Ahou City Gate - No. 17地號公園段3小段 Pingtung City

Historically preserved monuments are invaluable. (The following text is copied from the Internet, and the number of words is used to unlock the badge) "Ahou City Gate" means "Pingtung City Gate", Pingtung was called Ahou or Yahou in ancient times. He came here to establish a village and officially reclaimed it. Later, Fengshan County was established to set up the Xia Danshui Inspection Branch here, and then the village developed into a rough-hewn street and became the administrative center of Xia Danshui. [1] Among them, in the sixteenth year of Daoguang (1836 AD), due to the reasons for preventing thieves and the fierce fighting between Fujian and Guangdong at that time, the local gentry planned and coordinated, and the people were called to contribute to the construction of the fortress. This completion has the historical significance of witnessing the migration of the Han people to the Pingtung Plain. Originally, there were four gates in the east, south, west and north. However, Ahoucheng is not a county hall in terms of hierarchical attributes. There is no record of the scale and form of this city in the "Regulations of Regulations", so the remaining historical records about the number of city gates, the perimeter of the fort, and the facilities inside and outside the city are mostly unavailable. [2][3] During the Japanese occupation period, due to changing the space of Taiwan's traditional settlements for modernization, the Japanese carried out an urban correction plan in Pingtung City. One Chaoyang Gate, the East Gate, was left behind [4]. After the end of World War II, in 1952, the Pingtung County Government built a county stadium in Zhongshan Park, so a small section of the city wall of Ahou City Gate was demolished. After the 1960s, Pingtung County Although the county government has repaired and maintained Chaoyangmen several times, it is located in the open space between the track and field and tennis courts, which makes Chaoyangmen insufficient. Later, in 1984, the Ministry of the Interior approved the Pingtung City Office to be responsible. After managing and maintaining the facility, it was designated as a third-level historic site in the following year. In the Hengchun earthquake in 2006, the structure between the soffit and the vault on the west side of Chaoyangmen appeared misaligned [5]. Later, the Cultural Construction Association allocated funds to the Pingtung County Government to repair the damage [6]. In recent years, Pingtung County has Managed by the government and Pingtung City Office, the surrounding renovation works are carried out. Chaoyangmen is a red brick structure, the walls are stacked with pebbles, and the corners are made of black bricks. The doorway is divided into three sections. It is about 1.9 feet and 9 feet and 5 feet around. The three characters "Chaoyangmen" are written on the forehead of the granite door[8], which proves that the door is the east gate. In addition, there were no pheasant battlements on the city platform, which was built in 1960. , It was only added in the 1970s, not the original material and structure of the city gate. [9][10] In addition, on the right and left side of Chaoyangmen are written: "Xiadan branch county Shen Changfen supervises the construction, supervisor Chen Jue, Wusheng Xiao Dengyang", "Premier Chen Ruitai, directors Zhang Fushun, Zhang Quanji, Zhang Baocheng, Daoguang Bingshen Ji Donggudan" , which proves that this city gate was built in the sixteenth year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty (ie, 1836, the age of Bingshen).