This side is the west side of the city gate. If you want to climb the city wall for a walk, you have to buy a ticket from here to climb the city wall. Tickets are 30 yuan.

Climbing the city gate, you will see a two-story tower with eaves.

Go through the tower and continue south along the city wall. This section of the city wall was not wide. Tall fir trees and pine trees on both sides lined the city wall and disappeared at the end.

The city wall is mainly blue and gray, with occasional gray and brown. This blooming flower brings a touch of tenderness to the ancient city wall.

Only when the city wall is tall enough can we appreciate the charm of the lake through the tall vegetation.

You can see the scenery of Xuanwu Lake between the city walls. We will walk on the century-old city wall to appreciate the lakes and mountains along the way.

The history and vicissitudes of the city wall can be seen from the details. Several strings of red lanterns dot the ancient city wall.

Ancient trees are towering all the way and faithfully guarding the towering city walls. Seeing this picture at this moment reminds me of the picture of trees and stones hugging and twisting each other in the big city of Cambodia. And they are just the right companionship and the unwavering protection.

The tall Zifeng Building shows his height advantage

The calm lake nearby and the calm Zijin Mountain in the distance are like an ink painting that has indifferent sense of fame and fortune.

The dark clouds fade, and everything is bright again. Walking through the jungle, the Zifeng Building comes to you more clearly.

As the sky brightens, ink painting transforms into watercolor painting.

The lush vegetation beside the city wall stretches out like a forest ocean.

A corner allows us to see the city wall in front of us, the embrace of green plants outside the city wall, the harmony between buildings and plants, who embellished whom, and who dressed whom?

Looking at the bustling city

A sightseeing platform has also been built on this section of the city wall to facilitate us to view the lakes and mountains from a better perspective.

There is a feeling of walking on the light band of time and space.

The city wall is built with strips of stone and the body is built with huge bricks. The city bricks are fired with high-quality clay and white porcelain soil, and each piece weighs 20 to 40 kilograms. The bricks are also printed with the names and firing dates of the brick making prefecture and county and the person who fired the bricks. Most of the city bricks are fine blue-gray, a small number of them are white tiles with better texture, and a few include red bricks and yellow bricks. Brick and stone use glutinous rice paste mixed with lime as a binder, which is very strong. Despite years of wind and rain, 20 kilometers of city walls are still preserved intact.

The city wall spreads infinitely with vicissitudes, thickness and majestic momentum. The city wall in front is like a coiled dragon swimming towards Zijin Mountain, and the feeling of "tigers and dragons are victorious today" arises spontaneously. A magpie stood proudly on the city wall. It can also feel the majesty and vicissitudes of the city wall just like me!

Under the blue sky, red lanterns dotted on the blue-gray brick walls are even more beautiful.

Xuanwu Lake inside the city wall

The tall green plants on this side of the city wall are closely accompanied by the city wall

Normally, we need to look up to these green plants. At this time, we can feel the height of these trees by standing on the tall city wall. Nanjing's green vegetation is enough to make us proud of living here.

The tall building, unwilling to be lonely, leaned out and looked at the blue waves of the lake

A few steps on the city wall will give you a different scenery. The lakeside footpath along the lake runs side by side with the city wall. Walking on the city wall and walking on the trails under the city wall, although they are in the same space, the different perspectives will definitely bring us different visual experiences.

Walking on the city wall of Nanjing, you can not only visit the city wall, but also see the infinite scenery inside and outside the city. The beautiful Xuanwu Lake and modern urban buildings serve as a foil. Only Nanjing has such beauty!

Overlooking Xuanwu Lake Park, the islands are connected and connected by stone bridges.

The broad Xuanwu Lake on the north side of the city wall is a moat surrounding the Nanjing Ming City Wall and is an important part of the Nanjing Ming City Wall. The wide moat water reflects the tall and solid Nanjing City Wall, making the invading enemy daunting.

The broad surface of Xuanwu Lake and the five continents in the middle of the lake are also shown in the camera. The dotted boats on the open lake make the lake vivid and full of vitality.

The rolling mountain range in the long distance is Zhongshan. Close view of the lake, a green embankment in the lake, a green belt along the lake... The undulating mountains, the undulating green belts, and the sparkling lake have the beauty of combining dynamic and static.

The tree species in the green belt are different, outlining different brushstrokes

Continuing east along the city wall, the white circle in front of the left is the Sun Palace. Because of its unique shape and white is particularly conspicuous among the blue-green tones of nature.

Nanjing's Ming City Wall is the only city wall built in the south. It makes full use of the natural mountains and rivers of the south of the Yangtze River. It is built according to the mountains and rivers, winding along the mountains and rivers, and integrating with the mountains and forests. It is really beautiful.

Walking on the city wall, Zifeng Building follows us like a shadow.

From Xuanwu Gate to the city wall and towards Taipingmen, you can view the green, mirror-like Xuanwu Lake throughout the city wall. Nanjing's garden-style "mountains, rivers, cities and forests" merge into the same picture here.

Through the jungle, I saw the Jieping Tower sticking its head out and knew that it was getting closer and closer to Jiefang Gate.

The height and majesty of the city wall give people the feeling of being "invincible". From this angle, we can see that there is a gap between the east-west city wall from Taipingmen to Jiefangmen and the north-south city wall from Jiefangmen to Xuanwu Gate. You can also see that there are three city gates here. The Ming City Wall, which runs from Xuanwu Gate to Taipingmen through Jiefang Gate, is the longest, most intact and tallest section of the city wall in Nanjing. The height from the crest to the ground outside the city is generally about 20 to 25 meters. Among the three gates in the picture, the largest one is Jiefang Gate, the city's transportation channel. The gate in front of the city wall leads to the Taiping Gate. In recent years, it has been renovated and the Nanjing City Wall Museum has been built on this gate, making the Jiefang Gate itself a tourist attraction. The gate under the city wall leads to Xuanwu Lake Park.

This crowded city gate is the Liberation Gate. Jiefang Gate is a newly opened gate of Nanjing's Ming City Wall in 1954. It is a single-ticket gate. In order to facilitate traffic inside and outside this section of the city wall and to meet the needs of air defense evacuation, Nanjing City decided to open this door in Taicheng near the "Houhu City Wall" at the foot of the Beijige Mountain.

The Ming City Wall, Jiming Tower, and Zifeng Building are all in the same frame, telling the history of Nanjing. The mottled city walls are the memory carrier of the Ming Dynasty's footprints in Nanjing. The natural scenery of the mountains and rivers reflected by the clear lake water and the profound historical relics are displayed one after another in this city.

Climb to the highest point-Taicheng, and look back at the section of the city wall from Xuanwu Gate to Jiefang Gate that you have just walked through. The towering city wall under my feet and the majestic ancient city wall sit upright, as stable as Mount Tai. The green trees beside the city wall highlight the accommodation of Xuanwu Lake in the middle view and the towering urban buildings in the long view, which are clear and layered.

Green plants are intertwined on the city wall. They are attached to the walls and dyed green gray, making the monotonous gray vivid and interesting.

Stand at the highest point-Taicheng. "Taicheng" is famous for Liuzhuang's famous saying,"The most ruthless is the willows of Taicheng". Today's "Taicheng" refers to the Jiefangmen Scenic Area that spreads around Jiefangmen.

Here, the interior space of the city wall above the Liberation Gate and the top surface of the city wall are used to open the Taicheng Exhibition Hall. The exhibition hall holds a permanent "Jingcheng Yongyi-Nanjing City Wall Special Exhibition". The exhibition hall allows us to understand the historical, military, cultural, scientific and technological values of Nanjing City Wall through various means such as pictures and multimedia.

Climb up the stairs on one side of the exhibition hall

Arriving at the highest point of the city wall, the section of the city wall in front of you is 250 meters long. It is the back garden of the palace city of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It is customary for people to call it Taicheng. The city walls here are wide and majestic. Various models of imitation cannons, swords and crossbows and other defensive weapons were placed a distance of 100 meters on one side of the city wall. Seeing these weapons allows us to imagine the scene of the rumbling of artillery at the foot of Zhongshan Mountain at the beginning of Jinling City.

The Taicheng section of the city wall is known as the best scenic spot in Nanjing. Here are the Arctic Pavilion, the cultural and historical features of Jiming Temple, the gorgeous natural scenery of Xuanwu Lake, and the majesty of Zijin Mountain and Jiuhua Mountain.

Nanjing's Ming City Wall is divided into two branches at Taicheng, forming a Y-shaped shape. One is the section of the city wall we had just walked on, extending northwest along Xuanwu Lake and Shencemen further north... The other branch ends next to Jiming Temple after passing through Jiefang Gate. Although it is an abandoned city wall, its height is far higher than that of the city wall along the Xuanwu Lake section. There is also Jiming Ancient Temple behind it as a foil. In addition, there are few tourists and the scenery is beautiful and quiet. Jiming Temple among the green mountains and green trees is built along the mountain body, and Jilong Mountain is covered in layers. Jiming Temple is surrounded by Sanskrit sounds, modern buildings are towering into the clouds, and time and space intersect and collide, bursting out the beauty of the city and forest.

The city wall half-hugged Xuanwu Lake in its arms. Look at the five oases dotted on the misty lake. The distant mountains are close to the water, and the mountain mist reflects.

Walking here makes you feel that the strong and majestic city walls are so majestic and full of vicissitudes. Mottled ancient bricks, naughty and prosperous vines in the cracks in the walls extend between the square bricks, lingering.

The orange morning glory flowers are beautiful and exude determination.

Continue towards Jiuhua Mountain and Taipingmen.

Looking at the city view from this perspective, it faces Zhongshan Mountain in the east and Jiuhua in the south. Xuanwu Lake surrounded by the mountains rippling blue waves, reflecting the ancient city inhabited by dragons and tigers in a graceful atmosphere.

The design on the city wall shows youthful vitality

An unobstructed view of city life by the city walls

You can see Jiuhua Mountain from afar here

Kayaking boats anchored by the lake can be vaguely seen through the dense green trees. Xuanwu Lake is one of the water sports training bases in Jiangsu.

There was actually a baffle blocking the way towards Jiuhua Mountain. It suddenly occurred to me that it might be a sequelae of the Jiuhuashan incident. I didn't expect this. No wonder there were not many tourists on the way. I was a little puzzled at the time. Alas, walking an extra kilometer will be regarded as exercise.

Turn back and return to Taicheng

If you can't go beyond that, you can only take a look here. This section of the city wall takes a big turn along the Jiuhua Mountain towards the Taiping Gate.

A city wall of more than 600 years accompanies the city and silently protects it. The city bricks, the ancient trees attached to the city walls, reflect the vicissitudes of history everywhere.

Walking on the city wall and seeing the modern city street scene is another exciting thing. The high-rise buildings in Nanjing's Main City play the city's beautiful music chapter like musical notes.

The ancient city walls are framed with modern high-rise buildings, and Hanfu women and casual boyfriends are brought together. Everything is so harmonious.

The city wall is a protective barrier and a thread that runs through the city's local accent and ancient charm. From 1366 to the present, Nanjing has undergone earth-shaking changes. Skyscrapers have risen from the ground and ancient palaces have collapsed. More than 600 years roared past the sky of Jinling City, and Nanjing's city walls stood tall despite ups and downs.

Nanjing people have inexplicable plots about the city wall. We like to stroll on the city wall to see the city forest scenery we love, and we also like to stroll on the greenway beside the city wall to enjoy the different beautiful scenery. I will continue to measure with my footsteps and experience the unique and unique Nanjing City Wall.