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Xiangyu Ancient Fortress

2024-01-16

Xiangyu Ancient Castle is located in Xiangyu Village, Zhengcun Town, southeast of Qingshui County, Jincheng City, which is the hometown of the brothers Sun Jusiang, the Minister of Households, and Sun Dingxiang, the right deputy royal inspector of Duqia Academy in the Chongzhen Period of the Ming Dynasty. Fort has more than 400 years of history, it is characterized by exquisite wood carvings, brick carvings, stone carvings and high-rise buildings and military defense system, by the experts as "the first Ming Dynasty in northern China, the first ancient fortress". Inside the city, there are marshal's house, school martial arts yard, double flower garden, a glance at the building, inviting the moon building, private school courtyard, embroidery building courtyard and other ancient buildings. The overall layout of the streets and lanes is "three horizontal and nine vertical", and the floor plan shows the shape of "chessboard", which implies that this place is "the root residence of all things", reflecting the ancient fortress". Chess is a good move", also fully in line with the fort owner Sun's brothers "righteousness and straight talk" character and "iron face of the Imperial Household" identity. Overview of the Fort, it is a set of yin and yang gossip, military defense in one of the north of the mysterious Fort, is the pinnacle of the Qin River Basin fifty-four Fort.