Splendid Taiyuan is a good name for Taiyuan. During the Northern Song Dynasty, many famous officials who were scholar-bureaucrats once served in Taiyuan. He not only left many poems and beautiful articles to Taiyuan, but also built many famous landmarks in Taiyuan.
Basic information
Deeds
Constructed many famous landmarks
Achievements
Controlled floods in Fenhe River< /p>
Environment
There are ancient cypresses and locust trees, and there are many trees.
The charm of the ancient city
The circumference of Taiyuan City is twenty-four miles
Splendid Dragon City
After Chen Yaozuo became the prefect of Taiyuan, he thoroughly controlled the floods in Fenhe River and built the famous "Liu Dike". "Liu Stream Night Moon" became the best place for literati and common people to go boating and enjoy the moon. place. There are ancient cypresses and locust trees on Dongshan Mountain, and it is known as "Jinxiu Ridge". Chen Yaozuo built Fanglin Temple at the foot of Dongshan Mountain and renovated the Notre Dame Hall in Jinci Temple, which attracted an endless stream of pilgrims and tourists. Shen Tang, a poet during the reign of Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty, praised: "The mountains are green, the river is picturesque, and the capital has been a state since ancient times." In the Yuan Dynasty, the Italian Marco Polo set out from Zhuozhou and arrived in Taiyuan in 10 days. In his eyes, Taiyuan City was magnificent, with prosperous industry and commerce, and it was an important base for manufacturing weapons to supply the Yuan Dynasty's army. Many grapes are grown here, and the wine produced is rich and famous. Sericulture is also grown here, and a lot of silk products are produced. From Taiyuan City, which leads to the entire prefecture, he rode a donkey westward for 7 days, passing through many towns and villages, admiring the beautiful scenery along the way, and learned that some big businessmen started from here to do business in India and other places. Make profit. After expansion in the early Ming Dynasty, Taiyuan City had a circumference of 24 miles. The city was three feet and five feet high and the pool was three feet deep. The entire city was built with large bricks. There were eight grand and tall city gates and urns. There were ten towers on the city wall. There are six tall towers, four tall turrets at the four corners of the city, and ninety small buildings with nearly 10,000 crenellations along the city. The three gates of the newly built Jin Palace Palace City are today's Xihuamen Street, Donghuamen Street, and Nanhuamen Street. The outer city walls of Jin Palace were now several streets named Xiaoqiang. The red four walls of Jin Palace were The archway is located in today's Hongshi Street, while Xinghualing and Songbaipo were the gardens of the Jin Dynasty's palace.
At that time, the reputation of "Huahua Zhending Mansion and Splendid Taiyuan City" was spread among the people. Wang Shizhen, a famous writer and minister of the Ming Dynasty, came to Taiyuan and exclaimed: "Taiyuan City is very magnificent, with twenty-five towers on the first floor, which is inferior to the sacred capital." "Yangqu County Chronicles" records: "The Chongyong and Pheasant Battlements are magnificent. The ancient city was known as the "Splendid Taiyuan" in the world. "
Charm of the Ancient City
Taiyuan City has a circumference of twenty-four miles, a height of three feet and five feet, and is covered with bricks on the outside. *There are eight gates, namely Yichun and Yinghui in the east, commonly known as Dadongmen and Xiaodongmen, Zhenwu and Fucheng in the west, commonly known as Shuiximen and Hanximen, Zhenyuan and Gongji in the north, commonly known as Dabeimen and Xiaobei The gates in the south are called Yingze and Chengen, which are also known as the Great South Gate and the New South Gate among the people. It is worth mentioning here that there are two south gates in Taiyuan. The place name of the big south gate is still in use today, and the word Yingze has become the word that appears most frequently in the history of Taiyuan city construction. Yingze Street and Yingze Bridge , Yingze Park, Yingze Hotel, etc., and even Yingze beer and Yingze soap.
The names of Yingze and Chengen come from an ancient folk song "Southern Wind Song": The smoke of the south wind can relieve the anger of our people! When the South Wind