What are the gates of the inner and outer cities of Nanjing?

There are Zhonghua Gate, Liangqingmen, Yifeng Gate, Zhongshan Gate, Donghua Gate and Xi 'anmen in the inner and outer cities of Nanjing.

Zhonghuamen 1

Zhonghua Gate, formerly known as Jubaomen, is one of the thirteen Ming Dynasty gates of Nanjing Ming City Wall. Located at the southern end of Zhonghua Road, Qinhuai District, Nanjing, facing south. It is the largest existing city gate in China, an outstanding representative of ancient defensive architecture, and occupies an important position in the history of world wall architecture. It is also the most complete, complex and largest fortress urn in the world, and is known as the "No.1 urn in the world".

2. Cool door

Qingliangmen is one of the thirteen Ming Dynasty gates of Nanjing Ming City Wall. It is located in the west of Gulou District, Nanjing, east-west. It is one of the four existing Ming Dynasty gates in Nanjing City Wall. The cool door is a semicircular inner urn door, an inner urn and two doors. The inner urn is semicircular between every two walls, facing the gate, and has a single-hole arch structure. The towers above the city gate no longer exist, and the rest are basically well preserved. There is a twisted stone on the top of the city with two twisted holes on it.

3. Yifeng Gate

Yifeng Gate, also known as Zhong Xing Gate, is one of the thirteen Ming Dynasty gates of Nanjing Ming City Wall. It is located between the south foot of Xiaguan Lion Mountain and Xiuqiu Mountain in Gulou District, Nanjing, east-west, and built on the road less than one kilometer behind Zhongfumen. It is an auspicious dragon and phoenix, and now it is an important part of Yuejianglou Scenic Area. Yifengmen was built in the early years of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty. Because of the meaning of "abundant Lion", it was named "Yifengmen". It was built opposite Zhongfu Gate, shaped like a dragon and a phoenix.

4. Zhongshan Gate

Sun Yat-sen Gate, formerly known as Chaoyangmen, is one of the thirteen inner gates of Nanjing Ming City Wall in Ming Dynasty. This gate is a passage connecting Miyagi in the city and the Ming tombs outside the city, and it can reach Guo Qilin Gate to the east. It has been listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit. Sun Yat-sen Gate was originally Wengcheng Chaoyang Gate in Ming Dynasty. Because the city gate is located in the east of Nanjing, it is named after the earliest sun. Chaoyangmen Wengcheng no longer exists. Today, these three arches were opened during the Republic of China and have been listed as national key cultural relics protection units.

5. Donghuamen

Donghuamen, the east gate of Miyagi in Nanjing Ming Palace Museum, is opposite to Xihuamen, and it is also one of the relatively complete existing gates of Miyagi in Nanjing. Now it has been turned into Donghuamen Ruins Park and listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit. There are obvious signs of broken walls on the north and south sides of Donghuamen, and the Yifeng Building on the top of the city building has long since disappeared and has been destroyed. In the southernmost ticket, the pavement of the Ming Dynasty is still preserved. On the roof of the city, there is a stone foundation of the Yifeng Building site of the Ming Dynasty, and you can clearly see the remains of the corridor.

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