In my childhood memory, the county town is surrounded by a patchwork of earth walls. When I grew up, I realized that the original earth wall had a long history. It was a wall piled up with rammed earth in the Western Zhou Dynasty!
There are fond memories of my childhood on the Tucheng wall. My friends and I herded sheep, mowed grass, caught crickets and flew kites on the wall. On rainy days, we look for treasures such as bronze and coins along the loess washed by rain. Don't believe it, it really existed at that time; In summer, my friends and I fished in the moat at the root of the city wall, caught loach and had a water fight; In winter, knock out a small hole in the thick ice with bricks and wait for the fish to jump out of the ice. I remember one year when people were digging, they found three shells under the soil, which alarmed many people at once.
there is a tower called kuixing tower in the eastern part of the earthen city wall. I don't know which dynasty it was built. I once climbed into the tower with my friends shoulder to shoulder, and climbed through the window of the tower to play.
Time flies. When I left home when I was young, my old hometown became unrecognizable. Great changes have taken place, especially large sections of earth walls, which have been artificially flattened and erased, and moats have disappeared, replaced by rows of towering tall buildings and patches of residential buildings.
unfortunately, the memory of childhood is nowhere to be found! The beauty of childhood can only stay in my mind, and this life will never go away.