Gulou Street

Gulou Street

Gulou Street, Beijing

The drum tower is located on the central axis of Beijing and at the intersection of East Gulou Street and di'anmenwai street. Together with the clock tower, the time reporting center of Beijing in yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Street introduction

Gulou Street in Beijing is simple and heavy, with hutongs extending in all directions, many time-honored shops and all kinds of old Beijing snacks on both sides. Today's Gulou Street is gradually filled with the flavor of fashion, and the fusion of classical and modern makes Gulou Street glow with new vitality.

Scenery

1. Shichahai. Shichahai has a beautiful scenery, with long bridges and green willows, and wide waters. The former residence of Soong Qingling, the former residence of Guo Moruo, and the garden of Prince Gong's mansion are the historical and cultural features of old Beijing. The integration of natural beauty and cultural landscape complements each other. You can enjoy the beautiful scenery of Xishan Mountain by boating in summer and skating in winter. Born and raised in Hutong and Siheyuan, Beijingers occasionally hold various folk activities, such as boating, gathering and appreciating lotus, which make Shichahai full of life.

2. Song Qingling's former residence, Guo Moruo's former residence, qingwangfu, Gongwangfu. Taste the secluded and elegant gardens, rockery, red lotus and blue waves, and the exquisite and magnificent royal palace.

3. Former residence of Mei Lanfang. Collection of tens of thousands of documents, in memory of the master of art, to trace the footprints of the master's life.

4. Bell and Drum Tower. Morning bell and evening drum, listen to the bell and drum, tell the long history.

5. Yandai inclined lane. The oldest slant street in Beijing has a chance to experience the elegant artistic conception in the Misty drizzle.

6. Guanghua temple. The large Buddhist temple, with rigorous architecture and Buddhist preaching, is the place where monks and Buddhists get together at the foot of the imperial city. Now it is the office and activity place of Beijing Buddhist Association and Beijing Buddhist music group.

7. Bar street. Enjoy the night of the old Beijing City, the streets full of red and wine, showing a trace of ancient, Buddhist back to the last century.

history

"Evening drum and morning bell" make the whole city orderly. It stopped after 1924 and began to ring the bell and drum every new year's Eve since 1990. The drum tower is an ancient single wooden structure building. The grey tube tile is cut with green edges and double eaves. It is 46.7 meters in height, 34 meters in width and 22.4 meters in depth. Under the eaves, there are five pedals, which are single raised and single warped. There are eight arched doors on the ground floor, three in the north and three in the south, and one in the East and one in the West. There is a side door on the east side of the north wall, and there are climbing stone steps in it, which incline 45 degrees from north to south, totally 60 steps. Then turn west, incline 45 degrees from east to west, also 9 steps, that is, climb 69 steps to reach the second floor. On the second floor, there are six square doors and windows on all sides. There are corridors around, about 1.3 meters wide, with wooden guardrails. The pillar height is 1.55 meters, and the building area is 1925 square meters. The third layer is the dark layer. The whole building is located on a masonry platform about 4 meters high, with a width of 56 meters and a depth of 33 meters. There are brick stairs in the north and south, and the East and the West are paved roads. The drum tower covers an area of 7000 square meters. There is a pair of stone lions in front of the south gate, about 1.25 meters high.

Genggu, as a time reporting instrument, is placed on the second floor of the drum tower. There are 25 sides, including 1 big drum and 24 small drums (representing 24 solar terms in a year). There is only one big drum left. The diameter of this drum is about 1.5 meters. It is covered with the whole piece of cowhide, but the drum surface is full of knife marks. It was done by the Japanese army when the Allied forces of eight countries invaded Beijing in 1900. In those years, the drum tower beat the drum to tell the time, there was a certain rule. At 7 o'clock every night, there are 108 drums in total. Later, there are 108 drums in each shift until the last "lianggeng" drum is hit at 5 o'clock in the morning. Drumming also has a certain rhythm. Up to now, the saying of "tight 18, slow 18, not tight and slow 18" is still popular in Beijing. On the drum tower, there was a bronze pot dripping leak, but it had been lost for a long time. It is said that the bronze carving of the drum tower is very exquisite, so it is said that it was made in the Song Dynasty. The fourth one is called "Tianchi", then "Pingshui", then "Wanshi", and then "Shoushui".

At that time, eight people hit the cymbal every moment, and the water in the pot was full. Dry up with the increase, winter is warm with fire After the Republic of China, the drum tower was renamed "mingdisgrace tower". Some pictures, models and other objects were displayed on the tower to show the massacre and robbery after the invasion of Beijing by the Allied forces of the eight countries. Later, it was successively established as "Jingzhao popular education Museum" and "the first public education Museum".

The bell tower is about 100 meters north of the drum tower and on the central axis of Beijing. It is located in di'anmenwai street, Dongcheng District.

The bell tower was built in Beijing in 1272. The former site of the bell tower is the central Pavilion of Wanning temple in the Yuan Dynasty. It was built in 1420 in the 18th year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty. The clock tower was rebuilt on the existing site, but it was soon destroyed by fire. It was rebuilt in 1745 in the 10th year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty. It is built on a tall brick platform, with grey tiles and green shears on the top of the mountain. It is about 33 meters high, and has a delicate and solid brick structure. Later, it was repaired many times.

Address: Beijing, China

Longitude: 116.387931

Latitude: 39.944337

Chinese PinYin : Gu Lou Da Jie