Dajingmen (), also known as Dajing Gate, is an important junction of the
Great Wall of China
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in the
prefecture-level city
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of
Zhangjiakou
Zhangjiakou (), also known as Kalgan and by several other names, is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Hebei province in Northern China, bordering Beijing to the southeast, Inner Mongolia to the north and west, and Shanxi to the southwest ...
within the Chinese province of
Hebei
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.
Dajingmen was built in 1644 in the first year of the reign of the
Shunzhi Emperor
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in the
Qing Dynasty
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The gate is 12 metres high,
9 metres wide, and 13 metres deep. Above the gate is a terrace measuring 12 by 7.5 metres. The wall above the gate is topped by towers, which are accompanied by a parapet wall on the side. The inscription 大好河山 ("Magnificent Rivers and Mountains") found over the lintel was mounted in traditional Han-Style in 1927 on the initiative of
Gao Weiyue (), the ruler of the former province of
Chahar (now
Inner Mongolia
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).
Just to the west of the gate, on the plain in which the city lies, there is an approximately 100 meter long part of the wall faced in brick; then further west, a very well-preserved Great Wall, built of hard rock, follows the mountainous terrain.
External links
* https://greatwallforum.com/location-hebei-west-dajingmen.html
References
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