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Zhuqian Citygate is the only remaining city gate of Zhuqian City, as well as a National monument of the Republic of China .[1]
History
[edit]The ancient name of Hsinchu was Zhuqian. In 1826, Jinshi Zheng Yong-xi et al. petitioned to rebuild Zhuqian City with masonry walls and build 4 city gates: the east gate “Yingxi Gate”, the west gate “Yishuang Gate”, the South Gate “Gexun Gate”, and the North Gate “Gengchen Gate”. Construction began in 1827, and it took 2 years to complete it.
During the Japanese colonial period in 1902, the Government-General of Taiwan began to implement the “Taiwan Urban Plan for the Japanese Colonial Period” and demolished the three gates in the south, west, north and south of Zhuqian City and the city wall, leaving only the east gate Ying-Xi Gate. [2][1]
Building
[edit]Yingxi Gate is a two-story building. The lower section of the gate is called the city base. It is one foot and nine feet high (about 6 meters) and is made of Tangshan stone and strip-shaped granite stones. The city gate is in the shape of a round arch, and the upper wall is engraved with the two characters “Ying-Xi” inscribed by Li Shenyi, then Tongzhi (the governor) of Tamsui Hall. Yingxi Gate is the entrance and exit of the city. The upper section of the gate was originally a wooden structure. After many reconstructions, it is now made of concrete. The gate structure is composed of a total of 24 columns, and the roof part is an East Asian hip-and-gable roof and double eaves structure.[3][4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b 文化部文化資產局. "竹塹城迎曦門". 國家文化資產網.
- ^ 行政院文化建設委員會文化資產總管理處籌備處. 美哉古蹟：國定古蹟專輯. 文化部文化資產局. p. 101. ISBN 9789860321418.
- ^ "竹塹城迎曦門". 數位典藏與數位學習聯合目錄. Archived from the original on 2023-07-29.
- ^ 迎曦門(東門城). "迎曦門(東門城)". 新竹市觀光旅遊網. Archived from the original on 2023-07-27.