Chaoyangmen, city gate in Xincheng District, Xi'an, China

Chaoyangmen is a gate on the eastern side of the Xi'an city wall, north of Changlemen and at the east end of Dongwu Road. It was opened in 1939 as an air-raid shelter passage and rebuilt in 1992 with five archways: a wider central arch flanked by four narrower ones.

In 1939, during the 28th year of the Republic of China, an air-raid shelter passage was opened at the east end of Chongli Road, now Dongwu Road. It was initially proposed to be called "Northeast Gate" or "Pingyi Gate", but neither name was adopted. In the 1950s the site became a gap in the wall; in the late 1980s it was decided to repair the gap and build a gate, named Chaoyangmen for its location east of the city, meaning "facing the rising sun". The gate was formally constructed in 1992 with five archways, the central one wider than the four flanking ones.

The name Chaoyangmen was chosen in the late 1980s when the gap in the wall was repaired, because the gate stands on the city's east side and so "faces the rising sun". Earlier names proposed in 1939, "Northeast Gate" and "Pingyi Gate", were never adopted. Inside the gate runs Dongwu Road, outside it Changle Road.

Chaoyangmen sits at the east end of Dongwu Road inside the wall and opens onto Changle Road outside. The gate is north of Changle Gate (Chang Le Men) on the eastern stretch of the Xi'an city wall, in Xincheng District. Visitors pass through five archways, the central one wider than the four flanking it.

The gate was first cut as an air-raid shelter passage in 1939, during the 28th year of the Republic of China, at the east end of what was then Chongli Road. Officials proposed the names "Northeast Gate" or "Pingyi Gate", but neither was adopted; the present name, meaning "facing the rising sun", was only settled on in the late 1980s.