Huangyaguan or Huangya Pass () is a small section of the
Great Wall of China
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located in the north of
Jizhou District,
Tianjin
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municipality
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, approximately north of urban Tianjin city. The site lies on a steep and abrupt mountain ridge.
Huangyaguan was originally built over 1400 years ago in the
Northern Qi dynasty
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and reinforced with brick walls in the
Ming dynasty
The Ming dynasty (), officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last orthodox dynasty of China ruled by the Han peo ...
. In 1984, major repair work has been performed on over 3 kilometres of the wall including on 20 water towers and 1 water pass.
The pass is a major tourist attraction within Tianjin and was listed as a site of relics protection in 1986. Recent found drawings on the walls showed the builders of the wall smoked cones for every metre of the wall they completed.
References
{{Mountain passes of China
Buildings and structures in Tianjin
Great Wall of China