"Zhi" Xie Aba (2)
In Songgang
Meet the Chinese version of "The Leaning Tower of Pisa"
The Zhibo Diaologia Group is located in the southwest of Zhibo Village, Songgang Town, Malkang City, Aba Prefecture, 300 meters, built by the Songgang Tusi during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, there are 2 Diaoji in the north and south, and the distribution is distributed in the north and south according to the mountain situation. The south watchtower is in the village, the north watchtower is on the ridge in the north of the village, and the two watchtowers are 50 meters apart. Among them, the south towers have been tilted, after "5· After the 12 Wenchuan earthquake and the 4.20 Lushan earthquake, it still stands in the mountains, so it is called the Chinese version of the "Leaning Tower of Pisa".
Songgang straight wave watchtower group
The appearance of the straight wave towers is octagonal, the inside is round, and the whole gradually adducts from bottom to top, showing a cone shape. The walls are made of stone and mud, and the interior is made of stone and timber with wooden stairs to go up and down. The inner diameter of the south tower is 8 meters, the two sides of each corner of the exterior are 2.05 meters long, the wall thickness is 0.95 meters, the tower is 29 meters high, a total of 7 layers; There is a door in the middle of the west wall at the bottom of the first floor, which is 1.8 meters high and 0.9 meters wide; There is a small door in the middle of the east wall of the fourth floor and the south wall of the fifth floor, with a height of 1.4 meters and a width of 0.8 meters; There are 1~2 vertical rectangular lookout holes on each floor on the southeast wall; There is one lookout hole on each floor of the northwest wall, 0.3 m high and 0.1 m wide, while there are no lookout holes on the wall in other directions. The inner diameter of the north tower is 8.5 meters, the two sides of each corner of the exterior are 2.15 meters long, the wall thickness is 0.9 meters, the tower is 24.7 meters high, a total of 6 layers; The east wall, south wall and west wall of the 2nd to 4th floors each have 1 door, and the size is about the same as the small door on the east wall of Nandiao; The 3rd-5th floor of the east wall, the west wall and the south wall each have a vertical square lookout hole, and the 1-2 floors of the northeast wall and the northwest wall each have a square lookout hole with a side length of 0.2 meters; The north wall of the first floor and the north wall of the third floor also have one square lookout hole each.
Songgang straight wave watchtower group
The north and south stand facing each other. Legend has it that the two towers were repaired by the two brothers, and the two gambled with each other at that time: the brother said that he could build a towering tower like a tree born from the ground, towering and able to connect to the sky; Brother Yan can build a pillar as if it is straight down from the sky, steady like taking root. The two brothers each built a tower, and after the two towers were built, as the two said, each had a potential: the upper towers were built by brothers, and the jade shoots were empty; Under the building of the younger brother, descending from the sky.
The towers cluster set Jiarong Tibetan superb architectural art in one, tall and majestic, sharp edges and corners, the wall is smooth and sharp, the technique is exquisite, extremely firm, it is a masterpiece in the octagonal block.
In ancient times, the Zhibo group had extremely high military value, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack. There is only one entrance and exit of each watchtower, about 2.5 meters from the ground, there are ladders up and down in peacetime, after the wartime people enter the tower, the stairs are withdrawn, the whole watchtower is like a copper wall in general, it can really be said that "a husband is a pass, ten thousand people do not open". There are floors made of planks and branches in the block, and each floor has an arrow mouth. There is an underground passage at the bottom of the tower, to accommodate the old, weak, sick and disabled, in order to prevent the enemy from besieging for a long time, there is also a large amount of grain hidden in the block, and there is a dark ditch to lead water into the block, which provides sufficient material support for the young and strong people to fight with the foreign enemy in the block.
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From June 1935 to July 1936, when the Red Army established the Red Power during its stay in Songgang, and organized guerrillas to carry out extensive agrarian revolution, the "Red Expansion" movement and the grain raising campaign here, the office of the Soviet power in Songgang Township was set up in the Zhibo Tower.
On January 29, 1989, the Songgang Zhibo Diaoji Group was listed as the first batch of state-level cultural relics protection units. In August 2001, it was listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit.
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Source: Sichuan Provincial Office of Local Chronicles
Contributed by: Aba Prefecture Local Chronicles Office