Yongdingmen Gate Tower in Beijing
Yongdingmen (永定门) is normally translated as ” Yongding Gate” or “Yongdingmen Gate Tower”. Here “Yongding” means “Lasting Peace” and “men” literally means “Gate” or “Gate Tower”. It was the former front gate as well as one of the seven gates of Beijing’s outer city wall in Ming and Qing dynasties. Beijing vanished old city wall was mainly composed…