Han Gate Tower

• This Gate Tower of Han Dynasty is 17.08m high and it is a wasp-waist mother-son gate tower, with the clear distance between the east and the west tower being 24m. Gate tower is the most ancient gate, which is built in front of ancient palaces, ancestral temples and mausoleums. It generally includes one tower on the left and right side each and is built to a high platform, with worship building erected on it. Since there is a vacancy (“Que” in Chinese) between the two towers, it is also named “Gate Tower (Que in Chinese) or “Twin Gate Tower (Shuangque in Chinese)”.
  On gate towers engraved from stones, there are always inscriptions and embossments, which are used to record official rankings, achievements and decorations. At present, only two gate towers exist, Stone Gate Tower in front of Eastern Han Tomb in Sichuan and Qimu and Shaoshi Gate Tower on Songshan Mountain, both of which include a high and huge stone mother tower and a son tower symmetrical at both sides of the central axis.