Jiqingmen

Jiqing gate is one of the new city gates in Nanjing. There was no Jiqing gate in Nanjing history. In 1991, in order to connect with Zhonghua Road and widen Jiqing Road, the gate was opened on the ancient city wall. It was named Jiqing gate because it was at the top of Jiqing road.

Jiqingmen

Jiqingmen is the back gate of the Ming City Wall in Nanjing. It was opened in 1991. It is located in the southwest section of the Ming City Wall in Qinhuai District of Nanjing, south of Shuiximen and east of the moat at the east end of Jiqingmen street. Jiqing gate is the second gate opened by Nanjing city wall after the founding of the people's Republic of China.

In the early 1990s, due to the needs of urban construction and urban traffic in Nanjing, the Zhonghua Road was connected and the Jiqing road was widened. With the approval of the State Administration of cultural relics, a new Jiqing gate was opened between Shuiximen and Zhonghua Gate, and Professor Pan Guxi of the Department of architecture of Southeast University was invited to design and build it.

Jiqing gate gets its name from Jiqing road in the city. Jiqing road is one of the capital roads opened up in the period of the Republic of China. Jiqing is the name of Nanjing in the Yuan Dynasty. Jiqing gate is a lintel gate style of Song Dynasty. It is a square gate with four holes. It is the first even gate in Nanjing city wall with even number of openings. It is the first gate in China.

The origin of the name

Jiqing gate is the back gate of the Ming City Wall in Nanjing. In 1991, in order to connect with Zhonghua Road and widen Jiqing Road, it was newly opened on the ancient city wall of Nanjing with the approval of the State Administration of cultural relics. Because Nanjing was named Jiqing road in the Yuan Dynasty, it was named Jiqing gate.

Design style

Professor Pan Guxi, who was specially invited at that time, took into account the traffic needs, and at the same time, compared with the city gate built in the Ming Dynasty in Nanjing and the city gate opened after the Republic of China, he designed the four hole square city gate in the style of "lintel" in the Song Dynasty. It is very different from other ancient city gates in order to distinguish them.

Address: Fengtai Road, Qinhuai District, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province

Longitude: 118.7675853

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