2.Xi 'an ancient city has a long cultural history, directly inherited from Tianbao period in Tang Dynasty. The new phoenix has started a new era, and everything has taken on a new look.
In ancient times, the bell rang to announce dawn and the drum beat to announce dawn, so it was called "morning bell and dusk drum". At the same time, drums will be played at night to tell the time. The "three drums" are "three shifts" and the "five drums" are "five shifts", which are reported five times a night. The perimeter of Xi 'an City in Ming Dynasty was 1 1.9 km, covering an area of 8.7 square kilometers. Drum tower is located in the southwest of central Xi. In order to spread drums all over the city, it is necessary to build tall buildings and erect drums.
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, most government offices around the Drum Tower were located in Shaanxi Province and xi 'an Prefecture. The lives of these yamen and the surrounding residents are inseparable from drums, which became the most familiar and pleasant voice at that time. The plaque inscribed by Li Yunkuan is famous in history and makes the finishing point, which shows the practical significance of the Drum Tower.
There are stairs in the building. When you climb upstairs, you can overlook the whole city through the railing. Xi 'an Drum Tower is one of the main symbols and representatives of Ming and Qing architecture.
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Anecdotal legends of Xi 'an Bell Tower;
Xi 'an's bell tower was originally located in Guangji Street, but later it reached its present position. There is a folklore about why the bell tower moved eastward. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, a great earthquake occurred in Guanzhong, killing and injuring ten thousand people. The magistrate is restless. Please welcome Taoist Gao Chengzhi to discuss this matter.
Gao Chengzhi, a famous old Taoist priest in Chang 'an, told the magistrate that the ground motion was eliminated when the bell tower moved half a mile eastward. In ancient times, the sky tilted to the northwest, the land sank to the southeast, and the sea water flowed eastward, reaching the Guanzhong Plain. However, a big octopus didn't want to leave, so he dug a big river with his mouth and hid himself in it.
Later, the earth cracked and the mountain cracked, and the big river became an underground river. On March 15 every year, octopus swims to the mouth of Dachuan, exposing the ground, breathing air, blowing sand and making waves, and earthquakes come from this. The magistrate immediately ordered the blacksmiths in the whole city to make a 100-foot-long chain and prepare to go down the mountain to Gai Lou. The soldier pursed his lips and dug the ground, exposing four big stones and uncovering the stone strips. As a result, he saw a deep well below, and the water was rushing.
After a while, the water column rushed out of the well and sprayed into the sky. Then I saw a fish head sticking out of the well. Gao Chengzhi held the aojiang fish with his sword, ordered the soldiers to lock it with chains, and then sank to the bottom of Sichuan.
The magistrate also cast a big iron ring, tied Kawaguchi tightly, pressed the other end of the chain under it, and then requisitioned 5 thousand craftsmen to repair the planting building day and night. Since then, the bell tower has stood tall, and the octopus has been crushed at the bottom of the Sichuan River, and it can no longer be noisy.
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