Introduction to Changling Mausoleum Gate: Inside the Mausoleum Gate is the first entrance courtyard of Changling Mausoleum. It is a palace gate-style building with a single eaves resting on the top of the mountain. It has five rooms in a wide area. Under the eaves are square beams, flying beams, eaves and rafters. The single three-step brackets are all made of glazed components; there are three red coupon doors underneath. There is a platform in front of the mausoleum gate, and wall-mounted corner doors on the left and right (which have been removed and blocked). In the courtyard, there were five divine kitchens (on the left) and five divine treasuries (on the right) built in the Ming Dynasty. There was a stele pavilion in front of the divine kitchen. Both the Divine Kitchen and the Divine Treasury were destroyed in the mid-Qing Dynasty, but the stele pavilion has been preserved to this day.

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