Pingyao, Shanxi Image-Photo Album-ccnpic


	The ancient city of Pingyao in Shanxi Province, is one with 2,700 years of history and cultural city, is currently the best preserved ancient city, one of the four is present, China's only city to declare the whole success of the World Heritage ancient town. Pingyao formerly known as "ancient pottery", the early Ming Dynasty, in order to defense the South alien interference, built walls, Hongwu years (AD 1370) in the old wall was further fortified building on the basis of re-expansion, and at a comprehensive package bricks. After Jing, Cheng-te, Jiajing, Longqing and Wanli generations carried out 10 times in the conversion and repair, update towers, additional enemy units. Kangxi forty-three years (AD 1703) the West, the emperor patrol passing Pingyao, which built the four large towers, so that even more spectacular fortresses. The total circumference of 6163 meters Pingyao city walls, wall height of about 12 meters, the area of about 2.25 square kilometers in Pingyao County, one of two different styles across the world. Walls within the street, pavement, city floor to retain the Ming and Qing shape; walls, said outside the Metro. This is an ancient and modern architecture all into one off each other, it is endless reveries of the good land. [Back]