Jinxianmen Gate Tower
Building in Guangdong Province, China
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Jinxian Gate (simplified Chinese: 进贤门; traditional Chinese: 進賢門; pinyin: Jìnxián Mén; lit. 'enter wise gate'), or Jinxianmen Gate Tower (simplified Chinese: 进贤门城楼; traditional Chinese: 進賢門城樓), commonly known as the "Red Pavilion" (红亭), is a landmark building in Jieyang City, Guangdong Province, China. It is located on Huancheng Road, Rongcheng District. The gate, at 16.77 meters high and built of pure fir structure, is a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit.[1][2]
History
The Jinxian Gate Tower was built in the first year of Emperor Tianqi of the Ming Dynasty (1621), and "Jinxian" means "Admitting more wise men".[3]
In 1993, Jieyang City announced this tower as a city- and county-level cultural relics protection unit in the ancient building type.
On December 10, 2015, Jinxian Gate was promoted to be listed in the Guangdong Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Units.[4]
Jinxian Gate is located between the east and north gates of the original Jieyang Ancient City. Because the ancient city of Jieyang had not only 4 gates in the east, south, west and north like ordinary ancient cities, but had 5 gates. The extra one is Jinxian Gate, so it is not an ordinary city gate.[1]
Accident
Gallery
Inscriptions
The road behind Jinxian Gate
Jinxian Gate at night
Jinxian Gate at night
Jinxian Gate
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