Beizhen Drum Tower

Beizhen Drum Tower

Beizhen Drum Tower is located in front of the bell tower in the center of Beizhen city. It was originally the South Gate of Xianzhou city in the Liao Dynasty. It was built by Zhu Yijun, the emperor of Ming Dynasty, in 1580 to commend the achievements of Li Chengliang, the great general of Liaodong.

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Beizhen Drum Tower, Liaodong General Li Chengliang and Ma Yong had been the generals. In the Qing Dynasty, it was changed into a drum tower, which is a two-story single eaves mountain style, covering an area of 625 square meters. It has a large wooden frame structure and double eaves built on the floor. Now it is a key cultural relic protection unit in China.

origin

Li Chengliang, whose name is Ruqi, was a general guarding Liaodong during the Longqing and Wanli periods of the Ming Dynasty. When he was young, his family was poor. After 40 years old, he was promoted to dangerous mountain ginseng general by his military achievements and acted as the chief officer of Liaodong. He is diligent in the side work, overhauling the side equipment, and revitalizing the side work. He killed Nurhachi's grandfather and father by plotting, which greatly weakened the strength of Jurchen in Jianzhou. Many times defeated nvzhenren and Mongolian invasion, consolidated the northeast border defense of Ming Dynasty. He was impeached in the 19th year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty. Ten years later, it was used again and returned to Liaodong at the age of 76. It makes Liaodong stable again. He died in 1615 at the age of 90.

Li Chengliang had nine sons, who were either chief soldiers, commanding envoys, or commanding and participating generals. There are many legends about Li Chengliang in Beizhen area in ancient and modern times, such as "Wumen funeral", "Baiguan graveyard", "Laohan king and tiger circle", "wanggaoshi", etc. in addition, Beizhen Drum Tower in Baibu of fangbei has become a famous tourist attraction.

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The foundation of the drum tower is made of brick, 24 meters long from east to west, 20 meters wide from north to south, and 8 meters high; the upper part of the tower has a women's wall, in which there is a ticket door, 6 meters high and 4.5 meters wide; in the north there is a door, in which there are 40 steps to go to the platform; in the middle of the platform is a two-story attic, 8 meters high, with ladders to climb. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, it was repaired many times. In 1929 (the 18th year of the Republic of China), the words "Youzhou town" and "Yanjiang in northern Hebei" were added to the north and south.

value

Shifang is 9 meters high and 13 meters wide, with four columns and five floors, all made of lavender stone. Decorated with figures, flowers and other relief, carving delicate. On the forehead of the square, the word "Shijue" is engraved vertically, and the words "tianchaogaoquan" and "Li Chengliang, the chief soldier officer and Prince of Liaodong, shaobaoning Yuanbo" are engraved horizontally. It has high historical value and appreciation value.

The exquisite production of Qiao Liang, Tong Fang and ban Dou Gong, decorated with figures and four seasons flowers, and relief sculptures such as carp leaping to the dragon's gate, Yipin reign, Erlong Xizhu, Sanyang Kaitai, Silong, Wulu, Haima Chaoyun, rhinoceros watching the moon, Xilu longevity Marquis, have attracted countless tourists to stop and look around. The square is engraved with the word "Shijue" vertically, the banner is engraved with the words "Tian Chao Hao Quan" and "Li Chengliang, the commander in chief of Liaodong Garrison and the prince, Yuanbo of taibaoning"; the bottom is engraved with two pairs of stone lions with columns at the front and back of the central column of "auspicious Hitachi in October of the eighth year of Wanli". There is a stone on the outside. The whole stone square is beautiful and beautiful. It is the leader of several famous stone squares in Liaoning Province. It has high historical and artistic value.

Beizhen Drum Tower is of great value in studying the structure and form of the bell and Drum Tower in Ming Dynasty. It has become a famous tourist spot with Li Chengliang stone square 30 meters to the south.

Address: in front of the bell tower in the center of Beizhen City, Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province

Longitude: 121.795482

Latitude: 41.59927

Tour time: 1 hour

Chinese PinYin : Bei Zhen Gu Lou