Jiayuguan city wall put a brick, why no one dares to move for thousands of years?

Jiayuguan Pass has been known as "the world's most majestic pass", now we see Jiayuguan is by the outer city, the inner city and the urn city constitutes a whole landscape, every day to the people here travel and tourism.

Careful tourists will find that in the urn city gate building on the back of the gable platform, a lone brick, it is said that no one dares to take 600 years to open.

Why has no one dared to move it for thousands of years?

As we all know, Jiayuguan Pass is located in the desert Gobi, is the ancient Silk Road on the transportation hub, but also the westernmost Ming Great Wall, known as the "world's most majestic pass". Jiayuguan Pass was built in the fifth year of Ming Dynasty, nine years earlier than Shanhaiguan. It was built by Feng Sheng after his western expedition and proposed to Zhu Yuanzhang.

The repaired Jiayuguan Pass consists of inner and outer cities, Luo Cheng, urns and trenches. Since its completion, Jiayuguan has become the western military center, guarding the security of the Hexi Corridor. For more than 120 years, Jiayuguan was just a fortress of yellow rammed earth without a citadel, a brick that had yet to appear.

Until the Ming Hongzhi eight years, the then Suzhou military deputy envoy Li Duancheng was ordered to build urns on the platform at the top of the main gate of Xiluocheng. Under the careful auspices of Li deputy ambassador, the building was completed in less than a year's time. A three-story, three-eave style ingenious building stands above the west gate.

Building wooden or brick buildings on the Gobi Desert was a difficult task. Because of this, Jiayuguan in the construction of the city building in the process, in the folk widely rumored "a brick story".

Previously in the vegetable leaf online read the relevant information, it is said that, at that time, responsible for the construction of the building Li Duancheng, in order to be able to complete the construction work on schedule, he recruited hundreds of skilled craftsmen in the country. In line with the principle of saving labor and materials, Li Duancheng let everyone brainstorm to discuss the program. An artisan named Yi Kaizhan came up with the idea of drawing a model.

He first drew out the drawings of the entire building, then made a model to scale according to the drawings, and then based on the model of the project materials were calculated accurately. Yi Kai Zhan chest to Li Duan Cheng reported that he has calculated the number of bricks used in the city building is five nine, that is, one million missing a piece.

There were many craftsmen who were skeptical about Yi Kai Zhan's precise budget. So some people deliberately hid a brick secretly, ready to make things difficult for Yi Kai Zhan at the time of completion. The result did not expect, the project in the closing just missing a brick, Li Duan Cheng look at the difference is not too big, another find a brick to make up for it.

The brick placed on the city building, is the year was hidden that piece. About the legend of this brick, there is a "fixed brick" said. Legend has it that the craftsman Yi Kaizhan is good at nine nine algorithms, and the supervisor Hao Kong is an extremely tricky person. He wanted to Yi Kaizhan to accurately calculate the number of bricks needed to build the city.

There is also a theory that Hao Kong in order to accuse Yi Kai Zhan, specifically transported an extra brick, until the completion of the time to question Yi Kai Zhan, in accordance with the original agreement to punish Yi Kai Zhan. The results of easy to open account of the witty answer that the extra piece of brick is fixed brick, once you take away the whole city will collapse, this scared Hao air, who do not dare to try easily, the brick was left on the city wall. Later people called this brick as "fixed brick", placed in the West Urn attic on the back of the gable platform, can be seen and not taken, used as a memorial to the painstaking work of the craftsmen.

So, the story and legend is very interesting, in fact, is a very common small details of the building. Just like Meng Jiangnu cried the Great Wall, which is not so magical, are made up by later generations of stories oh.

The reason why no one to move it, take a closer look is also reasonable. Because it is in that place, not a bit of kung fu people really can not go, a bit of kung fu people who will be bored to get that brick. Over time, it has become legendary and magical, naturally protected, and even less likely to be touched.

Don't believe you now go to move it to try, either nightmares at night, or during the day someone to find you trouble.