Located northeast of the city of Chongqing Chaotianmen Yangtze River and Jialing River Interchange, lapel with two rivers, river wide, vying; barriers on three sides, the terrain is high, both sides gradually downward, pedestrian stone steps on the hillside, the momentum is very majestic.

Chaotianmen is 314 BC, the Qin Zhang Yi will be demise built when the city built after Berkshire Pakistan. Early Ming Dai Ding expansion of the old city of Chongqing, according to the number of Jiugongbagua made gates 17, in which the largest city gate that is Chaotianmen. Book door Uehara four characters: "Gu Yu impregnable." Chaotianmen, then place the emperor's decree for the ages officer. Because the ancient emperor called for the emperor, thus the name. Ages ancient capital to build more in Luoyang, Chang'an (now Xi'an), Kaifeng, Yanjing (now Beijing), the last line to Chongqing, Sichuan and Shaanxi Road should be, because at that time by the Sichuan Jiange, no wide to Mian County, Shaanxi (now to Railway middle, a total length of 710 km) of roads of Shu, only Bird Road, pedestrian difficult. Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai in the "Quiet Night," a poem said: "Shudao difficult, extremely difficult." So, emperors sent envoys was far away, or by Shaanxi, Hebei, Henan, Hubei and then by, against the current boat takes about a month in Yichang to Chongqing.

1891 turned into a commercial port of Chongqing, Chaotianmen they set customs. In 1927 due to the construction Chaotianmen pier, the removal of the old city gates. 1949 "92" fire near the Chaotianmen 2 kilometers regionalization is in ruins since then, Chaotianmen leaving only the base city walls. Today's Chaotianmen Ferry Terminal, the new grand Chaotianmen Square, is in foreign visitors to watch Chongqing peninsula surrounded by two rivers, landscape matched, a good place vying.

Chaotianmen left Jialing nano trickle sinks Ogawa, longitudinal flow 1119 km Yangtze injected thereto. Each had Xiazhong Qiu, turquoise water rapids of the Yangtze River and Jialing River water brown yellow impact, billowing swirl, voicing clear, forming a "water horse folder" scenery, its potential as horse mane, very spectacular. There are ups and downs rocky river, according to legend Yu Tu's married women in ancient Yuzhou, after 13 years of flood control does not enter the house. Tu's female standing on rocky, Wang Fu return, because the name "husband owned by Stone." Yangtze Jialing right water content, increasingly mighty momentum, Three through, through the Jianghan, blew out, a "golden section of" on Yangtze. Chongqing prosperity, to a certain extent, the focus on performance in water portal Chaotianmen.

Chongqing highway "zero kilometer" point mark will be located in the Chaotianmen Square. "Kilometer Zero" is the starting point for a national trunk highway or city, but also a symbol of the city center point. China "Kilometer Zero" flag has been determined in the middle of the axis of the Tiananmen Square, while Shanghai will be zero kilometer in the People's Square.

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