The story of eight gates in Suzhou ancient city

"Panmen" is Panmen. "Emperor Wu Ji": "In the old days, I tried to carve a dragon with wood carving, and the town used it to overcome it." Wu is in Chen's position, so there is a panmen in the south of the city, and a wooden dragon is carved on the city, facing Yue, symbolizing Wu's conquest of Yue. Later, it was renamed Panmen. In addition, the east gate is usually closed, which means "absolute transcendence". The existing Panmen was rebuilt in the Yuan Dynasty, and the gatehouse was built in the early Qing Dynasty with the title "Longpan Land and Water". The amphibious door of this door is juxtaposed, and there is an urn between the two amphibious doors. Panmen is the most complete ancient land and water gate in existence.

Snake gate, Wu's position is in Chen's position, which belongs to the dragon, and the more it is in position, the snake belongs to the snake. Therefore, put a wooden snake on the snake door, with its north head facing inward, indicating that the Yue minister belongs to Wu. The course of history is always ironic. He Lv built the Snake Gate to suppress the state of Yue, but it was the state of Yue that destroyed Wu. This is a joke that makes people speechless. Among the eight gates in Suzhou, there is nothing shorter than the snake gate, which seems to make people catch a glimpse of the smile of fate.

The "temple gate" is the stair gate. "Ji of Emperor Wu" contains: "Loumen was originally called (Miao) Gate, and there was an ancient (Miao) county in the southeast Qin Dynasty, which was changed to Loujun in the Han Dynasty." The door was renamed the stair door. This Loumen seems to have nothing to say, and there is nothing "glorious deeds" to remember. However, next to it, there is a famous guy, that is Humble Administrator's Garden, which, together with Beijing Summer Palace, chengde mountain resort and Suzhou Lingering Garden, is called the four classical gardens in China and is known as the "Mother of China Gardens". Loumen left a deep impression on people. Besides being a neighbor of Humble Administrator's Garden, there is also an extinct "Loumen Duck". Unfortunately, this famous duck in history has become a beautiful legend.

"Ganmen" and "Xiangmen" are craftsmen's doors. Named after most of the living craftsmen nearby. He Lv, the king of Wu, once ordered an old soldier to build a furnace and cast a sword in this gate, so Xiangmen was also called Ganmen. Zhu Xi's "Continuing Wu Jun's Picturesque" said: "A craftsman is now called a craftsman, and his voice has changed." Artisans' Gate with the mispronounced "Xiangmen" was designated as a dry weapon smelting and casting area, so the city gate was named "Artisans' Gate". After Fu Cha succeeded to the throne, he made great efforts to build Gusutai and Guanwa Palace in the western mountainous area. At that time, he sent a large number of dry builders to focus on Xiangshan in Mudu West. This is the historical origin of "Suzhou Xiangshan Gang", which is famous for its traditional architectural skills in China. Now Xiangmen no longer exists, but Xiangmen Bridge, which has become the east-west traffic artery of Suzhou.

The "witch door" is a flat door. According to "Wumen Biaoyin", "Pingmen is also called Wumen. From Taohuawu to the north, it was blocked in the Song Dynasty. Outside the door, reach the Daping Gate Pond and pile out. " According to legend, in 505 BC, Wu Zixu led an army from Pingmen to the north and finally defeated Qi. He entered the city triumphantly from Pingmen. 15 years, qimen west, pingmen opened, and then Qilu war happened. Because of the geomantic theory, Sioux City is like a crab, but it can't have eight legs, so the flat door was abandoned. 17, in order to facilitate the traffic inside and outside the city, Pingmen was transformed into two parallel tall city gate caves. There is an outer city river but no inner city river. There are no towers on the city gate, and there is no water gate. Pingmen 1958 Demolition.

"Looking at the door" is the door. "Wu Yue Chun Qiu": "He Lu broke Qi in ten years, Qi took women as the quality, and Wu was hired by Prince Bo. There are few women in Qi, and they cry day and night. And Lu Jian's North Gate, famous for watching Qimen every day, make women swim on it. " This is named after Qi Jinggong's youngest daughter. At that time, Wu was strong, and Qi Jinggong, who was old, was awed by the strength of Wu and had to send her daughter to Wu thousands of miles away to get married. Since then, the princess of Qi has been far away from her hometown. She often misses her hometown and goes to Lacrimosa every day. In order to alleviate the princess's lovesickness, the King of Wu specially ordered someone to build a tower facing the State of Qi, so that she could climb high and overlook the homeland of the State of Qi. This is the origin of Qimen. It can be said that among the eight gates in Suzhou, there is nothing more sad than Qimen, which is the only gate associated with women among many gates in Suzhou.

In addition to the outer eight gates built in the Spring and Autumn Period, it can be seen that there are Red Gate, Fenmen Gate, Golden Gate and South Gate.