Gulou Street, Xiaxia street, Dongchangfu District, Liaocheng City, Shandong Province

Gulou Street

Gulou Street, Dongchangfu District, Liaocheng City, Shandong Province is located in the Central District of Liaocheng City, Shandong Province. It is the seat of Dongchangfu District Party committee and Dongchangfu District Government of Liaocheng City, Shandong Province. North to Jianshe West Road, Liaocheng City, Shandong Province, South to Tuhai River, east to the ancient canal, West to Hubin Road, Liaocheng City, Shandong Province, with a total area of 15.6 square kilometers

essential information

It has jurisdiction over 10 communities with a total population of 113862 (2010).

historical information

Xiaowudu, also known as chongwudu, is located in the south of the gate of Gulou Street, Dongchangfu District, Liaocheng City, Shandong Province. In the past, the Grand Canal Wharf in Liaocheng, Shandong Province, also known as chongwudu wharf. "Shandong Liaocheng county annals? City" records: "xiaowudu in Tongji gate upstream."

The so-called xiaowudu Xicheng is the old city of Liaocheng City in Shandong Province. In June of the third year of Chunhua in the Northern Song Dynasty (992), the Yellow River burst and the Chaoling city was destroyed. It was moved from Liaocheng County in Shandong Province to xiaowudu West. Xining three years (1070) began to build, when the Earth City. In the fifth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1372), due to military needs, Shandong Changwei commanded Jin Shi Chen Yong to expand the song Tu city into a brick city. "Zhou Qi Li is one hundred and nine steps high, five feet high, two feet thick, three feet wide and two feet deep. Gate 4: Yinbin in the East, Nanxun in the south, Nari in the West and Suoyue in the north. Loulu 20 has five, green cloud in the northwest, moon in the northeast, the most famous. There are seven out of forty around the city. The husband becomes Guo, and the water gate is outside Guo. Suspension bridge across the water, the pool 20 feet deep, plus 10 feet wide, three times the width. The moat extends for 20 Li to keep the water from rising, and the golden city relies on it. " After the expansion, the city is high and deep, with tight layout, easy to defend and difficult to attack. It was called "Shandong Phoenix city that can sink without losing". In 1374, a more ancient building was built in the middle of the city to "see the enemy in the distance" and "see the enemy in Yan Geng Lou".

In 1411, Dongchangfu became one of the nine commercial ports along the canal. In the 16th year of Zhengde (1521), the city "gradually declined, two thirds of the brick and stone were corrupt, and half of the buildings, houses, bridges and caves were decayed.". In 1522, the magistrate ye Tianqiu presided over the construction of the city. When it was completed, there were "seven wonders in the city, five in the thirty and fifteen in the thirty". For the door where four: East Chunxi, West Qingyuan, South Zhengde, North Xuanwei. There are seven buildings overlooking the city. The second floor of the so-called "green cloud" and "Moon" in the previous generation is in Yan. There are eight out of forty who are willing to sacrifice. Each door has a water gate, a suspension bridge, a burrow and a hidden door. The depth of the pool is 20 feet, and the width of the pool is 10 feet In 1577, the ancient city was rebuilt again. There are 25 building sculls, a gatehouse on the gate and an urn outside. The south, East and West Wengcheng are the turn head gate, the south gate is eastward, like the phoenix head; the East-West gate is southward, like the Phoenix wings; the north gate is northward, like the phoenix tail, so it is called "Phoenix City". The gatehouses of the four cities all have a double eaves. There are Wangyue tower in the northeast and Lvyun tower in the northwest of the city wall, which is particularly spectacular. According to Yu Shenxing's epitaph of rebuilding Dongchangfu in Shandong Province: "long bridge with rainbow crossing, high bank with Huigong, bright and magnificent, it is called the danger of golden soup." In 1579, 27 enemy towers and more than 2700 crenels were built. The walls are tall and strong, easy to defend but difficult to attack.

In the ninth year of Yongzheng (1731) of the Qing Dynasty, the city wall was rebuilt to prevent water damage. The dike "is 223 feet long, 1 foot high, 6 feet wide and 2 feet wide." During the reign of Emperor Qianlong, water transport reached its peak. Liaocheng, Shandong Province, was known as "the throat of Shandong water transport, the elbow and armpit of the capital of heaven" and "the capital of Jiangbei". The area of Dongguan wharf is particularly prosperous. Six guildhalls in taifen, Shanshan, Suzhou, Jiangxi, Wulin and Ganjiang are standing beside the river. There are an endless stream of merchant ships in the river, and the goods on the bank are like mountains. The nearby Taiping Street, Shuangjie street and xiaodongguan street have developed commerce and prosperous markets. There are more than 60 well capitalized businesses, such as "xingrizhang", "LiuXinglong", "xingshenghao" and "Yusheng Hao". They are sometimes known as "jintaiping, yinshuangjie and Tieda xiaodongguan". The prosperity brought by water transportation extended to the fourth year of Xianfeng (1854), which lasted for more than 400 years. When Liaocheng was liberated in January 1947, the people's Liberation Army demolished the city wall in order to prevent the Kuomintang troops from occupying it again.