2023 Luoyang Yingtianmen Light Show Time

The 2023 Luoyang Yingtianmen Light Show will be from April 2 to May 3 at 20:30 every night (except every Tuesday, it will be played every day during the May Day holiday).

Yingtianmen light show = Yingtianmen building, laser projection, stereo lighting. Tells about the historical changes of Luoyang for thousands of years. This film simply refines culture, reorganizes historical and modern elements, and shapes the overall rhythm. It is sometimes soothing and sometimes heavy, integrating music, film, architecture, and history to create a visual and auditory feast. The Yingtianmen 3D light projection show combines the ruins with the most advanced international equipment.

Using high-tech methods such as visually stunning naked-eye 3D, dazzling and stunning light shows, and magnificent modern sound and light performances to tell the story of Luoyang’s thousand-year historical changes. This film condenses the mythical history and modern frequency into Luoyang's landmark building and major heritage protected building - Yingtianmen. It aims to bring visual shock and a worthwhile trip experience to every tourist, allowing everyone to appreciate the majestic Tang Dynasty and feel the rich style of the Tang Dynasty.

The architectural features of Yingtianmen:

1. Two views

The door has two views, with "Ziwei" written on it, and a corridor connecting the left and right gates. The verandahs are connected, and its architectural form directly influenced the Danfeng Gate in Bianliang in the Northern Song Dynasty and the Meridian Gate in the Forbidden City in Beijing during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It occupies a very important position in the history of Chinese capital architecture.

2. Three-out Que

Three-out Que is the most complex type of castle. The general shape is that there are two sub-ques attached to the outside or back side of the mother-que, and the sub-ques are also reduced in sequence, and are smaller in scale than the mother-que. There is one type of three-output que, which is a two-way three-output que. That is, there are two sub-queues attached to the back and outside of the mother que. The plane is in the shape of a ruler. The main tower is generally square in plane, and the two sub-ques are rectangular in plane, with more complex shapes and structures.

3. Five Phoenix Tower

The "Five Phoenix Tower" is a form of the main entrance of the palace. There are five lofty towers on it, connected by verandas, and a pavilion in the east and west. , shaped like goose wings and five phoenixes, so it is called "Five Phoenix Tower".

4. Twelve Towers (two-way three-outlet tower)

The towers are the watchtowers on both sides in front of the city gate. Yingtianmen is the first three-outlet tower excavated by archeology in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. At the Quechengmen ruins, the tower is 120 feet high, which is about 36.4 meters high based on the Tang Dynasty ruler being 30.33 centimeters. There are single towers, two towers and three towers. The three-pronged palace has the highest level, and is usually accompanied by two sub-ques outside (or behind) the mother palace, with the scale gradually decreasing.

5. Three gates

Yingtianmen has a structure of one gate and three gates. This is the requirement of the feudal political etiquette system and the inheritance and development of the three gates system formed since the Qin and Han Dynasties. .

6. Drainage ditch

The newly excavated Yingtianmen ruins are located on the west side of the inner axis of Ziwei City. There are two rows of vertical bricks on the north side of the ruins, and a 13-4 meter long drainage ditch made of small pebbles on the south side of the vertical bricks. At the east end of the standing bricks and drainage ditch, there is a stone pillar foundation. A five-baht copper coin from the Sui Dynasty was also unearthed. Archaeologists speculate that small drainage ditches may have been used to drain rainwater from buildings during the Sui and Tang Dynasties.