From then on, not only the location of the Drum Tower was clearly marked, but also the location of the Bell Tower was clearly drawn on the Jiangning city map before the Kangxi Dynasty in the Qing Dynasty.
1684, Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty visited Nanjing to eradicate the Yellow River, understand the people's feelings and rectify the official system. He once boarded the Drum Tower. He had a bird's-eye view of the ancient city of Nanjing, and was filled with emotion for a moment, so he instructed the local officials upstairs and warned them to be honest, law-abiding and punish corruption.
The following year, Wang Xin, Governor of Liangjiang, ordered a monument to be built here, and the Oracle of Emperor Kangxi was carved into an Oracle Monument, also known as Xiebei. This monument is more than two feet high and was given by a turtle. Standing in the center of the base of the drum tower platform.
In order to protect the Oracle Bone Inscriptions Monument, a wooden drum tower with three bays was rebuilt in Qing Dynasty, which was much smaller and simpler than that in Ming Dynasty.
In this reconstruction, there are not only imperial monuments, but also Longfeng Pavilion. Therefore, the Drum Tower was renamed as "Monument Building" or "Changguan Building". At the same time, it also has other nicknames such as "Memorial Building" and "Monument Pavilion", which is called "Ming Gu Qing Monument". But at that time, Nanjing people still habitually called it "Drum Tower", and "Jiebei" was the best existing ancient stone tablet in Nanjing.
Later, Emperor Kangxi ordered the expansion of Nanjing Bell and Drum Tower, with a total area of 1.5 million square meters. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Qianlong visited the south of the Yangtze River seven times, three of which made a special trip to the Dazhong Pavilion, personally inscribed three large-character plaques of "Sangutang" imperial books, and ordered people to hang them on the door of the Dazhong Pavilion.
In the late Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty repaired and rebuilt the Nanjing Bell and Drum Tower, with the main hall in the middle and the pillar cloisters around it. There are two floors in Daxiong Hall, and the roof is a Shui Mu structure with two eaves and four drops at the top of the mountain. Under the upturned corner of the double eaves, there are mascots such as a phoenix standing on a flower stone, a double lion playing ball and overlapping painted patterns.
There is a dragon and phoenix tower in a glass cover on the top floor of the Drum Tower, which was a gift from local officials to Empress Dowager Cixi in the Qing Dynasty on her 60th birthday.
The "Dragon and Phoenix Pagoda", also known as the "Dragon and Phoenix Pavilion", is placed in a pair of dragon and phoenix pavilions on both sides of the "Street North" of Kangxi's southern tour, which complement each other and are simple and elegant for visitors to watch. Longfeng Pavilion is 4 meters high and 3.5 meters round, with a tower-shaped appearance. Longfeng Pavilion is a two-story structure, with six corners and seven floors, inlaid with gold and platinum, resplendent and magnificent.
There are extremely carved figures, animals and plants at all levels in the Longfeng Pavilion, and the golden light flashes. There are characters from the bottom up, all warriors, characters in the story of the Three Kingdoms and so on. There are flowers and birds, sunflower, bamboo, pine, plantain, evergreen and so on. On the second floor, there are six knights carving alone. On the supports of six pavilions, the phoenix is on the top and the dragon is on the bottom, and the six dragons hold the column, and the six phoenixes are auspicious; The upper part of the pavilion is covered with flying cranes and lotus flowers. The whole Longfeng Pavilion presents a beautiful picture with compact and harmonious modeling and vivid and exquisite carving technology, which is praised by the world and has high ornamental value.
During the Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty, a hexagonal bell tower with iron beams and columns was built in the northeast of Nanjing Drum Tower. In the early Qing dynasty, the bell fell, and Jiangning deployed an envoy to hang Xu in the bell pavilion. According to legend, this sound has become louder since the bell was hung on the beam.
The Bell and Drum Tower is rich in history and culture. In Nanjing bell and drum tower, there is a famous couplet: in the bell and drum tower, the bell keeps ringing at night; At the Jinke venue, today's gold medal list was announced.