The urban origin of Jiaxing, exploring the historical prefectural government sites of Jiaxing through the ages!

Jiaxing's Sub-city Site is a rare and well-preserved prefectural government site from ancient to modern times in China, and has been listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit. To understand the Sub-city is to understand Jiaxing. The Sub-city is said to have been built on the south bank of Jiu Creek, founded during the third year of Huanglong in the Wu Kingdom of the Three Kingdoms period (i.e., 231 AD), to commemorate the auspicious sign of wild rice. This is the earliest city wall of Jiaxing. In the first year of Wende of the Tang Dynasty (888), Jiaxing expanded and built the large city (mother city), the old city was called the Sub-city (inner city), which later became the site of successive prefectural governments and the former residence of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's King of Listening, representing the roots of Jiaxing. The Sub-city has the Huayue Pavilion, commemorating Zhang Xian's 'clouds break and the moon comes, flowers play with the shadow', and the Huaisu Pavilion, in memory of the talented woman Su Xiaoxiao from the Southern Qi Dynasty. The Sub-city's Qiao Tower was built during the Yuan Dynasty and is the only ancient city tower remaining on the city walls in Zhejiang Province. In front of the Qiao Tower, there is a pair of stone lions that have reunited after a century. The four barracks of the Pacification Command during the Republic of China period are municipal cultural relics protection units in Jiaxing. Underground, the foundation of the city wall from the Five Dynasties period has been excavated, along with the central axis buildings such as the roadway, ceremonial gate, stone archway, main hall, and second hall, dating from the Five Dynasties to the Qing Dynasty.