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　　Shanhaiguan is a municipal district of Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province. Itis located in the northeast corner of Hebei Province, the west end of Liaoxicorridor, and the northeast of Qinhuangdao city. In the East and North, itborders Suizhong County, Liaoning Province; in the west, it borders HaigangDistrict, Qinhuangdao City; in the northwest, it borders Funing County, HebeiProvince; in the south, it faces Liaodong Peninsula and Shandong Peninsulaacross the sea. The East-West horizontal distance is 18.30 km, and theNorth-South vertical distance is 16.92 km. According to Linyu county annals, "inthe 14th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Xu Dajian, Duke of the state ofWei, set up a guard at the pass. He stationed 5000 troops and went to the oldYuguan for 60 Li. Because of the mountain and sea, it was called Shanhai Pass.".The plain area of 8 square kilometers between the mountains and the sea hasbecome an important road connecting the North China Plain and the NortheastPlain since ancient times. It is known as "the key of the two capitals, thefirst pass of the Great Wall". In the past and in recent years, the situation ofShanhaiguan district has changed frequently. In Shang Dynasty, it belonged toGuzhu state. In the spring and Autumn period, it belonged to Guzhu of Beiyan.During the Warring States period, it belonged to Beiping county. In the QinDynasty, it belonged to the west of Liaoning Province. In the Western HanDynasty, it belonged to Linyu County, Liaoxi County, Youzhou. During the threeGuo period, it belonged to Linyu County, Liaoxi County, weiyouzhou. In theWestern Jin Dynasty, it was located in Linyu, Liaoxi County, Youzhou. During thesixteen periods of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it successively belonged to LiaoxiCounty of the former Yan, Liaoxi County of the former Qin, Liaoxi County of thelater Yan and Liaoxi County of Jizhou in the northern Yan. During the northernand Southern Dynasties, it belonged to Peiping County of Pingzhou.

　　In the Sui Dynasty, it belonged to Linyu Palace (pass) in Beiping county.In the Tang Dynasty, it is located in Linyu County, Daoping Prefecture, HebeiProvince, and lianyuguan (also known as linlu pass) in Shicheng County. Duringthe Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, it was located in Haibin County,Xizhou, Dading Prefecture, Qidan. In Liao Dynasty, it belonged to ZhongjingRoad, Qianzhou and qianmin county. In the Jin Dynasty, Qianzhou was located. InYuan Dynasty, it was located in qianmin Town, Ruizhou, Daning Road, Liaoyangprovince. Ming Dynasty, Hongwu 14 years (1381) home shanhaiwei, the capitalYongping house. In the Qing Dynasty, shanhaiwei was removed in the second yearof Qianlong (1737) and Linyu county was set up. Shanhaiguan was the seat of thecounty, which belonged to Yongping Prefecture. In 1913, it belonged to LinyuCounty, Bohai Road, Zhili Province, and changed to Linyu County, Jinhai Road thenext year. In 1928, Linyu County, Hebei Province. In 1935, it belonged to LinyuCounty, the puppet Jidong Fanggong autonomous government. In September of the34th year of Min Guo (1945), it belongs to Linyu County, the 16th specialdistrict of Ji re Liao district. On November 27, 1948, Shanhaiguan wasliberated. It is located in Qinyu County, Hebei Province. Shanhaiguan office wasestablished. On April 21, 1949, it belonged to Jianshan customs City, Liaoxiprovince. In July 1952, Shanhaiguan city was transferred to Hebei Province. InMarch 1953, Shanhaiguan was removed from the city and built into a district,belonging to Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province. In April 1958, it belongs toQinhuangdao City, Tangshan special district, Hebei Province. In May 1983, itbelongs to Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province.

　　Customs is a famous place of interest in ancient and modern times. With theGreat Wall as the main body and the ancient city as the core, it has 129castles, passes, enemy towers, city towers, beacon towers and piers along the 26km long Great Wall line from laolongtou in the south to jiumenkou in the North,forming a complete defense system for the long city. Luocheng is built on theEast and west sides of Shanhaiguan City, and Yicheng is built on the north andsouth sides, forming a defensive pattern of front arch and back guard, leftsupporting and right supporting. Shanhaiguan ancient city mainly refers toShanhaiguan city and Dongluo City, covering an area of 1.5 million squaremeters, of which Guancheng covers an area of 1.26 million square meters andDongluo city covers an area of 240000 square meters. Dongluocheng is anavant-garde city of Shanhaiguan. It is an important part of the city defense. Itwas built in 1583 and completed the next year. The perimeter of the city is 2040meters, with East, South and north gates. There are two-story towers on the eastgate and one-story tower on the north and South gates.

　　There are turrets at the corner of southeast and northeast. Eleven kinds ofinscriptions, such as "Zhending building in the 12th year of Wanli" and"luanzhou building in the 12th year of Wanli", were printed on the bricks forthe construction of the city, which were rated as a highly valuable culturalrelic city by experts. There are moats on the southeast and north sides of thecity. In Ming Dynasty, there were temples such as emperor's temple, Tianqi'stemple and memorial archways such as "Liaohai throat square" and "Huayi square";in early Qing Dynasty, there was Fangguan hall. In addition to partial damage,most of the walls of Luocheng are relatively complete. Shanhaiguan ancient cityis the first important pass at the eastern starting point of the great wall ofMing Dynasty. Among the thousands of dangerous passes along the great wall ofMing Dynasty, Shanhai Pass, Juyong Pass and Jiayu pass are famous in ancient andmodern times. Among the three famous passes, Shanhaiguan Pass ranks first, so itis called "the first pass in the world". Her position as an important militarytown is unique among the passes of the Great Wall. These famous cultural relicshave become a valuable asset of Shanhaiguan.