In the first year of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty, a gate called Dajingmen was built in this long city.
The wall of Dajingmen is 12m high, 13m long and 9m wide.
The outer side of the coupon hole is 5.4 meters high.
6 meters wide.
The inside is 9.5 meters high and 6.8 meters wide. This is a brick arch, based on stone.
Among the numerous passes of the Great Wall in Wan Li, Dajingmen is a very special pass.
Academic circles at home and abroad have included it in the pass as important as Shanhaiguan, Juyongguan and Jiayuguan.
All the passes in China of the Great Wall in Wan Li are called "Guan" and "Kou", but the pass in Zhangjiakou is called "Jingmen", which contains the charm of "Shang culture" and "Wu culture" and the historical origin of national integration.
From the fifth year of Qin Long in Ming Dynasty, Yuanbaoshan area outside Dajingmen in Zhangjiakou gradually formed a border trade market called "Gongshi" and "Tea-Horse Exchange" in history.
Livestock, furs, medicinal materials, woolen goods and silverware from Mongolian grassland and hinterland of Europe were replaced by silk, tea, porcelain and sugar here, and Dajingmen became the inland port of international barter trade in northern China.
The feudal dynasty was bounded by the harmonious gate, and foreigners doing business could only trade outside the city.
"Border gate" means the border gate.
1927, Governor Gao of Chahar wrote four characters "Great Rivers and Mountains" on the lintel of Dajingmen, which was vigorous and spectacular, adding charm to Dajingmen.
Dajingmen, located between the towering East and West Taiping Mountains, is the hub of the Great Wall and the border crossing.
There are sometimes auspicious clouds around the moon, and merchants gather; The war was filled with smoke and many lives were lost.
It used to be a bustling inland port and a battleground for military strategists.
War and peace, life and death, prosperity and desolation are repeated here.
Dajingmen has experienced vicissitudes and is a witness to the history of Zhangjiakou. Many important historical events are closely related to Dajingmen.
Dajingmen not only witnessed the poverty and weakness of old China, but also witnessed the prosperity of new China and the historical changes of Zhangjiakou beyond the Great Wall.
Zhangjiakou people are proud of Dajingmen, and Dajingmen has naturally become a symbol of Zhangjiakou.
In modern history, the Dajingmen area was once the focus of war, whether it was the first revolutionary civil war or the second revolutionary civil war, whether it was War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression or the liberation war.
Zhangjiakou is the first big city recaptured by the Eighth Route Army led by China from the Japanese invaders. The historical footage of the Eighth Route Army bravely entering the city in front of Dajing is a true record of the anti-fascist victory in the Eastern Battlefield in World War II.
"Second Yan 'an", "Oriental Model City" and "Famous Cultural City" ... all these are the glory of Zhangjiakou City.
65438+ 1948 Liberation War On February 23, our people wiped out Fu's army of more than 50,000 people outside the great border, which opened the prelude to the victory of the Peiping-Tianjin campaign.
After liberation, the people of China took Beijing as their capital.
Zhangjiakou is located at the crossroads and naturally becomes the north gate of the capital.
In the 1960s, Sino-Soviet relations were once tense. According to Chairman Mao's instructions of "preparing for the people's famine" and "digging deep holes, accumulating grain extensively and not seeking hegemony", Zhangjiakou soldiers and civilians built an amazing underground steel Great Wall to resist the enemy's nuclear attack under the high mountains.
The underground Great Wall starts from Dajingmen in the east and reaches Wanquan County in the west, with a total length of 10 kilometers. Consistent with the direction of the Ming Great Wall on the West Taiping Mountain. Like the Great Wall on the ground, it is also a military defense project.