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The Most Beautiful Glazed Archway - Taiheyan Archway.

Located in Beixinwu Village, Jiexiu City, Shanxi Province. Built in the 23rd year of the Guangxu reign of the Qing Dynasty (1897). It has three gates, four pillars, three floors, and a single-eave hip roof. The four pillar bases are stone-carved waist-bundled Sumeru style, and the archway pillars, couplets, balustrades, plaques, brackets, eaves, tile roofs, ridge decorations, and ridge spires are all made of glazed art components. The glaze colors are mainly yellow, green, and blue, occasionally accompanied by white, purple, black, and crimson. Because it is entirely covered with exquisite and luxurious glazed decorations, it is called a glazed archway by the locals. The entire archway is colorful and dazzling under the sunlight. There are very few glazed archways in China, and they are of high quality and very precious.
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Posted: Nov 12, 2024
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