The person who assembled the "great success" of Chongqing City Gate was Dai Ding, the Chongqing guard during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty. While Dai Ding was guarding Chongqing, he carried ou

The person who assembled the "great success" of Chongqing City Gate was Dai Ding, the Chongqing guard during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty. While Dai Ding was guarding Chongqing, he carried out large-scale reinforcement and repair of the city walls and city gates built by his predecessors, and built new important city gates such as Linjiang Gate, completing the construction of the "series" of Chongqing city gates. People at that time believed in superstition and respected Feng Shui. It is said that when Dai Ding built a city and opened a gate, he asked a clever "Feng Shui Master" to look at the terrain and measure Feng Shui, and determined the location of the gate according to the five elements of "metal, wood, water, fire and earth", and used the symbols of "Nine Palaces and Bagua" to determine the number of gates. According to "The Ancient City of Chongqing", when Dai Ding built the city and opened the gate, he "consciously arranged the nine openings and eight closings", "based on the images of the Nine Palaces and Eight Diagrams, and the nine openings and eight closings coincided with the Nine Palaces and Eight Diagrams