Hangzhou, one of the seven ancient capitals in China, has a profound historical background. Like other famous cultural cities in China, Hangzhou, once separated the city from the outside by its walls. Bricks, stones and holes all store the historical traces of the city's development and changes. There are an ancient city wall and a wall exhibition hall along the Tiesha River in downtown area. Today let me show you the hall, which is full of historical and cultural flavor.
Located at the junction of Huancheng East Road and Qingchun Road, Hangzhou Ancient City Wall Exhibition Hall covers an area of about 450 square meters and has a building area of about 318 square meters. It takes the Ancient City Wall from the Qing Dynasty in Hangzhou as its prototype. The construction of the hall began in late 2006, and it was officially opened on February 4, 2008. The hall reproduces the long history of Hangzhou's ancient city wall. As a link of civilization, it connects the city's past, present and future.
The Qingchun Gate is based on the Ancient City Wall from the Qing Dynasty. It is 66 meters long, 5.4 meters wide and 6.65 meters high. The two ends of the wall are dilapidated walls. There is a gate in the middle of the wall. On the top, there is also a Xieshanding-style wooden structure building modelled on the building of the Southern Song Dynasty. The hollow part of the whole wall is the exhibition hall of the ancient wall of Hangzhou.
The exhibition hall demonstrated the over-1400-year-old history of Hangzhou. It is divided into two floors, with two areas, the southern area and the northern area. The southern area shows the true records of the wall, while the northern area shows legends of the wall. The most attractive part of the exhibition hall is its interesting and participatory nature. For example, the top ten city gate stories are made into animated cartoons that can be broadcast on demand; visitors can click on the touch screen to learn about the relevant knowledge of city wall construction; visitors can also use the computer inside to take a phone with the ancient wall or leave a message with an electronic pen ...
In front of the exhibition hall, there are stone tablets of "ancient Qingchun Gate", which record the evolution of the history of Qingchun Gate. Near the stone tablets, there is a group of statues of "spring ox entering the city", which vividly reproduces the ancient Hangzhou people's custom of welcoming spring ox into the city on the eve of Mangzhong (the ninth solar term in the twenty-four solar terms used in China, as well as the third one in summer.).
To the Ming Dynasty, has kept 10 ancient city gates, namely, Wulin Gate, Genshan Gate, Fengshan Gate, Qingtai Gate, Wangjiang Gate, Houchao Gate, Qingbo Gate, Yongjin Gate, Qiantang Gate and Qingchun Gate. In 1994, the Hangzhou Municipal Committee and the Municipal Government erected 10 ancient city gate tablets on the ruins of ten city buildings in Hangzhou from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, for visitors and citizens to visit and review the history of Hangzhou. Walking into the exhibition hall, climbing up the stairs, standing on the city tower, looking at the restored ancient city wall, the ancient city gate and the ancient city building, is like seeing the long roll of the thousand-year history of Hangzhou slowly unfolding, and the ancient city gates seem to emerge in front of us.