Shencemen Transportation Guide: Bus:

Nanjing buses are all unmanned ticket sales. The single fare for ordinary buses is 1 yuan, and the single fare for air-conditioned buses is 2 yuan. For detailed routes, please see the list of major tourist bus routes in Nanjing.

Nanjing bus numbering rules: 1-159 are urban routes; 301-318 are urban branch lines, using minibuses; 801-820 are urban late-night bus lines; those starting with the word "you" are Urban tourist lines; 601-631 are bus lines in Pukou District and Liuhe District; the word district starts with the bus lines in Jiangning District, and the word night starts with the bus lines in Jiangning District; the text lines are suburban lines connecting the urban area and the suburbs.

Taxi:

The main models are Jetta, Santana, and Fukang. The starting price is 8 yuan/3 kilometers. For more than 3 kilometers, the unit price per kilometer is 2.4 yuan, and at night it is 2.7 yuan. However, the waiting time for taxis in Nanjing is not charged and is calculated purely based on mileage.

There are many car rental companies in Nanjing, and the prices vary according to the car model. For example, the largest Zhongbei car rental company: Poussin car is 220 yuan/day; Haosang car is 260 yuan/day, basic mileage per day 300 kilometers.

Subway:

Starting from September 2005, Nanjing opened new subway lines. The first subway train is at 6:30, the last train is at 22:00 from Monday to Thursday, and from Friday to Sunday. The last train from Maigaoqiao to both ends of the Xiaoxing section has been extended to 22:30 p.m., and the last train from Xiaoxing to the Olympic Sports section is still at 22:00. The interval is 10 minutes, and the ticket price starts from 2 yuan and goes up to 4 yuan. Among them, the stations of Metro Line 1 that have been connected are from north to south: Maigao Bridge, Hongshan Zoo, Nanjing Railway Station, New Model Road, Xuanwumen, Drum Tower, Zhujiang Road, Xinjiekou, Zhangfuyuan, Sanshan Street, Zhonghua Men, Andemen, Xiaohang, Zhongsheng, Yuantong, Aoti Center.

Speaking of the old city gates of Nanjing, there is a folk saying: "Thirteen on the inside, eighteen on the outside, with a door bolt pointing outward." This city has been described as "a door bolt pointing outward" The gate refers to Shence Gate. Shence Gate is smaller in scale, with the city gate inside and the Wengcheng outside. The Wengcheng Gate is not directly opposite the city gate, but opens at the northeast corner of the Wengcheng. The jingle vividly summarizes its special architectural form. Today's Shence Gate is the relatively complete city gate in Nanjing, with the Wengcheng, Zhenmen and the three-bay Xieshan Peak Tower still there.

According to legend, Shence Gate was personally surveyed, planned and built by Liu Bowen, Zhu Yuanzhang’s military advisor. To enter and exit the city gate, you have to go through the left and right door openings. Only one door is opened on weekdays, and "one hole is opened in case of emergency". This fully embodies Zhu Yuanzhang's ideals. The idea of ??building cities in different locations and under different environmental conditions according to local conditions.

Although Shence Gate is located in a remote place, it stands out on the edge of Xuanwu Lake and is close to Mufu Mountain (formerly known as Baitu Mountain) and the Yangtze River to the north. It plays an important role in military defense.

In the thirteenth year of Yongli in the Southern Ming Dynasty (the sixteenth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, 1659 AD), in order to establish the great cause of countering the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, Zheng Chenggong, the general of the Southern Ming Dynasty, was ordered to lead his army to attack the Qing army and attack the Qing government in the southeastern coastal areas. Nanjing, an important southeastern town. Zheng Chenggong's 100,000 troops camped 83 times in Baitu Mountain (today's Shogunate Mountain) outside Nanjing, cutting off water and land transportation and turning Nanjing, with only more than 10,000 Qing troops garrisoned, into an isolated city.

Zheng Chenggong’s army and the Qing army engaged in two battles outside Shence Gate, causing the Qing army to lose more than a thousand people. Lang Tingzuo, the governor of Liangjiang in the Qing Dynasty, ordered the city gates of Shencemen to be closed tightly and not to go to war. While he was asking for help from everywhere, he also wanted to delay time by pretending to surrender. Zheng Chenggong couldn't help being proud and underestimating the enemy despite the frequent reports of victory. He agreed to the Qing envoy's request for a month's grace and stood still, waiting for the Qing army to open the door and present the city.

The Qing army found that the Zheng army's defense at the foot of Baitu Mountain was extremely lax, so they chose this as a breakthrough. On the night of July 21st, the Qing army quietly opened the right door of Shence Gate, sneaked out of the city, and attacked Zheng's army. At dawn, they returned with a small victory. After the victory, the Qing army's morale was greatly boosted, and they swarmed out of the city from Shence Gate to fight. Zheng's army was caught off guard, rushed into battle, and retreated in chaos. After the "Battle of Baitu Mountain", Zheng Chenggong's army suffered tens of thousands of casualties and more than ten generals died in the battle. The victory of Zheng Chenggong's Northern Expedition, known as the "Southeast Earthquake" in history, disappeared. In order to celebrate the victory of the Qing army, Emperor Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty issued an edict to rename Shence Gate "Desheng Gate".

Although Shencemen is a military fortress, it is located in a remote area and is rarely inhabited. It was basically closed and not used during the Ming, Qing and Republic of China periods. In 1928, the Nationalist Government renamed Desheng Gate as "Peace Gate". During the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese army occupied Nanjing and built the urn outside Hepingmen into a gasoline depot. After liberation, the Nanjing Military Region took over the site and still used it as an oil depot.

Because it has been a military restricted area for a long time, Shence Gate has always been shrouded in mystery. According to the Nanjing Ming City Wall Scenic Belt Plan, Shencemen Yuecheng Park was completed in August 2001. Shencemen finally lifted the veil of mystery and showed its unique charm to the world.