Tianmen 天门市

Tianmen (simplified Chinese:天门; traditional Chinese:天門; pinyin:Tiānmén; literally: "sky gate") is a sub-prefecture-level city(or:county-level city in some ways) in central Hubei Province, People's *****************.

It is on the Jianghan Plain,on the west side of Wuhan （the biggest city of Central China,as well as the capital of Hubei）and the east of Jingzhou(a famous city in Chinese history). Formerly known as Jingling (竟陵), it was renamed to Tianmen in 1726 during the Qing dynasty. The name comes from the Sky Gate Mountains（mean to “tianmen”in Chinese） which lie northwest of the city.