Where is the wooden doorway today?

Mumen Road is the road for transporting wood through the gorge gate. There is now Li County in Longnan and Qinzhou in Tianshui.

Mumendao is the place where the famous general Zhang He died in battle. Luobao Village near Yanguan Town in Li County is connected to the wooden road in Mudan Township. Its geographical location is basically consistent with the ancient wooden door road recorded in historical books. In other words, the Mumen Ancient Road covers a wide area, with Tianshui and Li County each occupying half. Mumen Road is located in Mumen Village, Mudan Township, southwest of Qinzhou District. There are majestic mountains facing each other to the east and west, with thousands of walls and empty valleys standing in front of each other, like a natural portal. The east side of Mumen Village is Wangjialiang Mountain and Zhangjiaping, and the west side is Xuanmaoliang. In the canyon, the Chooni River flows into the Xihan River from north to south. There is only a small channel in the narrow part of the canyon. There is a great general who can guard the pass, and no one can stop it. Such a unique place is absolutely suitable for ancient war conditions. There are two local theories about the origin of the place name Mumen Road. One theory is that in ancient times, the forest here was dense and the timber resources were abundant. Birds and beasts often appeared here. The local people had to pass this road to traffic the cut timber into the city, so it was named Mumen Road. Another story is that in the second year of Jianning in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Qiang people were defeated and fled eastward. They reunited in Shehu Valley and divided their troops to guard the upper and lower gates of the valleys. Ying Gui destroyed them in one fell swoop. Not wanting to disperse them again, he sent thousands of people to Xixian County to build a wooden fence, twenty paces wide and forty miles long, to cover it... See "The Book of the Later Han·Biography of Duan Ying" . The wooden door road has been an important passage from Jieting and Shangluo (the ancient name of Tianshui) to the south of Qishan since ancient times. More than 1,700 years ago, Shu Prime Minister Zhuge Liang strategized here and commanded the Shu army to fight with ease. After Ma Su lost his street pavilion in pain, he calmly and passionately defeated the Wei soldiers during the retreat, and shot and killed the famous Wei general Zhang He on the wooden door road. . Therefore, a small place that was originally unknown has gradually become famous in people's eyes with the development of local tourism culture. Due to the defeat of the Shu army in the Battle of Jieting, Zhuge Liang devalued himself, thus making Zhang He famous. At this time, the great situation of Shu, which Zhuge Liang had worked so hard to manage, was suddenly lost, and he had to retreat to Hanzhong. Zhang He became the Shu army's most formidable opponent, so Zhuge Liang was eager to put him to death. In 231 AD, the Shu army finally had the opportunity to take revenge. During Zhuge Liang's four expeditions against Wei, he ordered Shu general Wei Yan to lead 10,000 horses and 1,000 archers to set up an ambush in the Mumen Road Canyon, luring Wei's famous general Zhang He into this road. He was defeated by the Shu army ambushing here, and Zhang He was hit by an arrow. He died and was buried on the peak of the canyon. The dense forests of the past in the canyon have long since disappeared. There is only a drum-shaped stone mountain with a height of 8 meters and a top area of ??27 square meters. It is oval in shape and is commonly known as the stone drum. According to legend, it was the drum beating platform used by Zhuge Liang to command battles on the top of the mountain. Virtues have passed away, stars have fallen and they have fallen to the bottom. On the east side of Mumen Road, there are Ambush Bay and Shuanma Bay in Zhangjiaping. Legend has it that the Shu army set up an ambush against the Wei army. When local farmers were farming, ancient weapons were constantly being unearthed from the soil. The most common ones were arrowheads and spearheads, and occasionally other weapons. Those ancient objects, buried for thousands of years, exude a faint blue light under the sun, and also exude the wind-like traces of ancient meaning that have been isolated for a long time due to time.

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