In urgent need of a guide to Ximen, Shouxian County! !

Shou County is located in the middle of Anhui Province, on the south bank of the middle reaches of the Huaihe River, next to Bagong Mountain, next to the Huaihe and Pihe rivers, bordering the provincial capital Hefei City, and adjacent to the National Energy City Huainan City. The county has a total area of ??2,986 square kilometers, 1.78 million acres of cultivated land, and jurisdiction over 25 towns. The total population is 1.28 million.

Shou County has a long history. In ancient times, it was called Shouchun, Shouyang, and Shouzhou, and it was often the seat of state, prefecture, road, county, etc. It belonged to the Huaiyi tribe in ancient times. It was the territory of Yangzhou in the Xia Dynasty, the territory of the state in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and it belonged to Chu in the Spring and Autumn Period. During the Han Dynasty, Liu An, King of Huainan, built the capital of the Huainan Kingdom here. The Three Kingdoms were called Wei, and it was already an important town with more than 100,000 people. From the Jin Dynasty to the Tang and Song Dynasties, Shouxian County continued to be famous for its prosperity. It is said that "Yang (prefecture) and Shou (prefecture) are all important towns." Our leaders must have visited many places when traveling all over the country. I wonder if you have noticed it. Every place has its own selling point. For example: go to Beijing to see the walls, go to Guilin to see the mountains, go to Xi'an to see the tombs, go to Henan to see the bald heads, what to see in Shouxian County? We have things to see from both the north and the south. Haha, maybe you will mutter in your heart: Director Zhuo, go ahead! You see, the walls in Shouxian County are not grand enough, the hills are not high enough, the tombs are not big enough, and there are no bald heads. What is there to see? What you said is not wrong, but why should we come to Shouxian County to see? It is culture, an ancient culture inherited from nearly two thousand years of history! After thousands of years of baptism, Shouxian County has long been transformed into an intriguing book. As the saying goes, if the mountain is not high, the immortal will be famous; if the water is not deep, the dragon will be spiritual. Shouxian County is small and has profound culture. Many idioms we are familiar with, such as "the wind is roaring and the cranes are roaring", "the grass and trees are all soldiers", etc. all come from this place. Shouxian County is one of the 62 famous historical and cultural cities in my country, and the word "ancient" is everywhere in the city. Look at the ancient city wall in Shouxian County. It is the only well-preserved Song Dynasty city wall in the country. It has brick walls and stone foundations and a circumference of 7,147 meters. Although it is not as majestic as the Great Wall of Ming Dynasty, it has experienced thousands of years of wind and rain. Shouxian County is surrounded by water on all sides, and Zhengyang Pass is where the Pihe Yinghe River in Lu'an enters the Huaihe River. The great flood of 1991 is still fresh in everyone’s memory, right? The fierce floods at that time destroyed countless dams and destroyed many people's homes. Only this thousand-year-old city stood tall and unshakable amidst the raging floods. Aren't you curious how such an ancient antique wall can withstand such a violent impact and attack from the flood? The secret lies in its four main gates, east, west, north, and south, and the urn gate. I will explain it in detail to you when we get to the ancient city wall later. The idiom "A fire at the city gate affects the fish in the pond" also comes from here