Ming·lanzhou Chengcheng'enmen Site

What travelers say:

＂ Ming. The former site of Cheng'enmen in Lanzhou City ＂ is located at the eastern end of Zhangye Road, Lanzhou City. The old name is Ying'enmen and Hepingmen, commonly known as Dongshaomen. At the beginning of the Ming army, after recaptured Lanzhou, the northwest town was renovated on the basis of Song and Yuancheng Temple. During the Ming Xuande years, the city wall was rebuilt for more than 14 miles, and the Ming orthodox 12 years (1447) added the Guo outside the Chengen Gate and opened the nine gates. The Middle East gate is the easternmost gate of Lanzhou City. Because the Beijing division is in the east, this city gate is the entrance gate of the messengers and officials from the east, they bring the mighty emperor, so the door is called: Yingenmen. On the wall of Dongguo City, there are four-story city buildings, each floor is six open, rest on the top of the mountain, and there are heavy rafts on the third floor. At the end of 1950, in honor of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army entering the DPRK to fight, defend world peace, and change Yingenmen to the Peace Gate. This gate was demolished in the construction of the city.