Study On The Construction Of Jingzhou City Wall In Ming And Qing Dynasties

Jingzhou Ancient City is located in the central and southern part of Hubei Province,the hinterland of Jianghan Plain.With a long history,the ancient city is the important birthplace of Jingchu culture and the concentration of Three Kingdoms culture.Since ancient times,with its unique geographical location,the ancient city is not only a place for military strategists,but also an important transit place for transportation between the north and the south.It is also one of the important cultural and economic centers in the south.This paper mainly discusses three aspects of the main content.First of all,in the first chapter,I count the construction history of Jingzhou Ancient City,and make a detailed analysis of the construction of ancient cities.Among them,in the period of tuchengyuan of Jingzhou Ancient City,it mainly demonstrates that the ancient city was built by Guan Yu in the period of Three Kingdoms.It also combs the reconstruction and repair of the ancient city after it was built.In particular,this paper focuses on the historical facts of Huanwen’s city building in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and Xiaoyi’s 70 Li siege in the Southern Dynasty,and analyzes the concrete process of the construction of the ancient city at that time.In the period of brick city wall,it focuses on the analysis of Gao’s pioneering work of building materials first using tomb bricks in order to occupy the southern part of Jingzhou in the Five Dynasties.It is a major turning point in the history of Jingzhou Ancient City construction,which makes Jingzhou Ancient City enter the era of brick city wall mixed with brick and soil.After that,the city of Jiangling was seriously damaged in Song Dynasty,and Zhao Xiong wrote to rebuild it.This paper also analyzes the background,process and significance of rebuilding Jiangling at that time.Secondly,in the second chapter,in the construction of Jingzhou City Wall in Ming Dynasty,it first makes a detailed research on whether the Yuan people damaged Jingzhou City,and proves that the Jingzhou City at that time was not damaged when the Yuan people went south.Secondly,it makes a detailed research on the new construction of Jingzhou City by Yang Jing in the Hongwu year of the early Ming Dynasty.The ancient city of Jingzhou built in the early Ming Dynasty basically established the basic pattern of the present ancient city.This paper makes a detailed research on the shape and scale of the ancient city,the number of gates and towers,and the name of the ancient city at that time.Thirdly,it focuses on the analysis of the renovation of the city gates by the government during the Jiajing period,which not only changed the number of the city gates,but also renamed the name of the city gate and its upper city tower.After the renovation of city gates and towers in Jiajing period,the pattern of six city gates in Jingzhou Ancient City was formally formed and maintained until the 1980 s.Finally,during the Wanli period of Ming Dynasty,Zhang Juzheng,the first assistant,made a "restructuring" of the ancient city of Jingzhou,trying to cut and straighten the ancient city by imitating the capital.This paper makes a detailed research on the detailed process of the project and the specific reasons for its restoration.The construction and renovation of the ancient city of Jingzhou in the Ming Dynasty established the basic pattern of the ancient city today,and the repair of the ancient city in the Qing Dynasty was also carried out on the basis of the ancient city of Jingzhou in the Ming Dynasty.Finally,the main content of the third chapter is the construction of Jingzhou City Wall in the Qing Dynasty.In this chapter,first of all,it makes a new research on whether Zhang Xianzhong destroyed Jingzhou City in the late Ming Dynasty,and concludes that Zhang Xianzhong didn’t have time to destroy the city at that time,and there was no need to destroy the city.Secondly,it focuses on the analysis of the changes in the internal structure of the ancient city caused by the establishment of eight banners garrison in Jingzhou during the reign of Kangxi.Thirdly,this chapter analyzes in detail the background of the ancient city wall damage and the specific process of reconstruction in the Qing Dynasty.Finally,the article summarizes the materials of the ancient city construction in Qing Dynasty discovered by archaeology since modern times.This paper,in chronological order,first summarizes the historical facts of the construction of the ancient city before Ming Dynasty,and then makes a detailed research on the construction process of the ancient city wall in Ming and Qing Dynasties,focusing on the analysis of the background and influence of the construction of the ancient city at that time,so as to show the construction history of the ancient city wall of Jingzhou in Ming and Qing Dynasties completely and clearly,and contribute to the construction history of the ancient city.