The Wudinghe River is the torrential Yellow River's first-level branch, when after she leaves the place of origin Mt. baiyushan area, turned round in the Inner Mongolian Uxin banner then enters Yulin's Jingbian County, keeps on vacillating again the flow several dozens miles, arrived at the Wudinghe River to be most spacious, to reach 2-3 kilometer wide section of river. This arrived at the Polo fort.
Polo, the Buddhism terminology, is Pali “arrives at other shore” transliteration. East when fable Tathagata the earth travels for pleasure the returns, pass here, the foot stepping stone cliff leaves behind a pair of foot mark, is known as: “the Tathagata authentic work”, the Polo fort therefore acquires fame. Polo fort located at the Hengshan county Northeast 23 kilometers place, on Wudinghe River Nanan yellow Yunshan.
The Polo fort is in the bright Great Wall one of 36 important pass forts, is the strategic point since the ancient times. The castle backs on the Hengshan sierra, separates Wudinghe River and Mu Us desert, the Erdos prairie faces one another.
The Polo fort is in Song, in the Yuan Dynasty time small military camp foundation, (in 1436) repaired in the bright legitimate first year. The bright Inflatable Bouncers Cheng Hua two years build the new fort in addition, only then change the name as the Polo fort, and start to have garrison troops guarding. Up to the clear Qianlong year, the Polo fort city obtains further repair, caused in the city the construction to have certain scale. The Polo fort plane assumes the anomalous rectangle, the city on Tuesday in 270 steps, wall height 9 meters. East, west, south, north the fort builds according to the topography, assumes the square shape approximately, has “congeals purple”, “recovers”, “the phoenix to fly”, “smoothly” four. In the fort the construction has the senate the government office, to soar to the clouds the tower, the fort, the bell tower and so on, in the city the main street and east, west, south, north inside and outside various city walls constructs the jade emperor building, three palace building, the town god's temple and so on 40 temple. Hereafter in 200 years, the Polo fort presents a school of prosperous magnificent scene, once population over ten thousand. At that time some people teased: Polo is the south small Yangzhou, the north small Beijing.
The Polo fort is lively, the pawnshop, the Inflatable Bouncers company stands in great numbers, the private bank, the silversmith spread, the oil mill, the mill, the bean-noodle mill, the bean curd mill world-wide. Moreover, because of with the Inner Mongolian border, the leather origin is widespread, the cow sheepskin processing industry is equipped with many special tanneries, slightly has the fame in North Shanxi. At the same time, Polo's ceramic industry was very at that time developed, then had Wu Wayao in the bright peaceful and orderly times the porcelain factory. Its chinaware craft is exquisite, the great variety of goods, has the fame in the northern area. Specially the old castle alley, the dilapidated building, the ancient temple ancient tower, make one to forget to return.
Under the Polo fort north gate barbican wall has Tang Dynasty to receive and instruct the temple, the great style, the incense and candle has Inflatable Bouncers been exuberant. Temple memory big vulture big buddha, and Ming and Qing Dynasties stele, stone carving and so on, but also has poem one which Qing Dynasty Yong Zheng nine year Polo vice general Wanping County gold Guotai attaches - - “the stele to save the original text”
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