That sour summer was soaked with sweat and tears.

Say goodbye to youth

Struggle out of the overwhelming exercise.

Finally, in August, Wei may only take a few more subway stops.

Most of us boarded the train to a foreign land.

I vaguely remember people once called that place: Jiankang Jinling.

Now it has a louder name-Nanjing.

Some people say that the best way to understand a city is to go to its museums, and to understand the stone city of Nanjing, it is best to start with the city walls. ...

"After 600 years of vicissitudes, there is no second city in the world."

Nanjing, as the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, suffered many wars, but it also rebuilt its prosperity from the ruins.

The Nanjing City Wall, built in the 26th year from Yuan Dynasty to Zheng Zheng (1366), has witnessed many unique Nanjing memories.

Nanjing City Wall generally refers to the Ming City Wall of Nanjing, including Miyagi, Imperial City, Beijing, WaiGuo Cheng and the capital of Ming Dynasty. Today, it refers to the well-preserved city wall, which is the longest, largest and best-preserved ancient city wall in the world. 1988 1 is listed as the national key cultural relics protection unit, and 20 12 1 1 is listed as the national "China Ming and Qing city wall" project leader.

During the defending war of Nanjing in June 65438+February 0937 +65438, China defenders relied on the terrain of Nanjing, made use of fortifications and bunkers built before the war, and made use of the ancient city walls built in the early Ming Dynasty, which caused great losses to the Japanese army. It is hard to imagine that hundreds of years later, the vicissitudes of the old city wall can still play a role, which greatly hindered the Japanese occupation of Nanjing, which is inseparable from the ingenuity of Ming craftsmen. Ma Shenglong of the Ming Dynasty wrote in Notes on Phoenix Terrace: "Taizu built the capital and blocked it with lime porridge." When Zhu Yuanzhang built the Nanjing city wall, craftsmen used lime and sorghum porridge to increase the solidification between the city bricks and the city bars. So even now, the city walls are still magnificent and solid.

The three gates of Nanjing City Wall, namely Zhonghua Gate, Guanghua Gate and Zhongshan Gate, are the three places with the fiercest fighting. The bullet holes and craters left on the wall of Zhonghua Gate are enough to make people imagine the cruelty and tragic war of that year, and countless Chinese sons and daughters such as Li Lanchi and Situfei emerged to fight bravely. Nowadays, with the changes of times, Nanjing has become the first international peaceful city in China, and has made unremitting efforts to promote the building of a community of human destiny and work together to build a world of lasting peace and universal security.

City walls, such as Nanjing, have a long history, but they also contain young people.

In an era when material conditions are not rich, the city wall is the people's support. The surrounding houses like to be built on one side of the wall, so that a whole wall can be built less, and some residents simply live in the cave of the city gate. At that time, the top of the city wall was abandoned and will also be used for farming.

Almost every native of Nanjing will have a memory of climbing the city wall and drilling the city gate.

Unconsciously, the Ming city wall has stood upright in the dust of history for more than 600 years, seen prosperity and experienced decline. It was infiltrated by the sweat of masons and dyed red by the blood of soldiers who defended it. Now it has become the most irreplaceable city card in Nanjing. Even if it has lost its defensive function, it should not become a stone wall that can only be seen from a distance with the passage of time, and it is free from the life of Nanjing people.

For more than 600 years, history has roared over Jinling City. Tall buildings have sprung up, buses and subways have appeared, and people's lifestyles have changed with each passing day. Only the city wall is still there.

In the eyes of Nanjing people, the long city wall is the historical charm of a string of cities. It used to be a safety barrier to protect the people on one side, but now it has quietly witnessed the rise and fall of the city after several storms.

Every step is history.

Looking out from the Zhonghua Gate

Crossing the city built on the south bank of Qinhuai River

It marks the history of Nanjing for nearly 2500 years.

Every name has a story.

Surrounded by mountains and waters, built by the city, the scenery is continuous.

You have to go through the toilet gate, Zhongshan gate and jubao gate.

You look for the ancient stone city, Taicheng and the Ming Palace.

You have climbed Liang Qingshan, Fu Guishan and Lion Mountain.

Why don't you come to Nanjing to see the city walls?

Take a walk under the city wall and you will walk out of the life of Nanjing people.