Brief introduction of Tongshan ancient city

Tongshan Ancient City was built in the 2th year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1387). At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of Ming Dynasty, sent Jiang Xiahou and Zhou Dexing to patrol the southeast coast to build a city and a village. History: In that year, Zhou Dexing visited Dongshan Island, selected important places, recruited migrant workers, laid stones near the sea and built a city around the mountains. The city is 571 feet long and 2.1 feet high, with four gates in the east, west, north and south, 864 walls on the city, 16 bunkers, dozens of cannons and water villages. And take one word from each of the two village names "Tongbo" and "Dongshan" next to each other to form the "Tongshan" city. For a time, it joined with the beacon fire in Funing, the pavilion in Lianjiang, Nanri in Xinghua and Wuyu in Quanzhou to form the five water villages defending Xinjiang in China.

Dongshan Island, the ancient city of Tongshan, is one of the famous scenic spots in Fujian Province. The provincial government has approved it as a provincial tourism economic development zone. Here, the bay is vast, the beach is flat, the trees are shaded, and there are many scenic spots, which are very characteristic of southern coastal scenery.

Dongshan Island was called Tongshan in ancient times. Tongshan Ancient City is located in Tongling Town, northeast of Dongshan Island, 158km away from Zhangzhou City. In the 2th year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1387), in order to defend against Japanese invasion, Jiangxia Hou Zhou Dexing set up a water village in Shilei City to defend coastal defense. The ancient city has been baptized by wars several times, and now it is dependent on the glory and the towers are magnificent. In the ancient city, there is an exquisite and elegant Guandi Temple, also known as Wu Temple, which was built in the 22nd year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1389). The temple gate is called "Prince Pavilion", which is a pavilion with a glazed tile roof of a palace structure. The figures carved in wood and stone in the temple are vividly displayed. The birds and animals cut and pasted with colored porcelain are lifelike. On both sides of the temple gate, there are several rafters, which are the birthplace of Huang Daozhou. On the seashore cliff near Guandi Temple, there is a huge stone weighing about 2 tons, which looks like a jade rabbit squatting, and the bottom touches only a few inches. The wind blows the stone and it is crumbling, so it is named pneumatic stone. This stone is listed as "the best stone in the world" in "The Best of World Geography". There is another stone nearby, which looks like a monk dressed in cassock and devoting himself to worship. In front of it is a pagoda across the sea, which is a wonderful sight of "stone monks worshiping the pagoda". There is a natural cave on the seashore outside the east gate of the ancient city, which looks like a tiger's mouth, deep and refreshing, and there are clear springs dripping from the cracks, so it is named tiger cavity dripping jade. In the northwest of the ancient city, Jiuxian Mountain stands in the sea, where Qi Jiguang, a famous anti-Japanese soldier in the Ming Dynasty, and Zheng Chenggong, a national hero, once camped and trained naval officers. At the top of the mountain, a huge stone engraved with "Yaotai Xianjiao" was the water platform of that year, surrounded by ancient banyan trees, and the roots of the trees climbed between the cracks, which made the scenery unique. Flourishing and flourishing.