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Ancient Sentry city

Early Ming dynasty Hongwu, court set up defend place in coastal countrywide to defend enemy, due to set up in Dacheng, later called Sentry city for short. In 1394 established by Hou Gushi, present square, build by laying bars and stones, city wall height is two chi and seven zhang, surrounding is 643 zhang, around dig moat, moat and city together 53 zhang, divide east, west, south and north four city gate, build layer building over city gate, city wall foursquare set enemy emplacement. Area of whole city is 2,600 mu., In the past there were three streets and six lanes, street is one zhang five chi wide, paved with flagstone, remove and move in 1644, recover seven year, rebuild in Kang Xi 8. According to 《Chaozhou mansion record》 record: “ Suocheng named Da Suo city, set 2 Qian Hu , 3 vice Qian Hu, 10 Bai Hu, flag army corps 1,223; various army weapon 5,457.

At present, four city gate still exist, east and west city wall especially integrate, is the most integrate ancient castle preserved in Chaoshan area. Rank as Raoping county cultural relics protection unit in 1981, 2002 rank as Guangdong province important cultural relics protection unit.


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