Zhangbi: A Village Fortified for the Ground Beneath
A walled village in Jiexiu with three levels of tunnels under a single dressed-stone street, protected as a national site since 2006 and still explained by local account.
Zhangbi Fortress
Zhangbi Fortress, also called Zhangbi village, lies in Zhangbi village, Longfeng town, Jiexiu, in Shanxi. In 2006 it was inscribed as part of the sixth batch of Major Historical and Cultural Sites Protected at the National Level. Its founding date is unknown, and legend gives it to Liu Wuzhou of the Sui. The wall is shaped like the character for convex, its northern side pushed forward, measuring 374 metres from east to west and 244 metres from north to south, with a barbican at the north gate. Three sides are ringed by gullies and the fourth leans against the loess tableland.