Jin Shrines, Sansheng Shrine, great gate 晉祠三聖祠大門
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- Three Sages Shrine, great gate (English)
- 三聖祠大門 (Traditional Chinese)
- 三圣祠大门 (Simplified Chinese)
- Sānshèngcí dàmén (Pinyin)
- San-sheng-t'zu ta-men (Wade-Giles)
- Sansheng Shrine, great gate (English)
Location
- Lat. 37.708113° Long. 112.434722°
Building Information
The great gate (damen 大門) leading into the complex was likely added when the shrine was rebuilt in the second year of the Qianlong period (1737). A single bay structure with a gable roof, Liu Dapeng 劉大鵬 described it as a fang 坊 gateway (Liu 1986, 32-33). Also called a paifang 牌坊 (Liu 2016. 157), this is an architectural form which facilitates the installation of formal name-plaques (pai 牌).1
Date
1737
Dynasty
Qing 1644 - 1912
Note
Located using Google Earth 2023-10-03
Works Cited
Any information without attribution has been created following the Syriaca.org editorial guidelines.
- 1 劉. 1986. 晉祠志
; 刘. 2015. 晋祠文化遗产全书, 157.
Contained in Place
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” in Architectura Sinica last modified October 13, 2023, https://architecturasinica.org/place/000048l1.
Bibliography:
Tracy Miller, “Jin Shrines, Sansheng Shrine, great gate 晉祠三聖祠大門 .” In Architectura Sinica, edited by Tracy Miller. Entry published September 14, 2023. https://architecturasinica.org/place/000048l1.About this Entry
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