What about the Mingdemen site in Xi 'an? Are there any interesting places?

Dear friends, now the little secretary of Chain View Tourism has taken you to the Mingdemen site.

Mingdemen is one of the south gates of Daxing City in Sui Dynasty and Chang 'an City in Tang Dynasty. Between Qixia Gate and Anhua Gate, it is the only gate with five doorways in Guo Cheng. The doorway is 5m wide and 18.5m deep. The site is now located in Yang Jiacun, Xi, Shaanxi.

According to archaeological excavations, Mingdemen is a five-door cave; Mingdemen, also known as the "Five Gates of the Emperor", like Danfengmen and Zhuquemen, is the highest-level five gates in the capital system and the veritable "First Gate of Sui and Tang Dynasties"; Founded in the second year of Emperor Kai of Sui Dynasty and rebuilt in the fifth year of Tang Yonghui, it is the south gate of Chang 'an in Tang Dynasty, and forms the north-south axis of Chang 'an with Zhuquemen in Imperial City and Chengtianmen in Miyagi City. Destroyed by war at the end of the Tang Dynasty.

However, if you judge that the Mingde Gate is only spacious, it is wrong-a large number of relics such as bricks, tiles, lime, wood ash, stone foundations, pink leather bricks painted with red, and stone door sills engraved with smooth grass patterns all prove that the Mingde Gate in the past was not only magnificent, but also exquisite.

Interestingly, the traffic system of Chang 'an City in the Tang Dynasty can also be seen from the traces of the gate site when Mingdemen was excavated-only two of the five gates had ruts, and there were many ruts leading to the gates at both ends in front of the middle three gates, which shows that the middle three gates were not allowed to drive at that time. From the direction of the rut around the door, we can also see the "traffic rules" of "all palace doors are left in and right out" at that time. Correspondingly, of the five doorways of Mingde Gate, two at both ends are for horses and chariots, and the second is for pedestrians. As for one of them, it is the imperial road of the emperor. Therefore, only the stone threshold at the door is very beautiful, with smooth grass-rolling patterns, line-carved mandarin ducks and embossed lying lions.

Tourist friends, Mingdemen is here for you. I hope my explanation will help you. Thank you for listening. Goodbye!

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