Moon Gate Info
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Moon gates have in China a very special meaning. Go ing through a moon gate is entering a different world. Even nowadays moon gates are very often used as a gate for a garden. You are entering a d ifferent world – a garden. Looking through a moon gate to the outside of a garden, is a look into the world of daily life. --------------- The Chinese Embassy in Berlin you are entering by a moon gate. It means: You are in Germany but yo u are entering China. The laws and rules apply to the Republic of China. It needs no explanation, the Chinese know it. --------------- In a city M oon gates are separating districts of a city . You leave your home district and enter a foreign district of the city. Entering by a moon gate a house or going t h rough moon gate of a wall surrounding the house you are going from the public to the private part. In general It is always a symbolic change, a change you have not to explain,