余生也晚,对苏州的城门城墙只有一点儿时的记忆。阊门城边有一条叫南新路的巷子,二十世纪六十年代巷里有一所南新路小学,我母亲曾是这所小学校的校长。每逢节假日值班,母亲便将我带去学校。学校操场的一边紧靠着一座“高墩墩”(孩子们都这么喊的),下半截是残缺不全但很坚硬的灰黑砖,上半截是夯实的土墩。大孩子们常常从东侧的专诸巷一处爬上“高墩墩”玩耍,顽皮的还朝学校操场扔土块。许多年后我才知道,这便是苏州城的老城墙。 The rest of his life is also late, only a little childhood memories of the city gate in Suzhou. There is an alley called “Nanxin Road” on the edge of the gate. In the 1960s, there was a South Xinlu elementary school and my mother was the principal of this elementary school. Every holiday on duty, my mother took me to school. One side of the school playground is next to a “high pier” (the children are shouting), the lower half is incomplete but very hard gray brick, the upper half is a solid mound. The eldest children often climbed up the “high pier” from the lanes of the east lane and naughty threw stones at the school playground. Many years later I learned that this is the Old City Wall of Suzhou City.