Ancient City of Shouxian, Huanan, Anhui | A place of strategic importance

| A place of strategic importance.
🚩Due to its important location at the junction of the river and Huai, Shouxian has always been a place of strategic importance for the military, where golden halberds fly. The ancient city wall of Shouxian was built for military defense!

✅The ancient city wall of Shouxian was built in the Song Dynasty, rebuilt in the Northern Song Dynasty, and has a history of more than 900 years.

✅ Brick walls and stone bases, four gates in the city, each with a urn city, this is exactly what we see in ancient film and television works about the ancient city wall, which also has a complete military defense system, is the best preserved ancient city wall of the Song Dynasty in China, more than 100 years earlier than the ancient city of Pingyao in Shanxi.

✅Located on the banks of the Jianghuai, Shouxian has been plagued by floods for a long time in history. The construction of the city wall has blocked the flood outside the city wall many times in history, saving the residents from the disaster of flood.

➡️The ancient city wall has four ancient city gates: Binyang in the east, Tongfu in the south, Dinghu in the west, and Jinghuai in the north

👉Although the name of the ancient city wall of Shouxian is little known, and even once in a state of being forgotten, its historical value is still not lost to other ancient cities.
✅ Ancient exploration tips
🚩Ancient city wall of Shouxian
📍Old city area of Shouxian, Huanan City
🎫Open to the public for free all day
⏰Recommended tour time 2 hours
🚌Take bus No. 29 in the city, take bus No. 601 in Shouxian


Ancient city wall of Shouxian

Post by FREYA MAY | Feb 3, 2024