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{{Short description|Hangzhou medieval city walls}}
[[Image:杭州古城墙陈列馆.JPG|right|thumb|250px|The Hangzhou City Walls Museum, a reconstruction of the former Qingchun Gate which once stood on this site.]][[Image:Wulinmendestroyed.JPG|right|thumb|250px|Hangzhou's Wulin Gate being taken down, 1922]]
The Walled City of Hangzhou refers to the ancient fortifications that once surrounded the historic core of Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province in eastern China. Though largely dismantled in the 20th century, the wall was a significant part of Hangzhou’s urban identity and defense system during imperial China, especially when the city served as the imperial capital of the Southern Song Dynasty (1127–1279) under the name Lin’an (临安).
Over the subsequent course of [[Chinese history]], Hangzhou changed hands many times, and every ruler and every dynasty had its own contributions and modifications to the '''Hangzhou City Walls'''. While little remains of them today, the fact that Hangzhou was once a walled city is still evidenced by certain place names around town, especially the names of its ten gatehouses.
==Sui Period==
Hanghzou's first city walls were built during the [[Sui dynasty]] in the 11th year of [[Emperor Wen of Sui|Sui Kaihuang]], corresponding to 591 AD. Its perimeter is recorded as being 36 [[Li (unit)|li]] and 90 paces long. Its eastern boundary would have been about where Zhonghe Road (中河路) is today. The western wall ran along the eastern bank of [[West Lake|Xihu]], the West Lake. To the south the wall pressed up against Fenghuang Mountain (凤凰山) and its northern limit was the Qiantang Gate (钱塘门), roughly where today's No. 6 Park (六公园) is. Certain parts of modern-day Hangzhou's downtown area would not have been included inside the Sui city walls, such as Mt. Wu (吴山) being excluded by an indent in the wall and Wulin Road (武林路) being too far north.
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== References ==
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[[Category:Museums in Hangzhou]]
[[Category:City walls in China]]
[[Category:History museums in China]]
[[Image:杭州古城墙陈列馆.JPG|right|thumb|250px|The Hangzhou City Walls Museum, a reconstruction of the former Qingchun Gate which once stood on this site.]][[Image:Wulinmendestroyed.JPG|right|thumb|250px|Hangzhou's Wulin Gate being taken down, 1922]]
The Walled City of Hangzhou refers to the ancient fortifications that once surrounded the historic core of Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province in eastern China. Though largely dismantled in the 20th century, the wall was a significant part of Hangzhou’s urban identity and defense system during imperial China, especially when the city served as the imperial capital of the Southern Song Dynasty (1127–1279) under the name Lin’an (临安).
Over the subsequent course of [[Chinese history]], Hangzhou changed hands many times, and every ruler and every dynasty had its own contributions and modifications to the '''Hangzhou City Walls'''. While little remains of them today, the fact that Hangzhou was once a walled city is still evidenced by certain place names around town, especially the names of its ten gatehouses.
==Sui Period==
Hanghzou's first city walls were built during the [[Sui dynasty]] in the 11th year of [[Emperor Wen of Sui|Sui Kaihuang]], corresponding to 591 AD. Its perimeter is recorded as being 36 [[Li (unit)|li]] and 90 paces long. Its eastern boundary would have been about where Zhonghe Road (中河路) is today. The western wall ran along the eastern bank of [[West Lake|Xihu]], the West Lake. To the south the wall pressed up against Fenghuang Mountain (凤凰山) and its northern limit was the Qiantang Gate (钱塘门), roughly where today's No. 6 Park (六公园) is. Certain parts of modern-day Hangzhou's downtown area would not have been included inside the Sui city walls, such as Mt. Wu (吴山) being excluded by an indent in the wall and Wulin Road (武林路) being too far north.
<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.artokok.com/info/39892.html | title=中国性生活片|最新版App }}</ref>
== References ==
{{reflist}}
{{coord missing|Zhejiang}}
[[Category:Museums in Hangzhou]]
[[Category:City walls in China]]
[[Category:History museums in China]]
