Dajingmen (simplified Chinese: 大境门; traditional Chinese: 大境門; pinyin: Dàjìngmén), also known as Dajing Gate, is an important junction of the Great Wall of China in the prefecture-level city of Zhangjiakou within the Chinese province of Hebei.[1] Dajingmen was built in 1644 in the first year of the reign of the Shunzhi Emperor in the Qing Dynasty The gate is 12 metres high,[2] 9 metres wide, and 13 metres deep. Above the gate is a terrace measuring 12 by 7.5 metres. The wall above the gate is topped by 1.7-metre-high (5.6 ft) towers, which are accompanied by a 0.8-metre-high (2.6 ft) parapet wall on the side. The inscription 大好河山 ("Magnificent Rivers and Mountains") found over the lintel was mounted in traditional Han-Style in 1927 on the initiative of Gao Weiyue (高维岳), the ruler of the former province of Chahar (now Inner Mongolia).
| Dajingmen | |
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| 大境门 (Chinese) | |
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 Interactive map of Dajingmen | |
| 40°50′40″N 114°53′10″E / 40.84444°N 114.88599°E | |
Just to the west of the gate, on the plain in which the city lies, there is an approximately 100 meter long part of the wall faced in brick; then further west, a very well-preserved Great Wall, built of hard rock, follows the mountainous terrain.
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edit- ↑ "河北张家口：假日打卡大境门". 新浪网 (in Chinese). 2025-05-02.
- ↑ Dong, Yaohui (2008). "Historical Relics on the Great Wall". The Eternal Great Wall. China Nationality Art Photograph Publishing House. p. 125. ISBN 7-80069-644-8.