Shou County City Wall

The Shou County City Wall, located in Shou County, Huainan city, Anhui province, is one of the ancient city walls in China still well preserved today and one of the Major Historical and Cultural Sites Protected at the National Level. The Shou County wall has four gates: the east gate is called Binyang, the south Tongfei, the west gate Dinghu and the north gate Jinghuai. The barbicans of the four gates are also still preserved.

Shou County was historically a very important military stronghold. Shou County was also very liable to flooding from the Huai River, so historically the Shou County wall was constantly being repaired. During the flood disaster of 1991 more than 100,000 flood victims were at one point housed inside the old city of Shou County. The existing wall was rebuilt in the Southern Song dynasty, and inscriptions on the bricks such as "Jiankang" can still be seen today.

Machine-translated from “寿县古城墙” on the Chinese Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Shou County City Wall ranks #7,435 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #89 of the 119 mapped in China. See how China compares in the castle statistics.

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