Sanjiang Drum Tower

Sanjiang Drum Tower is located in Yueyue street, Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County, Guangxi. It was built in November 2002 by a team of folk building and Bridge masters headed by Yang Siyu, a famous Dong folk craftsman. It has many functions, such as culture, appreciation, tourism and so on.

Sanjiang Drum Tower is 42.6 meters high, with 60 stigmas on the ground, covering an area of 600 square meters. The drum tower has 27 floors of tile eaves. Except for the two floors on the top of the tower, the other 25 floors have equidistant tile surfaces, which make the floor pyramid shaped and dignified. Each floor has light eaves, exquisite carving and bright colored eaves, which is in sharp contrast with the huge and rough building. The diameter of the four Chinese fir columns in the building is more than 70 cm, and the tree age is more than 100 years, which is the only one in the history of Gulou architecture. On the viewing platform of the drum tower, you can have a panoramic view of the three rivers.

Drum Tower is the symbol and soul of Dong village. Sanjiang Drum Tower is the first drum tower in Dong Township, also known as "the world's first drum tower". It is a national 4A scenic spot in China, and the scenic spot of Sanjiang great Dong village in China. In the same scenic spot, there are Sanjiang Fengyu bridge, China Dong City, Sanjiang strange stone city, Fulu temple, etc

Sanjiang Drum Tower

Sanjiang Drum Tower, located in Yueyue street, Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County, Guangxi Province, was built in November 2002 by a team of folk building and Bridge masters headed by Yang Siyu, a famous Dong folk craftsman. It has many functions such as culture, viewing, tourism and so on.

Sanjiang Drum Tower is 42.6 meters high, with 60 stigmas on the ground, covering an area of 600 square meters. The drum tower has 27 floors of tile eaves. Except for the two floors on the top of the tower, the other 25 floors have equidistant tile surfaces, which make the floor pyramid shaped and dignified. Each floor has light eaves, exquisite carving and bright colored eaves, which is in sharp contrast with the huge and rough building. The diameter of the four Chinese fir columns in the building is more than 70 cm, and the tree age is more than 100 years, which is the only one in the history of Gulou architecture. On the viewing platform of the drum tower, you can have a panoramic view of the three rivers.

Drum Tower is the symbol and soul of Dong village. Sanjiang Drum Tower is the first drum tower in Dong Township, known as "the world's first drum tower"

It is the national 4A scenic spot of China, and the scenic spot of Sanjiang Dong village in China. In the same scenic area, there are Sanjiang Fengyu bridge, China Dong City, Sanjiang Qishi City, Fulu temple, etc.

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Location environment

Sanjiang Drum Tower, located in Yueyue street, Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County, Guangxi Province, was built in November 2002 by a team of folk building and Bridge masters headed by Yang Siyu, a famous Dong folk craftsman. It has many functions such as culture, viewing, tourism and so on.

The Fulu temple, opposite the drum tower in Sanjiang, is surrounded by mountains and green trees. Fulu temple is a Buddhist temple with all kinds of Buddhist facilities, majestic and majestic hall, and an endless stream of men and women.

Characteristics of Drum Tower

Drum Tower is the tallest building in Dong village, showing the beauty of masculinity. It is still an important place for sacrifice, discussion, assembly, welcome, celebration, song and dance, entertainment, and an important heritage place of Dong traditional culture.

Sanjiang Drum Tower has a total of 60 column heads, covering an area of 600 square meters, together with a newly decorated square, with a total area of more than 4000 square meters. The completion of the drum tower provides a spacious place for Dong people to socialize, gather and celebrate.

In addition to the two floors on the top of the drum tower, the remaining 25 floors are evenly divided and compressed, making the floor pyramid shaped, dignified and stable, with 27 floors of eaves. Each layer of eaves is light and warped, and the exquisite carving and bright colored painting of eaves form a sharp contrast with the huge and rough building body, which makes the weight, clumsiness, density, thickness, rigidity and softness form a perfect whole.

The diameter of the four main columns of Chinese fir supporting the drum tower is more than 70 cm. The first pillar is 208 years old, 85 cm DBH and 27 m long. The second pillar is 206 years old, and the third and fourth pillars are more than 100 years old. This is rare in the history of Drum Tower architecture.

The design of the drum tower takes the advantages of the others and is unique. It has a 4-storey viewing platform with the highest one on the 25th floor. On the base stone of the drum tower, there are reliefs reflecting the daily life scenes of the Dong people, such as robbing fireworks, stepping on song hall, playing Camellia oleifera, fighting chickens and birds, raising silkworms and weaving. The pictures are vivid and full of local flavor, showing the history and culture of the Dong people and the architectural skills of the Dong craftsmen everywhere.

Drum Tower culture

Dong people melt their values, ideals and national spirit into wooden buildings, forming a unique culture with Dong characteristics, which can be called "Drum Tower culture". It is a harmonious culture represented by Dong folk buildings such as Drum Tower, wind and rain bridge, drama tower and stilted building, with unique Dong wooden building construction skills as the soul and including Dong traditional customs System.

The drum tower is a public building in the center of Dong village. It is a place for public activities such as village or ethnic discussion, ceremony, welcome, song and dance entertainment, and a meeting center. In the past, there was a leather drum hanging on the main beam of the building, so it was called "Drum Tower".

The drum tower is of wood structure, the tile eaves are polygonal, and the flying pavilion has double eaves. There are two types of tower and pavilion. Its construction technology is very superb.

Tower shaped drum tower, also known as dense eaves Drum Tower, double eaves more than 10 layers. In the center of the drum tower, four huge columns stand as the main columns, supporting the beams of the tower; the outer four columns are used to support the eaves of the pavilion, connected by tenons, and connected by beams to the outer side columns and large and small strips of wood. The whole tower does not need an iron nail, so the structure is very rigorous and stable. The lower part of the drum tower is like a Square Pavilion, and the upper part is like a pagoda. It has a beautiful appearance and a great momentum.

The shape of the pavilion type drum tower is obviously different from that of the tower type drum tower, most of which are at the top of the mountain. At first glance, it looks like a folk house, but the appearance of double eaves also shows its striking position and lofty position in the village. The eaves of the drum tower are painted on a white background. The eaves are tilted up to make a pattern. The roof of the tower is plastered with iron pots and earthen pots to form a string of gourds, or with patterns of birds, animals and flowers. The drum tower architecture is antique and unique in style, which is not only the legacy of ancient architecture, but also the unique taste of adjusting measures to local conditions.

Whether it is a tower or a pavilion style Drum Tower, in front of the drum tower, there is a site paved with bluestone slabs or pebbles, commonly known as "Drum Tower terrace", and a stage is often built beside it. Drum Tower beams are hanging leather drum, about 34 feet long, Dong language called "money drum", hanging a blow, heard in the distance. It is said that it is not a general drum for entertainment, but an authoritative drum for mass use specially held by the "leader". Whenever there is a big event, "money head" (village leader) on the tower drum, the village members heard, gathered in Gulou Ping. If there is a village fire or a mountain fire, beat drums and call for help. As soon as the emergency situation spread, the villagers rushed to the scene of the accident for rescue.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Dong people in Sanjiang launched a massive armed struggle against donations, which was to mobilize the masses by beating drums to report the news. The main function of Drum Tower is a place for Dong people to rest and play. In the hot summer, we come here to enjoy the cool, in the cold winter, we surround the stove to keep warm, sing and chat, and talk about the past and the present. During the new year's festival, people gather in Gulou Ping to play Lusheng, dance dragon lantern, step on song hall, perform Dong opera, and carry out various cultural and recreational activities. The drum tower, like fengyuqiao, represents the customs and culture of Dong nationality.

There are 186 drum towers in Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County, among which the drum tower groups in mazui, linlue, Linxi, Gaoding, Ganchong and other villages are the most distinctive.

Tourism reference

Sanjiang Drum Tower is a national 4A scenic spot in China. It is located on the South Bank of Xunjiang River in Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County.

Transportation: Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County is located in the north of Guangxi, bordering Hunan and Guizhou provinces. National highways 209 and 321 and zhiliu railway, Guiyang Guangzhou high-speed railway, Xiamen Chengdu Expressway (Sanjiang Guilin Section) and Sanjiang Liuzhou Expressway under construction run through the whole county.

Specialty: you can choose tea oil, tea, glutinous rice, New Year cake, strange stone, embroidery, Dong painting, etc.

Shopping: Sanjiang tourism shopping is concentrated in the county, Chengyang bridge, Danzhou and other scenic spots.

Address: Yueyue street, Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County, Liuzhou

Longitude: 109.612459

Latitude: 25.782194

Tour time: 1 hour

Ticket information: 15 yuan / person

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