More than 200 years later, in the last years of the Liang Dynasty (AD 548-552), the Hou Jing Rebellion took place. During the siege, Hou Jing wantonly set fire to houses, temples, buildings and doors, introduced Xuanwu Lake into Taicheng, and the defenders burned the East Palace and Taidian, thus destroying the prosperous Jiankang City.
Chen Chao, the last dynasty in the Southern Dynasties, also failed to escape the fate of the country and the city. Chen Zhenming three years in the first month, the sui dynasty destroyed Chen. Emperor Wendi of the Sui Dynasty wrote a letter to "cultivate" Jiankang, so all the capitals, counties and counties of Jiankang were razed to the ground, and all the buildings such as yamen and palaces were demolished, and the Six Dynasties became ruins. Professor Hu said that the destruction of the city is a great disaster in Nanjing. Except for a small site of the Six Dynasties found in the Nantu New Museum in recent years, the ground buildings of the Six Dynasties are rarely seen in the main city of Nanjing, and even the specific location of the Six Dynasties Palace is difficult to verify.
Historical sites were destroyed in the fire.
After entering the Southern Song Dynasty, Nanjing was no longer the capital, but its special geographical position made it suffer from the disaster of destroying the city again. 1129-1130, Jin Dynasty general Jin Wushu led an army to attack the south of Song Dynasty. 1 130 in April, nomadic people captured a large number of Jiankang residents and a large number of gold and silver treasures, set fire to the city, and the whole city was reduced to ashes.
The fifth city destruction in the history of Nanjing took place during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. 1853 In March, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom army captured Jiangning (now Nanjing), and another day Beijing became the capital. Beneath the surface, it is a great destruction to Nanjing: in order to build the magnificent Tianwangfu and many other palaces, the materials of the Ming Palace and many temples were demolished; 1856, in the "Tianjing conflict", the Mingda Hongji glass tower, which was "higher than the sky and visible dozens of miles away", was blown up by Wei Changhui. What is even more painful is that in July 1864, the Xiang army of Zeng Guopan invaded Tianjing, looted it and set it on fire for seven days and seven nights, and nine times out of ten the houses in the city were burned down. "Ten years of splendor in the Heavenly Palace has turned into wild pigeons flying in deserted villages", and those buildings and cultural relics that have survived from generation to generation have almost been wiped out by the whole army.
The city was last destroyed in modern times. 1937 12 13. The Japanese invaders captured Nanjing. More than a month later, the Japanese army carried out a terrible massacre and crazy cultural plunder in Nanjing. The Japanese army also set fires everywhere in Nanjing. One third of the buildings in the city and as many as130,000 houses were destroyed in the fire, and many cultural buildings such as ancient houses and Confucius Temple in the south of the city were almost in ruins.