Qianmen is the colloquial name for Zhengyangmen, a gate in Beijing's historic city wall. The gate is situated to the south of Tiananmen Square and once guarded the southern entry into the Inner City.
View of the archery tower's facade
Zhengyangmen 1910
Beiyang Army troops into the Zhengyangmen during 1920s.
The Gansu Braves or Gansu Army was a combined army division of 10,000 Chinese Muslim troops from the northwestern province of Kansu in the last decades of the Qing dynasty. Loyal to the Qing, the Brav
Three Muslim soldiers from the Gansu Army
General Dong Fuxiang
Gansu Army was merged into the Wuwei Corps at the eve of the Boxer Rebellion