Weiyuan Fort is not as long as the Great Wall and as beautiful as the Yangtze River, but it can make you forget the hustle and bustle of downtown temporarily, close your eyes, bask in the sun, feel the sound of the waves with your heart, let your thoughts take you into the tunnel of time and feel the tranquility and details brought by a distant history.
This hot spot in our hearts is the beginning of China's modern history, which started the war against foreign invaders and the prelude of China people's modern anti-aggression struggle.
Weiyuan Fort is located in the southwest beach in front of Nanshan, Weiyuan Island, Humen, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province. It is an extension of Nanshan Fort. Nanshan Fort was built in the 56th year of Kangxi (AD 17 17). In order to strengthen Guangdong's coastal defense, in the 15th year of Daoguang (AD 1835), Deng Tingzhen and Guan Tianpei agreed to build a 60-foot-wide concrete platform with 40 gun emplacements in front of the original platform. Formerly known as Nanshan Weiyuantai, later referred to as Weiyuanbao. In the twenty-first year of Daoguang (184 1), on February 26th, the British troops gathered to storm Weiyuan, and hundreds of officers and men fought bravely and died heroically with the British invaders. The fortress was destroyed after the fall. It was rebuilt in the 23rd year (1843), and was destroyed by the British again in the 6th year of Xianfeng (1856)/October/6th of kloc-0, and was restored by Governor Zhang Shusheng in the 8th year of Guangxu (1882).
Weiyuan Fortress is connected with Zhenyuan Fortress and Jingyuan Fortress, and it is the "lock throat bone" of the Pearl River. The fortress is magnificent and has a half-moon plane, with a total length of 360 meters, a height of 6.2 meters and a width of 7.6 meters. The bottom floor is made of granite, with a width of 0.3m and a length of 1.5m, and the top floor is compacted with concrete. There are 40 concealed gun emplacements at the top of the ticket, each 2.9 meters high, 4.2 meters wide and 6.6 meters deep. There are four open-air positions along the table, and there is a storage room on both sides of each gun position. Behind the hidden gun hole, there is a 2-meter-wide open-air gun lane. Behind the gun lane, there is a retaining wall at a distance of more than 2 meters, and there are gun holes on the wall. In case the enemy goes to the island, he can still resist. There are 1 official hall, 3 temples, 12 armory, 1 pharmacy, 1 wharf in the battery. It turns out that there are 1 doors at the east and west ends of the battery, which control the only access at both ends of the battery. The whole battery has a mountain and a sea, and there is a broad flat swing inside, which is rigorous in structure and full of dangers.
Weiyuan Fortress is one of the main defensive forts in Humen and Haikou, which played an important role in the Opium War. In this hot land, it was soaked with the blood of martyrs, condensed the patriotic feelings of the military and civilians, wrote a glorious chapter of the Chinese nation, and wrote an epic and tragic story.
Listen to the wind by the sea under this historical monument, feel the elegance of the historic site, and let the soul and history make a quiet and beautiful trip.