The largest stone archways in China

    Stone archway is an important part of Chinese architectural culture, as well as a record and witness of history. Whether writing on bamboo slips or paper, the preservation time is limited. Only when writing on stone can it be preserved for a long time. The ancients added the artistic component of stone carving at the same time, combined with the architectural culture, stone archway emerged at the historic moment.

    In ancient times, stone archways were mainly used in three ways: first, as landmarks, such as buildings of places of interest. The second is the cemetery tombstone, used to record the life of the ancestors. The third is memorial archway, eulogizing virtues or recording anecdotes of famous people.

    In modern times, the popularity of archaize architecture makes stone carving culture popular, and stone archway, as a representative of it, is filled with our life.

    Stone archway is a very important building type in Chinese traditional architecture. Longchang stone archway group presents scale, classification, and exquisite construction technology, dignified shape, fine carving, well-preserved, profound meaning, is rare in the country, fully reflects the ancient working people's outstanding ability and artistic creativity. It has a high value of folk historical data and perfect artistic value.

    Stone archways of Longchang are distributed on the Chengdu-Chongqing Ancient Road from northwest to southeast of Longchang. Thirteen stone archways are located at the end of the street, among which 5 are Dezheng archways, 4 are filial piety archways, 2 are merit archways, 1 is Baishou Archway, and 1 is Temple Shanmen archway.