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Xiangyang City Wall City Brick.

The Yangtze River Daily Da Wuhan Client News (Reporter Lu Yingxue) "On the wall of Xiangyang City, some city bricks have the names of bricks, craftsmen, supervisors, guarantors and other personnel ..." On the afternoon of August 9th, "along the Yangtze River Read China -Hubei Qianli Yangtze River Bank "Xiangyang Metropolitan Circle Exploring Troupe to Xiangyang Linhanmen City Tower. Huang Jian, deputy director of the Xiangyang City Cultural Relics Management Office, introduced the special city brick on the Xiangyang City Wall.

Xiangyang Linhanmen Tower. Photo by Li Ziyun, a reporter from the Yangtze River Daily

"You look at this city brick, which is the" Hongwu Sixteen Years System ", it has been more than 600 years ago." Ascending to Xiangyang Linhanmen City Tower, Huang Jian pointed to a city brick in the exhibition area. The members of the visiting delegation saw that the brick was engraved with the inscription "Xiangyang Prefecture's Gucheng County Tuoguan County Song Zhongxiu, Xu Ying □, He Renlun, was a talented person. □ Day "(Reporter Note: Because of the age, some handwriting is blurred and cannot be identified, so it is replaced by □.) Huang Jian said that the supervisor of this brick is Song Zhongxiu and Xu Ying. It is Yi Yingcai.

"Why do these bricks engraved the names of people?" Facing the questions of the members of the visiting group, Huang Jian introduced it to facilitate the determination of responsibility accidents in the future. For a period of time. He said that there are 20 urban bricks in the sixteenth year of Ming Hongwu discovered, which are distributed in the small north gate of Xiangyang City Wall to his wife's city section, and some are engraved with such inscriptions. "The city bricks were also found in the Xiangyang City Wall, and there were also inscriptions, but the content was not so rigorous and rich."

Overlooking the Hanjiang River from the wall of Xiangyang. Photo by Li Ziyun, a reporter from the Yangtze River Daily

Huang Jian said that the Ming Dynasty was the highest peak of the development of Xiangyang City Wall. At that time, the ruling class of the Ming Dynasty attached great importance to the construction of the city walls, hoping to ensure the safety of the city walls to the greatest extent. Therefore, during the Ming Dynasty, the Xiangyang City Wall was conducted on a large -scale maintenance, which enhanced the defense capabilities of Xiangyang City Wall.

Xiangyang City Wall is one of the more complete ancient city walls preserved in my country and is a national key cultural relics protection unit. "Due to the high and solid city, wide and deep, coupled with the natural barrier of Hanshui and Laoshan, the sanitation of the mountains and rivers, so it is known as the iron -bearing Xiangyang", Huang Jian introduced: "Xiangyang Chengchengyuan is 7.3 kilometers long. The widest part of the moat reaches 250 Mi is the widest artificial excavation in the country. "

Xiangyang City Wall. Photo by Li Ziyun, a reporter from the Yangtze River Daily

"I did not expect that there were very rigorous supervision mechanisms in ancient times." Seeing the inscriptions on the city wall, Li Shuangxue, a member of the visiting group and a student of the Yangtze River Art Engineering Vocational College of Jingzhou City, felt that the ancients were very intelligent. Witness is worth reading.

Zhang Duqin, a special expert invited by the Xiangyang Metropolitan Circle, researcher at the Wuhan Academy of Social Sciences, and former director of the History Institute, said that Xiangyang City Wall has a long history and stands here, opposite the Hanjiang River. The Han River is the tributary of the Yangtze River. Xiangyang is located in the Hanshui Basin. The deep historical culture of breeding is an important part of the Yangtze River culture.

【Edit: Zhang Jing】

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