Diaoyu City was originally known as Diaoyu Mountain, folk legend has it that when the ancient flood flooded, a giant god descended here to hold a rod and fish for a long time, and used fresh fish to help the victims, so the place name was obtained. The legend is beautiful, but it became famous because of the battle between Mongol and Song, which lasted for decades, and has always been talked about by history buffs.
In 1258 AD, the then Mongol Khan Meng Ge (Yuan Xianzong) launched a war to destroy the Song Dynasty and attacked Sichuan himself. Unexpectedly, the Mongol army could not attack the Diaoyu City for a long time, and Meng Ge was unexpectedly killed here. Upon hearing the news, the Mongol troops withdrew their troops and returned home, and fell into a dispute over the throne of the Khan, which allowed the Southern Song Dynasty to continue for another 20 years, and the European countries and the Arab world were able to recuperate. Interestingly, even after the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, Diaoyu City was not captured by the Mongol army, and finally negotiated with the Mongol army on the condition that not one person in the city be killed, and finally the resistance was terminated.
The battle for attack and defense of Diaoyu City is certainly full of pride, but many people who have seen it on the spot will feel disappointed. Because the Diaoyu City ruins as a scenic spot cover an area of only 2.5 kilometers, and the core area around the city is only 1 square kilometer, it is not practical to ensure that thousands of soldiers and civilians hold on to this area for more than 20 years. At present, most of the buildings in the ring city on the top of the mountain were actually built separately after the Yuan Dynasty, and the relics of the Song Dynasty were basically destroyed. When tourists first arrive at the Diaoyu City "Protecting the Country", many tour guides will boast, saying that the Song and Mongolian armies have experienced hundreds of wars at this gate. In fact, the current city gate and city wall are mainly built in the Qing Dynasty, and part of the city wall is still directly superimposed on the wall base of the Song Dynasty, which is recorded in the Qing Dynasty's "Hezhou Chronicles". Attentive visitors can find Song Dynasty wall foundations that are half a meter above the ground in the fields. Unlike the Qing Dynasty city wall, which was composed of square strip stones, the stones of the Song Dynasty city wall were occluded like a mortise and tenon structure, and the whole also had a certain slope.
There is a huge stone carved with a thousand hands Guanyin on the half slope near the three holy rocks of Xiyan and the ladder of heaven, in fact, in order to praise the memorial monument of Wang Jian, the main general of the Diaoyu City military and civilian defense of the city at that time, the Yuan Dynasty in order to eliminate the memory of the Southern Song Dynasty to clear the Diaoyu City, it was processed into a statue of art. Attentive visitors can also see the remnants of the inscription on both sides of the shrine: "Han ...... Across the ...... The Reverse Ugly Primer. Wang Gongjian supported half of the wall with a pillar of the fish platform ......". As for the military traffic lifeline in the core urban area, the "racetrack" and other things are only modern tourist facilities, and the viewing value is not high.
Because of the city wall of the Qing Dynasty, it gives people the illusion that the Diaoyu City has been since the Song Dynasty, and the sense of asymmetry with history is often disappointing.
In 2004, the archaeological team of Chongqing Cultural Heritage Research Institute stationed in Hechuan for investigation and research, after more than ten years of efforts, the Southern Song Dynasty City, the Navy Wharf, Fanjiayan Southern Song Dynasty Government Office and other important sites have been unearthed. The Southern Song Dynasty's Diaoyu City defense system slowly unveiled its mystery - more than 20 square kilometers of the Diaoyu City Peninsula were included in it. The Diaoyu Mountain on the peninsula has many cliffs tens of meters high, and walls are built on the cliffs, forming a fire intersection with the sub-fortresses of the surrounding important hills; The Jialing River, Qujiang River and Fujiang River are intersected, and Diaoyu City is surrounded by water on the south, north and west sides, with a natural moat; The east of Diaoyu City is connected to the land, and there is a natural gully about 2 kilometers long and more than 20 meters wide, which hinders the Mongolian army from forming an effective large-scale assault group; The larger Diaoyu City Peninsula also became the "granary" of the defenders, laying the foundation for the long-term defense of the Diaoyu City.
Tourists can vaguely see the remnants of the south wall foundation when they look down the river at the Bodaoling River in Diaoyu City, which is the remains of the "one-word city" of the Song Dynasty that runs through the north and south of the Diaoyu City Peninsula. The design of this city wall connects the two naval wharves in the north and south of the Jialing River, and revitalizes the entire ancient Diaoyu City. The site of Fanjiayan is the location of the Hezhou government office (war command center) during the Mengsong War, a secondary platform hidden in the mountain col, when the Mongolian army looked up at the bottom of the mountain, it was difficult to find here, and it was difficult to attack the government office with artillery fire, bows and arrows. The ruins are surrounded by cliffs, and there are walls built on the cliffs, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack, which shows that its site selection is exquisite.
Stroll through the Diaoyu City, savor a large number of poems and inscriptions left by the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, watch the ruins of the Song Dynasty and even the ancient buildings built by the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and have a deeper understanding of the history of the Diaoyu City.
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