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Qingliang gate is one of the thirteen gates of Ming Dynasty in Nanjing city wall. It is located in the west of Gulou District, Nanjing city. It faces the East and faces the West. It is one of the four existing gates of Ming Dynasty in Nanjing city wall. Its cultural relic value is of great significance. It is an important material for the study of ancient Chinese military facilities.

Qingliang gate is a semi-circular inner urn gate. There is an inner urn gate with two gate walls. The inner urn is semi-circular, facing the main gate. The main gate is a single hole arch structure. The tower above the gate no longer exists. The rest is basically well preserved. There is a stone on the top of the city with two holes.

Qingliang gate was built in the early years of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty. It was named Qingliang gate because it was located in Qingliang mountain. It was blocked soon after it was built and was not used for more than 600 years. In June of the sixth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, there was a division of soldiers and horses to guard the gate. In March of 1379, it was renamed qingjiangmen. In the middle of Ming Dynasty, it was renamed Qingliangmen. In 1990, Nanjing municipal government turned the stone city into a stone city park, and Qingliangmen is an important historic site in the south.

Historical evolution

In the early years of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty, Qingliang gate was built.

In the sixth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1373), Qingliangmen was stationed by the army and horse division.

In the 12th year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1379), Qingliang gate was changed to Qingjiang gate.

In the Hongzhi period of Ming Dynasty (1488-1505), it was still called qingjiangmen.

In the autumn of the third year of Wanli (1575) of the Ming Dynasty, Gu Qiyuan, a scholar who lives in Hongwu street of Nanjing, recalled that when he was ten years old, he saw a mast of a commemorative "building" outside the gate of the city where Zhu Yuanzhang had crossed the river. "Every year he sacrificed it, so it was a regular system and a soldier for the world.". "It's only five or six feet high. It's surrounded by a wooden fence. It's on the ground, and it's never seen again.". There is another story about Zhu Yuanzhang's boat crossing the river: when Zhu Yuanzhang and Xu Da, the general of the early Ming Dynasty, crossed the river, the boatman took the helm and yelled: "the emperor is escorted by six dragons, and the general is powerful in all aspects." Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was overjoyed to hear that he "celebrated with Da Wenzu.". After Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he became an official for the boatman's nephew and painted all the boats red, which is called ManJiang red. However, the name of the gate mentioned by Gu Qiyuan has been changed from qingjiangmen to Qingliangmen.

In the middle of Ming Dynasty, qingjiangmen was changed back to Qingliangmen.

In December 1937, during the Nanjing defense war, the area around the Qingliangmen city wall was the defense area of the second regiment of the military police. Although it was not damaged by the large-scale Japanese siege during the attack and defense of the city wall, it was always bombed by Japanese planes. After the city wall of the southeast line of Nanjing was broken, a large number of Chinese defenders retreated from Xiaguan to the vicinity of Sancha River and the 45th regiment of the 6th Division of the Japanese invaders who came up in a roundabout encounter. In the desperate situation of being lost inside the city and meeting the enemy outside the City, the soldiers launched the final struggle relying on the Qingliangmen city wall and Qinhuai River.

In 1990, Nanjing municipal government turned the stone city into a stone city park, and Qingliangmen is an important historic site in the south.

Layout structure

Qingliangmen is located in the west of Gulou District, Nanjing, with shichengmen in the South and Dinghuaimen in the north. Qingliang gate is composed of a city gate and an oval urn. Dysprosium building no longer exists, and the rest is basically well preserved. Because this section of the city wall is built on the undulating cliffs in the south of Qingliang Shanxi, it is located in a remote place. From the Hongwu Period of the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty, there have been few pedestrians. After the construction of Qingliangmen in Ming Dynasty, a bridge was built to lead to the West Bank of waiqinhuai River; the Qingliangmen bridge on waiqinhuai River renovated in 2006 continued to be named after Qingliangmen.

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Surrounding traffic

Qingliangmenqiao: No.9, No.20, No.43, No.60, No.133, No.303, No.317

Qingliangmen Street (East): No.57, No.75, No.127, No.134, No.204

Qingliangmen Street (Jiangdong North Road): No.18, No.39, No.56, no.y3

Address: Qingliangmen street, Gulou District, Nanjing

Longitude: 118.757191

Latitude: 32.047583

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