Walk on Xi'an City Wall· Anding Gate｜ China｜西安城墙｜安定门 ｜4K HDR｜May 2021

The Xi’an City Wall is the largest and most preserved ancient city wall in China. It was first built in 1370 AD for the purpose of guarding the city and was finished in 1378 AD. Zhuyuanzhang, the first emperor of Ming dynasty started to build the city wall based on the imperial city of Sui and Tang dynasties. According to history, there are 13 dynasties and 74 emperors took Xi’an as Capital city. The numbers are rightly matched with the length of the City Wall–13.74 kilometers.

The city wall is in the shape of a rectangle. Four major city gates distribute in the north, south, east, and west of it. They are Yongning Gate (south), Anding Gate (west), and Anyuan Gate (north) and Changle Gate (east). Outside the city wall, there are battlements, ancient warriors looked out and shot arrows here. Inside the city wall, there are parapets to prevent them from falling off the city wall.

This west gate, Anding Gate, consists of a gate tower, a floodgate tower and an archery tower. Between the gate tower and the floodgate tower is an enclosed space called “Wengcheng”. It is both used as a tunnel in daily life and to defend during a war.

When you walk around here, the mottled and green walls will remind you that you are in Xi’an, the most noble Four Great Ancient Capitals in the world which has thousands of years history! 

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