Ancient wall in Song Dynasty

Ancient wall in Song Dynasty

Ganzhou City has been relocated several times due to war and flood. It was finally fixed between the two rivers of Zhanggong in the first year of Liang Chengsheng (552 AD) of the Southern Dynasty. It has been more than 1400 years.

Houliang of the Five Dynasties

In the late Liang Dynasty, Lu Guanghou occupied Qianzhou (today's Ganzhou) and governed qianshaozhou (today's Ganzhou and Shaoguan). For political and military needs, he carried out large-scale urban expansion projects. After the expansion, Ganzhou city faces the river on three sides, and a deep and wide moat was excavated to the south of the river. Until the period of the Republic of China, the scope of Ganzhou City remained unchanged.

Song dynasty

Before the Song Dynasty, the city wall of Ganzhou City was built with loess. Since the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, due to the opening of Dayuling Road, Ganzhou City has become a transportation hub in Southeast China, with unprecedented economic prosperity. In addition, the water of Zhanggong and the two rivers is "a bad city all the year round". Therefore, Ganzhou city began to use bricks and stones to build the city wall from the Jiaguan year of the Northern Song Dynasty. "The history of Song Dynasty" records: "Zong Han was named Zhou Han, and ascended to Jinshi's younger brother... Zhiqian state, with Zhanggong River and Zhanggong River on the city's side. He was a water rodent at the age of 20, and Zong Han was the site of cutting stones, smelting iron and solidifying it, so he stood upright." Since then, after more than 800 years of Southern Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the city walls have been continuously repaired and strengthened. According to the investigation of Xiaogu in recent years, 40 pieces have been found on the walls of Ganzhou ancient city There are more than 20 kinds of bricks with different inscriptions. They are dated from 1069 A.D. to 1915 A.D., and the inscriptions on the city walls are consistent with the records of repairing the city in the local chronicles. In fact, they are valuable information on the history of ancient urban construction.

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The wall of Ganzhou City is 6.5 meters thick and the wall stack is 1.5 meters high. There are five gates with towers in Zhennan, Xijin, Yongjin, Jianchun and Baisheng. Along the wall, there are dozens of police shops for duty. In the middle of the southern section of the city wall, there are important traffic crossings such as Nanmen, dananmen, xijinmen and bajingtai built during the Five Dynasties of city protection. There are also five gun cities built during the Xianfeng Period. Ganzhou City is a strong and majestic military town in Southeast China in ancient times.

Ganzhou ancient city wall is more than 3700 meters long, which is the longest preserved ancient city wall of Song Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River. It is 3664 meters along Gongshui and zhangshui sections, 52 meters in the south of baijiangtai, and 41 meters in the southeast of yangjiyuan. The ancient city wall is generally 7 meters high and more than 4 meters wide. The city wall with intact crenels is 2420 meters. There are 10 police shops on the wall and one horse face. The bajingtai on the northeast city wall is the only city building that has been repaired for several times. There is still Ximen gun city.

Ganzhou ancient city is the only existing Song Dynasty city wall well preserved on the ground and underground in China. It has high historical, scientific and artistic value and is a key cultural relic protection unit of the state

Address: xijinmen, Zhanggong District, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province

Longitude: 114.93328727782

Latitude: 25.862700948492