Front Gate
Qianmen is the colloquial name for Zhengyangmen, a gate in Beijing's historic city wall. The gate is situated to the south of Tiananmen Square and once guarded the southern entry into the Inner City.Photo: Eunice winG, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: WFan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Gate
- Description: city gate
- Also known as: “Cheng-yang Men”, “Chien Gate”, “Chien Men”, “Qian Men”, “Qianmen”, “Tsienmen”, “Zhengyang Gate”, “Zhengyang Men”, and “Zhengyangmen”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Forbidden City and Qianmen.
Forbidden City
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Forbidden City, located at the centre of Beijing, was the main palace of Imperial China for five centuries, until the early 20th century. It today houses the Palace Museum, one of China's largest national museums, with an extensive collection based on the former imperial collection.
Qianmen
Railway stop
Photo: N509FZ, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Qianmen station is a station on Line 2 and Line 8 of the Beijing Subway located near Qianmen.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chongwen and Xicheng.
Chongwen
Chongwen, formerly Chongwen District, is an area in Beijing. Its main attraction is the Temple of Heaven.
Xicheng
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Xicheng District is a district in central Beijing. Visitors come here for the Houhai area to join the bar and restaurant cluster by the lake or to explore the remains of the wealthier part of historical Beijing nearby.
Central Dongcheng
Photo: XtoF, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dongcheng District is in Beijing. It means "east city" and appropriately enough covers the eastern half of the old, imperial city. Most visitors to the city will come here to visit both Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City, the former imperial palace.
Front Gate
- Category: city gate
- Location: Beijing, North China, China, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Yue Chinese—“Front Gate” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “Chèng-iông-mn̂g”
- Chinese: “正阳门”
- Chinese: “正陽門”
- Czech: “Brána Správného světla”
- Dutch: “Zhengyangmen”
- Egyptian Arabic: “زيهنجيانج”
- Esperanto: “Qianmen”
- French: “Zhengyangmen”
- German: “Zhengyangmen”
- Hebrew: “ג’נגיאנגמן”
- Indonesian: “Zhengyangmen”
- Italian: “Zhengyangmen”
- Japanese: “前門”
- Japanese: “正陽門”
- Korean: “정양문”
- Manchu: “ᡨᠣᠪ ᡧᡠᠨ ᡳ ᡩᡠᡴᠠ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chèng-iông-mn̂g”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Qianmen”
- Norwegian: “Qianmen”
- Persian: “ژنگ یانگمن”
- Polish: “Brama Na Wprost Słońca”
- Polish: “Zhengyangmen”
- Spanish: “Zhengyangmen”
- Swedish: “Qianmen”
- Thai: “ประตูเจิ้งหยาง”
- Turkish: “Zhengyangmen”
- Urdu: “ژینگیانگمین”
- Wu Chinese: “正阳门”
- Yue Chinese: “正陽門”
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