What is the Donghua Gate of the Forbidden City?

The Donghuamen Gate of the Forbidden City is used to place cotton armour for military parade, which is shaken to dry every other year. In March of the 28th year of Qianlong (1763), it was decided to select 70 vacant enclosed houses near the moat outside Donghuamen, and set up warehouses to store the rice stones that eunuchs should receive, named "Enfengcang".

Donghuamen is the east gate of the Forbidden City, which was built in the 18th year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty (1420). Donghuamen faces east, corresponding to the distance of Xihuamen. There is a lower horse monument outside the gate, and the golden water in the gate flows to the north of Henan, and there are three gates in the north of the bridge. Plane rectangle, red podium, white jade sumeru seat, three ticket gates in the middle, and round ticket holes outside. There is a tower on the platform, with yellow glazed tile roof and double eaves, and white marble railings around the base. The gatehouse is five rooms wide and three rooms deep, surrounded by cloisters, and the beams are painted with ink lines and great gold spirals.

To the west of Donghuamen is Wenhua Hall, and to the south is Luan Yiwei's big library. Donghuamen and Xihuamen have the same shape, with a rectangular plane, a red podium and a white jade base, among which there are three coupon doors with excircle coupon holes. There is a tower on the platform, with yellow glazed tile roof and double eaves, and white marble railings around the base. The gatehouse is five rooms wide and three rooms deep, surrounded by cloisters, and the beams are painted with ink lines and great gold spirals. The "Donghuamen" plaque under the east eaves was originally written in Manchu, Mongolian and Chinese, but it was later simplified to Manchu and Chinese. After the Revolution of 1911, only bronze Chinese characters remained.