The Drum Tower was built in the 13th year of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Emperor, and rebuilt twice in the 38th year of Kangxi and the 5th year of Qianlong. There is a huge drum upstairs, which is called "Drum Tower" because it strikes the time every day.
Drum Tower spans Beiyuanmen Street. The Drum Tower and the Bell Tower are only half a mile apart, which reflect each other and add a lot of color to the ancient city. The original bell tower of the Drum Tower was built four years ago. The building foundation area is 738.55 square meters larger than the bell tower foundation, and the height is 34 meters.
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The bell tower is mainly made of brick and wood structure and consists of three parts from bottom to top. The base is square, and there is a 6-meter-high and 6-meter-wide voucher doorway in the middle of the four sides of the base, which is connected with four streets in the southeast and northwest. The building is divided into two floors, with Ming-column cloisters, painted windows and carved doors at the four corners of each floor. The four corners of the eaves fly up, and the kiss of animals composed of various China classical animals and beast patterns gives people a quaint and distinct aesthetic feeling against the glazed tile roof.
The west wall of the lobby on the first floor of the bell tower is inlaid with three inscriptions. The first one is the inscription recorded by the Municipal People's Government after the repair of the 1953 bell tower, the second one is the Monument to Rebuild the Bell Tower written by Shaanxi Governor Zhang Zaiqing Qianlong after five years of overhaul, and the third one is the Monument to the Song of the Bell Tower Moving East written by Shaanxi Governor Gong Maoxian.
The Drum Tower was jointly built by Hou Geng Bingwen of Changxing and An Zhifu Wang. It is said that the foundation stone was laid for the Drum Tower Project in the misty rain.
Five years after Qianlong, according to the record of Xi 'an Rebuilding the Drum Tower, there was a bumper wheat harvest in Shaanxi last year, and there was a peaceful scene of "one man marries one woman, and courtesy promotes litigation", so he followed the old story and rebuilt the Drum Tower. Chang 'an county magistrate Wang Rui is responsible for the repair. After the reconstruction, the Drum Tower took on a new look. From a distance, the scenery of Qinchuan is vivid.
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