Pingxingguan Overstreet Theater Stage

Pingxingguan Overstreet Theater Stage

The Pingxingguan Overstreet Theater Stage is a cultural relic protection unit of Fanshi County.

The Pingxingguan Overstreet Theater Stage is located in Pingxingguan Village, Hengjian Township, Fanshi County. It faces south and measures 8.7 meters in length from north to south and 8.1 meters in width from east to west, covering an area of 70.5 square meters. The exact date of its construction is unknown, but the existing structure dates back to the Qing Dynasty. The stage features a stone foundation that is 2.4 meters high, with a central passageway running from north to south. It is three bays wide, four rafters deep, and built with a five-beam, corridor-free structural style, topped with a single-eave, rolled-canopy roof. On April 15, 1985, the Fanshi County People's Government designated it as a county-level cultural relic protection unit.

Source: Xinzhou Network

Pingxingguan Village: About 65 kilometers northeast of Fanshi County, Shanxi Province, lies a village that is widely known — Pingxingguan Village in Hengjian Township, famed for the victory at the Battle of Pingxingguan. Pingxingguan was a strategic pass along the Ming Dynasty’s Great Wall in China. It connects to Hunyuan in the north, Fuping in Hebei in the south, flanked by the treacherous Yanmen Pass to the west and the fortified Zijing Pass to the east. It served as a crucial transportation route between the northern parts of Shanxi and Hebei in ancient times.

Originally called Pingxing Fort due to its bottle-like terrain, Pingxingguan was named after its shape. The area around the pass features rugged mountains, a narrow gateway, rugged roads, and crisscrossing streams, making it historically significant as a military stronghold. The extant pass city was built in the sixth year of the Zhengde era of the Ming Dynasty (151… More details about Pingxingguan Village++