source: the Ji'nan times
the south side of the wall is the stone, more than 2 meters of the wall with various masonry piled up. Reporter Wang Feng shot
famous architect Liang Sicheng once praised Beijing's ancient city wall as a great masterpiece and a "necklace" of the city. For the famous historical and cultural city of Ji'nan, there was a towering "necklace" around the ancient city. But unfortunately, most of the old walls of Ji'nan have disappeared, and the only remaining part is invisible. Surprisingly, in the recent demolition and violation action, the staff in the demolition of the West City root street, one of the illegal construction of Ji'nan, the only part of the existing Ming Dynasty ancient city walls show the truth.
[site] the old city wall is not "original" and there is still a public toilet to shield
yesterday afternoon, the reporter found the old city wall in the old city. It's not easy to find the old city wall. From the bustling city road to the north of the flagellum, to the west of the general Temple Street, through the view of the mercy and the Catholic Church of the general Temple Street, and then to the west, to the West City root street. In the middle of the street west of the road is a mottled old city wall just showing its true appearance. The reporter saw that the wall of the ancient city was about 15 meters long and about 5 meters high. Although the wall was very mottled, it was still quite spectacular and attracted a lot of people who had passed the road.
this ancient city wall is the outer side of the east wall of the city wall, the lower part of the wall, the south side is the big green stone, the middle part is the blue brick, and the north side is the red brick. Li Ming, director of Ji'nan Institute of archaeology, told reporters that the green stone and green tiles should be the original objects of the Ming Dynasty, while the red bricks should be made up when the walls were repaired later. In the upper part of the entire wall, many of them are repaired with rubble, which should be done in the later stage of repairing the city wall. Reporters saw that there are still many bullet holes and holes in the wall, which are estimated to be the traces left by the war. At the bottom of the city wall, there are also several broken root trees that cross out and look as if they came from brick and stone. But it is a pity that the ancient city wall is incomplete, only a narrow wall on the east side.
and on the southern side of the ancient city wall, there is still a public toilet blocking a section about 5 meters long. In 2015, the reporter visited here, because it was not demolished at that time, and most of the walls were blocked by street buildings and public toilets, so the reporter could only look up to the West on the south side of the toilet to see the corner of the remaining wall.
75 - year-old Zheng, who hurried through the West City root street, told the reporter that she had lived in the West City root street. When she was small, she was "very long, very tall, not afraid to go up and play, afraid to fall down." then, when the walls were demolished and the house was built, "those things that hide in the old walls, the weasels, and anything, seem to have a spirit." Sex, prophetic, did not start to tear down, they all ran out. "
the old city wall was opened 67 years ago in 1950. In February 28th of that year, the Ji'nan municipal government ordered the demolition of the old city wall and the construction of the ring road. According to records, at that time only retained the East and south corner of the east of the city (the original southeast corner building - nine female buildings address), and then built the pavilion on it, that is to say, the foundation of the pavilion is the original Ji'nan city wall. In 2007, the city Archaeological Institute had excavated a salvage archaeological excavation of a remnant ancient wall of the ancient city on the North Baotu Spring. After the excavation, a high building was built here. This section of the ancient city wall, about 20 meters in the West City root street, became the only remaining ancient city wall of Ji'nan. In 2007, the site of the wall was announced as a city level cultural relic protection unit.
[expectation] will continue to let Li Ming, director of the ancient wall old city "deep integration"
Ji'nan Archaeological Institute director, told reporters that the cultural relics department has always wanted to display the only city wall of this section of Ji'nan to the citizens. "This break has provided us with a good opportunity, and I went to see the scene when it was broken." And put forward some opinions, as the only part of the original ancient city wall left by the famous historical and cultural city in Ji'nan, after showing the truth, the detailed protection scheme is needed to carry out the expert demonstration so as to better protect the city wall. According to the preliminary investigation at the scene, the retaining wall is only the east side of the wall, and it needs to be cleaned, reinforced, repaired and repaired on the west side.
the northern end of the old city wall shows a right angle to the East, but the exact direction to the north is not clear, so Li Ming said, "it is best to excavate the northern part of the wall by the archaeological department, so that the foundation of the wall can be cleared out so that the foundation and the remaining walls can be completely presented. In addition, Li Ming said that other illegal structures around the ancient city wall should also be demolished. "The ancient city wall is an important link between the moat and the old urban area. The city wall is not isolated, it is a combination of the moat and the old city. The old buildings in the old city wall can be combined with the old city walls, so that we can touch the profound historical and cultural connotation of the ancient city of Ji'nan. In this way, the ancient city wall can be another cultural highlight of Ji'nan.
[once] the history of the city wall is "the history of the shrinking old city"
the history of the ancient city wall of Ji'nan is closely related to the history of Ji'nan city. The formation of the ancient city of Ji'nan experienced the evolution process of Lixia, Qi Zhou City and Ji'nan Fucheng. Ji'nan was founded in the Northern Song Dynasty during the year of emperor huzong (from 1101 to 1125 AD). Ming Hongwu four years (AD 1371) only in the "Tu Cheng" outside the masonry, Gao San Zhang five feet, Zhou twelve Li forty-eight Zhang... The East is called Qi Chuan gate, the west is called the Yuan Yuan gate, the south is the Shun Tian gate, and the north is the Hui gate. " The four gates, due to the needs of the ground and defense, are not right and backward. They are called "four doors wrong". The East Gate (old East Gate) is in the north, the west gate is south, the north water gate is East, only the south gate is in the middle of the south wall.
the Ming Dynasty had renovated the walls of Ji'nan city for five times, making it basically stereotyped. In the end of the Qing Dynasty, Ji'nan was prosperous in business, and the traffic was crowded both inside and outside the city. For this reason, four doors were opened in the city. The southwest was the Kun Shun gate (north of the east gate of the Baotu Spring Park, the black tiger spring West Road and the Baotu Spring North Road). The northwest was the Qian Jian gate (the west of the west south gate of the present Daming Lake). In the middle of the street, it's east to the east of the transport department, also called the north gate, the north gate of the Lishan Mountain, the east side of the Hui Pau tower, near the east gate of Daming Lake. In the late Ming and early Ming Dynasty, in order to strengthen the city defense, the urn city was added outside the gate of Qi Chuan, the calendar mountain and the source three. There were two sub doors in the urn city of the two gates of Qi Chuan and Li Shan, also called the garrison gate, and the rocket building in the urn.