Yingmenkou street, Jinniu District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province

Yingmenkou Street

Yingmenkou street belongs to Jinniu District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. It is the west gate of Chengdu City, adjacent to jiulidi and Fuqin streets in the East, chadianzi street in the south, Jinquan street in the West and shaheyuan street in the north, with an area of 3.49 square kilometers.

Evolution of organizational system

In June 2002, yuanyingmenkou was changed from township to street, and a sub district office was set up, covering an area of 3 square kilometers. 2004 Jinniu District Street adjustment. The area of 0.31 square kilometers south of the first section of the North Third Ring Road of Jinquan street and east of Jinniu Avenue is classified as yingmenkou street. 49 square kilometers after adjustment.

The reason for the name

It is said that there are two sources of place names. 1. During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang stationed troops outside the west gate during the northern expedition, so it was named yingmenkou. (2) during the gardan rebellion in Kangxi 57, the imperial court dispatched eight Manchu Mongolian mixed banners from Jingzhou, Hubei Province to Tibet to fight the rebellion. At that time, it was stationed at the gate of the camp. After the rebellion, the then governor of Sichuan, Nian gengyao, said that Sichuan also needed military support and asked the imperial court to keep the troops. First, it was changed every three years. Later, it was too hard to build a small city in Chengdu, that is, "Shaocheng". They live in today's Kuan alley, Zhai alley and Changshun street. The houses are built according to the pattern of Beijing siheyuan / Hutong. The residence of eight banners has its own characteristics. It is unified according to red, yellow, blue and white / inlaid with red, yellow, blue and white.

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