Brief introduction of tianjin drum tower and tianjin drum tower

Tianjinwei Sanbao, Drum Tower, Fort, Chime, Chime Pavilion. This shows tianjin drum tower's position in Tianjin people's mind. Tianjin drum tower, located in the city center, was built when Tianjin was built. That is nearly 500 years ago. It's called the Drum Tower, but it's actually the bell tower. Some people say that Tianjin was formed around the Drum Tower, so they claim that the Drum Tower is the birthplace of Tianjin. "Open high and fast, see seventy-two selling sails; Whoever wakes up in prosperity will listen to the bell sooner or later. " Zhou Chuliang, another Tianjin poet in the late Qing Dynasty, said in a poem by Zhi Zhu that the Drum Tower collided with the bell: "This is the bell tower, which rises twice in the morning and evening. Knock a hundred times and eight times, and the pot waist will be accurate. " It turned out that an old hunchbacked man was guarding the Drum Tower. Soon, the building was occupied by the fire brigade as a lookout. In the 10th year of the Republic of China, Cao Rui, the governor of Zhili, and Yang Yide, the police chief of Tianjin, rebuilt the roof beams with blue tiles, which was more beautiful than before. After the reconstruction, the famous calligrapher Hua Shikui was asked to write the names of the four gates of the Drum Tower, namely "Town East", "Dingnan", "Anxi" and "Gongbei", and Mei Xiaoshu's couplet was rewritten. This drum tower, Lake Biwa, has taken on a new look and once again become a scene in Tianjin. Tianjin drum tower features: Drum Tower Bell has a diameter of 1.4m, a height of 2.3m and a weight of about1.500kg.. It is called Zhong Wang of Tianjin. This clock is made of iron, with fine casting and simple shape. The bell body is cast in relief, and the bell knob is cast with matching double rings. Pieces of scales can clearly distinguish the two heads and four feet of the double hoop, which are connected with the bell body, and the other four feet grab each other and bow and roar. This big clock is placed on the cement seat of Jiayuan cloister.