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Xiansheng Men Gate is "Stone Gate" formed by the two cliffs facing each other and is also known as "Fairy Sheng Men Gate" at the same time. The gate is of 200 meters high and approximately 10 meters wide. It is generally regarded as "the First Gate of China" and is the top one in all Gates of Mt. Yandang. The two cliffs are so high that it seems they reached the heaven with grand vogue. Water flows in the bottom while the cliffs stand all around. There's only one line of bright in the valley. It is said that you can not see the sun or the moon in other time of the whole day except at noon and middle night. Wang Guan in Ming Dynasty described the view of Xiansheng Men Gate in his Visiting Stone Buddha Cave. "The two rocks are all of several units and reach each other at the top. There's only one line of about one third meter. After hundreds of steps entering it, it's just like a gate to the Heaven. That is why it is named as Xainsheng Men Gate." Xu Xiake said in his Additional Essay Visiting Mt. Yandang: "There is nearly no road at all that I can't enter it." You will know how steep the roads were at that time.