Da Jin Men and Sifangcheng. One enters the site through the monumental Great Golden Gates ("Da Jin Men"), and is soon faced by a giant stone tortoise ("bixi"), which resides in the "Sifangcheng" ("Square city") pavilion. The tortoise supports a splendid carved stone stele, crowned by intertwining hornless dragons. The well-preserved stele is known as the ""Shengong Shengde" Stele" (), i.e., literally, "The Stele of Godly Merit and Saintly Virtue". The inscription of the stele, extolling the merits and virtues of the Hongwu Emperor Hongwu Emperor was written by his fourth son, the Yongle Emperor. The tortoise is 5.15 m long, 2.54 m wide and 2.8 m tall,