The ancient military castle in the mountains of Guizhou, although it is a World Heritage Site, there are not many tourists

Zunyi City in the north of Guizhou Province, famous for the Zunyi Conference, is an ancient city with a long history. For a long time, Zunyi was called “Banzhou”, and now Zunyi City has the Banzhou District and many places named after Banzhou. About 20 kilometers north of Zunyi city, there is a world cultural heritage called Hailongtun. Hailong Tun is located in Huichuan District, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province. Although it is a World Heritage Site, there are not many tourists here and it is very deserted. It also requires physical strength to visit Hailong Tun. Almost all the trips are climbing mountains, and there is only one way of hiking up and down the mountain. After purchasing the ticket from the Hailongtun Visitor Center, there is a 5km sightseeing car to reach the entrance of the scenic spot. Hailongtun has a very long history, with a history of more than a thousand years. It was originally a military town. In areas where ethnic minorities live in Southwest my country, the ancient imperial court usually implemented the chieftain system. During the Tang Dynasty, Nanzhao chieftain rebelled against the court and captured Bozhou. The imperial court sent Taiyuan Yang Duan to regain control of Bozhou, and Yang Duan was the ancestor of the Yang family chieftain of Bozhou. From the Tang Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, the chieftain of the Yang family was in charge of Bozhou for more than 700 years, but was eventually destroyed because of his rebellion against the imperial court. During the period when the Chieftain Yang was in charge of Bozhou, in order to preserve his military strength, he decided to build a castle to station troops, so he chose Hailongtun. The height difference of Hailongtun from the bottom of the mountain to the top of the mountain is about 300-400 meters. The chieftain of Yang’s family built 9 gates in Hailongtun. The top of the mountain is relatively flat, with living and military command facilities such as the palace built. The most famous pass in Hailongtun is undoubtedly the 36-step ladder under Feihu Pass. The thirty-six steps of the ladder are as high as half a meter, and they are still slopes. Even today’s tourists must use both hands and feet to slowly climb up. As a military castle, Hailongtun has a total of nine gates including Tongzhu Pass, Tiezhu Pass, Feihu Pass, Feilong Pass, Chaotian Pass, Feifeng Pass, Wan’an Pass, Erdao Pass and Toudao Pass. , Easy to defend and hard to attack. The chieftain of the Yang family was passed down to the twenty-ninth century, during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, and the chieftain was named Yang Yinglong. Most of the buildings in Hailongtun we see today were built by Yang Yinglong. In 1599, the chieftain of Bozhou Yang Yinglong rebelled against the Ming court. The court dispatched 240,000 troops and divided into eight roads. It took 114 days to finally capture Hailongtun. Yang Yinglong hanged himself and died. Since then, the chieftain system of Bozhou ended. This war was called ” The battle of flat broadcast”. From then on, the Tusi system in Bozhou was abolished, and officials were appointed by the imperial court to manage Bozhou instead of being managed by local hereditary chieftains. This system was called “returning to the local government.” Bozhou ended the 725-year rule of Yang’s chieftain and opened the curtain on the nation’s reform of the land. The chieftain system in the whole country gradually abolished the chieftain system. The checkpoints built by Yang Yinglong that year still exist, but many of the checkpoint walls have become ruined walls, and the military facilities built with these huge stones still look very solid. It takes about 4-5 hours to visit Hailongtun, and climbing is still very tiring. The top of the mountain is relatively gentle and there are many ancient ruins. Among them, the site of the New Palace is the largest ancient building site. With a total area of ​​20,000 square meters, the new palace is the place where the chieftain of the Yang family lived and handled government affairs. In the outer city of Hailongtun, there is a horse-raising city, chicken-raising pond and goose-raising pond and other auxiliary buildings. This is a small city with complete functions. Hailongtun has witnessed the evolution of ethnic minority policies from the system of restraints to the system of chieftains and then to the “return of local governments”. In 2015, it was listed as a World Cultural Heritage.