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The Zhengyangmen is situated on the central north–south axis of Beijing. The main gateway of the gatehouse is aligned with Yongdingmen Gate to the south, the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong and the Monument to the People's Heroes in Tiananmen Square, the Tiananmen Gate itself, the Meridian Gate, and the imperial throne in the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Forbidden City, the city's Drum and Bell ...
The museum is located in Chaoyang District of Beijing, some 15 kilometres (9 mi) northeast of downtown Beijing, inside the circular test track that is part of the China National Railway Test Centre . It also has a branch in downtown Beijing, in the former Zhengyangmen East Railway Station near Tian'anmen Square .
Beijing, the political, cultural, military, and commercial centre of the empire, was the capital city of the last three dynasties of China; it was the last imperial capital built in China's history. Continuing and improving upon the construction and planning traditions of earlier dynasties, Beijing embodied some of the highest achievements in ...
An imperial procession entering the Imperial City through the Great Qing Gate (later renamed the Gate of China) in 1902. The Gate of China (traditional Chinese: 中華門; simplified Chinese: 中华门; pinyin: Zhōnghuámén) was a historical ceremonial gateway in Beijing, China, located near the center of latter-day Tiananmen Square.
The Hall of Supreme Harmony (Chinese: 太和殿; pinyin: Tài Hé Diàn; Manchu: ᠠᠮᠪᠠ ᡡᠸᠠᠯᡳᠶᠠᠮᠪᡠᡵᡝ ᡩᡝᠶᡝᠨ;Möllendorff: amba ...
Beijing Central Axis is in turn from north to south, Drum and Bell Towers, Wanning Bridge, Jingshan Hill, Forbidden City, Altar of Land and Grain, Imperial Ancestral Temple, Upright Gate, Tian'anmen Gate, Outer Jinshui Bridges, Tian’anmen Square Complex, Zhengyangmen, Temple of Heaven, Altar of the God of Agriculture, Southern Section Road Archeological Sites, Yongdingmen Gate.
Di'anmen (traditional Chinese: 地安門; simplified Chinese: 地安门), previously Bei'anmen (and commonly known as the "back gate"), was an imperial gate in Beijing, China. The gate was first built in the Yongle period of the Ming dynasty , and served as the main northern gate to the Imperial City (the southern gate is the much more famed ...
Gate of Divine Might and moat. The gate was built in 1420, during the 18th year of Yongle Emperor's reign. [1] The Gate was originally named "Black Tortoise Gate" (玄武門; Xuánwǔmén), but when Qing dynasty's Kangxi Emperor, whose birth name was Xuanye (玄 燁), ascended to the throne, the use of the Chinese character Xuan (玄) became a form of naming taboo.