East Gate of Seoul, 흥인지문 flourish perfect virtue gate
There were 4 main gates in Seoul, east, west, south and north.
I had posted reltating to the South gate.
https://steemit.com/culture/@slowwalker/historic-symbol-in-seoul-nam-dae-moon
There exist 3 gates until now.
West Main gate was destroyed by Japanese Imperialist.
At that time other gates were demolished. the destroyed gates were rebuilt after the Japanese Imperialist had been defeated.
In this time I'd like to post the East Gate. East gate has it's meaning like South gate.
East gate's meaning was the Perfect Virtue.
So the front board of the East gate was written "flourishing the perfect virtue gate"
East gate was built in 1396 first, and had been fixed several times.
Actually this is the sole gate have preserved fisrt shape.
It is the photo of 1904.
You can get to the East Gate easily. The gate is by the street. and you can enjoy walking aroung the gate
Around the east gate there are lots of morden building.
But traditional gate and mordern building are making beautiful harmony
The east gate looks authoritative, but felt the east gate very familiar for me to other gates.
The east gate have lived with common people throough history.
You can find the traces and scars of Korean War on the wall
It must be a machinegun.
Close shot
Next time, I 'd like to post more detailed on the East gate
포스팅 중간에 이미지 링크가 살짝 깨져있네요.
옛사진과 비교해보니 괜스래 감회가 새롭습니다.
감사합니다
Nice!!
Oh I love Seoul! I used to live there as an English teacher. I miss it very much and can't wait to visit again!
Visit once more . Hahaha
More than once, hopefully. I love Seoul~ <3
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Hi @slowwalker! Thanks for the interestsng article and nice photos! I will be glad if you will get to know my best works here! I appreciate your support
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Thank you
Man, you missed the eighth photo, just a small misspelling.
Thank you
So fun to learn the history of these gates and fantastic pictuers @slowwalker. Thanks
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Very informative post. Thanks :)
Welcome @askaran
Walled cities were common during the medieval era and it's charming to see remnants of them that still persist into the modern era.
These four gates were obviously constructed at the cardinal compass points and would be closed at night to provide security for the citizens.
Nowadays there is no need for such walls but back in the 1300's it would have been comforting to be enclosed in a defended area at night where you could sleep in peace safe from robbers or invaders.
The walls are symbolic, but aside from one incident I recall some years back when North Koreans tried to take control of one gate, these beautiful gates stand for protection--they are not designed to wall people out but defend those within.
The East Gate that you feature, @slowwalker is a beautiful tower gate that does look lovely in its surroundings and as you say, it blends well with the architecture of modern buildings.
Unfortunately, the gate of perfect virtue bears the scars of war, an ominous sign that people are still at risk from aggressors and need to be protected. Hopefully, this will not always be so.
A lovely post, @slowwalker, with many beautiful photos.
Thank you so much for your comment
These places have much to tell about the history and how they were built, people will love to know about them in detail. thanx for sharing.
Nice post and nice photo @slowwalker thank you very much for sharing
Thank you