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Dingdingmen site museum is divided into one underground floor and two above ground floors. Its appearance is imitated Tang city gate, which is composed of city gate, city wall, city tower and que tower. Among them, the inside of the city platform, the city wall and the que platform is the site protection and display area. The doorway and the pillar foundation stone unearthed from the dingdingmen site are protected and displayed here. The inner space of the city building and the que building is the exhibition area, which mainly displays the evolution history of dingdingmen site and some cultural relics unearthed in the archaeological excavation of Luoyang City in Sui and Tang Dynasties.
The Silk Road Cultural Square is 110 meters long from the east to the West and 160 meters wide from the south to the north. The three paths paved with bluestone floor tiles, about 6 meters wide, lead directly to the three gates of dingdingmen city building. There are green spaces, small bridges, flowing water, green grass and cedar on the East and west sides of the square, giving people a sense of leisure and elegance.
Dingding gate is the main gate of Guocheng outside Luoyang in Sui and Tang Dynasties, which is located on the axis of Sui and Tang Dynasties. Since the establishment of Luoyang, the eastern capital of Sui Dynasty, dingdingmen was successively designated as the main gate of waiguocheng by Tang, Houliang, houtang, Houzhou and Northern Song Dynasty, and was gradually abandoned until the end of Northern Song Dynasty. Dingdingmen, as the main gate of the south wall of Guocheng, lasted for 530 years. It is the oldest ancient capital gate in China.