Xiaonanmen Chengximen Introduction
Taipei City is one of the last cities built during the Qing Dynasty. The city walls have since collapsed, leaving only a few remnants of the city gates as witnesses to history. The Taipei City wall is 4 meters wide and 5 meters high, surrounding approximately 4 kilometers, making it a very sturdy fortification. Generally, traditional Chinese city walls have four gates, but Taipei City has five gates, which were reportedly built with the special donation of the wealthy Lin Benyuan family from Banqiao to facilitate access. Although this legend has yet to be confirmed, the South Gate is indeed a very unique example in traditional Chinese city architecture. Unfortunately, although it, along with the East Gate and South Gate, escaped destruction by the Japanese, it was renovated into a Northern Chinese palace-style tower after the Kuomintang government relocated to Taiwan, with only the base of the city seat retaining its original appearance to continue guarding Taipei.
