Xifeng City was built in the last year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, and was expanded in 1923, the twelfth year of the Republic of China. At that time, it was a safety barrier in the minds of the merchants in the city.
During the period of old China and the puppet state of Manchuria, bandits in the three eastern provinces were full of smoke, and at that time, it was the soldiers who pulled out of the barracks and they were bandits, and the bandits who came down were soldiers. More than 1,000 people are counted as big locks, and the bandit leader can become the head of the regiment if he surrenders, and there are many small bandits in general. In the Northeast that year, bandits were plagued, and the government repeatedly banned them. The surrounding counties have been looted by bandits, and only Xifeng City has not been broken by bandits, in addition to benefiting from the county government set up a joint defense team of Sixiang and installed telephones, the strong city wall played an important role.
Originally, the walls of Xifeng Castle were rammed earth walls, but after being washed away by floods many times, they were built with stone mortar, which not only had the ability to prevent bandits, but also improved the flood prevention capacity. In particular, in the east and south of the city, there are Shirengou River and Kou River as natural barriers, which are equivalent to moats.
At the beginning of land reclamation, due to excessive land reclamation, soil erosion was caused, and floods often occurred, the most serious of which occurred in the 18th year of the Republic of China. Since the stone wall was built on the Shirengou River, the flood has been kept out of the city. According to the recollection of the villagers, at the turn of the summer and autumn of 1947, they witnessed a roaring flash flood and were closed by sandbags.
The great flood of August 14, 1951, caused the city wall to fall into disrepair, and the flood water entered the city from the substation at that time. Many people stood on the berm next to the Chaoyang Bridge, watching the Shirengou River wash away the bridge and break into the city. After the flood, the house collapsed, and it was miserable. In particular, the area around the small south gate was almost flooded.
After the disaster, the government actively organized the masses to rebuild the city embankment, deepened the foundation of the wall, thickened the wall, and used cement mortar. At that time, almost all units in the city participated in the disaster relief and wall repair work. After the new wall was completed, it withstood the test of two flood peaks in 53 and 63 years. The last time Fungato suffered a flood was in August 1995. Since then, there has been no flooding. Even now, the moat we see at the Kou River East Bridge is still left behind.
With the development of the city, the city has long since broken through the old city walls. The old walls are almost gone, and only a few sections of the ruins are hidden in the rubble. The Xifeng City Wall is different from other city walls, in addition to the use of preventing bandits, it also takes into account the function of flood prevention and disaster resistance, and it can be said that it was second to none in the province at that time. More importantly, Xifeng has always advocated the style of elegance, and in addition to the place name, even the city gate is very elegant.
For example, from the north of the west city, the order is: Fufeng, northwest, six gates; Shui'an, Xiaoxi, Qishomen; Rushuang, Daxi, Wushomen; Yanxi, Danan, and the Four Gates: Xie Suo, Xiao Nan, and the Eight Gates; Linqing, southeast, three gates; Qitai, Dadongmen; Enyuan, Xiaodongmen; Xianchun, Northeast, Nine Gates. There are nine city gates in the county, and there have been nine police branches in the county, but one is located in the west station, which is the west of today's vocational secondary school; The two institutes are also in charge of the big east, the small east and the second gate, and there are no residents outside the big east gate.
At present, the city wall that Xifeng can see is only in the west of the original south gate, and there is a section of the city wall in the south of the railway, but unfortunately there are no old photos of the past.