Dajingmen

Dajingmen (Chinese大 境 门/大 境 门, Pinyin Dàjìngmén ) is an important junction of the Great Wall in Zhangjiakou prefecture-level city in the Chinese province of Hebei. Dajingmen built in 1644 in the first year of the reign of Emperor Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty. The gate is 12 meters high, 9 meters wide and 13 meters deep. Above the gate is a terrace, it measures 12 by 7.5 meters. The wall above the door is topped by 1.7 meters high towers, which are accompanied by a 0.8 meter high parapet wall on the side. Inscription,大好 河山( " Magnificent Rivers and Mountains "), which was founded in 1927 on the initiative of Gao Weiyue (高 维岳), the superiors of the former province of Chahar (now Inner Mongolia ), mounted in a traditional Han - style above the lintel.

To the west, then to the door, an approximately 100 meter long been walled brick part of the wall is in the plane in which lies the gateway to get to the west of the gate in mountainous terrain, built of hard rock and very well-preserved Great Wall followed.

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