Chaoyang Building, formerly known as Yinghuimen, also known as Dongmen Building, is located at the eastern end of Lin 'an Road in the southeast of Jianshui County, Honghe Prefecture, Yunnan Province. Built in the 22nd year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1389), it was the east gate building of Shuicheng at that time. The architectural style of Chaoyang Building is similar to Tiananmen Square in Beijing, and it is called "Little Tiananmen Square".
The building has three floors, which are connected by 48 folded thick wooden columns and many thick beams to form a solid frame, and then masonry walls and gates are built.
The building is 24.5m high, with a depth of 12.3 1m, a width of 26.8m and an area of 4 14m2. It has five bays, three bays, a circular corridor, and a roof with three eaves built on the mountain. Under the roof of the top floor, the words "southeast of Xiongzhen" are hung, which means Qingdong. In the west, the calligraphy calligrapher Zhang Xu's list of "Flying Clouds" was copied.
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During the Tang and Yuan Dynasties, Nanzhao regime built a earthen city here, and set up a forest in the 20th year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1387). On the basis of the original earthen city, it was expanded into a brick city, and three floors were built on each of the four city gates, with the east gate called Chaoyangmen, the south called Fuanmen, the west called Qingyuan Gate and the north called Yongzhenmen. During the reign of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1647), all the three cities in the north, south and northwest were destroyed by war, except the Chaoyang Building in the east gate.
From 65438 to 0954, Chaoyang Building was listed as the key cultural relics protection unit in the province, and it was the center of people's sightseeing and cultural activities. There are more than 10,000 precious historical paintings and calligraphy in Chaoyang Building, including Eighteen Arhats, one of the eight famous paintings collected in Qing Dynasty.
On May 25th, 2006, Chaoyang Tower, as an ancient building in Ming Dynasty, was approved by the State Council to be included in the sixth batch of national key cultural relics protection units.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-Chaoyang building