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the city wall of Najing
The city wall of Najing was built 600years ago by the founding emperor of Ming dynasty.
Najing, the capital city of Jiangsu province, owns splendid culture of more than 5000 years and glorious history as the capital of ten dynasties, however, the dynasties founding a capital in Nanjing almost are small ,short-lived ones .Having experienced too much rise and fall, honor and disgrace ,Nanjing became a city with distinctive qualities.
the state of emperors
There was a famous strategist named Zhuge Liang who came to Nanjing and said:”The Purple Mountain is curling in the east like a dragon,the Stone Mountain is like a crouching tiger towering in the west,It’s just the residence of emperor.”The city is indeed a precious place just for kings and emperors.In the history,there were 10 political power choosing Najing as the capital for their dynasties.About 1800years ago,a man named Sun Quan who is the first king who found a capital in Nanjing established the dynasty of eastern Wu.His tomb is just located in the Purple Mountain.In 1376,Zhu Yuanzhang,the founding emperor of Ming, the eighth dynasty in Nanjing,began to build his own tomb at the same location.A minister suggested the emperor moving Sun Quan’s tomb away,but the emperor refused and said:”Sun Quan is also a hero and I want him to be my
Pixiu a mythical wild animal
Pixiu said in ancient times is a mythical wild animal.It was very brave and marching boldly forward when it heard the sound of war drum. concierge.”
The tomb of Zhu Yuanzhang was listed in the world cuture heritage by UNESCO. the tomb of Sun Quan with plum fully planted was known as the “plum blossom hill”and covered with florid blossoms in the early spring nowadays.
In the capital city ,there were many emperors and kings of out standing ability,however much more emperors who is muddleheaded and insufficient , extravagant and dissipated. Xiao Yan,the founding emperor of Liang,the fifth dynasty in Najing, was crazy in Buddhism.He had run into the temple to be a monk four times and build numerous temples during his life time,some of which existed until today.However his piety hadn’t brought him good fortune ,when the insurgent troops controlled the city,the emperor starved in his own palace.
The last emperor of Chen ,the sixth dynasties in Najing was much more absurd.He was so dissipated that the only thing he can do when the enemy broke in was to hide in a well with his concubine.We still can find the very well in the Jilong hill in the downtown area of Najing.
Li Yu,the last emperor of The Southern Tang,the seventh dynasty in Najing,was a talented poet and insufficient emperor.He became a prisoner after his country was annexed,while his poem was widely spread and became a peak of poetic perfection.The tomb of his father and his grandfather emperor is in Najing,while he was killed in strange land.There were so much insufficient governors that the dynasties with Najing as the canpital were almost small ones with short life and chaos caused by war.
Land of beautiful women
In the history,beautiful women was as famous as emperors in Najing.There is a winding river named Qinhuai River flowing through the city bringing transportation and trade and nourishing the culture of the city.The riverside became the most prosperous place for noble people, rich merchants and men of letters to gather as well as find some enjoyment.There were geisha playing and singing in the well painted boats shuttleing back and forth in river and tower built by the riverside.Some of them was not only charming and superb in her art but also with noble spirit. you can find their stories in folk legend, literary masterpiece and even official history. Of course ,It became the place where the prostitute gathered in the darkling era.
City of killing
Najing is a city of heroes and beauties ,however ,it is also the most miserable city in china.Alternation of dynasties unavoidably brought chaos and death and the capital city deeply feeling the shift of rise and down was always suffered the most,
.Najing,the ancient city have experienced too much, there is neither perpetual glory nor extinctive disaster for her.Dec.13th.1937,the Japanese army broke in Najing and slaughtered 300,000 unarmed civilian.They carried on murder competition,commited rape and cut open pregnant women’s abdomen to fetch the living babies just for entertainment.That was the most humiliated days in china’s history.
Nanjing ,just like a beautiful and miserable woman, have owned proud and Gloria and experienced many unfortunate,but she still remains beautiful.She is sad but still energetic.the city is dotted with lacks and rivers with good forestation.There are the longest city wall in the world,the traditional Chinese architecture of various styles,exquizit carved stones and delicate gardens,which are the marvelous treasure belonged to china and the world.We can always find historical markings deeply carved into the skin of the modernized city.
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