The story about Xiangxi can't be finished in three days and nights. What is it this time? Ruins? It is located in Lingxi Town, more than 20 kilometers east of Yongshun County, Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture. Originally called Fuji Cheng, now called Lao Si Cheng. It is a national 4A-level scenic spot and a part of the world cultural heritage list.
Yongshun ancient town is extremely secretive. In the past, land was not convenient to reach, and rivers became the main traffic channel.
The old division city was built on the mountain, with dangerous terrain, easy to defend but difficult to attack, and fully considered the defense needs when building the city.
From the pier to Laosicheng, the scenery is beautiful.
The hills on both sides of the river are karst landforms, which have a little taste of Guilin landscape.
As the boat went on, the scenery kept changing. Fortunately, we are very lucky. When we came, blue sky and white clouds made the scenery more beautiful.
During the Hou Liang period of the Five Dynasties, that is, in 9 10, Peng Ying served as the secretariat of Xizhou, and became a hereditary toast because he was deeply loved by the people. What is toast? Is an ancient official position, equivalent to the tribal leaders of ethnic minorities.
More than two hundred years after Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty, Peng Fu Shi Chong, who served as the toast, felt that the toast was restrained by Chenzhou forces and made up his mind to move it to Fushi County in Lingxi, and build a city by the mountains and rivers. In the Ming Dynasty, the old city was rebuilt, and the relics we see now are basically works of that time.
Nowadays, Yongshun Laosicheng has completely lost sight of its former prosperity, leaving only ditches, broken walls and rocks.
Did you have it at the peak of the old city? 3,000 households in the city and 800 households outside the city? Known as the famous Tusi King City in Xiangxi, it is divided into Inner Luocheng and Outer Luocheng. Its eight streets and ten lanes crisscross, and the business in the city is prosperous.
The old city occupies a favorable position, and you can look into the distance from a height. Once in danger, you can easily defend the enemy, but you can't beat it. You can escape by water or into the vast forest, so that you won't find the enemy everywhere.
Although today's old Sicheng is only a large-scale ruin, the context of the city is still clear, and the drainage system is the most praised by tourists. In the distant Southern Song Dynasty, it is really valuable to design a complicated and easy-to-use drainage system.
Although the building is not what it used to be, we can still feel Peng's sense of hardship and geomantic considerations when he built the city through the solid wall and narrow doorway.
Yongshun Laosicheng is divided into government office area, palace area, street area, garden area and tomb area, in which the palace area is built in the north of the city, high in the northeast and low in the southwest, with a wall thickness of one meter. Yamen District covers an area of 8762.4 square meters, located in the middle of the central city, connected with the living area, and functions a bit like the county yamen in the Han culture area, while the streets and lanes are where ordinary people live. Up to now, several streets and lanes are still well preserved.