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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 historic facade was then reconstructed, in mirror-image, on the opposite (right hand) side of the clock tower. In October 2009, Beijing Railway Museum was renamed to the Zhengyangmen Branch (正阳门馆) of the China Railway Museum. This part of the museum contains only one full size historic locomotive - an 0-6-0 tank engine from the 19th ...
Various foreign tribute-bearers arriving at the Zhengyangmen (正陽門) gate of the imperial palace are depicted, but with a much more caricatural understanding of geography and foreign physionomies: the print is crowded with representatives of the "countries of the pygmies" (Xiaoren guo 小人國), the people with perforated chests (Chuanxin ...
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 ...
The square lies between two ancient, massive gates: the Tiananmen to the north and the Zhengyangmen, known as Qianmen, to the south. Along the west side of the square is the Great Hall of the People. Along the east side is the National Museum of China dedicated to Chinese history predating 1919.
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.
The Battle of Beiping–Tianjin (simplified Chinese: 平津作战; traditional Chinese: 平津作戰; pinyin: Píng Jīn Zùozhàn), also known as the Battle of Beiping, Battle of Peiping, Battle of Beijing, Battle of Peiking, the Peiking–Tientsin Operation, and by the Japanese as the North China Incident (北支事変, Hokushi jihen) (25–31 July 1937) was a series of battles of the Second ...
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.