Penglai Shuicheng is located under Penglai Tower and is a relatively complete ancient coastal defense building extant in China. National hero Qi Jiguang once trained soldiers here to fight against Japanese pirates, thus making Penglai Shuicheng famous at home and abroad. Penglai Shuicheng is also known as Beiwo City. The water city is backed by mountains and faces the sea, with a precipitous terrain. Since the Sui and Tang dynasties, it has been a coastal defense fortress and a hub for maritime transportation. The Jiao Yu Zhai built here in the second year of Qingli in the Northern Song Dynasty is its predecessor. In the ninth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, a water city was built on the basis of the original Jiao Yu Zhai. Its harbor buildings and coastal defense buildings such as water gates, wave breakers, wave-calming platforms, docks, lighthouses, city walls, enemy platforms, forts, and moats are well-preserved, forming a strict maritime defense system and occupying a very important position in the history of Chinese harbor architecture. Among them, the Beiwo Dudufu is the first ancient building complex in China to display the ancient military command yamen for coastal defense in the Ming Dynasty, and it is also an ancient building complex with the theme of preparing against Japanese pirates. Opening hours: Open from 7:30 to 17:00 all year round.
Penglai Shuicheng
Penglai Shuicheng is located under Penglai Tower and is a relatively complete ancient coastal defens[...]
