Jiangwu Village at the ruins of Jiangwu City

Jiangwucheng Village, Jiangwu Town, Cixian County, Handan City, is located about 10 kilometers south of Cixian County, close to the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway and 107 National Highway. To the south of the village is the surging Zhang River. Surrounding the north and west of the village, there is a long high hill. It is said that during the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao once built a city here to train his troops. The high hill is the ruins of Jiangwu City. is located, and the name of Wucheng Village also comes from this. Although the characteristic local opera of Hebei Province is Hebei Bangzi, the opera that the people in the village like to listen to no matter whether it is during the holidays or during leisure time is Henan Yu Opera. "Go south for 2 miles and you'll reach Henan."

In the village, you can see ordinary and common brick houses everywhere, connected by several small cement main roads, extending to the undulating roads on all sides. The dirt road, because it is the off-farm time, you will always see three or five people gathering together in the village, basking in the sun and chatting - the pace of life in the entire Jiangwucheng Village is slow and peaceful. After more than a thousand years, it has The gold and iron horses and the mountains of shouts of the soldiers have been buried in the thick dust of history...

Jiangwucheng Village is surrounded by open wheat fields on the north, south and west sides. This village is located on the North China Plain. The village now has a population of nearly 2,000. Because the land is flat and fertile and it is close to the Zhang River, most of the villagers mainly grow food.

The ruins of Jiangwu Ancient City are located to the west and south of the village. It takes more than a mile to walk there. From a distance, the entire ruins look like the powerful arms of a giant, guarding this small village. Although it was originally a military fortress, except for two long earth walls, nothing related to the fortress can be found in the village - nothing can withstand the erosion of time.

The mounds that the villagers refer to are actually the city walls of Jiangwu Ancient City. They are all made of rammed earth. Many places on the surface have been weathered, and most of them are covered with weeds and thorns that are half a person tall. desolate.