, the other 5 gates have Lu gates, which are double doors, there is an urn between the two gates, and the double gates each have a wooden gate, and there is a 10 cm thick gate inside the wooden door to prevent water. Inside the two gates is the Urn City, the Urn, the "Turtle caught in the Urn" is also.
Jingzhou, I have visited many times. Friends live here. In her wife's eyes, Jingzhou is a new face, whether it is climbing the wall of the city, climbing the tower to overlook, or guessing in the urn, she is surprised and keeps taking pictures, and her interest is very high.
There were originally city towers on the 6 ancient city gates, and only two of them now exist. For the sake of the eyes, we went to the east gate and the north gate of the two castle towers.
The East Gate is also known as the "Yinbin Gate". The city tower is "Binyang Building", which was built in the Ming Dynasty, and the current city tower was rebuilt in 1988. It is the gate that welcomes the envoys and guests, so the gate tower is spectacular, and the urn city is also the largest.
The North Gate, also known as the Arch Gate, is the exit of the ancient post road leading to the Central Plains and the capital, where people send relatives and friends to travel far, used to fold willows to give each other, blessing peace, so the North Gate is also known as the Willow Gate. The north gate city tower was named "Chaozong Lou", which was rebuilt in the eighteenth year of Iti QingdaoGuang. It is the only surviving authentic antique on the wall of the ancient city, and there are stairs and roofs in the building, which can be climbed up to enjoy the charm of the ancient city.
Yunsheng introduced that there are 9 existing city gates in the city, not 6, and 3 new gates have been opened after the founding of the People's Republic of China, namely the new east gate, the new south gate and the new north gate.
The majestic brick city that stands before our eyes was built by the Ming and Qing dynasties. The brick city is tall, complete and strong, and is the best-preserved ancient city wall in China. The brick city is about 1 meter thick, the inner wall is built of rammed earth, and the wall is built with special green bricks and lime glutinous rice paste.
Climbing the horse path of the East Gate Tower is like stepping into the road of time. Here, we had the privilege of seeing the old text bricks.
The special green bricks weigh about 4 kilograms each, and some are fired with writing. It records the official office, officials, production areas, and times of operation of the city bricks. I originally thought that the city bricks might all come from Jingzhou, but I did not think that there were text bricks built on the walls of Jingzhou in Junzhou, Jingzhou, Chaling and even all over Hunan. The earliest text bricks found here are in the second year of Ming Hongwu (i.e. 1369 AD), which is more than 600 years old, 207 miles earlier than the text bricks found on the Great Wall.
Jingzhou Ancient Brick City is a thick historical landscape.
Except for the south gate, the other 5 old gates in Jingzhou are all diagonally open, and the slope is imaginative. I have been to the great well of the Lichuan River in western Hubei, the large ancient building complex, the main entrance of which faces east but is also oblique: if the door is not diagonally open, it is facing the mountain, and the way out is blocked, which is called the great bad luck; the face of the door is oblique, that is, the sky is open, and the vitality is boundless... I guess that the jingzhou city gate is definitely related to feng shui. There are no mountains around Jingzhou, but the ancient "Yun Mengze" is full of water, and the door is slanted to "avoid water".
Exploring the mysteries of the ancient city, it is said that the torrential rain in 1997: the southeast corner of the ancient city collapsed, and archaeologists carried out an excavation before repairing it. From the more than 2,000 years of history that is deeply buried in the foundation, it has been opened layer by layer, the brick wall of the Song Dynasty, the brick wall of the Five Generations, and the earthen city wall of the Two Jin Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms Period... Show it in turn!
The history of the construction of the ancient city of Jingzhou can be traced back to the rammed earthen city built during the JingDi period of the Western Han Dynasty. Above the tucheng, it is covered with a brick city built by Gao Jixing, the lord of the Nanping state in the fifth dynasty. What survives is the city wall that was rebuilt in the third year of Qing Shunzhi (1646) according to the old foundation of the Ming Dynasty. This relic confirms that the Jingzhou City Wall is the longest surviving city wall in China, spanning the most dynasties, and evolving from an earthen city to a brick city.
The ancient city wall of Jingzhou is 9 meters high, with a total of 1567 battlements and 28 enemy tower forts, including 4 Tibetan soldier caves, 3 enemy towers, and 21 forts, and the whole city is irregular rectangular, with an east-west length of 3. It is 75 kilometers wide, 1.2 kilometers wide from north to south, the circumference of the city walls is 10.5 kilometers, and the area of the city is 4.5 square kilometers. Various construction designs reflect the functional characteristics of ancient warfare.