Zhenjiang Tower

Zhenjiang Tower

Zhenjiang Tower

Zhenjiang Tower is located at the tip of the Sanjiangkou Peninsula in Song Village, Jiangxi Town, where the Zujiang, Youjiang, and Yongjiang rivers converge. Built around the Southern Song Dynasty, it served as an important official post station. During the Qing Dynasty, it was known as the Sanjiangkou Outpost, functioning as a military, transportation, commercial, and tax management hub for the surrounding waterways, with a garrison of 125 soldiers. In front of the tower there are 120 steps leading to the dock. The four-story tower has the three large Chinese characters “Zhenjiang Tower” (meaning “River-Calming Tower”) carved in large bluestone on its front facade, while the back also bears the inscription “Hejiang Town” (meaning “Confluence Town”) in bluestone. Behind the tower, the burial site of officers and soldiers who died here in those years is still preserved. Since ancient times, this place has been a strategic military stronghold and a vital trade route. An ancient verse praised it as “Better to guard these three rivers than rule all of Yongzhou.” During the Huangyou era of the Northern Song Dynasty (1049–1053), Di Qing fought Nong Zhigao and set up battle lines here. During the major revolutionary periods of the 1920s and 1930s, when Deng Xiaoping, Zhang Yunyi, and Yu Zuoyu led troops to establish revolutionary bases along the Zujiang and Youjiang rivers, they also stationed here. In 1933 (the 22nd year of the Republic of China), the tower was destroyed.