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Lingxing Gate(棂星门 Lingxingmen)
The ………comprises baluster columns and decorated tie-beams .The space between the columns has three to nine partitions which are either blocked with walls or left open with gat The Lingxing Gate is also found in front of Confucian temples to symbolize the Congucian schools's willingness to accept people with talent and virtue.
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The lingxing gate ,also known as Heavenly Gate or Gate of Dragon and Phoenix ,was a kind of ancient structure built in different places with different meanings .More often than not they stood in front of mausoleums ,altars and …dedicated to emperors .
es to symbolize access to heaven –meaning that the deceased could ascend the sky once through this gate .