The city wall in Gufu [Chaozhou]

The city walls are one of keeping the most complete and ancient city walls in the whole country. The city walls had already been the customary rules mold in the Song Dynasty, go to build the soil city with early year again, the year of Shaoxing again settle and carry with the stone, the of even year is successively large-scale to increase to construct to set up, becoming the outside city inside rounding with complete structure and form of the city. Because the dynasties change in succession, the breakage of the battle fire, it is already unbearably dilapidated at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. Yu Liangfu opened up the southwest of the city, increase to build the stone wall, fix to set up the mansion city wall completely in 1379. Construct the city conduct and actions natural cover of the month outside in the city gate, and build 44 of enemy's building in the city, the nest spreads 672,932 of coal, very impressive-looking grand view. Along with the change of the history, three city walls of south, west, north of the mansion city all tore down because of the demand that city construction, save the ancient city wall that the east faces Hanjiang River only now, the north rises the Kingsoft south to the south door, whole long 2132 meters, keep four of city gate, then top penstock, bamboo wood door, wide door, enter water the door, and set up the city tower.

The ancient city wall is the most refreshing marking in ancient city, it writes the history of the ancient city: Have the recreation day of the peace peaceful times; Have the chaos and disturbances of war, the breeze smoke billowing war disaster age; Defending city will ascend the elegy that bath of blood fight courageously; There is the person of hometown elders live life of refugee, bitter tears that the wife ion spread. The ancient city wall is a big book that jots down the ancient city culture.