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[edit]

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[edit]

^ ^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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