🚗 A trip to Datong Zuoyun, Shanxi, let us harvest a few precious experiences and historical stories of the Ming Great Wall. This time we encountered a city that was once the smallest in the world. 🚗 Transportation and routes Shanxi Ming Great Wall site - Weilu Fort section. Located near the site of the Notre Dame Church in Batai, also about 3 kilometers east of Bataizi Village, Zuoyun County, Datong City, Shanxi Province. It is recommended to drive by car. 🅿️ Parking lot: The open space is large and parking is free. 🎫 Tickets: free. 🕙 Open time: all day. 🏯 For the first time, I went to the ancient Great Wall of Shanxi. After a few trips, I also accumulated some historical knowledge: the Ming Great Wall of Shanxi is mostly built with outsourced bricks, and with the precipitous trend of the mountain, I use more defense facilities built with natural mountain stone. A total of 154 years were built before and after, and the Great Wall and Foreign Minister City were divided into the Great Wall and Foreign Minister City. Along the inner foreign minister city, many city pools, gates, and fortresses were set up. In the Ming Dynasty, nine sides, three bathrooms, inner three gates and outer three gates were set up along the Great Wall, and together formed a defense combination connected to the castle and facing each other. 👉 I don’t say some features, I think it is very small. ⛪️ This section of the Great Wall of Weilubao belongs to the Foreign Minister City. Passing through a quiet and simple village, the car parked in the open space. It can be seen that this landscape development is more complete, compared with the Bataizi section, there is no chaos and desolation, but quiet and orderly. ⛪️ Inside this section of the Great Wall, there is a small pocket town closely connected to the Great Wall, and even built on the Great Wall. It is called: Yuehua Pool. It takes the Great Wall as the north wall, and builds three walls in the southeast and west, and forms a castle about 260 meters in circumference. It should be the smallest castle in the world. A variety of strategic deployments such as camping, watch, early warning and even defense are gathered, and there is a campfire platform 6 meters above the wall on the north wall. ⛪️ In legend, Yuehuachi, a beautiful and literary name, is said to be named because there is a blue pool next to Xiaoguan City reflecting the star and moon, and it is also said that a beautiful woman in the army of the border often comes here to live. Anyway, the legend is to let us better find it and understand it. ⛪️ standing on the ground, looking at it from a distance, except for the larger volume, here is no different from other tubao, but who knows that there are thousands of soldiers stationed in this? The wisdom of the ancients is great. 📝 Note tips: 1⃣️ Datong Zuoyun has a lot of ancient Great Wall sections, and every place is worth a visit. We just picked a few sections to punch in. If you have enough time and good physical strength, live in the surrounding cities, and it is not bad to come to the castle! 2⃣️ You can build the Great Wall Pavilion in the later stage, overlooking the Moon Huachi and the Great Wall of Weilubao from a high place. You can also take aerial photographs by drones, and you can see it more clearly. Stay in the open space in the city, feel the smallest castle in the world, and think about the border fort life that year. 3⃣️ Said that the small city is small, the physical feeling is also the size of a football field, can not find the record said that there is a hole ladder 81 in the abdominal, and the door in the south wall, let alone the stone embedded in the city wall ~🎉 The landscape is small, but the historical background is strong, crossing the castle to enjoy the scenery of the north, such as the left cloud, Such a mountain, amazing years!