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Nine Dragon Screen Wall has a double roof in wudian (thatched hall) style covered with yellow glazed tiles, and sits on a white marble stone Sumeru base, 3.5 meters high and 29.4 meters wide. This wall is composed of 270 glazed decorative bricks. With seawater as the background, nine dragons are encircled by waves and clouds, and separated by six groups of rocks. A yellow dragon is in the center; and eight dragons in blue, white, purple and yellows dragons are on the both sides. The dragon was the symbol of the emperor in ancient China. The roof has five ridges, each having a dragon, and the main ridge also has five dragon. Incidentally, Datong in Shanxi Province has a Nine Dragon Screen Wall built in the Ming Dynasty, and Beihai Park in Beijing has one constructed in the Qing Dynasty. |
