Jianguomen (Xi'an)

Jianguomen
Jianguomen
建国门
	Jianguomen in year 2009
Former names	小差市防空便门
General information
Status	Completed
Type	city gate
Location	Beilin District
Town or city	Xi'an
Country	China
Coordinates	34°15′07″N 108°58′01″E / 34.251964°N 108.966941°E
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	建国门
Traditional Chinese	建國門
Literal meaning	Gate of Construction of a nation
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Jiàn guó mén

Jianguomen is a gate of the historic city wall of Xi'an, China.

History

The gate was opened in 1939 as one of the temporarily openings for evacuation from Japanese air raid, thus the gate was known as a 防空便門.^[1] Since the opening is near to an area known as 小差市, thus the opening was also known as 小差市防空便門 (Chinese: 小差市防空便门).^[1] After the wars and the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the gate was named Jianguomen.^[2] The South Road of 小差市, was also named after Jianguo as Jianguo Road (Chinese: 建国路; pinyin: Jiàn guó lù).

Jianguomen Bridge, completed in 1985, is right in front of the gate.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b 李云峰 [Li Yunfeng]; 王民权 [Wang Minquan], eds. (November 2012). Mínguó Xī'ān Cídiǎn 民国西安词典. 西安历史大词典 series (in Chinese (China)) (1 ed.). Xi'an: 陕西人民出版社 [Shaanxi People's Publishing House]. p. 59. ISBN 978-7-224-10402-8. Archived from the original on 2019-01-31. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
^ 张黎娜 (28 September 2014). 西安建国门由来：为方便百姓躲日机轰炸开凿城墙. 西安晚报 (in Chinese (China)). Retrieved 15 January 2020 – via Chinanews.com.
^ 陕西省西安市地名志 (in Chinese (China)). 1986.

[minguo_xian_cidian-1] 李云峰 [Li Yunfeng]; 王民权 [Wang Minquan], eds. (November 2012). Mínguó Xī'ān Cídiǎn 民国西安词典. 西安历史大词典 series (in Chinese (China)) (1 ed.). Xi'an: 陕西人民出版社 [Shaanxi People's Publishing House]. p. 59. ISBN 978-7-224-10402-8. Archived from the original on 2019-01-31. Retrieved 2020-01-15.

[2] 张黎娜 (28 September 2014). 西安建国门由来：为方便百姓躲日机轰炸开凿城墙. 西安晚报 (in Chinese (China)). Retrieved 15 January 2020 – via Chinanews.com.

[3] 陕西省西安市地名志 (in Chinese (China)). 1986.

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