Site of firearm camp

Site of firearm camp

Firearm camp is located in the north of indigo factory in Haidian District. It was built in 1770, the 35th year of Qianlong reign of the Qing Dynasty. It is the place where the officers and soldiers of the eight banners of the firearm battalion jointly operate and perform martial arts. The firearm battalion is specialized in manufacturing shells, gunpowder and various kinds of firearm needed in combat. It also exercises bow and arrow, gun and gun techniques at ordinary times, and undertakes the task of guarding the capital.

brief introduction

The firearm camp is a rectangle, about four Li long from north to South and one li long from east to west. It is an independent area with walls and gates. Five horizontal streets were built in the camp to separate the flag camps. There are five divisions in each division, each of which is responsible for government affairs, economy, household archives, money and grain, and business affairs. Yingcheng street and some old camp houses still exist, which are important material materials for studying the history of Manchuria Eight Banners in Qing Dynasty.

effect

Known as "Shenjing" in history, Beijing is a strategic city in the transitional zone between the Central Plains and the northeast and northern areas. It is an important intersection of politics, economy, culture and transportation between the South and the north of China. In order to defend the strategic treasure of Beijing, the feudal rulers who took Beijing as their outpost or capital built a large number of military defense construction projects in the capital or the northern barrier Yanshan Mountains. Before the Ming Dynasty, it mainly focused on the city defense and border defense military buildings, built several great walls and military barracks and castles along the Great Wall in the Yanshan Mountains in the north of Beijing, and built the Beijing city wall defense system in the core area of Beijing. In the Qing Dynasty, they mainly focused on the training of the Eight Banners army and the military defense construction projects they served, such as Huoqiying, Tuancheng martial arts hall, jianruiying, eight banners Yinfang, Tanying, etc.

geographical position

Address: northeast corner of the intersection of huofangying road and laoyingfang Road, Haidian District, Beijing

Longitude: 116.29057565966

Latitude: 39.962182238257

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