Walking on the streets of Shenzhen, you can see rows of high-rise buildings. The traffic on the road is endless, and even pedestrians on the roadside are in a hurry. This is a modern urban scene. The rumored small fishing village can't be found even if you dig three feet. Although some people are unfair recently, behind today's prosperity, what its predecessor looks like seems insignificant.
Shenzhen is nicknamed Pengcheng, but few people know its origin. From the urban area, go eastbound along the coastal highway. After more than an hour's drive, pass through the tourist-like Meisha, arrive at Dapeng Peninsula between Dapeng Bay and Daya Bay, and get off at a small station. Further along the path, through a chaotic modern shops and houses, a city gate appears in front of you, that is, the city of Dapeng. There is no doubt that this is what Shenzhen is called? Pengcheng? The origin of.
Although the city is not high, the mottled stones and city bricks reveal that it has a history of at least a hundred years, but it is still as strong as ever after countless storms. The tower stands today and is the best preserved of the four gates in the southeast and northwest. Several cannons between the streams on both sides of the strait have long been rusty, and only when they are photographed by tourists can they regain their former prestige.
This one? Dapeng defends the city of thousands of households? As early as when Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, he was already guarding here. In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, there were many battles against Japan. The anti-Qing struggle in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties lasted for ten years. It also made great contributions to the Opium War in the late Qing Dynasty.
The History of the City of Dapeng is a patriotic epic of China in the Ming and Qing Dynasties and modern times to resist foreign aggression. Many health centers along the southeast coast that once fought side by side with them have long been in ruins, and even no trace can be found, but they are well preserved, telling their sufferings and achievements to future generations.
Because of its inherent military use, this small ancient city has no towers, no county government and city god temple, and even shops are hard to find. Almost all the streets and alleys in the city are full of twists and turns, which is convenient for street fighting. In the past, there were only the ruins of the general headquarters and the garrison, leaving only a few generals and chiefs of staff.
Walk along the alley paved with bluestone slabs and pass an old house with blue bricks and gray tiles. The gate stands? What is a mighty general? The plaque is the largest mansion in the ancient city. Although it is a war, there are not many complicated buildings, but the whole mansion still has dozens of houses and halls, which is very spectacular. In particular, there are many plaques, which are rare large-scale ancient buildings in Guangdong Province.
Is the owner of General Wei Zhen the Fifth General of Dapeng Three Lai? The most outstanding Lord Ryan. He led the people to win the first battle of the Opium War-the Battle of Kowloon, which is very rare in the modern history of China. Unfortunately, such a victory was almost negligible under the overall situation of the late Qing Dynasty. After the defeat of the Opium War, Hong Kong and Kowloon Peninsula were successively occupied by Britain, and Dapeng City was also affected, abolished or even abandoned.
In front of the mansion, stood a listless man in Qing dynasty costume and leaning on a pike? Bing Yong? Imagine that era of blood, such a mental outlook is definitely impossible to fight. Today's Dapeng City is no longer heavily guarded. Residents who are far away from the war live leisurely in dilapidated old houses. They are probably planning to leave here as soon as possible and move to a bustling city hundreds of miles away. In previous lives, I'm afraid only tourists from afar would talk about homesickness.