Xi’an Fort Ancient Fortress

Xi’an Fort Ancient Fortress

Xi’an Fort Ancient Fortress

About 15 kilometers east of Huairen County and northeast of Haibaitou Township lies the ruins of an ancient city — Xi’an Fort. According to the *Huairen County Annals*, this site was originally a post station, built in the eighth year of the Ming Dynasty’s Tianshun era, serving as a frontier relay station. In the thirty-eighth year of the Jiajing era, it was upgraded to a larger fort but was later abandoned. In the third year of the Longqing era, a garrison was established for defense; in the thirty-first year of the Wanli era, the walls were reconstructed using bricks, spanning approximately a hundred zhang in length...

Xi’an Fort Ancient Fortress

Xi’an Fort Ancient Fortress