The founding of Ming City: the old city of Fuchuan is located on the West Bank of the Fujiang River beside the Gaoling town of Fuyang. According to the records of Fuchuan County published by Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, "this city was founded in the 29th year (1396) of Hongwu of Ming Dynasty. In the 28th year (1395) of Hongwu of Qing Dynasty, it migrated and guarded thousands of houses. In the 29th year, it built the city of Fuchuan. At the beginning of the year, there was no city in the county. Han Guan, the general of manzheng, asked for help. Zhang Qian, the county magistrate, started to build the city. More than one hundred households, Wang Cheng, Wang Li and Liu Xin were completed successively. " According to the records of "Chengchi" in the old annals, the ancient Ming City has a history of 616 years, and is the only well preserved Ming architecture in Guangxi.

  Reconstruction and construction of Ming City: the original Ming City was incomplete. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, after eight times of reconstruction and construction, namely, the eighth year of Wanli (1580), the thirty sixth year of Wanli (1608), the eleventh year of Kangxi (1672), the forty second year of Kangxi (1685), the forty seventh year of Kangxi (1708), the seventh year of Qianlong (1742), the twenty fourth year of Daoguang (1814) and the tenth year of Guangxu (1844) Ren Zhixian: Zheng Yingqi, Zhang Wenyao, Liu Qinlin, Shaorong, Zhou Zuoxian, Ma Zhonghe, Luo chenglun, Gu Guohao, etc.

  The wall building of the Ming City: first, it was rammed with earth walls, and then it was built with green bricks (unfortunately, the wall was basically destroyed, leaving only the remaining walls beside the north gate and the west gate for reference), with a perimeter of 634 feet (2113 meters), a height of one foot and eight feet (6 meters), a top width of 8 feet (about 2.7 meters), and 909 anti crenels (the shape of the crenels of the South Gate Building restored at present). The wall is symmetrical with the word "ten", with four entrances and exits, and the East Gate It is called shengpingmen, xiangyangmen in the south, and taidingmen in the West (it is said that the gate was often entered by the tiger of Xiling mountain in the Republic of China, which was closed early and then destroyed). It is called yingenmen in the North (now Gongmen exists and the city buildings are destroyed). The gate of the city was built of blue bricks at the beginning, and later easy bricks were built of blue square stones. Now only the east south gate is intact.

  The construction and characteristics of the four gates: the four gates are similar in shape, with a top height of 6.5 meters, an arch top height of about 4 meters, a middle gate height of about 5 meters, a gate width of about 4 meters and a depth of about 14.7 meters. The gate is narrow inside and wide outside, with a perimeter of about 51 meters. There are tower buildings on the original arches. (according to relevant experts, the gate of Fuchuan Mingcheng is wider and higher than that of Guangxi counties. Why is it so set up? It's still a mystery. The four door building once had the legend of "seven through eight drops and four leaks". "Seven penetrations" refers to the penetration of four city gates and three sub God buildings (i.e. Lingtou street, cross street, paifangjiao, three sub God buildings), "eight drips" refers to two stone carving faucets on each side of the four City towers for water dripping; "four leaks" refers to a drainage channel on the right side of each city gate.

  Obvious sign of Ming City: the obvious sign of the old Ming City is "four towns inside and outside". The four towns inside and outside were originally set up to control evil spirits. According to research, they are the signs of the old city.

  "Inner four towns" are set in the city gate: the east gate is "golden carp", the south gate is "stone lion", the west gate is "Phoenix facing the sky", the north gate is "ancient money"; the "outer four towns" are set in the city gate, the east gate is "xianggushi", the south gate is "yanyuejing", the west gate is "jielongqiao", and the north gate is "huayuantang". In addition, there are moats around the city wall, which are about 9 meters wide and more than 3 meters deep. The buildings of the city wall and the gate form a relatively complete defensive city. It can attack when it enters and defend when it retreats, so it used to be called the "grand town"..

  The topography and layout of the Ming City: the city is high in the northwest and low in the southeast, with a longitudinal distance of about 600 meters from the east to the West and a transverse distance of 500 meters from the north to the south, forming an oval shape, with a total area of 0.3 square kilometers. Its layout:

  The southwest corner is the county office building, the northeast corner is the school palace, the city guard office facilities, and the southeast corner is the Academy. Its temples and ancestral halls are distributed around the city. The residential buildings in the city are divided into "Wells" into streets, and the buildings are arranged. The original "13th Street, 9th well, 4th pond" said. The original 13th Street is now collectively referred to as "Yingen, renshang, Lingtou, yamen, Zhenwu and Fushou". Its streets are paved with pebbles to form various patterns, commonly known as "Flower Street Road". There are lamp buildings in every street pass, and residential houses on both sides of the street are all buildings of Ming and Qing Dynasties, which are ancient, elegant, solemn and vigorous. So far, the ancient buildings that have been preserved are complete Dongmen tower, Nanmen tower, xiaojiadawu, wujiadawu, Maoshi ancestral temple, he ancestral temple, six ancient lamp buildings, Confucian temple, guanyue temple, etc. other ancient buildings are basically destroyed or refitted.

  The "nine wells" in the old city pool are one Zhenwu street, one yamen street and one renshang street. Among them, Zhenwu street is the best well with clear water, warm in winter and cool in summer. "Sitang" is located in the southeast of Fuchuan high school in the county, and has been filled up as a garden.

  There are many talents in the old city pool: the ancient Chuanming city is a treasure land for stopping ships. Since the establishment of the city in the Ming Dynasty, in the past 600 years, many outstanding talents for the country and the people have been created in the city. The famous ones are:

  Xiao Jinrong, who joined Beijing in 1898, was appointed as the assistant of rongxiangguo, and later as the governor of the state directly under him. In the second year of the Republic of China, he was elected as a member of the house of Representatives, the president's office of counsellor, and in the fourth year of the Republic of China, he concurrently held the post of Beijing visual education, touring around the country.

Xiao Jirong has been engaged in diplomatic work all his life. In 1924, he served as the second secretary and first Secretary of the Swiss consulate, as well as the director of the international labor representative office, and as the acting Minister of Switzerland in 1927. In 1930, he served as the international section chief of the Ministry of foreign affairs of the Republic of China, and from 1932 to 1936, he served as the government of the Republic of China in France