Sanguankou Ming Great Wall

Sanguankou Ming Great Wall

Yinchuan is located in the northwest border of the motherland. In the Ming Dynasty, Mongolian Tatars and Wala often entered chimukou (today's sanguankou) of Helan Mountain from Alxa platform in Inner Mongolia and drove all over the plain. For the sake of border security, the rulers of Ming dynasty built the Great Wall at sanguankou, which became one of the "four dangers" of ancient Yinchuan city defense.

Historical evolution

According to historical records, in 1531, Ningxia built the Great Wall, 80 kilometers long, starting from dababao in the South and connecting to sanguankou in the north, which was filled up by sand. In the 19th year of Jiajing (1540), Yang Shouli, governor of Ningxia, rebuilt the old side wall and added the Great Wall to the north of sanguankou. Toudaoguan wall is connected with the Great Wall from north to south. The mountain here is open, and it is the place where "the gentle mouth can accommodate hundreds of horses". The northern wall extends northward along the ridge. The wall is built with stones. At each corner of the wall, there is a pier. The wall and pier are damaged and only part of the foundation site is left. The wall is about 7 meters high, 6.5 meters wide at the base and 3.5 meters wide at the top. There are female walls on both sides of the top of the wall. ?

When the Great Wall was built, there was more gravel and less soil, so the soldiers dissected all the cliffs and valleys and got several loams. Because there was no water, they made hundreds of water tankers to get water from Pingji fort, which is more than 20 kilometers away from the pass. They mixed loam and gravel and rammed them. They were extremely solid. 6 km to the west of toudaoguan is erdaoguan. To the south of the pass, there is a 20 meter high hilltop with piers and abutments, 11 meters square and about 8 meters high. SANDAOGUAN is 4km away from erdaoguan in the East. There are two mountains in this pass. The valley is narrow, and the mountain is steep. Looking up at the towering peaks, looking down at the steep valley bottom, the terrain is very dangerous. It is quite like "one man is in charge of the pass, ten thousand men are not allowed to open it". When building the pass, there was a stone wall and a deep ditch built on the mountain.

geographical position

Sanguankou Ming Great Wall is located in the south of Helan Mountain, more than 40 kilometers west of Yinchuan city. This pass is the junction of Ningxia and Alxa Left Banner in Inner Mongolia. Yinchuan BAYANHOT highway passes through the pass, and the remnant great wall ruins can be seen at the pass. From east to west, there are three passes, the first pass, the second pass and the third pass. The mountains here are winding and steep. In the depression between the two mountains, a related pass was built.

poetry

Once upon a time, the Great Wall in the area of sanguankou was connected with the piers and beacon towers, and it was dangerous to control the throat of the desert in the West. A poem says:

A hundred blocks should be closed, and a thousand risks should be avoided,

One labor for the safety of the country.

After that, the war is over,

It is said that the felt fur gall is cold.

Address: the south of Helan Mountain, more than 40 kilometers west of Yinchuan City

Longitude: 106.380117

Latitude: 35.676024

Tel: 0951-6723298

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