Anhui Fengyang Mingzhongdu, a unfinished project 600 years ago.

The ruins of the Imperial City in the Ming Dynasty, the unfinished project in Fengyang in the Ming Dynasty 600 years ago, started in the second year of Hongwu (1369). At that time, the country had just been unified, and Taizu discussed with everyone about building the capital, saying that "it depends on risks and water." What do you think of Zhongdu? " "Courtier generals are mostly Huaixi people, and they are also willing to return home. At present, the monarch and his subjects hit it off. Because Zhongdu Palace was built in the sun of Phoenix Mountain, it was changed to Fengyang. The construction of Zhongdu can be said to be exciting. The capital is divided into three cities: inner, middle and outer. The outer city is 30 kilometers in circumference and has nine gates. In the middle is the imperial city, with a circumference of 8 kilometers and four doors; Inside is Miyagi, with a circumference of 3.68 kilometers and four doors. The mussel painting shows the continuous distribution map of Miyagi in Ming Dynasty. Zhongdu Construction mobilizes national materials, and the wood used is not only recruited from all over the country, but also imported from a large number of affiliated countries. The building wall is based on Sumitomo Bai Yushi or strip stone, and then large city bricks are laid on it. When building, lime, tung oil and glutinous rice juice are used as slurry, and key parts are even poured with pig iron. During the construction period, more than 500,000 craftsmen, civilian workers, prisoners, immigrants and troops were recruited, and Fengyang has become a huge construction site. Fengyang Mingzhongdu Miyagi Wumen, shot on 20 14. The southern end of the central axis of Zhongdu Imperial City crosses Jianshui from Fengyang Bridge, enters Hongwumen, crosses Hongwu Street and crosses Ji Yun Street to Daming Gate. Enter the Daming Gate, walk along the Imperial Road through the wide convex square, enter the Chengtian Gate of the Forbidden City, pass the end gate, cross the Waiwulong Bridge, and reach the Wumen Gate of the Imperial City. Enter the meridian gate, cross the Inner Wulong Bridge, and enter Fengtianmen to the main hall. The main hall is the center of the central axis, entering the harem to the north, leaving the Xuanwu Gate of the Imperial City, passing through the garden, crossing the top of the Phoenix Mountain, leaving the north gate of the Forbidden Wall, going down the Phoenix Mountain and heading north to the north gate of Zhongdu City. This central axis is 13.5 km long, with central civil and military offices such as the left and right front ministries, Zhongshu province and the metropolitan government, ancestral temples, social altars, Wenhua Hall and Wuying Hall, Wenlou and Wulou, and the East Palace and the West Palace, which are symmetrical from east to west. In front of Daming Gate, on Ji Yun Street, City God Temple, Jinshui Bridge, imperial academy and Drum Tower are arranged eastward; There are Chen Gong Temple, Jinshui Bridge, Forbidden City and Bell Tower in the west. The mussel painted the imperial city of Zhongdu in Ming Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, the Imperial City of Zhongdu was nine miles in circumference, with four gates: Chengtianmen in the south, Donganmen in the east, Xi 'an in the west, Beianmen in the north and Waijinshui Bridge in the north. The Forbidden City in Zhongdu in Ming Dynasty, with a circumference of seven miles, has four gates: the Wumen Gate in the south, the Donghua Gate in the east, the Xihua Gate in the west and the Xuanwu Gate in the north. However, the project of Xihuamen was so exciting that it stopped suddenly in the eighth year of Hongwu (1375). At this time, most of the capital construction in Zhongdu has been completed, and some palaces can even be settled in. The reason for the architectural strike recorded in A Record of Ming Taizu is: "At the beginning, it was at the expense of labor to build two capitals in Zhou and Han Dynasties. "Xihuamen, Imperial City of Ming Dynasty, shot on 20 14. Miyagi City Wall in Ming Dynasty, shot on 20 14. After Li Zicheng's arson, the contraction of buildings in the early Qing Dynasty and the destruction of modern agricultural production, only the ruins of the Ming Dynasty remain. In the ruins of the Imperial City, the Wumen Terrace is well preserved and concave, the same as the Wumen Gate of the Forbidden City in Beijing, with three tickets in the middle. The three ticket holes of Xihuamen in the imperial city and the pedestal of the tower are basically well preserved. There are rammed earth abutments with a height of 7 to 10 meters in Donghuamen, Xuanwu Gate and the southeast, northeast and northwest corners of the Imperial City. The moat outside the city is 80 meters wide, which is equivalent to the Tongzi River and basically remains the same. The Jinshui River in the city twists and turns. Ducks of Jinshui River in Zhongdu in Ming Dynasty, taken on 20 14. At dusk, we climbed the city wall, and the sun set, and the long backs staggered in time. The trees and flowers on the top of the city will die, and the once royal forbidden area has already become a farmhouse. Ducks raised by villagers swim around in the moat, and the towering soil slope in the ridge is the base of the Fengtian Hall in the past. Site of Three Great Halls in Miyagi in Ming Dynasty, shot on 20 14. ? Fengyang Drum Tower, the last landmark of Ming Dynasty. Fengyang Drum Tower was built in the eighth year of Hongwu (1375). It is the last landmark building built in Zhongdu City, located in the center of today's county. There are three doorways in the middle of the stylobate, with the four characters of "eternal root" inscribed by Taizu. After all, Zhu Yuanzhang was out of school when he was a child, and his calligraphy foundation was not good. He doesn't practice regular script and writes running script directly, so his calligraphy is not powerful enough. These words can only be considered horizontal and vertical, and he wrote very hard. Zhu Yuanzhang's calligraphy Da Jun Tie is now in the Palace Museum in Beijing. The drum tower is 47 meters high, the base is 72 meters long from north to south, 34 meters wide from east to west and 15 meters high. When the platform was first built, the building was covered with three eaves, and the building was 100 feet long. The system was magnificent and the scale was magnificent. When you boarded the river, the Huaihe River and the Huaihe River were foggy. At first glance, the mountains in Zhongdu were empty and hazy, and you could see them hanging outside the clouds. " At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the tall and majestic Fengyang Drum Tower was always the tallest in China, with not only tall abutments, but also buildings on the abutments that were unique to the Ninth Five-Year Plan royal buildings. Such a high regulation is unique in China Drum Tower. The interior of the Drum Tower painted by Riverside Fengyang is now set as Zhu Yuanzhang Exhibition Hall. There is a magnificent statue of Mao in the main hall, which is based on the official mainstream portrait. Behind the screen hangs a huge map of Daming, which depicts 13 provinces in Beijing and South China. Most of these websites were shot down by Mao himself. During the Yongle period, the Ming Dynasty established the Nuer Tuotu Department in the northeast of China, which governed the Heilongjiang River Basin. In the Western Regions, the Seven Guards of Kansai Jimi were established, as well as the departments of Wuzang and Duogan, which were in charge of Xinjiang affairs. In the heyday of the Ming Dynasty, the territory area reached 9.97 million square kilometers, which was undoubtedly a legend for Zhu Yuanzhang who had nothing at the beginning. The official version of Zhu Yuanzhang sits three kilometers west of the Drum Tower. There used to be a bell tower of the same height. Two floors once stood on both sides of Hongwu Street. The majestic layout conforms to the overall planning of Zhongdu City, and it is also the ornament and balance of "building a temple on the mountain and building a city on the pillow". Ji Yun Street in the east-west direction and Hongwu Street in the north-south direction form a cross symmetry, which is unique in all previous capitals. Unfortunately, Fengyang Bell Tower was destroyed by the war in the late Ming Dynasty. In the sixth year of Kangxi (1667), Fengyang County moved into Ming Chengzu City, and the area where the bell tower was located became farmland, and it was never repaired again. In the 20th year of Qianlong (1755), Fengyang city wall was built, and the bell tower bricks were demolished and used for other purposes. 1974 When the land is leveled, the site is completely leveled. But after 20 17, the local * * * rebuilt the Fengyang bell tower according to the shape of the drum tower, once again forming a pattern of east-west symmetry. Map of Daming territory.