Suzhou ancient city wall museum is designed very interesting. It is located in the hollow part of the south section of Suzhou xiangmen city wall. If you don’t go through the gate, you won’t know that there is another heaven and earth inside. Of course, this section of the city wall we see now is built on the previous city wall ruins.
The visit to Suzhou ancient city wall museum is at noon. Few tourists come and go. The museum gives people a very quiet feeling. This is also a good time to visit the museum.
It is said that at the beginning of Suzhou’s construction, Wu Zixu, a doctor of the state of Wu in the spring and Autumn period, once “tasted water with earth, like heaven and earth”. Therefore, at the top and bottom of the prologue hall corridor, there is a map of stars and a map of canals respectively. At the end of the atrium is the brick carving of the monument of the painting of Pingjiang River in the Southern Song Dynasty (the authentic work is stored in the Confucian Temple). The right side of the wall is covered with various maps from the 34th year of Guangxu to the 38th year of the Republic of China. If you look closer, you will find that the details of the map are no less than some current technologies.
The prologue hall turns right to enter the second theme: the millennium of the city. Gu Jiegang, a famous historian, once highly praised Suzhou: as a big city in Jiangdong, the city walls of Suzhou are large-scale, noble, and outstanding, whether compared with China in various periods or with world-famous cities.
When it comes to the city wall, we have to talk about its materials. In the spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States period, the walls were not made of bricks. At that time, they were all made of mud. But it’s not fooled by ordinary mud. It’s exquisite. The so-called phase soil is to select the soil with better soil quality. If it is sand, it will be over as soon as the rain washes it. It’s not enough to have good soil. You have to keep beating to make the soil closely combine, which will form rammed earth and dense ramming pits. After thousands of years, the rammed earth has not been assimilated. It can be seen that the ancients were really cruel.
The most scheming exhibition hall is probably the city gate story exhibition hall on the second floor. It uses the door opening of the simulated city gate to embed the city gate Street View painting. At the same time, it arranges the eight ancient city gates in the spring and Autumn period according to the geographical orientation of Pingjiang map. It seems like crossing a millennium.
Speaking of city gates, if you carefully read the stories behind them, you will feel the massiness of history.
Walking out of the ancient city wall Museum, you might as well climb the city building to look far, or take a nap in tea. You will certainly feel that this history is left behind, except for shock.