The Chuansha Ancient City Wall is located in Guanlan Primary School, No. 171, Xinchuan Road. It was built in the Ming Dynasty and still has the southeast corner. There are Kuixing Pavilion, Yuebei Pavilion, Pen Pagoda and other buildings on it. It embodies the hard work, bravery and wisdom of the ancient Han working people. The ancient city wall of Chuansha was built in 1557 by the people of Chuansha to resist the invasion of Japanese pirates. With this city wall, the people of Chuansha successfully repelled many attacks by Japanese pirates. This city wall is a physical evidence of the Chinese nation's unyielding resistance to foreign aggression.
The Chuansha Ancient City Wall is located in Guanlan Primary School, No. 171, Xinchuan Road. It was built in the Ming Dynasty and still has the southeast corner. There are Kuixing Pavilion, Yuebei Pavilion, Pen Pagoda and other buildings on it. It embodies the hard work, bravery and wisdom of the ancient Han working people. The ancient city wall of Chuansha was built in 1557 by the people of Chuansha to resist the invasion of Japanese pirates. With this city wall, the people of Chuansha successfully repelled many attacks by Japanese pirates. This city wall is a physical evidence of the Chinese nation's unyielding resistance to foreign aggression.
More than 60 meters of the ancient city wall remain, covering an area of ??about 2,000 square meters. There is a Yue Stele Pavilion (a district-level cultural relic) on the city wall. In the pavilion, a stone stele inscribed with Yue Fei's handwriting is preserved. This handwriting is one of Yue Fei's seven unique poems to encourage his friends to cheer up and fight against the enemy. His calligraphy is powerful, straight and transcendent, commensurate with the content of the poem, and exudes a heroic spirit. There are also Kuixing Pavilion, Wenbi Tower and other buildings on the city wall, hidden among the ancient trees and flowers.
Due to various reasons such as its age and unreasonable building structure, some cracks have appeared in the ancient city wall of Chuansha in recent years, and as time goes by, the cracks have a tendency to continue to expand. This issue has attracted the attention of the Pudong New Area Cultural Relics Protection and Management Bureau and other relevant departments. Last week, the repair plan for the ancient city wall was submitted to the relevant departments of Pudong New Area for approval. The repair plan for the ancient city wall will be launched within the year. According to the relevant person in charge of the Ground Cultural Relics Management Office of the Shanghai Municipal Cultural Relics Management Committee, Shanghai’s existing There are 7 ancient city wall relics: in recent years, the repairs of the ancient city walls in Nanhui, Jiading and Huangpu have been launched. In the future, a larger-scale protection project for the existing ancient city walls in Shanghai will be launched.
The ancient city wall · Orientation "lying quietly" on the Chuansha campus. This section of the ancient city wall from the Ming Dynasty is now located in a primary school in Chuansha Town. Yesterday afternoon, the reporter came to this school by car. Because it was summer vacation, the whole school seemed very quiet. Walk about 100 meters along a path east of the school, and you will see a garden marked "Wenchang Palace". The first thing that catches the eye is an antique building, which was founded by Mr. Huang Yanpei in 1903 and is now the primary school’s school history exhibition hall. To the east of the exhibition hall, the tall ancient city wall is very eye-catching. Against the backdrop of lush trees, the gray wall tiles seem to carry the vicissitudes of history. Currently, the ancient city wall and the school are separated by locked iron gates. The former vice principal of the primary school and a member of the Chuansha Cultural Relics Protection and Utilization Group told reporters on Monday that this ancient city wall was built during the Ming Dynasty and has a history of 450 years. It was built at the same time as the moat and was 2 kilometers long. long. Today's moat still surrounds the city as before, but due to damage, only nearly 80 meters of the ancient city wall remain. Of the four city gates when it was built, only one remains now. In the past, because the ancient city wall was located on campus, in order to prevent school teaching from being affected by the outside world and to avoid damage to the ancient city wall, the ancient city wall is currently not open to tourists. It only accepts organized visitors to visit for free. Now it has been built as an ancient city ruins park. , can be visited independently.
The ancient city wall·In the past, it helped the local people resist Japanese pirates. To the east of the ancient city wall, there is a path. Walking along this path to the south, you can see the entire ancient city wall. The ancient city wall is high About 9 meters. Some of the bricks on the ancient city wall are covered with moss due to their age. These bricks are of different sizes. As introduced on Monday, this is the most unique thing about the ancient city wall of Chuansha. The city wall was completely built spontaneously by the people of Chuansha to resist the invasion of Japanese pirates, so the city bricks did not have uniform specifications. Relying on this city wall, the people of Chuansha successfully repelled the invasion of Japanese pirates. Later, the reporter followed the stone steps to the top of the ancient city wall, where there are three buildings: Kuixing Pavilion, Yuebei Pavilion and Wenbi Tower. To the east of Kuixing Pavilion, two century-old trees are magically "tangled" together and grow on the edge of the city wall fort. These two ancient trees are praised by garden experts as "rare natural bonsais in Shanghai."
The ancient city wall is overwhelmed by its current situation and has many cracks. As soon as they walked onto the Yuebei Pavilion, the reporter saw an obvious crack one or two meters long on the ground on the east side of the pavilion. On the east side of Kuixing Pavilion, a crack also appeared.
Later, the reporter went to the path on the east side of the city wall to observe, and noticed that there was also a long gap on the east wall of the ancient city wall. Many plants had grown out of the gap, and a thick old tree also grew out of the gap. It was "difficult" to "explore" it. In addition, many cracks also caused the ancient city wall to tilt. Zhou Yi said that some of the cracks on the ancient city wall existed a long time ago, and some were caused by the reconstruction of Kuixing Pavilion, Yuebei Pavilion and other buildings in recent years. It turns out that in the past, the Yue Bei Pavilion only had one floor, and the ancient city wall could still bear its weight. However, in the 1980s, Yue Bei Pavilion was rebuilt into a two-story building, which virtually increased the burden on the ancient city wall, causing the wall to tilt and cracks gradually developed. The current situation of the 7 existing ancient city walls in this city is not optimistic. There are 7 existing ancient city wall relics in Shanghai: 2 in Pudong, 1 of which is the ancient city wall in Chuansha, and the other 1 in Gaoqiao; 1 in Huangpu and 2 in Huangpu. There are 1 sections each in Nanhui No. 1 Middle School, Jiading County, Jinshan, and Fengxian. However, the current status of the existing ancient city walls in Shanghai is not optimistic. For example, the rammed earth in parts of the Jiading ancient city wall has been exposed. In recent years, the ancient city walls of Nanhui and Huangpu have successively launched renovation plans. The protection and repair work of the ancient city wall will start this year. In order to prevent the city wall from tilting further, the school director designed some rockeries on the west side of the city wall to "hold up" the city wall while beautifying the environment. In the 1980s, the ancient city wall of Chuansha was in ruins Unbearable, when Tao Boyu, a Sichuan and Shasha national who immigrated to Hong Kong, came to the ancient city wall, he felt very sorry for it, so he invested 200,000 Hong Kong dollars to repair the ancient city wall and rebuilt the two destroyed buildings, Kuixing Pavilion and Yuebei Pavilion. Regarding the restoration work of the ancient city wall of Chuansha, as early as 2 or 3 years ago, the relevant departments of Pudong New Area commissioned Cao Yongkang, an expert on ancient architecture from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, to conduct a survey of the architectural structure of the ancient city wall. Cao Yongkang told reporters that due to the excessive weight of the Yue Stele Pavilion and other reasons, the city wall has experienced some uneven settlement. If repairs are not carried out, the settlement may be further aggravated. In this regard, the relevant person in charge of the Pudong New Area Cultural Protection Bureau stated that the project of "Protection and Repair of the Ancient City Wall of Chuansha and Yuebei Pavilion" was submitted to the relevant departments for approval last week. Once the plan is approved, this protection work will be carried out within the year. start up. At that time, new maintenance methods and traditional crafts will be used to repair the ancient city wall, and the Yuebei Pavilion will be restored to a one-story building. In addition to the restoration of the ancient city wall, the relevant departments of Pudong New Area are currently preparing the plan for the "Chuansha Historical Features Protection Area". According to a staff member of the Pudong New Area Chuansha Functional Area Management Committee, the "Plan" will restore a large number of historical and cultural heritage in the entire historical area, such as repairing, rational development and utilization of ancient city walls and moats. The reporter also learned that the relevant departments are also preparing to completely separate the ancient city wall from the school and use it as a tourist attraction after repairs.
Today, not many people have seen the appearance of old Chuansha City. According to records, the old city has four gates in the east, south, west and north. The east is Zhenhai Gate, the south is Yingrui Gate, the west is Taiping Gate, and the north is Gongji Gate. Each has a suspension bridge. The moat is 12 feet wide and 1.5 feet deep. . There are 4 moon cities, 372 pheasant towers and 12 forts on the city wall, which is quite large. It is said that the city wall has not been built since the middle of the Qing Dynasty. After hundreds of years of wind and rain erosion, the city wall has collapsed in many places, showing a dilapidated scene. During the Republic of China, city bricks were simply removed to pave the streets. In 1922, Qi Xieyuan, the governor of Jiangsu Province, ordered all counties to demolish all city walls except for military needs and preservation of historical sites. The remaining bricks, stones, bases, etc. were used to supplement the education funds of each county. In 1925, Chuansha convened an agreement among various public groups in the city. At the meeting, they unanimously agreed to demolish the city: the Education Bureau would write a document and submit it to the quasi-county office. Only two sections of about 50 meters from the Zhenwu Platform at the north gate and about 200 meters from the southeast corner would be preserved, and the Kuixing Pavilion historic site should be preserved. , and set up a garden for the county primary school, and immediately started demolition of the remaining city walls.
The southeast section of the city wall that can still be seen today can be called the gathering place of Chuansha City’s historical sites. There are Kuixing Pavilion and Yue Bei Pavilion on the city wall. At the corner of the city is Guanlan Academy, which is now Guanlan Primary School. In the fifteenth year of Jiaqing (1810), Zhou Yuan, the Tongzhi of Chuansha Ting, built Wenchang Palace on the southeast wall. Because Sichuan Sha has a short history and less developed education, in the 14th year of Daoguang's reign (1834), He Shiqi, a member of the government, was determined to change this situation and said, "Within five steps, Zhicao will grow. I dare not say that the culture and education in this corner of the seaside can be slowed down." ." He donated a thousand taels of his salary and built a 2-15-room schoolhouse on the right side of Wenchang Palace, named Riguanlan Academy.
Smart children from both inside and outside the city are selected to study here. All enrollees are given "tuition fees" by the government, and those with outstanding performance are also given "bonuses." The three-story pavilion with cornices and raised corners standing on the city wall, namely Kuixing Pavilion, is an old relic of Wenchang Palace. There are only two left in Shanghai, the other one is in Nanshi Confucian Temple. Kuixing is Kuisu, the "main article" among the twenty-eight constellations in ancient Chinese mythology. It is said that the head of the statue of Kuixing is like a ghost, with one foot tilted back, like a big hook in the character "Kui", a bucket in one hand, like the word "dou" in the middle of the character "Kui", and a pen in the other hand, which can be used to determine the success of the test. person's name. Generally, there is an incinerator in the Wenchang Palace. Scraps of paper on which writing has been written cannot be thrown away casually, but can only be burned here, which shows the sacred status of writing in ancient society. The same was probably true for Kuixing Pavilion in Chuansha in the past.
Far opposite Kuixing Pavilion is Yue Bei Pavilion. There is a stone tablet 165 cm high and 82 cm wide erected in the pavilion. It is engraved with Qi Jue poems and has the title: "The bachelor and the eminent monk are as drunk as mud, the jade mountain is crumbling and the urn is low. The wine glass is not a tool for fame and fame, so why do you just get obsessed with it? Shangqiu crazy bachelor Li Menglong asked for the remaining book "Daliang Zhiwu Jian Pavilion", signed "Yue Feicao" and sealed with "Yue Fei" and "Peng Ju". According to local records, Yue Fei wrote a poem in handwriting as a gift to Li Menglong in Wujian Pavilion in Daliang (now Kaifeng, Henan). Later, Li Menglong went to Tiantai Mountain in Zhejiang to become a monk. After changing hands several times, Yue Fei's calligraphy was passed on to monk Yi Liaoxin. When the monk Liao Xin came to be the abbot of Zhongde Temple in Sichuan during the Ming Dynasty, he brought Yue Fei's ink to Sichuan. However, according to research by Song history experts, Li Menglong was a Jinshi in the seventh year of Jiading (1214), later than Yue Fei's time, and the story is purely fictional. However, the Yue Bei Pavilion has become a famous historic site in Sichuan and Shaanxi. Cai Jingwei, a local, wrote a poem: "The Yue Bei Pavilion has endured the vicissitudes of life for a long time, and the stones have the fragrance of calligraphy and ink. The national heroes are loyal and loyal, and the dragon and snake strokes are full of dancing light."
In the 1980s, the city wall was in dilapidated condition. Tao Boyu, a Sichuan and Shasha resident who immigrated to Hong Kong, lamented it and invested in repairing it. As is often the case in history, things that once seemed ordinary are now precious.