Tartar City

The Tartar City (), also called Mongolian City or interior City (of Beijing), is historical quarters of Beijing in Popular republic of China. It extends around the imperial Cité and includes in particular the Place Tian' anmen and the Colline of Coal, as well as the Tour of the Bell and the Tour of the Drum. The Tartar City with the form of a square aligned on the cardinal points and measures approximately six kilometers on side. Its walls were cut down in 1958.

It owes its name with the Mongolian established in Beijing at the time of the accession of the Dynastie Yuan. They rebuilt the city around the prohibited Cité and of the imperial City, the central part of the city surrounded by walls being consequently named Tartar Ville. In the south of this one one second city developed where the Chinese population of the city, surrounded by other ramparts is established and which was consequently called Chinese Ville. The Tartar city was the object since the Années 1990 of important rebuildings and restorations and the few traditional districts ( Hutong ) remain from now on only in the northern part of the Tartar city, near the lakes and of the two traditional towers.

The doors external of the Tartar city were the following ones (starting from the Place Tian' anmen, and in the direction of the needles of a watch):

towards the Chinese city:

Zhengyangmen (正阳门), carries South, also called Qianmen (前门), main door;
Xuanwumen (宣武门), carries Proclamation of the martial law;

towards outside:

Fuchengmen (阜成门), carries Abundance;
Xizhimen (西直门), carries drawn up West;
Deshengmen (德胜门), carries of the virtuous Victoire;
Andingmen (安定门), carries Stability;
Dongzhimen (东直门), carries drawn up Is;
Chaoyangmen (朝阳门), carries Rising sun;

towards the Chinese city:

Chongwenmen (崇文门), carries Respect of the Letters;

The external walls and the doors for the majority were destroyed, making place with grand boulevards (second peripheral of Beijing), whose large crossroads have, as with Paris for the peripheral, kept the name of the old doors. Line 2 of the Métro of Beijing follows the layout of the old walls external of the Tartar City, just as the second ring road.

The interior doors of the Tartar City, towards the imperial Quoted, were the following ones (starting from the Place Tian' anmen, and in the direction of the needles of a watch):

Tian' anmen (天安门), carries celestial Peace;
Daqingmen (大清门), carries Large Qing;
Xi' anmen (西安门), carries Western Peace;
Di' anmen (地安门), carries annual Peace;
Dong' anmen (东安门), carries Eastern Peace.

Like two secondary doors with the south, Chang' anzuomen (carries right of Chang' year, 长安右门) and Chang' anyoumen (carries left of Chang' year, 长安左门).

External bonds

Description and history of the Tartar City
Paris-Beijing

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