Xiangyang Ancient City.

The ancient city of Xiangyang was established in the early Spring and Autumn period by the Chu State in the north of Jincheng, and has a history of over 2,000 years. Since the end of the Han Dynasty, Liu Biao moved Jingzhou here, and it has been a state, county, road, prefecture, and county government. The city wall was built in the Western Han Dynasty and was changed to a brick city in the Song Dynasty. The Xiangyang War in the Song and Yuan Dynasties and the "destruction of the city" in the Yuan Dynasty caused serious damage. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Wanzhang ordered a major repair, and the pattern was not fixed. Maintenance in the past dynasties. The inner layer is rammed earth, and the outer layer is city bricks. Since the Song Dynasty, various types of text bricks have been scattered among them, especially the "Hongwu 16th Year" city bricks. The city wall is 7,331 meters long, with an average height of 8 meters and a width of 5-15 meters. There are more than 4,000 crenels. There were originally six city gates. They were Dongmen Yangchunmen, Ximen Xichengmen, Nanmen Wenchangmen, Dabeimen Gongchenmen, Xiaobeimen Linhanmen, and Dongchangmen Zhenhuamen. There are moon cities (urn cities) outside each gate, and there are drawbridges in the east, west, and south gates. The city is north to the Han River as a pool, and the east, south, and west sides are carved with city moats. The moat is 130 meters to 250 meters wide, the widest in the country, and it is known as the "first city in China". Xiangyang has always been a battleground for military strategists, and more than 200 wars have occurred in history. However, Xiangyang City is based on the steepness of the mountain, the danger of the river, the high city and the deep pool, easy to defend and difficult to attack, known as the "iron Xiangyang". Ascend to the top of the city, the mountains and rivers are in sight, and you can enjoy the magnificent scenery of "Chu Mountain is out of the ground, and Han Shui connects to the sky". It was announced as a national key cultural relics protection unit in 2001, and is now included in the "China World Cultural Heritage Preliminary List" as "Ming and Qing City Walls".