At that time, Jingzhou was already one of the top ten commercial cities in the country. During the Han Dynasty, following the Qin system, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty divided the whole country into thirteen states, and Jingzhou was one of them. During the Qin Dynasty, Jiangling County was set up here. Since the Qin and Han dynasties, the ancient city of Jingzhou has always been an important city where the kings set up their residences. The well-known stories such as ' Liu Bei borrowed Jingzhou' and 'Guan Yu carelessly lost Jingzhou' happened in this city. Among the 120 chapters of ' Romance of the Three Kingdoms', there are 72 chapters involving Jingzhou. In the era of Wei, Shu and Wu, this place was once a strategically important place for military strategists. Jingzhou is where the culture of the Three Kingdoms was born. History Jingzhou is located near the center of the three kingdoms. The present ancient city is the remnants of the reconstruction of the Ming and Qing dynasties. After more than 350 years, most of the existing ancient city walls were built in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. It used to be the official ship dock and palace of Chu State, and later became the foundation of Jiangling County, where the first city outline appeared. The ancient city wall of Jingzhou was built in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The wall is built with special blue bricks and lime glutinous rice slurry. The city wall is 9 meters high and 11,281 meters in circumference.

The inner wall is built with rammed earth, and the lower part is about 9 meters wide. Bricks of the city wall are about 1 meter thick. There are six city gates, each of which has a tower. The city wall has a perimeter of 10.5 kilometers and a height of 8.83 meters. The east-west diameter of Jingzhou ancient city is 3.75 kilometers, the north-south diameter is 1.2 kilometers, with a total area of 4.5 square kilometers.

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