The Nanjing Drum Tower is located on the Drum Tower in the center of Nanjing, opposite the Nanjing Bell Tower. It was the time telling center of the old Nanjing city. It also urged civil and military officials to be diligent in government affairs, reminded the people of hard work, and welcomed the king in the capital. It is an important building for major celebrations such as accepting imperial edicts and selecting concubines. It is an important building in the capital of the Ming Dynasty and one of the representatives of ancient Chinese official brick buildings. It was listed as a provincial cultural relic protection unit in 1957.

The Drum Tower was built in 1382 (the fifteenth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty). It is large in scale and of extremely high standards. The tower was later destroyed due to war. In the Qing Dynasty, only the city tower remained. He once climbed up and looked around, built a stele and built a building, which was renamed "stele tower". The existing wooden building on top of the pedestal was built in the 23rd year of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty (1684). The significant difference in size between the huge Ming Dynasty city platform and its late Qing city tower is why it is known as the "Ming Drum and Qing Monument".

In 1923, it was established as Nanjing Drum Tower Park with the Drum Tower as the main body. In 1957, Nanjing Drum Tower was listed as a cultural relic protection unit in Jiangsu Province. In August 1928 (the seventeenth year of the Republic of China), the construction of Zhongshan Avenue was started, with five main roads: Zhongshan North Road, Central Road (Ziwu Road), Zhongshan Road, Huanghe Road (today's Beijing East Road), and Beiping Road (today's Beijing West Road) They meet here to form a roundabout transportation hub, from which Zhongshan Avenue goes south to Xinjiekou. Basic introduction Chinese name: Nanjing Drum Tower Foreign name: Drum Tower, Gulou Location: Gulou District, Nanjing Climate type: Subtropical monsoon climate Area: 50,000 square meters Opening hours: All-day Attraction level: Jiangsu Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Unit Ticket price: Free and open famous attractions: The Drum Tower Column Foundation of the Ming Dynasty? The Imperial Monument of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty. Country: China City: Nanjing Suitable Visiting Season: Must-read before traveling all year round, scenic spot news, scenic spot introduction, key information, historical evolution, building scale, City towers, city platforms, main attractions, tourist information, opening hours, traffic information, maps, historical evolution. In 1365, Zhu Yuanzhang set up an eunuch in Nanjing to specialize in observing the sky. In ancient times, observing the sky was closely related to national politics, and its status was very high. , the first Taishi Ling of the Ming Dynasty eunuch, was Liu Ji, a famous counselor around Zhu Yuanzhang, who knew both astronomy and geography. The following year, the construction of the Ming City Wall in Nanjing began. According to historical records, "Ji was ordered to build a new palace in the sun of Zhongshan... so the new city was built for more than fifty miles." Experts believe that the Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang personally participated in the design of the Ming City Wall, and Liu Jizheng was Chief designer of urban planning. The Nanjing Ming City Wall is said to have thirteen inner gates and eighteen outer gates, that is, there are thirteen gates inside and eighteen gates outside. The existing Nanjing Ming City Wall is Yingtianfu, which is the capital city. There are 13 gates in total, and the Drum Tower It is built right in the center of the city. Nanjing Drum Tower Structure The Drum Tower was built in the 15th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (AD 1382). In ancient cities with a small square system, a curfew was implemented. Beating the drums in the morning and evening was the signal to open and close the square gates. The drums were beaten every time period, and the drums were beaten quickly first. Eighteen tones, and then eighteen tones slowly, as the saying goes: "Eighteen tightly, eighteen slowly, eighteen again neither urgently nor slowly." Six times are counted between fast and slow, which means one hundred and eight tones, because the ancients used One hundred and eight beats represent one year, so the drumming should be one hundred and eight beats. According to historical records, the drum tower used to set the clock has twenty-five sides, one main drum and twenty-four group drums, which are set according to the 24 solar terms of Chinese farming. In order to unify the time in the city, Zhu Yuanzhang built the Drum Tower, a time-telling mechanism, which was specially controlled by the officials in charge of telling the time. The unification of the city's time is conducive to unifying *** the office hours of various agencies... making the city orderly. "Old Nanjing" has many wonderful legends about the "Twilight Drums and Morning Bells": Thinking about the dusk and dawn at that time, with the sound of the drum tower, in the center of the city, there will be thirteen fast horses heading in different directions to the drum tower. The thirteen city gates flew away, controlling the opening and closing of the city gates. The deep and melodious sound of drums spread throughout the streets and alleys, and the people living in the city started and worked to the sound of bells and drums. The Drum Tower, which can be called the landmark building of the Ming Dynasty, only remained the city tower in the Qing Dynasty. It was not until Emperor Kangxi visited the place during his southern tour that the local officials erected a monument on the base of the Drum Tower and renamed it "Stele Tower". ", so the Drum Tower is known as the "Ming Drum and Qing Monument". During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, the bell tower was destroyed, leaving only the sleeping bell, which was later moved to the Dazhong Pavilion. At the same time, the Drum Tower tower did not survive, and only the city platform remained. On the first day of November in the 23rd year of Emperor Kangxi's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1684), Emperor Kangxi came to Jiangning in order to radically control the Yellow River and rectify the administration of officials. On the second day of the lunar month, he climbed up to the Drum Tower and had a bird's-eye view of Jinling. Before returning to Beijing on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Kangxi repeatedly warned officials to "clean oneself and love the people, serve the public and abide by the law, stir up the turmoil and promote the clean, and be considerate of the people." The next year, Wang Xinming, the governor of Liangjiang and others, carved the sacred edict into stone and built a "monument stele" in the middle of the Drum Tower platform. In order to protect the stele, a building was built on it. Therefore, the Nanjing Drum Tower in the Qing Dynasty was also called the stele tower. Since Kangxi once climbed to the top of the Drum Tower, the rebuilt Drum Tower was named "Changguan Tower". After the Taiping Heavenly War in the late Qing Dynasty, it was renovated and renovated again. The rebuilt building was a main hall with a column-based corridor around it. In the 12th year of the Republic of China (1923), the Drum Tower was turned into a city park. In October of the 17th year of the Republic of China (1928), the Nanjing Park Management Office was established, and Drum Tower Park came under it. The Drum Tower once housed a meteorological laboratory, and later served as the temporary office space of the Central Institute of Astronomy. After the completion of the Purple Mountain Observatory, the observatory was moved out.

In the 19th year of the Republic of China (1930), the Drum Tower Park Office was established to take charge of Qingliangshan and Jiming Temple Parks. In July of the 24th year of the Republic of China (1935), a children's entertainment park was built. At the end of the 26th year of the Republic of China (1937), after the Japanese invaders occupied Nanjing, the puppet government set up the Drum Tower Park Office, which also managed Mochou Lake, Wutai Mountain, Qingliang Mountain and street trees. In May of the 35th year of the Republic of China (1946), the Kuomintang returned its capital to Nanjing and established the Drum Tower Park Management Office. After the liberation of Nanjing, Drum Tower Park was managed by the Garden Squadron of the Work Relief Corps and renovated and greened. It also served as a lookout post for the fire department. On August 30, 1957, the People's Government of Jiangsu Province listed the "Drum Tower" as a provincial cultural relic protection unit. In 1958, the park covers an area of ??2 hectares, with a green area of ??0.8 hectares and a nursery of 0.5 hectares. The Gulou Park Management Office was established, under the leadership of the Greening Team of the Gulou District Urban Construction Branch, with more than ten employees. Its management scope includes Gulou Square and the surrounding areas of Gulou. Greening maintenance and management, and responsible for the greening layout and flower placement of Drum Tower Square during major festivals. On October 1, 1959, the tenth anniversary of the National Day, Drum Tower Park was officially opened to the public. At the beginning of the "Cultural Revolution" in 1966, the park was closed to the public and was severely damaged. Most of the cultural relics and antiques were lost. All employees were incorporated into the Gulou District Greening Team. The park became the "Civil Attack and Military Defense" headquarters, and later the "Civil Defense Command". After the catastrophe of the "Cultural Revolution", most of the park's indoor cultural relics and antique furnishings were lost. The rest were also severely damaged. On September 11, 1974, the Nanjing Municipal Government began the restoration work of the Drum Tower Park. With the approval of the Nanjing Municipal Government, the "Drum Tower Park Leading Group" was established to be responsible for the restoration work of the Drum Tower Park, including the Drum Tower and the West Pavilion of the Drum Tower ("Le Pavilion of Music"). "), Drum Tower Square and surrounding greening, equipped with 15 employees. February 18, 1976. The pedestal of the Drum Tower collapsed severely due to "civil defense fortifications", and cracking and sinking occurred from top to bottom in the southwest of the pedestal. On September 30, 1979, the Drum Tower renovation project was completed. On October 1, Gulou Park reopened to the public. Gulou Park reopened to the public on October 1, 1979. It was administratively separated from the Gulou District Greening Team and was directly under the management of the District Urban Transportation Section. The park has 19 formal employees, has 1.8 hectares of green space, and has established a teahouse, food agency store, foreign guest service department, photography department, etc. The park has begun to embark on the track of creating its own income, building and maintaining gardens. By 1993, the park had 105 formal employees. In 1983, the Drum Tower Park was rated as one of the "Forty New Scenes of Nanjing"; 20 years later, when the selection of the "New 55 Scenes of Nanjing" was in full swing, Drum Tower Park, as one of Nanjing's landmark buildings, once again became a hot spot for citizens' selection. . In May 2013, in order to cooperate with the construction of Gulou Station of Nanjing MRT Line 4, Drum Tower Park was closed and fenced off on May 15, 2013. The Drum Tower reinforcement project was carried out first and it was closed for tours for 2 years. Construction scale Nanjing Drum Tower covers an area of ??9,100 square meters and towers above the Drum Tower. Five main roads, Beijing East Road, Beijing West Road, Zhongshan Road, Zhongshan North Road and Central Road, intersect here. It has always been one of Nanjing's landmark buildings. one. The Drum Tower is divided into two floors. The lower floor is built in the style of a city tower, with a height of 9 meters. It has a majestic red wall and cornices facing the wind. There are three gates in the middle, running through the front and back, and there is an inscription "Changguan Pavilion" on it. The superstructure is divided into the central hall and the east and west halls, with water dripping directly outside the pedestal. It covers an area of ??3.6722 hectares, with a water surface of 80 square meters and a green space rate of 62.1%. Gulou Gang is 40 meters above sea level. It is a remnant of Zhongshan Mountain. There is a Drum Tower from the Ming Dynasty on the hill. The park is named after the tower. It is a cultural relic park and is under the jurisdiction of Gulou District. The existing wooden building with three bays in the middle and double eaves resting on the top of the pedestal was built in the 23rd year of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty (1684). The wooden structure palace on the upper floor contains large drums, small drums, cloud boards, o'clock clocks, dental sticks, copper kettles, hourglasses, three-eye painted horns, etc., which are used to tell the time day and night, welcome the king, select concubines, and receive edicts, etc. All luxury. The lower level is a city gate-style pedestal, with three gates in the middle, connected from front to back, for people to walk on; a stone step with a top is built at each end of the left and right ends of the front wall of the pedestal for people to go up and down, and a resting mountain is built above the platform. There is a ladder pavilion on the roof of the canopy to prevent rainwater; there are two leaky windows in the middle and front of the pedestal for natural lighting and ventilation. Compared with the other thirteen existing Ming Dynasty official brick building city platforms, the Nanjing Drum Tower City Platform in the Ming Dynasty has a smaller base length and the smallest base width. Perhaps because the Nanjing Drum Tower was built on Huangnigang and has a relatively high terrain, it can use a smaller volume to create a visual effect that can only be achieved by a larger building on the ground. Main attractions Vegetation Nanjing Drum Tower During the renovation and construction process of Drum Tower Park, flowers and trees were widely planted and scenic spots were arranged, which greatly improved the park environment. The park green area has grown from 0.8 hectares and the nursery area to 0.5 hectares to 2.28 hectares. Gradually changed the single management task form of "responsible for the management of the Drum Tower, the West Pavilion of the Drum Tower, the Drum Tower Square and the surrounding greenery", cleverly designed and arranged in a small area, and invested 11,273 yuan to build a rockery in the southwest corner of the park and repair the garden road. Continuously create a number of natural, simple and beautiful scenic spots. On the basis of realizing "flowers in spring, shade in summer, fruits in autumn, and green in winter", greening planting will continue to improve the quality in terms of variety and scale. We are basically self-sufficient in using flowers for major festivals, and we also have a certain level of horticulture in co-organizing various exhibitions and decorating exhibition halls.

The juniper, ginkgo and locust trees planted in the early years around the Drum Tower have become towering trees. The red-walled building - the Drum Tower, set against the green trees, looks even more majestic. Dragon and Phoenix Pavilions On the top floor of the Drum Tower, a pair of dragon and phoenix pavilions are placed on both sides of the Kangxi Southern Tour "Jie Monument", complementing each other, simple and elegant, for tourists to watch. The Dragon and Phoenix Pavilion is 4 meters high, 3.5 meters round, and has a tower-shaped appearance. The pavilion is a hexagonal, seven-level, two-story structure, plated with gold and platinum, and the golden light shines brightly. There are extremely finely carved figures or paintings of plants and animals at all levels of Longfeng Pavilion. From bottom to top, the fourth level is the characters, all of which are warriors on expeditions, characters from the Three Kingdoms story, etc.; the third level is the flowers and birds, including sunflowers, heavenly bamboos, green pine, plantains, dieffenbachia, etc. Among the flowers and birds, there are tigers, leopards, snakes and insects accompanying them; the second floor is engraved with six knights. On the six pavilion supports, a phoenix is ??above the dragon, six dragons are holding the pillars, and six phoenixes are auspicious; the upper part of the pavilion is covered by flying cranes and lotus flowers. top. The entire pavilion presents beautiful pictures, with compact and coordinated shapes, vivid and exquisite shapes, and its exquisite carving craftsmanship, which is praised by the world and has extremely high ornamental value. The Lezhi Pavilion is located in the octagonal pavilion in the children's playground to the west of the Drum Tower. It is exquisitely constructed and beautiful in appearance. It has eight cornices and a ceiling of two cranes playing Ganoderma lucidum. It is 16 meters high and 10 meters wide inside. There are railing seats around the pavilion for Visitors sit in a circle. This pavilion was built in the early years of the Republic of China. It was built by Qi Xieyuan to celebrate his mother's birthday. At that time, it was called "Qi's longevity pavilion". The Qi's birthday stele (a turtle-carrying stone stele) was erected in the east of the pavilion. It no longer exists. After liberation, the Shouting Pavilion was renamed "Le Zhi Pavilion". One of the meanings of "Le Zhi" is that the bell pavilion and the drum tower echo each other. Now there is a bell pavilion to the east of the drum tower. The bells and drums stand east and west, and the sound echoes. Therefore, the sentence from "The Book of Songs" is used, "The water plants are mixed, and the weeds are on the left and right." "My fair lady, music of bells and drums", the title is "Lezhi" with bells and drums; the second meaning is: a children's playground has been built around the pavilion, named "Lezhi", which is intended to bring happiness to children.

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