I was drinking tea in a teahouse in New Gui Hu that day, and I overheard my neighbor talking about "White Dragon Gate". Because I have never heard of the "White Dragon Gate" in Xindu before, I am very interested in asking them some details of the "White Dragon Gate".
But they can only tell me that the "White Dragon Gate" is on Hubin Road, a memorial arch built in the 1990s, and there are many other information about dragons on it, which they can't explain clearly.
Later, I searched online and found that there was almost no introduction about this "White Dragon Gate" on the Internet. Curiosity prompted me to take a look on the spot and want to see what the "White Dragon Gate" looks like. Why build a "White Dragon Gate" on Hubin Road?
The new capital itself is not big, so you can walk from New Gui Hu to Hubin Road without taking a bus. Although the street surface of Hubin Road is not wide, food, clothing, housing and transportation include entertainment and even pet shops. Hubin Road is not long, but the street here is full of flavor. There are also various gourmet restaurants in the street: Chinese food, snacks, rice noodles, wonton soup, jiaozi and so on. It is said that the most famous here are steamed beef and strange wonton. Come and eat once when you are free.
Soon I found the "White Dragon Gate" built in the middle of the road. Seen from a distance, the whole "White Dragon Gate" looks a bit like an ancient memorial arch in China. However, most of the archways are symmetrical structures, and this "White Dragon Gate" is not completely symmetrical. This design really makes people feel novel.
I crossed the road and walked to the opposite side of the "White Dragon Gate". After careful observation, I finally found the mystery: it turned out to be an archaic word "_". You can see more clearly from this side.
Still don't see it? In this way, I should understand it by adding a few strokes to the photo.
There is a black marble stone tablet next to the White Dragon Gate, which briefly introduces the origin of the White Dragon Gate: "White Dragon Gate is a giant gate square with the word' dragon' composed of black dragon, Yunlong, Solanum nigrum, Tortoise Dragon, Pterosaur, Python Dragon, Yulong, Elephant Dragon, Longteng, Long Yuan and Xuanwu Dragon. Covering an area of 1600 square meters, it uses more than 300 cubic meters of stone and weighs more than a thousand tons. Bailongmen is 9.9 meters high, 19.8 meters long and 5.9 meters wide.
Construction unit: Xindu County People's Congress Standing Committee. Completion time 1994 65438+ 10 month.
According to local people, there are 100 dragons carved on the whole Bailong Gate. It is said that when the "White Dragon Gate" was just built, many citizens came here to play every day, and many people counted the dragons on the "White Dragon Gate" one by one. But after more than 20 years, no one knows how many dragons there are.
The dragons here come in different sizes and shapes. The shape of the dragon is engraved in the shade, some float on the surface of the stone pillar, some even wrap around the whole beam, and some hide the whole body in the stone, leaving only a glaring face outside the stone.
Although it is a modern sculpture, I think the whole "White Dragon Gate" is very meticulous in design and workmanship. After more than 20 years, the shapes of various dragons on it are still vivid and lifelike.
Unfortunately, after I came back, I asked many nearby residents and searched a lot of information on the Internet, but I didn't find out why I built this "White Dragon Gate" here.
Although some basic data of the "White Dragon Gate" are introduced on the marble monument, there is no record on the monument why a "White Dragon Gate" should be built in this position.