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Dajingmen (simplified Chinese:大境门;traditional Chinese:大境門;pinyin:Dàjìngmén), also known asDajing Gate, is an important junction of theGreat Wall of China in theprefecture-level city ofZhangjiakou within theChinese province ofHebei. Dajingmen was built in 1644 in the first year of the reign of theShunzhi Emperor in theQing Dynasty The gate is 12 metres high, 9 metres wide, and 13 metres deep. Above the gate is a terrace measuring 12 by 7.5 metres. The wall above the gate is topped by 1.7-metre-high (5.6 ft) towers, which are accompanied by a 0.8-metre-high (2.6 ft) parapet wall on the side. The inscription 大好河山 ("Magnificent Rivers and Mountains") found over the lintel was mounted in traditional Han-Style in 1927 on the initiative ofGao Weiyue (高维岳), the ruler of the former province ofChahar (nowInner Mongolia).
Just to the west of the gate, on the plain in which the city lies, there is an approximately 100 meter long part of the wall faced in brick; then further west, a very well-preserved Great Wall, built of hard rock, follows the mountainous terrain.
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