Where is Yaohua Gate in Nanjing?

Fang Yaomen was one of the outer city gates of Nanjing in Ming Dynasty. The original site is now Hua Yao Street. In the twenty-second year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1389), when the Ming Dynasty built the outer city gate here, it borrowed the name of Fang Yaocun and named the gate Fang Yaomen.

In the Eighteen Gates of Waiguo, many people are unfamiliar with Yaomen, but there is a place called Yaohuamen in Nanjing. "It's actually the city gate." Gao Song said that the real name of Yaohuamen should be Yaofangmen, and Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the construction of Waiguomen here because there is a Fang Yao nearby. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, the British came here to build beijing-shanghai railway and tear down Fang Yaomen. They read the name of this place as "Hua Yao Gate", and the locals have been using it, so now most people know it is Hua Yao Gate.