What are the characteristics of the ancient city wall in Xi 'an?

The characteristics are: Xi 'an ancient buildings are represented by Ming city walls, with Bell and Drum Tower and Wild Goose Pagoda as examples, with wood and brick as the main building materials and wood frame structure as the main structural mode.

Mainly in civil engineering, it is related to the artistic conception of "love wood" in China's traditional ancient buildings. Even if the ancient buildings left behind are masonry structures, a considerable part of them are imitation wood, such as the Big Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi 'an. With the passage of time, civil buildings are prone to decay and moth-eaten, and are flammable and have poor water resistance.

Extended data

Xi 'an City Wall is the largest and most intact ancient city wall in China.

The existing city wall was built in the Ming Dynasty, with a total length of 13.7 km. It was founded in Ming Taizu Hongwu for three years (1370) and completed in Hongwu for eleven years (1378). It was established under the guidance of Ming Taizu's policy of "building high walls, accumulating grain and becoming a king slowly" on the basis of the imperial capital of Sui and Tang Dynasties.

Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, conferred the title of the second son, Zhu Shang, as the king of Qin, and the feud with the government was the same city, so the city was grand and solid, and it was repaired and built many times in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and it has been well preserved so far.

At the beginning of 2004, the Great Wall Project of Guanghuangmen Section in Xi 'an started construction. Entrusted by the relevant departments, Shaanxi Ancient Architecture Design and Research Institute (now Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics) cooperated with the project to conduct archaeological investigation on the exposed wall section, and found that its structure was complex, spanning Sui and Tang Dynasties to modern times, and it was built in five major eras.

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