Basic introduction Chinese name: Arrow Tower mbth: [Battle; Embrace the watchtower near the city gate Location: Beijing; やぐら Pinyin: Japanese must be read before departure, attractions trends, attractions introduction, key information, old photos, Beijing City Wall Arrow Tower, Zhengyangmen Arrow Tower, Xi 'an City Wall Arrow Tower, Zhengyangmen Arrow Tower Beijing City Wall Arrow Tower is now well preserved, located in the northwest of Chongwen District. June1988 65438+1October 3 1 was listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit by the State Council. Zhengyangmen archway was built in the next four years (1439). Its architectural form is a brick fortress with a tower height of12m. Its doorway is an arch with five volts and five coupons, which opens in the middle of the tower. It is the only open gate among the nine gates in the inner city, dedicated to the dragon car and phoenix. The watchtower is located on the top of the mountain, with double eaves, decorated with gray tiles and green glass. On the upper and lower floors, there are 94 arrow windows in the east, south and west for archery. There are seven watchtowers, 62 meters wide, and five in the north, 42 meters wide and 24 meters high. It has two doors, the front is a hanging door (that is, a thousand-pound door) and the back is an iron door. Zhengyangmen watchtower and watchtower During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there was a huge urn between Zhengyangmen watchtower and watchtower. The southern end is curved, and the watchtower is at the top. This urn is 65,438+008 meters long from north to south and 88 meters wide from east to west, with open spaces and doors in all directions. In the forty-five years of Qing Qianlong (1780) and the twenty-nine years of Daoguang (1849), the watchtower was burned down twice by fire. In the 26th year of Guangxu reign in Qing Dynasty (1900), on the eve of Eight-Nation Alliance's visit to Beijing, when the Boxer Boxer burned the outer wall of Zhengyangmen, the Zhengyangmen archway was ignited and burned by sparks. The renovation of the watchtower began at 190 1 and was completed at 1906. 19 15 In order to improve the traffic between inner and outer cities, * * Roth Kaigl of Germany was entrusted to rebuild Zhengyangmen Arrow Tower, adding cement concrete plane guardrail and arc canopy for the arrow window, and adding flowers with western patterns on the moon wall, which was completed on 19 16. After the reconstruction, the moon wall and east and west doors of Zhengyangmen Wengcheng were demolished. Zhengyangmen archway has been a symbol of old Beijing since its completion. 19 15 has been transformed into a must-see for Beijingers. 1928 was converted into a domestic exhibition hall, and a cinema was added in the 1930s. 1949, artists such as Wei Xikui organized public entertainment clubs to perform in the Arrow Tower. On February 3rd, 1949, the China People's Liberation Army held a grand ceremony here. Zhengyangmen archway has been restored many times. The archway was seriously damaged in the 1976 Tangshan earthquake, and the Beijing Cultural Relics Department conducted a comprehensive overhaul of the archway. 1989 Beijing zhengyangmen management office raised funds10.6 million yuan to decorate zhengyangmen archway, which was officially opened to tourists on June 1990+ 10/day. Old pictures of Qianmen Arrow Tower and Zhengyangmen Arrow Tower, taken anonymously at 65438+ China Bookstore. Photo courtesy is based on protein paper in 1980s. This photo was taken from the east side wall of the front door from east to west. From left to right, the Qianmen Arrow Tower in the Republic of China was Zhengyangmen Arrow Tower, the East Gate Tower of Wengcheng, the West Gate Tower of Wengcheng, and the Qianmen Arrow Tower of Zhengyangmen Tower in the late Qing Dynasty. The Arrow Tower of Xi City Wall is built on the four gates of Xi City Wall.
The part of the outer side of the watchtower that is higher than the city wall is the eave wall of the watchtower. At the top of the eaves wall, a layer of brick eaves is flat at the junction with the square as a transitional decoration. The selected brick eaves are about 10 cm long. There are dense shear windows on the eaves outside the watchtower, which are used for defensive counterattack. The front arrow window * * * has four floors, each floor has 12, and there are 48 windows on the fourth floor. The gables on the left and right sides of the arrow tower are also brick walls, and there are no windows on the lower floor. There are three layers of arrow windows upstairs, three on each floor, nine on each side, a total of 18 on the left and right. So there are sixty-six holes in the three arrow windows of the whole watchtower.
The gables on the left and right side walls of the Arrow Tower have no windows on the lower floor, because the left and right walls are above the city wall. Considering that when the enemy attacks the city wall, the defenders can retreat into the arrow tower to resist. If there is a window under this wall, the position is too low from the ground and it is easy to be taken away by the enemy who attacked the wall.
Within the embrasured watchtower, * * * has four floors, corresponding to the outer four-story defense window. The internal floors are connected by stairs, so soldiers can climb directly to each floor and fight against the window. The windows on the outside of the watchtower allow the defenders to look out and fight back. Forty-eight windows, if crossbows are fired at the same time, the lethality will be great. There is a small wooden door on the arrow window, which can close the arrow guard when it is dangerous. There is an iron hook on the window and a window bolt behind the window, which can be bolted and fixed when closing the window.
Arrow Tower is a very scientific ancient military building. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, there were ancillary buildings on the walls on both sides of the Arrow Tower. Today, except for the west gate, there is destruction everywhere. Its distribution room is made of hard brick and wood structure, with three doors wide, doors and windows facing the city and colonnade. Facing the outside of the city, there are three high windows, which are very small. This distribution is like an enemy tower on a horse's face, which can strengthen the defense of the left and right corners of the urn.