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Shaoshi Que Gates 少室阙Shǎoshì Què
National heritage site · Zhengzhou, Henan
- Time needed
- 30 minutes
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Zhengzhou
- Region
- Henan
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Shaoshi Que Gates
The stone gate pillars of the Han-dynasty shrine to Shaoshi Mountain, dated by their inscriptions to about AD 118–123 and restored in 1972. Their faces carry more than 70 shallow reliefs, among them a fox chasing a hare, horse racing, cuju football, cockfighting and the animals of the four directions, and the west pillar bears a seal-script title naming the gate. They are part of the Historic Monuments of Dengfeng World Heritage site.
How to get to Shaoshi Que Gates
By Xingjiapu village about 7 km west of central Dengfeng on the way to Shaolin, roughly 15 minutes by taxi.
Nearby
- Shaolin Temple 少林寺 under 10 km
The cradle of Chan Buddhism and kung fu, at the foot of Mount Song - White Horse Temple 白马寺 40 km
China's first Buddhist temple, with Thai, Indian and Burmese halls beside it - Longmen Grottoes 龙门石窟 50 km
Some 100,000 Buddhas carved into riverside cliffs, watched over by a serene giant
Also within 20 km: Huishan Temple 会善寺 (under 10 km), Yongtai Temple 永泰寺 (under 10 km), Songyue Pagoda 嵩岳寺塔 (under 10 km), Sanzu Hermitage Pagoda 三祖庵塔 (under 10 km), Fawang Temple 法王寺 (under 10 km), Songyang Academy 嵩阳书院 (under 10 km).
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