Sandaoguan
Sandaoguan ( Chinese 三道關 / 三道关 , Pinyin San dào guān - "Three Passes") is a pass fortress of the Great Wall 8 km northeast of Pass Fortress Shanhaiguan in circles Shanhaiguan in the Chinese province of Hebei .
The wall section and the fortress were built in 1569 in the Ming Dynasty , they belonged to the administrative area of the Ji garrison . The earliest pass structure is only preserved as a ruin. Today's walls are built of stone layers, more than 4.5 m high, 2 m wide and almost 500 m long, some wall segments were built on almost vertical rock faces up to 70 ° steep (Changcheng Daogua, "upside-down wall").
Sandaoguan consists of three individual sections that give the pass its name and lie in the valley between 300 and 400 m high hills and on the mountain ridge. The first pass guards the entrance to the gorge and has a narrow opening surrounded by steep cliffs. The second pass lies between two opposing rock faces in the upper part of the gorge and also has a narrow passage. The third pass stretches high over the ridge and is part of the main line of the Great Wall. A watchtower used to stand here. At the foot of the mountain was the watchtower of Sandaoguan, where the village of Sandaoguan extends today.
In the northeast the Great Wall of Shanhaiguan ends at Si'eryu, here the Great Wall of Yipianshiguan begins. Between Shanhaiguan, Jiaoshanguan and Sandaoguan there used to be many alarm towers , the remains of which can still be seen in some places. If necessary, an alarm could be passed on quickly between the fortresses via this. The section from Jiaoshanguan to Sandaoguan is in poor condition in places today.
To the west of the village is the Xuanyang Cave with inscriptions from the Ming period. In 1985, Sandaoguan was declared an official tourist area in Changshoushan by the administration in Qinhuangdao .
Web links
- Xifengkou and Sandaoguan. Travelchinaguide
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Great Wall at Jiaoshan
- ↑ Meet Great Wall: Great Wall mountain pass. (Chinese)
- ↑ Sandaoguan Pass ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The Story of the Great Wall of China - The Wall in the Sea and the Nanhaikou Pass. ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. China guide, accessed October 9, 2008
Coordinates: 40 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ N , 118 ° 17 ′ 20 ″ E