namely the southern gate, or Meridian Gate, also known as Wumen (午门)in Chinese. To the south of Forbidden City’s Southern Gate lieTiananmen TowerandTiananmen Square.
However, unlike the south gate, Tiananmen, which is well preserved, Dian gate has totally disappeared as the time has passed. Dianmen nowdays refers to the surrounding areas of where the gate stood, especially Dianmen Outer Street, Inner Street, West Street and East Street, located to the ...