Today, I will take you to know about the Xihua Gate of Miyagi West Gate. Unfortunately, only three substituts and four doorways remain at the current Xihua Gate. Originally this place, it was in the Republic of China period, Jianming Forbidden City airport buried deep underground.
Xihua Gate
During a construction in 2001, we stumbled upon the site and saw it all over again. Originally, this place had three doorways, and then the northernmost substation of the Meru Throne was gone.
At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang once ordered that the standard for building the palace was simple and simple, so you can see that there are only very simple cloud patterns under the base of the Meru Throne of the Xihua Gate, and there is no curly grass pattern on it.
This place is a square stone trough, which is the groove of the jack gate inside the former city gate, and the jack gate can be activated up and down. In addition, there is a threshold of the door opening, and there is a very interesting thing next to the threshold, which has an iron component, and this iron component is a mortar called the gate that was used to rotate the city gate under the city gate. In fact, this thing is not a particularly strange thing, but so far, we have this place in all the city gate ruins in Nanjing, and no other place has been found, so the iron components from 600 years ago are still a bit interesting.
Nanjing's Shence Gate, it has a city gate, he also has this mortar, the door also has, but that is the Qing Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty is the only place.
Back 600 years ago, the status of Xihuamen was second only to that of the Noon Dynasty Gate, and this place was also an important place for the emperor to choose concubines, and all the women who passed the sea election entered from Xihuamen and finally went to the palace for the next election. When the emperor of the feudal dynasty ascended to the throne, Wenchen Station was east and Wujiang Station was west. The city gate is the same, entering the Donghua Gate, inside is the Wenhua Hall, and when you enter the Xihua Gate, inside is the Wuying Hall. Zhu Yuanzhang's founding general Vanguard often encountered the Spring Southern Expedition to the North and died on the battlefield, Zhu Yuanzhang was heartbroken, and set up his spiritual hall here. The vicissitudes of the sea and the mulberry fields, the once glorious Xihua, are now calm. Today, like an old man, he sits there quietly, telling the stories of the past. Follow me and let's reread Nanjing together.