Taishi Que, Dengfeng, Henan 河南登封太室阙
The Taishi Que stands at the foot of Mount Taishi in Dengfeng, the spirit-way gate of the Zhongyue Temple. Built in the Eastern Han, it consists of an east and a west pillar, each nearly four metres high. They are built of stone blocks, carved on the shaft with carriages, hunting scenes and the like, and topped by a roof copied from timber construction whose tile ridges turn slightly up at the corners – in Liang Sicheng’s view the oldest example of upturned eaves. Together with the Shaoshi Que and Qimu Que it forms the “Three Han Que” and is a component of the World Heritage Site “Historic Monuments of Dengfeng in “The Centre of Heaven and Earth””.
