Everyone knows that there is a Tianjin City in China, but few people know that Tianjin City is also called Abacus City. The walls of Tianjin are long from east to west and short from north to south, just like an abacus.
How did the abacus city in Tianjin come from? Here is a story.
In the Ming Dynasty, after Liu Bowen built the capital of Li Jiu in Beijing, he saw that Beijing was surrounded by mountains on three sides, and only Ma Pingchuan in the south seemed to have opened the city gate. Seeing that Tianjin is located at the lower tip of nine rivers, it is a land of land and water, with salt and grain distribution, just guarding Jingmen, so I decided to build a city here.
Liu Bowen led a group of people to inspect Tianjin for many days, and they were very satisfied with its geographical location. But when it comes to building a city, one thing makes him very embarrassed, that is, the state treasury was empty at that time, and he really couldn't come up with so much money.
That night, it was already midnight. Liu Bowen was preoccupied and couldn't sleep, so he put on his clothes and went out quietly. Walking, I came to this place south of Sanchahekou.
It was dead of night and all was silent. Liu Bowen is very quiet. When he is quiet enough, he has an artistic conception of blending with nature. At this time, a miracle happened.
Liu Bowen suddenly saw a giant with indomitable spirit sitting on the ground with his back to him not far ahead. The man sitting on the ground is two or three feet tall, wearing a golden helmet and shining armor. It was A Jin Shen Jia!
Liu Bowen was shocked. He wants to turn around and retreat. He thought again, this god must be sitting here in the middle of the night. I want to find out. So, he walked lightly around Kim and observed it carefully. I saw Jin sitting there, holding a golden drum in his left hand and an abacus in his right hand, as cool as a cucumber and saying nothing. Just when Liu Bowen was surprised, Kim suddenly turned into a wisp of smoke and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Liu Bowen was surprised and seemed to think of something.
The next day, Liu Bowen ordered people to dig in the place where Jin meditated. Digging and digging, the iron elevator hit a hard thing, with a bang. Liu Bowen told everyone to be careful not to damage what they were digging. In a short time, a two-foot-square gold brick was dug up in the four corners of the east, west, north and south.
Liu Bowen was overjoyed, and the city had funds. He ordered the construction of a three-story drum tower in the Jin meditation place, with four doors named Gongbei, Dingnan, Zhendong and Anxi. Then, around the Drum Tower, according to Jin Qing's abacus, a rectangular wall was built, which is 504 feet long from east to west and 324 feet long from north to south, with a total length of nine miles and 18 steps, just like a huge abacus. With the Drum Tower as the center, four streets were built. At both ends of the street, one reaches the Drum Tower and the other reaches the city gate. An iron abacus with a number of 13 is buried deep in the foundation of Dongmen City. The two beads above and the five beads below are pushed to the middle position, which means "countless" to show that the city will remain far-reaching and eternal after its completion. But the city is a little below nine rivers, and there are often floods and the walls are flooded. During the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, An Shangyi, a salt merchant in Tianjin, invested in the reconstruction, and the city wall moved westward, and the city foundation was widened and the height was shortened, so that the city could not only guard, but also prevent floods and floods. /kloc-Eight-Nation Alliance invaded in 0/900, and the city was demolished the following year. I found an iron abacus buried in the depths, and the number of beads was "495". If/kloc-0 built the city in 406,190/kloc-0 demolished the city in 495. Whether Liu Bowen ever predicted it is still a mystery.