The bridge buildings in Wenzhou have experienced thousands of years of wind and rain. It seems that the most beautiful time was February of Song Jianyian's fourth year (1 129). It was an era of war. Jinbing invaded the Central Plains and soon captured Bianjing (now Kaifeng). The fatuous Huidi and Qin have been captured. Kang Wang Zhao Gou (nine sons of Song Huizong) fought overseas, supported ten thousand people, proclaimed himself emperor, and was called the Southern Song Dynasty. After moving south to Yangzhou as the capital. Nomads from the Yellow River crossed again, cut the Song Dynasty on a large scale, chased and fled Yangzhou in a hurry, passing through Zhenjiang and Suzhou and Hangzhou, and was forced to continue south after Jin and Ming, passing through Yuezhou and Mingzhou, and finally arrived in Wenzhou and lived in Fusaiji. Wenzhou satrap Lu Zhiyuan and scholar-bureaucrat Xue Bi asked Gaozong to move into the county seat. On February 17 of the lunar calendar, Emperor Gaozong moved from Jiangxin to Wenzhou, and Royal Guards entered from Gongbeimen (now Shuomen). Father and ordinary people made flowers, burned incense to welcome him, and then passed through the main street, Wuma Street and Xinjie Street, and passed through the dead building to stay in Dazhouzhi (Wenzhou Yamen), and changed the Zhouzhi Yamen into a palace.
When the historical rings rolled to the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongolian aristocratic rulers were afraid of the confrontation of the Han people, so they ordered all the cities in the country to be demolished, and the inner and outer cities of Wenzhou were not spared. In the 13th year of Yuan Dynasty (1353), its east, west and north walls and three gates were all destroyed, and only the Nancheng Pagoda was preserved.