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Shangjin Ancient Town

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2023-01-09 15:19

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Introduction to Shangjin Ancient City: China has a long history of city building, which originated in the Xia Yu period. The ancient book "Natural History" says: "Yu made the city, the strong attacked, the weak defended, and this is the beginning of the city". The Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue highly summarized the role of the city: "Build a city to defend the monarch, and build an outline to guard the people".

The ancient city of Shangjin was built in the first year of Hongwu (1368) of the Ming Dynasty. It is also known as the "Boots City". Because thousands of acres of willows are planted outside the city, it is called "Liuzhou City" to protect the city. The ancient city spans 262 meters from east to west, 306 meters from south to north, 1236 meters around the city, 6.8 meters high, and has 9 lanes, implying "long-term stability". The city "has five gates - Lianyun in the east, Qin in the north, Chu in the south, Tonghan in the west, and another gate in the southwest for the convenience of the people". Because it was originally a Tucheng, "the mixed court was established". By the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Shangjin's economy had developed rapidly, its population had doubled, and the Tucheng had collapsed one after another. In the 13th year of Zhengde (1518) of the Ming Dynasty, Zeng Huai, the magistrate of Shangjin County, and Bo Zhilian, the judges, told their superiors to build a new city (now known as the city wall), which was completed in the autumn of the third year of Jiajing (1524) of the Ming Dynasty. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, part of the city walls were destroyed by war. In the seventh year of Shunzhi's reign (1650) in the Qing Dynasty, Gu Lai, the magistrate of the county, began to rebuild. In the seventh year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty (1802), the city was completely renovated. The bricks of the ancient city are printed with the words "Jiaqing Seven Years" and "Shangjin Public Repair". In December of the second year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1863), Lan Ershun, the leader of the Sichuan Peasant Army, captured Shangjin and demolished the city tower. After liberation, the battlements of the city walls were completely demolished, the walls collapsed one after another, and the moat was silted up. In the summer of 1964, the Qianqian River flooded and destroyed more than 10 meters of the southern corner of the city, which was then repaired. In 1992, the top of Xuanwu Gate in the ancient city was broken. With the state funding, the town government organized local craftsmen to repair it. In 2005, Shangjin Town invested 800000 yuan to repair the wall from the north gate to the west gate of the ancient city. In 2012, in order to build the historic and cultural town of Shangjin into a national AAAA level tourist area, the people's government of Shangjin Town formulated the Plan for the Development and Tourism Development of the Historic and Cultural Town of Shangjin, with a total investment of 25 million yuan, to comprehensively renovate the ancient city of Shangjin, making the ancient city of Shangjin the only well preserved county-level ancient city in Hubei Province and listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit by the Ministry of Culture and the General Administration of Cultural Relics of the People's Republic of China.

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