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Dadu, or the Great Capital of the Yuan Dynasty was initially built in the fourth year of Zhiyuan or 1267 A D. It was rebuilt and expanded nine years later. Dadu covered a land area of 60 square kilometers and had 11 city gates, all of which were made of earth. The east and west sections of the Dadu city wall snaked inside today’s second Ring Road of Beijing. The northern part of the city wall is today’s Dewai and Anwai Earth Wall Park of Beijing while the southern portion of the city wall is south to today’s Chang’an Avenue.
The city wall ruins from Xueyuan Road in the east to Xibahe in the west have now been open as a public park. It is said that the southern portion of the old city wall was not built in a straight line because of the two soul pagodas of Monk Haiyun and his disciple Monk Ke’an. The Yuan emperor Hubilie ordered that the city wall built 30 steps away from the two pagodas. All the sides of the city wall except the northern side (at this sides there were only two gates) had three gates. The eastern three gates (from north to south) are Guangxi Gate (today’s He Ping Li Dong), Congren Gate (Today’s Dongzhi Gate), Qibei Gate ( today’s Chaoyang Gate); the three southern gates ( from east to west )are Wenming Gate, Lizheng Gate, Shuncheng Gate; and the western three gates (from north to south) are Suqing Gate (today’s Xue Yuan Nan Lu Xi), Heyi Gate( today’s Xizhi Gate), Pingzhe Gate (today’s Fucheng Gate) and the northern two gates are Jiande Gate and Anzheng Gate.
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