Yuxiangmen, City gate in Lianhu District, China

Yuxiangmen is a gate on the west side of the Xi'an city wall, north of Andingmen and at the western end of Lianhu Road. Rebuilt in 1996, it has five archways: a wide central arch on the former bastion and four narrower arches flanking it. Outside the gate lies Yuxiangmen Square, where Daqing Road begins.

Yuxiangmen was opened in 1928 on the west side of the Xi'an city wall, north of Andingmen, as a single-arch opening. It is said that Shaanxi governor Song Zheyuan named it after Feng Yuxiang, whose troops broke the siege of Xi'an by the Zhengsong army in 1926. Closed under Yang Hucheng after 1930, it reopened in 1934 as Zhongzhengmen, was renamed Xibeimen in 1935, then regained its name. Demolished in 1959, it was rebuilt in 1996 with five arches.

The name honours Feng Yuxiang, whose troops broke the siege of Xi'an by the Zhengsong army in 1926; Song Zheyuan, then Shaanxi governor, had the gate cut in 1928. It was closed under Yang Hucheng after 1930, renamed Zhongzhengmen in 1934, then Xibeimen in 1935 before reverting to Yuxiangmen. The five-arch form dates from the 1996 rebuilding.

Yuxiangmen sits at the western end of Lianhu Road, inside the city wall, with Yuxiangmen Square and Daqing Road outside it. The gate is a road passage, not a ticketed site, so it can be seen at any hour. The 1996 structure has five archways: the central one, on the site of the former barbican, is wider than the four flanking ones.

The 1996 reconstruction kept the name but not the shape: the original 1928 gate was a single arch, while today's gate has five archways, the central one wider because it was built over the former barbican platform. The narrow side arches flank it.