Jinxianmen Gate Tower
Jinxian Gate (simplified Chinese: 进贤门; traditional Chinese: 進賢門; pinyin: Jìnxián Mén; lit. 'enter wise gate'), or Jinxianmen Gate Tower (simplified Chinese: 进贤门城楼; traditional Chinese: 進賢門城樓), commonly known as the "Red Pavilion" (红亭), is a landmark building in Jieyang City, Guangdong Province, China. It is located on Huancheng Road, Rongcheng District. The gate, at 16.77 meters high and built of pure fir structure, is a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit. [1] [2]
History
The Jinxian Gate Tower was built in the first year of Emperor Tianqi of the Ming Dynasty (1621), and "Jinxian" means "Admitting more wise men".[3]
In 1993, Jieyang City announced this tower as a city- and county-level cultural relics protection unit in the ancient building type.
On December 10, 2015, Jinxian Gate was promoted to be listed in the Guangdong Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Units. [4]
Jinxian Gate is located between the east and north gates of the original Jieyang Ancient City. Because the ancient city of Jieyang had not only 4 gates in the east, south, west and north like ordinary ancient cities, but had 5 gates. The extra one is Jinxian Gate, so it is not an ordinary city gate.[1]
Accident
On August 14, 2023, a red car crashed into the left side stepped supporting wall of Jinxian Gate due to a traffic accident, but the main structure of the cultural relic was not affected. [5] [6]
The supporting wall was hit
Repaired
Gallery
Inscriptions
The road behind Jinxian Gate
Jinxian Gate at night
Jinxian Gate at night
Jinxian Gate
References
- ^ a b "进贤门" (in Chinese). 揭阳市人民政府门户网站. 2022-05-24.
- ^ "进贤门城楼_旅游频道_新浪网" (in Chinese). Retrieved 2017-10-28.
- ^ "海滨云客：浅说进贤之门" (in Chinese). Retrieved 2017-10-28.
- ^ 广东省人民政府 (2015-12-10). "广东省人民政府关于批准并公布第八批广东省文物保护单位名单和第一批广东省水下文物保护区名单的通知" (in Chinese).
- ^ "400多年古建筑被撞受损 现场已围蔽进行抢修" (in Chinese). 新闻频道_中华网.
- ^ "揭阳400余年文保建筑被撞，车水马龙间如何保护历史文化遗产？" (in Chinese).