The wall of the ancient town of Acropolis was built in March of the third year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty (AD 1630). Built on the undulating ridges outside the city, many commanding heights are high and steep, which are slow inside and steep outside, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack. Open four doors, east, west, south and north, and go straight to four streets. The stones used to build walls weigh hundreds or even thousands of kilograms. After chiseling and trimming the rules, it will be laid with sticky rice mixed with lime slurry. The circumference of the city wall is 3.2 kilometers, the height is 3 meters and the thickness (width) is 3.2 meters. On the surface, there are many battlements with a height of 0.7 meters, that is, watchtowers on the commanding heights, which glower outside the city walls and control the defensive zone of Shuixi in the special period of the late Ming Dynasty, so it is worthy of being a military town.
In the late Qing Dynasty, class contradictions and ethnic contradictions became increasingly acute. After many wars in the Acropolis, the vicissitudes of the city wall became ruins. Because of the gradual evolution of military weapons, it is meaningless to build the city wall. After liberation, the world was peaceful, the Acropolis changed from a military town to a commodity distribution center, and the city wall lost its function, so many places demolished collective public houses and built subgrade. This section is about 500 meters from the south gate to Huangcangpo and then to the east gate.
Changputang and Traditional Chinese Medicine
"Acorus calamus Hall" is a famous doctor of traditional Chinese medicine. Before liberation, this was a private Chinese medicine shop called Tan. 1952 to 1980 are joint clinics. Since the reform of 198 1, Dr. Zhong Lao has been treating diseases here. The building was built in the late Qing Dynasty, with shingle structure and double-hall quadrangle, covering an area of about 370 square meters. Flowers are widely planted in the patio on the second floor.
The doors and windows are fine in workmanship, with auspicious patterns such as flowers, animals and the Eight Immortals crossing the sea. On February 1936 and 1 day, the Red Second and Sixth Army Corps led by He Ke arrived at the Acropolis and met there. In 2008, Acorus calamus Hall was rated as a "municipal" cultural relics protection unit by qingzhen city municipal government. It not only protects ancient buildings, but also maintains the development and continuation of traditional Chinese medicine. Speaking of Chinese medicine, the "Acorus calamus Hall" is decorated with golden characters, which allows you to taste its long history. Acorus calamus, grass and hall are halls, and their combination is the grass of China, which is enough to explain the mystery of the title of a hall in traditional Chinese medicine.
The medicine box against the wall in the hall was pumped five times. When opened, the medicine smells delicious. Honeysuckle and magnolia both grow in the mountains. Gastrodia elata, Ginseng, Eucommia ulmoides and Ganoderma lucidum are all in Shan Ye. When it comes to brewing, or vinegar soaking, or carbonization, the pharmacist of Compendium of Materia Medica knows the usage and dosage like the back of his hand.
The doctor at the counter feels the pulse, treats the symptoms according to the symptoms, prescribes a prescription for dragons and snakes, and finds out the cause. Dan, ointment, pill and soup attack the diseased points, plus acupuncture and massage, which can relieve pain without side effects. According to legend, Tan, Zhou and Zhong took this as their career, applied medical skills to save the people, relieved the poison in their mouths, showed the invasion of cold and heat, cured countless people, and made their modest contribution to the health of the people in the ancient town of central Guizhou.
Acropolis Chinese medicine has now developed to Luo, Song, Jiang and Xu, and will surely become a beautiful scenery of the ancient town in the torrent of revitalizing Chinese medicine, and the town people's government intends to make it stand out.