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Dongan Men Remains
In an excavated pit on Beiheyan Dajie sits a pitiful stump, all that remains of the magnificent Dongan Men, the east gate of the Imperial City. The gate was a single-eaved, seven-bay wide building with a hip and gable roof capped with yellow tiles. The remnants - just two layers of 18 bricks - may make for dull viewing but of more interest are the accompanying bricks of the excavated Ming dynasty road that used to run near Dongan Men.
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Ming City Wall Ruins Park
Topped with saplings, trees and a healthy head of vegetation, the last surviving slice of the Ming Inner City Wall (originally 40km in length) runs along the length of the northern flank of Chongwenmen Dongdajie, attached to a slender and pleasant strip of park. Levelled in the 1950s to facilitate transport and compromise the legacies of earlier dynasties, the city wall is perhaps Běijīng's most conspicuous chunk of lost heritage.
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