Located in the center of Cixian ancient city, Drum Tower was built in the 12th year of Hongzhi in Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1499). 1945 was demolished due to war after liberation.
Gulou 1993/KLOC-0 was rebuilt on October 25th, and/KLOC-0 was completed in June 995. Its building area is 1380 square meters, and its style is three eaves and two floors, imitating Ming and Qing architecture. The building foundation is rectangular, 8 meters above the ground, 46 meters long from east to west and 30 meters wide. There are multi-layer sawtooth brick eaves around the abutment, and vertical columns are built on the eaves, and the piles are distributed in turn, with 58 * * *. These features on the abutment have been well protected and restored. The Drum Tower is built on it. The whole building is a rectangular tower with two floors and three eaves, and each floor is more than 3 meters high. Among them, the bottom floor area is larger and the second floor is smaller. Each floor is an outer column and an inner wall, and the columns are separated by more than 2 meters. Each pillar is round, reddish and about 60 cm in diameter. A corridor is formed between the wall columns, in which the bottom corridor is more than 2 meters wide and the second corridor is 1.5 meters wide. Every roof is covered with glazed tiles, resplendent and magnificent. Angle tilt, take off. The patterns under each eaves are lifelike, antique and lifelike. The roof eaves of the building are covered with pure glazed tiles, which are tower-shaped and shine under the sunlight.
The whole drum tower is a building facing south, and the main entrance is in the middle of the first floor. The plaque on the door is inlaid with the word "Drum Tower" inscribed by the famous calligrapher Qi Gong, and a stone tablet is erected on the west side of it, engraved with the title of "the first floor in the air" inscribed by the famous calligrapher Ouyang Zhongshi. The north gate, which coincides with the main entrance, is very narrow, and there is a word "Drum Tower" inscribed by Li Duo, a famous contemporary calligrapher. On the second floor, the south gate and the north gate are engraved with a plaque inscribed by Liu Bingsen and Lu Zhongnan's book Cloud Shadow. Under the north and south eaves of the top floor, there are Fang Yi's title "The First Floor of Jinan" and Fei Xiaotong's book "Xiongzhen Jiao". The plaques are all in gold on a black background, and the calligraphy on the Drum Tower can be described as "outstanding in the contemporary era, looking at the ancient and modern calligraphy circles".
Drum Tower is the symbol of Cizhou and the symbol of the reappearance of the ancient town.