Seeing that the project could not be completed, the foreman was in a hurry. Seeing this, the kind-hearted Master Lu took his son and apprentice to Beijing to look around.
Another day, when three people walked to the Liuli River in the southwest of Beijing, not far from Beijing, Mr. Lu saw many bean dregs and many Bai Yushi at the bottom of the river.
So he shouted to the river, "Are there any white brothers under the river? Wake up! " Strangely, a voice from the bottom of the water replied, "Yes, yes, yes!" " Next, three people discuss how to carry stones. Bean dregs are yellow and yellow, like cowhide. Zhao Xi decided to turn bean dregs into cattle and drive to Beijing. White marble is as white as wool, so Mr. Lu's son plans to turn Bai Yushi into a sheep and drive to Beijing.
After discussing the way to transport the stone, Master Lu said to his son and apprentice, "It must be transported to Beijing overnight. When the chicken crows at dawn, the stone will be exposed and can't walk any further! " Master Lu's son agreed, and so did Zhao Xi.
After another day, Master Lu came to the river unhurriedly, rushed to the bean dregs stone on the river bank and Bai Yushi under the river, and shouted: "Old bean and old white, you have worked hard. To Beijing! When you got there, you helped build Beijing. You will be famous for a thousand years and ten thousand years! " I don't know if Lao Dou and Lao Bai heard it, but they didn't answer. Lu Ban's son Ye frowned, and Zhao Xi couldn't help laughing.
Now, Luban is in a hurry. He couldn't help flying into a rage. He shouted sharply, "Old Bean and White, get out of here!" " Lao Dou and Lao Bai were inseparable from their native land, but they couldn't stand the trouble and entanglement of Lu Ban Ye, and pieces of bean dregs turned into strong old cows. Pieces of Bai Yushi became docile sheep and jumped out of the water.
Master Lu is very happy. Zhao Xi's two brothers and sisters drove the cattle and sheep respectively, crossed Changxindian, crossed Lugou Bridge and headed for the northeast.
At this time, Zhao Xi, who has always been scheming, secretly thought: Cows walk faster than sheep. We can't let Luban's son take the lead this time. It would be best if it could embarrass Luban.
So, as soon as they crossed the Lugou Bridge, Zhao Xi whipped them "beep, beep", and in the blink of an eye, Zhao Xi and the ox disappeared. Master Lu's son didn't walk slowly either. On the fourth watch, he saw Beijing and thought, this time, he really didn't violate the deadline set by his father! Seeing the sheep approaching the edge of the city, suddenly, "Rolle Rolle" cried, and all the chickens in the village cried. In fact, when Zhao Xi's bean dregs stone arrived, he learned to crow for fear that his disciples would take the lead.
Hearing the cock crow, Lu Ban's son, Lu Ban, rushed the sheep that changed from stone to stone and suddenly fell down and turned into stone again. These stones look like a flock of sheep from a distance.
Later, the Xibianmen was built here in the Ming Dynasty, and people called this group of white marble sheep "Xibianqun Sheep".
In the early Ming Dynasty, after the completion of Beijing City, Xibianmen was still next to the turret at the southwest end of Beijing City Wall, which was the gate of the southwest corner of Beijing Outer City. In the situation at that time, the strongest desire was peace, and peace was overwhelming.
Xibianmen is one of the seven gates of the outer city of the capital in Ming and Qing Dynasties, which is mainly composed of gatehouse, watchtower and urn. Xibianmen and Dongbianmen are two city gates built later in Beijing.
1553, in order to defend against the harassment of Mongolian cavalry and ensure the safety of Beijing, the Ming Dynasty built an outer city around Beijing. However, due to the underestimation of the scale of the building at that time and financial constraints, only a section around the southern suburbs was built, and five gates, such as Yongdingmen, were built, thus making the capital city wall bulge.
Later, near the junction of the east and west ends of the outer wall and the inner wall, two north-facing gates were built, namely the East Gate and Bianxi Gate.
Dongbianmen is a small city gate in the southeast of the outer city of Beijing, which is located next to the corner building at the southeast end of the Beijing city wall. It is one of the gates of the outer city of Beijing, mainly composed of watchtower and arrow tower. Xibianmen's initial building scale is very small, and the laws and regulations are relatively simple. Its tower height is only 1 1 m, and other shapes and sizes are the same as those of the Dongbian Gate.
Later, due to more frequent looting by nomadic people in the north, the Ming Dynasty became richer and richer, and the residents inside and outside Beijing increased day by day. Therefore, in order to further strengthen Beijing's defense, the Ming Dynasty built outer cities around Beijing, thus forming a pattern of seven outer cities, mainly Yongdingmen, Zuo 'anmen, You 'anmen, Guangqumen, Guang 'anmen, Dongbianmen and Xibianmen.
1564, when Xibianmen expanded the tower, a semicircular urn with a length of about 3 1 m was built. At the same time, the wall crib at the junction of the inner and outer cities on the east side of Xibianmen Tower was strengthened, the moat road outside the city gate was dredged, and a three-hole sluice was built on the east side of the city gate, so that the Yuquan landscape was smoothly diverted to the nearby Tonghui River.
After this expansion, the Xibianmen Gate Tower is a single-story small-scale building with a hill, a gray tile roof, square doors on all sides and no windows. The width of three rooms is 1 1.2m, the depth of one room is 5.5m, and the height is 5.2m. There is a wooden door in the center of the tower, and the tower height is11.2m.. The urn is semicircular, 30 meters wide from east to west and 7.5 meters long from north to south.
Later, until the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, in order to meet the defense needs of the outer city, the Xibianmen Tower was expanded, and a small watchtower with a width of 9 meters and a height of 4.7 meters was built on the urn.
There are two rows of arrow windows on the arrow tower, and each row has four arrow holes. Eight arrow holes, like eight eyes wide open, look down at the city warily and intently, which is almost a deterrent to the enemy. Therefore, people also call Xibianmen Arrow Tower "Eight Eyes Arrow Tower".
Eight-Eye Arrow Tower is a small-scale hard mountain with single-story and single eaves, with a gray tile roof, a wooden square door on the south back, two arrow windows on the east, west and north sides, four holes on each side, and two holes on each side. Three rooms are 9 meters wide, one room is 4.6 meters deep and 4.7 meters high; The center of the platform is the gate, and the north half is its outer side, which belongs to the arched roof, and the south half is its inner side, which is10.5m high and is used to connect the platform through the wooden square gate.
After the Qing Dynasty, Xibianmen Gate Tower, Arrow Tower, Wengcheng and its nearby walls were all demolished. Later, the remaining195m inner wall adjacent to the east side of Xibianmen Gate Tower was renovated, and the "Eight Eye Arrow Tower" was rebuilt in the original site adjacent to the outer city. At the same time, seven cross-sectional remains were preserved and a monument was erected to commemorate it.