Dajingmen
Dajingmen ( Chinese 大境門 / 大境门 , Pinyin Dajingmen ) is an important junction of the Great Wall in the prefecture-level city of Zhangjiakou in the Chinese province of Hebei . Dajingmen was built in 1644 during the first year of the reign of Emperor Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty . The gate is 12 meters high, 9 meters wide and 13 meters deep. There is a terrace above the gate, measuring 12 by 7.5 meters. The wall above the gate is crowned by 1.7 meter high battlements , which are laterally accompanied by a 0.8 meter high parapet wall. Above the lintel is the inscription 大好 河山 (“Magnificent rivers and mountains”), which was affixed in the traditional Han style in 1927 on the initiative of Gao Weiyue (高 维岳), the superior of the former Chahar province (now Inner Mongolia ).
To the west of the gate, in the plain in which the gate is located, an approximately 100-meter-long piece of the wall made of bricks has been preserved, to which the very well-preserved Great Wall, built of hard rock, is to the west of the gate in the mountainous terrain connects.
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Coordinates: 40 ° 50 ′ 40 ″ N , 114 ° 53 ′ 9.6 ″ E