The Shantou stone fort park is the commemorative park which becomes primarily by qi the mediocre fort scenic spot construction. the qi mediocre fort builds in the Qing Dynasty Tongzhi 13 years, Guangxu five completion (i.e. 1874-1879 years), lasts for five years, spends 80,000 silver dollars, until now already more than 100 year experience history. It located at the old Shantou's southeast, for the link circular castle construction, with separates on the shore Su Anshan fort presently to echo, blocks the Shantou bay access, the geographical position is very important, is the Qing Dynasty Guangdong Province area main coast defense constructs. The 19th century the mid-19th century, the first, second Opium War erupted successively, the corrupt incompetent Qing Dynasty government and big powers and so on US, UK and French signed lost dignity and had the country insulted "the Nanjing Treaty" and "the Tianjin Treaty" implements the open door policy, Shantou is at that time one of ten trading ports. Because the foreign merchant keeps coming in a steady stream numerous to come, in addition the coast defense is loose, at that time complied with the public opinion in Chaozhou troop commander Fang Yao, take “the neighbour minute not only, the moist sea took strict precautions against” as the reason, presented a memorial requesting the Qing government to construct qi the mediocre fort. qi mediocre fort main by the shell lime sand, boils till mushy the glutinous rice and the red syrup moves twenty hang builds becomes. The front door, the artillery lane uses the specification granite block masonry and building, therefore is named “the stone fort”.

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