Nanjing found 500 years of Ming City Wall Site left untouched

Pukou East Gate Jingxian Wall Foundation Site

The ruins of the city wall are exposed on the slopes of the old Dongmen site on Dongmen Street.

Recently, some netizens posted a message on Xiqiao.com that a section of the ancient city wall was found on a hillside behind the 4S shop of Fulian North, Caoyingguan, Pudong District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. Netizens speculate that from the perspective of existing relics, it is estimated that it is not the wall itself but the basement of the underground wall. Because of the nearby construction, this site of the ancient city wall will only be seen again.

The reporter learned that after several hundred years of washing, the ruins of the ancient city wall of Pukou have long been obliterated in the long rivers of time. Even the local elderly people over the age of 70 have not seen the original features of the city walls.

Netizens posted a "big discovery"

The West Gate “Guzhen East Gate” edition has many netizens who are keen on the history of Pukou. On April 12th, a netizen named “Snowy Shenzhou” who was active in this edition released a “Great Discovery”. The net posts on the site of the base of Pukou City Wall (between Dongmen and Beimen) make this section really lively.

Netizen “Shenzhou Shenzhou” issued a post saying that there is a slope behind the 4S shop of Fulian North, Caoyingguan, Pukou East Gate. Because of the nearby construction, the soil is taken on the hillside, and the cross section of the slope gradually reveals the ruins of an ancient wall. .

Netizens said that the site of the suspected wall was not exposed one day or two. "In fact, it was seen late last summer," but it has not been known. Later, after consulting the relevant materials, netizens speculated that this wall “should be the relic of the wall of the donkey hill.” In addition to the text description, there are photos taken by the netizen “Snow Shenzhou” after the scene investigation. The photographs show that the remains of suspected ancient walls are located in the upper part of the cross section of the slope. The blue bricks that were necessary for the construction of the city walls have no trace here, leaving only scattered stones. The netizen concluded from this that the site "is not estimated to be the wall itself, but the basement of the underground wall."

In the latter part of the post, enthusiastic netizens also summed up the two ancient city wall sites that Pukou can now see. One is the “Changan Lane of the South Gate” and the other is the one that the net friend discovered just after the 4S shop. one place.

On the cross section of the slope, the city wall collapsed

According to the netizen's description, the reporter went to the discovery site of the wall ruins yesterday afternoon. The reporters found that, as described by netizens in the net posts, the cross-section of the 4S shop diagonally behind a slope, the sunset of the ruins of an ancient city wall is unusually obvious.

The wall was found to be a half-digging slope. The surface of the slope had not yet been excavated. It was covered with dense trees. The slopes were surrounded by iron railings and could not be raised from other places. Only one was excavated. The gap can be close.

The gap where the earth slope was excavated was obviously a construction site. From the site traces, the site has been shut down. Above the construction site, a slope of nearly 90° was dug out of the slope, and the ruins of the wall appeared above the cliff. After the excavation of the wall, many vertical sandstones fell below the slope.

Among the fallen sandstones, there are no green bricks commonly used in the ancient city walls, but large red rocks. On the surfaces of a few large rocks, residual lime and artificial excavation marks can be clearly seen. Among the large number of red rocks, it is also possible to find cuboidal stones that have been neatly trimmed and have obvious lime residue on the surface.

"The relics are less than a year old. We saw them when we came last year." The workers in the nearby squatter house told the reporter that this remains is not one or two days as it is now. The workers at the construction site do not know. Some guess is the city wall, some guess is the ancient tomb, although the public opinion is different, but everyone is sure this is not something modern.

Citizens discovered that they were discovered in the 1950s

Whether it was a site of a wall or not, the reporter could not find an answer on the spot at the moment. However, a nearby resident quickly pointed out a maze to reporters.

“This section is the site of the Ming City Wall. It is less about 500 years old.” 70-year-old Song Laohan told reporters that he lived in Dongmen for 40 years. When he was young, he listened to the old man saying that there were ancient walls nearby. Ruins. However, Song Laohan said that even at this age, he could not even see a brick on the wall, but only the ruins of the walls.

“When I first moved in the 1970s, many residents nearby went to the walls and built stone houses. At that time, there were no blue bricks. All of them were big stones on the foundation.” Song Laohan said, “Big Stones” The red sandstone that the reporter saw on the scene.

Under the guidance of Song Laohan, the reporter came to Dongmen Street. When walking to a public toilet on Dongmen Street, Song Laohan told reporters that the old East Gate of the city wall was next to the public toilet.

If it wasn’t Song Laohan’s reminder, the reporter couldn’t believe that an ancient city wall tower had been crossed by a road. However, traces of the city walls still remain on both sides of the road.

On both sides of the Dongmen Street here, the reporter saw that the bases of the two houses were all clear red sandstone. The rocks were cubes, and they were nearly 10 meters wide. On the wall above the red sandstone, the reporter was surprised to find that many of the bricks that built the walls were the original bricks of the ancient city walls. Letters remained on the green bricks.

“These are the bricks that the old people plucked from the walls. I listened to the old man in the 1950s and said that many houses in the vicinity are made of city walls.” Talking about the ruins of Laodongmen, they live in Dongmen Street 74. The old old man opened his voice. He told reporters that many old people in the vicinity know the location of the old East Gate site.

This should be the wall between the East Gate and the North Gate.

Most Nanjingers are very familiar with Nanjing City Wall and have almost never heard of Pukou City Wall. “In fact, there are many similarities between the Pukou City Wall and the Ming City Wall in Nanjing City!” Mr. Jiang, who lives in Pudong’s East Gate, told reporters. At the same time, he was an enthusiastic netizen of Xijing’s “Nanjing City Memory” edition. He has done long-term research on Pukou City Wall and posted a lot of posts on Pukou City Wall on the Internet. “I’ve walked around Pukou City Wall several times, all existing I have searched for the ruins of the wall."

Mr. Jiang said that there are generally two types of buildings in the Pukou City Wall. One is that the two sides of the city wall are made of stone, and the middle is mud and gravel; the other is that there are city bricks inside and outside the city walls filled with gravel and mud. “The city bricks used in Pukou City Wall and the city bricks in Nanjing Ming City Wall are similar in size, weight, and color, but most of them have no inscription.” He said that these bricks were also fired during the Ming Hongwu period, but Pukou The city is only a military fortress. Zhu Yuanzhang's request for Pukou City Wall is not high. There is no mandatory order to imprint the name of the place of origin, craftsman, and supervisor on the city brick. “However, I have also seen individual inscriptions on the Pukou City bricks. There is a piece saying 'Far Right'. There is a piece that reads 'Pukou City' directly. This may be added to the firing of the city wall when the Pukou Wall was later repaired. ."

Mr. Jiang told reporters that there are still many historical sites in the Pukou City Wall, the remnants of the existing enemy Taiwan and the rebuilt stone inscriptions during the reign of Emperor Guangxu in the Qing dynasty; the remnants of the gates of the Libomen (Jongzongmen) remain, and the boulder still remains on both sides of the entrance.屹立; attached Fengmen was enclosed in the backyard of the residents' homes and kept in good condition. Its doorway was three meters high, three meters wide, and six meters deep, with more than 100 meters of remaining walls on both sides. The arch remains with a boulder foundation; In Pukou's East Gate, Dingshan, South Gate and other places, you can also find some of the remains of the old city wall.

“According to geographical location, the Pukou Wall that you reported this time should belong to the East Gate and the North Gate, which is the wall between the Libo Gate and the Arch Gate!” Mr. Jiang said.

Mr. Jiang told reporters that in the list of Nanjing’s fourth heritage conservation units just announced, the “Pukou Ming City Wall Site” was merged into the “Pukou Zhongduan Site” in the second batch of Nanjing City List, and was renamed “Pukou Ming City Wall Ruins". However, according to his long-term inspections of the Pukou City Wall site, Mr. Jiang pointed out that “the overall protection of the Pukou City Wall is in poor condition. Many city wall sites are not valued and some are even destroyed!” He hoped that the relevant authorities could strengthen Pukouming’s development. The protection of the wall ruins.

In the history of Pukou City, there were three times of fortification

According to archaeological experts, the reporter explained that in history, the Pukou region had a total of three times in the process of building a city. The first time it took place in the Eighth Year of Emperor Kaihuang (588), the later Emperor Yang Guang was still the King of Jin. He led the army south to crusade against the southern Chen regime. When he was at the Pudong East Gate, Yang Guang ordered the officers and men to build a Tucheng here, known as the “Jinwang City,” but according to historical records, the “Jinwang City” was actually unworthy of its name. It was only a soil enclosure and it was extremely simple. Discarded. In the first month of the Seventh Year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1137), Song Jun, who was stationed at the anti-Gold front, built a Tucheng for military defense on the remains of the “Jinwang City” and named it “Xuanhua Town”, also known as “Xuanhua Town”. "Xuanhua City." The third time Pukou was built was the beginning of its large-scale fortification. According to historical records, Zhu Yuanzhang once visited Nanjing after the capital was established in Nanjing and discovered that Pukou’s geographical location is extremely important and its military value is very prominent. In four years of Hongwu four years (1371), Zhu Yuanyuan commanded Ding Dexiu to build Pukou City. After the completion of the Pukou City Weekly up to 16 years, set up 5 gates.

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