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Dongdan Archway
Archway in Beijing city
Dongdan County
Pailou is
Peking
One of the cities
Pailou (decorated archway)
, demolished in the 15th year of the Republic of China (
The year 1926
). There are two other accounts, respectively, demolished in the twelfth year of the Republic of China (
The year 1923
) and the thirty-seventh year of the Republic of China (
The year 1948
).
- Chinese name
- Dongdan Archway
- Geographical position
- Beijing Dongdan
- Present state
- Have been dismantled
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The city of Beijing is symmetrically distributed on the central axis, so not only the position of the archway is symmetrical between east and west, but also
Horizontal inscribed board
The content is also echoed. Dongdan
Building frontage
It was originally "on the day", and Xidan archway was originally "Zhan Yun". These two allusions are derived from the "Shi Ji · Five Emperors Benji" : "Emperor Yao, Fang Xun. Its benevolence is like heaven, its knowledge is like God, it is like the sun, the hope is like clouds, rich but not arrogant, expensive but not comfortable." It means to praise the virtues of the monarch, as the sun comes, the people will gladly follow; Like clouds and rain, everyone looks to grace. Before Yuan Shikai proclaimed himself emperor, he changed "on the day" to "Jingxing" and "looking for clouds" to "Qingyun", taking from Kong Shangren's "Peach Blossom Fan" : "The river is a map, Luo is a book, Jing Xingming, Qingyun is now..." The allusion.
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According to Mr. Chen Zongfan's book "Yandu From the Examination" written in 1931, Dongdan Archway was demolished in the fifteenth year of the Republic of China (1926), while "History of the Change of the Old Capital" published at the same time recorded that the Dongdan Archway was demolished in the twelfth year of the Republic of China (1923). Kong Qingpu, who has been engaged in the management and maintenance of ancient buildings in Beijing since before and after the founding of New China, recently published his book"
Cheng: My eighty years with Beijing
The book recalls that in 1948, the Central Army of the Kuomintang built a temporary airport in Dongdan Square and demolished the Dongdan Archway and the civilian houses south of Dongdan Two.
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