What is Shanghai Water Gate Museum?
{{no sources|date=January 2018}} [[File:上海元代水闸遗址博物馆.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The Shanghai Water Gate Museum from the outside]] [[File:上海元代水闸模型.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The [[model|small copy]] of the water gate inside the museum]] [[File:上海元代水闸.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The real water gate inside the museum. The hole in the floor is the one that was made by the workers who found the gate in 2001.]] The '''Shanghai Water Gate Museum''' is a [[museum]] in [[Shanghai]], [[China]]. It lets people see a water gate from the old path of the [[Wusong River]] (today's [[Suzhou Creek]]) from 700 years ago. It is free. The gate itself is an [[Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level|important historical and cultural place protected by China's national government]]. ==Name== The museum's full name the {{nowrap|'''Shanghai Yuan Dynasty Water Gate Museum'''}}. Its [[Chinese language|Chinese]] name is the ''Shánghǎi Yuándài Shuǐzhá Yízhǐ Bówùguǎn''.{{efn|These marks show the [[Chinese tones|tones]] of the words and are important in saying Chinese words correctly.}} It is written as {{nowrap|{{lang|zh|[[:wikt:en:上海|上海]][[:wikt:en:元|元]][[:wikt:en:代|代]][[:wikt:en:水閘|水閘]][[:wikt:en:遺址|遺址]][[:wikt:en:博物館|博物館]]}}}} in the [[traditional characters|older writing]] used on [[Hong Kong]] and [[Taiwan]] and {{nowrap|{{lang|zh|[[:wikt:en:上海|上海]][[:wikt:en:元|元]][[:wikt:en:代|代]][[:wikt:en:水闸|水闸]][[:wikt:en:遗址|遗址]][[:wikt:en:博物馆|博物馆]]}}}} in the [[simplified characters|easier writing]] used on the [[Mainland China|mainland]]. ==Location== The museum is at 619 West Yanchang Road {{nowrap|({{lang|zh|延长西路619号}})}} in [[Shanghai]]'s [[Putuo District]]. It's at the corner of West Yangchang and Zhidan Roads. ==History== [[Ren Renfa]] and his workers built the water gate on the [[Wusong River]] around 1300 during the [[Yuan Dynasty]]. Today, [[Suzhou Creek]] is small and less important than the [[Huangpu River]], but it used to be bigger and more important for all the cities between [[Suzhou]] and the [[East China Sea]]. [[Dirt]