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Ngawa >> Songpan Ancient Town

Attraction Typ: Ancient City
Location: City Centre - Central
Recommend: 5 Star

Songpan Ancient Town

Songpan Ancient Town was built during Tang Dynasty and was later rebuilt as a garrison post to guard a 2,500m (8,200 ft) mountain pass during Ming Dynasty. It was also an important economic and trading center for horse and tea exchange between Sichuan, Gansu, Qinghai and Tibet.
Songpan Ancient Town (Chinese: 松潘古城；pinyin: sōngpān gǔchéng): Songpan Ancient Town was built during Tang Dynasty and was later rebuilt as a garrison post to guard a 2,500m (8,200 ft) mountain pass during Ming Dynasty. It was also an important economic and trading center for horse and tea exchange between Sichuan, Gansu, Qinghai and Tibet. The town as a whole consists of both an inner city and an outer city. There are five city gates in the inner city and two city gates in the outer city. Each gate was built from vast flagstones, with its ceiling shaped in a semi circle. Stones at the base of the gates are embellished with delicate engravings. Constructed from giant blue bricks, each of which is twenty inches long, ten inches wide and five inches thick, the city wall is approximately four miles long and over 33 feet high. The bricks were made of sticky rice, lime and Chinese wood oil and each weighs 30 kilograms, guaranteeing the strength of the city wall.
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