The Bell Tower is located at the intersection of four main streets in Xi'an, east, west, south and north.
First built in Ming Hongwu seventeen years, the original site in the present day Xi'an City, Guangji Street, Ming Wanli ten years moved to the present site, the Qing dynasty Qianlong five years had been rebuilt. Drum Tower is located in Xi'an City, West Street and Beiyuanmen Interchange, East and Bell Tower across the square, the Drum Tower was built in Ming Hongwu thirteen years, the Qing Dynasty was twice rebuilt.
Upstairs, there was a huge drum, the evening drumming time, so the name Drum Tower. The bell tower hangs a bronze bell to tell the time, so it is called the Bell Tower.
Bell Tower is a transportation hub, east and west, north and south of the four streets are different styles, there are cultural streets, clothing streets, food streets and so on. Bell Tower Bell Tower is located in the center of Xi'an, the city of east and west, north and south of the four streets of the intersection, built on a square base, for the brick structure, heavy three eaves, four corners of the roof of the form, the total height of 36 meters, the base is 8.6 meters high, each side of the length of 35.5 meters, an area of about 1,377.4 square meters, inside the staircase can be hovering and up.
Covered with dark green glazed tiles on the eaves, the building is plastered with gold color paintings, painted buildings and beams, and topped with a gilded treasure roof, which is brilliant. With it as the center of radiation out of the east, south, west and north of the four streets and respectively with the Ming City Wall east, south, west and north of the four gates, which is Xi'an people proud of the Bell Tower.
It is the largest and best-preserved of the many bell towers left in ancient China. Xi'an is the northwest military and political town of the Ming Dynasty, and its bell tower, whether measured in terms of architectural scale, historical value or artistic value, are among the top of similar buildings in the country.
Characteristics: The Bell Tower was built in the 17th year of the Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang's Hongwu reign (1384 AD), and was named after the iron bell that hung above it. When it was first built, the address was at the mouth of present-day Guangji Street, facing the Drum Tower.
Ming Shenzong Wanli ten years (1582 AD) by the Royal Commissioner Gong Xian presided over the Bell Tower will be relocated to the present site as a whole. Bell Tower is a typical Ming Dynasty architectural style, heavy eaves arch, save the roof soaring, eaves slightly warped, gorgeous and solemn.
This square brick and wood building, from the ground to the top of the building is 36 meters high, by the base, body and roof of the building consists of three parts. Each side of the base is 35.5 meters long, 8.6 meters high, all made of bricks, four sides of the center have high competition are 6 meters of the cross-crossing coupon holes, in the past is the southeast, northwest and north of the four avenues of the channel, people and vehicles from the coupon holes through the hole, with the development of urban construction, coupon holes can not adapt to the needs of the traffic flow, coupon holes have long since been closed; in the bell tower around the other circular ring road.
The design and construction of the bell tower reflects the superior wisdom of the ancient people of China. The external heavy eaves of three drops of water hermitage roof type not only increase the beauty of the building form, but also ease the rain down the eaves when the impact on the building. The arch at the end of the tracing beam skillfully utilizes the principle of mechanics to form a uniform load.
The four corners of the roof of the building according to the diagonal construction of four ridges, from the eaves to the top of the building gradually convergence, so that the golden top of the stable and solemn. The upstairs glazed tiles are fastened with tiles between the tiles and fixed with copper tiles, which makes the building solid and sturdy, and it becomes an integrated architectural art treasure.
Overall demolition: the bell tower of the second floor of the west wall, embedded with a side of the "Bell Tower Tablet", which describes the huge building has experienced an incredible overall demolition. The Bell Tower was first built in the 17th year of the Ming Dynasty (1384), when it was located at the mouth of Guangji Street, north of Xidajie Street, at the Yingxiangguan, about 1,000 meters from its current location.
This location was on the central axis of the Tang Chang'an City, and was the center of Chang'an City during the Five Dynasties, Song, and Yuan. Although the city was expanded in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the bell tower was not built to fit the expanded city pattern, probably because of the customary mentality of the people.
After two centuries, as the center of the city shifted east, the city gate was rebuilt, the new east, south, west and north streets were formed, and the bell tower located in the Yingxiangguan increasingly appeared to be away from the center of the city. To the Ming Shenzong Wanli ten years (1582), in Shaanxi Governor Gong Oh-Xian presided over the Bell Tower to a whole demolition.
According to the inscription, the removal project in addition to the reconstruction of the base, the essential structure of the building is all the original original, so the cost is not much, the project quickly. Completion of the demolition and installation of such a huge building, even in modern times is not easy.
It requires both superb construction and installation techniques, but also requires a rigorous and fine engineering organization, the completion of this special project in the 16th century, is really the history of China's architectural proud of the initiative. Huge bell anecdote: the northwest corner of the Bell Tower is displayed on a Ming Dynasty iron bell, weighing 5 tons, the bell side of the cast gossip pattern, built in the Ming Dynasty during the Chenghua (1465 ~ 1487 years).
But it is much smaller than the bronze bell that hung in the Bell Tower earlier. The original bell was the Jingyun Bell (now in the Beilin Museum), cast during the Jingyun period of the Tang Dynasty.
It is said that, after moving to the present site, although the size of the building style has not changed, the Jingyun bell can not ring how. There is nothing to do, only another change.
Relief story: the bell tower door haggard window carvings beautifully complex, showing the prevalence of decorative arts in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Carefully appreciate the doors and fans on a relief, they will tell you many interesting anecdotes of ancient times.
The first floor of the north door, from west to east in order; the gnarled bearded guest; Mulan from the army; Wen Ji returned to Han; blowing cock to attract the phoenix; red leaf poem; Ban Zhao reading; Bolangsha vertebrae Qin; singing chip measure sand. The first level of the east door, from north to south in turn: the oath of Changsheng Hall; chain trick; crafty mouse night disturbances; hanging angle reading; Bianzhuang stabbed the tiger; Chang'e Run to the moon; Dongpo inscription wall; Li Bai invites the moon.
The first level of the south door, from east to west, is; King Wen visited the wise man; Bo Ya drummed the qin; drawing the dragon and pointing at the dragon; chopping the snake to rise up the army; Bo Le looked at the horse; Liu Yi passed on the book; Shun plowing the Alexandrian mountains; and put the bridge to teach the book. On the first level, the west door, from south to north, is as follows: Pillowed on a pole; Li Ling's soldiers are trapped; Yuji shoots apes; Long You celebrates chickens; Huang Er passes on books; Sun Yi puts dolphins in the sky; Tao Kan carries bricks.
The second floor south door, from east to west **** eight "eight immortals across the sea, each showing their powers" picture, in turn, Zhong Li Quan, Zhang Guolao, Lu Dongbin, Cao Guoyu, Iron Chicken Li, Lan Caihe, Han Xiangzi and He Xiannu. The north door of the second floor, from west to east **** eight spoons "immortal drunkenness" picture, in order of Zhong Li Quan, Zhang Guolao, Lu Dongbin, Cao Guoyu, Iron Li, Lan Caihe, Han Xiangzi and He Xiangu.
The second level of the east door, from north to south in turn; single sword to the meeting; drumming Jinshan; mother-in-law stabbed words; mother Meng chooses neighbors; Zi Lu negative rice; painting to teach children; Wen Jiao absolute skirt; heard the cock dance. The second floor of the west door; from south to north are: writing scriptures for geese; Mao Shu love lotus; Ba Bridge willow; snow seeking plums; Tao Qian love chrysanthemums; searching for hidden not met; lonely mountain crane.
Drum Tower Drum Tower, east and Bell Tower across the square. It is now a national key cultural relics protection unit.
2. Xi'an Bell Tower Hui Min Street Parade Essay 900 wordsXi'an is not going to Hui Min Street is definitely the biggest loss, which is even better than not going to the Shaanxi History Museum to feel the history of China's 3,000 years, and not going to the Qinling Mountains to feel the majesty of nature meandering.
The temptation of Hui Min Street lies in the fascination of every human taste bud. The food is sometimes better than the view! Theme of Hui Min Street Where is Hui Min Street? Ask anyone in Xi'an, and no one will know where it is.
From the northwest corner of the Bell Tower underground passage, leaving behind Century Gold, Starbucks and H?agen-Dazs, and heading west for 100 meters, and then turning north from the Drum Tower, a small street of green stone slabs will be presented in front of you. At a glance, the quaint antique buildings stretch out on this several hundred meter street, with small stores flashing various signs on both sides, and crowds occupying the entire street, moving about in a bustling manner.
However, all this is no longer important, the air filled with a variety of scents, which is the theme of this place. People often say that the Hui Min Street is this small street called Beiyuanmen.
The residents of the street are the Hui people who have lived here for generations, and its production of various snacks, is completely Xi'an native snack style fusion of Hui flavor and become, meat buns, mutton buns, fried cold noodles, mutton kebabs, dunking soup dumplings ...... This is not just a simple list can be enumerated, and thus just this The streets, the tour, really need to know beforehand in detail all kinds of "strategy". Despite the noodle-based Xi'an, the variety of snacks has been far more than a few hundred meters long Beiyuanmen small street can carry.
The broader Hui Min Street encompasses four of the most crowded culinary enclaves: Bei Yuan Men, Dapi Yuan, Huajue Lane, and Xiyang Shi. While the most famous snacks always occupy the best spots, such as the tallest building in Beiyuanmen, Jia San's soup dumplings, if you miss out on the other alleys, you'll just as likely miss out on food that you'll regret learning about afterward, as evidenced by the persimmon pancakes that line Huajue Lane.
However, in the ancient city of Xi'an, even though these four streets are the most centralized collection of the best snacks in the city, there are still gems in the rest of the city. The Hu Ma soup in Shijinqiao is another local flavor snack that should not be missed.
Thus, Hui Min Jie is more than just the name of a street or several streets. North of West Street, south of Lianhu Road, east of North Street, west of the city wall of the Hui people gathered in this area, because of the existence of a variety of Hui people's flavors and food, each place can also be called Hui Min Street.
In Xi'an this side of the city area, there are food, that is, Hui Min Street. The Happiness of the Taste Buds The taste buds are in charge of the intake of various flavors for human beings.
Taste is the only object of perception for these cells, and food is the only subject of contact for these cells. Each cuisine excites each set of taste buds once; each excitement is transformed into a beautiful memory to be retained permanently.
And Hui Min Street, undoubtedly, is to let the taste buds overall excitement place. Hui Min Street snacks, a variety of beautiful flavor, its effect on the taste buds, as it is in the alley general let people get lost.
The ancient city's food is mostly handmade by various families, more have been through the generations, the famous works are the crystallization of a century of accumulation. Tasting food, tasting the food culture of the people of Xi'an for decades and centuries, and the birth of this food culture in the yellow earth, but also so colorful.
Parade in Hui Min Street, so the taste buds of your tongue began to update the memory between the various flavors and textures. Sometimes soft and tender, sometimes taste heavy fishy, sometimes fresh and spicy sour leaching, or cold and refreshing, a variety of feelings in turn, all over the tongue of the taste buds as into a colorful garden, as long as the stomach can bear the end result of the stomach can still bear, taste buds will be able to enjoy all the earth for them to prepare for the only "love affair".
Mutton buns have spread far and wide, known as the representative of Xi'an food; Jia San soup dumplings have attracted celebrities from all over the world for decades; and persimmon pancakes can still only be tasted in the pot for a while in order to taste the flavor of the ultimate, still belongs to the jasper in the boudoir of the people who have not yet known; the red red pickled vegetables and fried rice the rise of the young people to linger not to go. A variety of flavors come one after another as different colors of beauty, taste buds in half a day can spend a lifetime of rare happiness.
However, there are too many beautiful scenery, too many colors, as the eyes in the Imperial Garden, disorientation has become a face of a lot of happiness after the "affliction". And after all the food, a bottle of ice peak is still the most traditional and persistent habitat for taste buds in Xi'an in these decades.
The food has its own taste Going to eat in Hui Min Street is a search. Despite the fact that several main streets are only a few hundred meters long; despite the fact that every kind of food uses its own body odor to try to attract every passer-by; despite the fact that every store's signboards are either big or bright, as all kinds of sales sound in general to recommend their own treasures, but to go to Huimin Street to taste their favorite snacks, it must be necessary to find.
The richness of Hui Min Street snacks, has not only noodles and rice can be covered. The colorful noodles, supplemented by different practices, different styles, colorful vegetables, has been the form of a hundred different.
And the traditional production methods of each family, making the same kind of food also has the flavor of each family, the same meat sandwich, sandwich lamb or sandwich beef has been different, with what to eat and have a difference. As a result, on the network, netizens have written so many eat all over the Hui Min Street strategy, and in the thousands of strategies, in a store at one breath to eat full of Hui Min Street is the biggest taboo, but even so, to eat all over the Hui Min Street, I really do not know how many times you have to come.
A variety of tempting food concentration scattered in this small neighborhood, far away from the famous people crowded in every space, shoulder to shoulder, in the crowd, you will be in the street which one of the food temptation and stay not to go? Food also has its own taste, like the beauty of the spring flowers, autumn and moon, you need to choose your own. In the Hui Min Street taste of food as a life of a relationship, the search is the inevitable theme.
However, the search process is so wonderful and novel. The "beautiful people" are hidden in the alleys, and you need to move slowly to find them.
The smells are so pervasive that you are tempted to linger and move on, and when you do, you may be tempted by another scent. A large, spacious store may have prepared for you a "big girl" that has long been known all over the country, but maybe you'll find a "little girl" that you'll fall in love with on the side of the street if you don't stop for a moment in a crowded place.
In the various colors of "beauty" string back and forth between, have seen this, tasted that, although the praise.
3. About Xi'an Bell TowerXi'an Bell and Drum Towers Local Introduction
Located in the center of Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, China. The Bell Tower and the Drum Tower face each other from east to west. The Bell Tower was first built in the 17th year of the Ming Dynasty (1384). The original site in today's West Street, Guangji Street, Ming Wanli ten years (1582) repair, moved to the current site. Upstairs, the original suspension of a large bell, as a bell chime with.
Building heavy eaves nest arch, save the top corner of the wooden structure, **** 3 layers. Each layer is decorated with arch. Floor base area of 1,377.64 square meters, through four streets have a doorway. The base is square, 8.6 meters high, about 35.5 meters wide, with green brick masonry. The height of the building is 27.4 meters. From the ground to the top of the building, 36 meters high. Inside the staircase can be circled up for visitors to visit. Drum Tower was built in Ming Hongwu thirteen years (1380), the thirteenth year of the Qing Kangxi (1674) and Qianlong five years (1740) has been rebuilt, but the ladder body still maintains the original architectural features. The building nine pillars and three floors, for the hermetic roof heavy eaves three drops of water wooden structure building. Block width 38 meters, 52.6 meters long, 8.7 meters high, all with green brick masonry. The height of the building 24.3 meters, 33 meters high. North and south of the center of the coupon door with a height and width of 6 meters. North hanging "sound in the sky" plaque, south hanging "Wen Wu Sheng Di" plaque. The building is built in the center of the pedestal, heavy and solid.
Bell tower on the northwest corner of the display of a Ming Dynasty iron bell, weighing 5 tons, the bell side of the casting of gossip patterns, built in the Ming Dynasty during the Chenghua (1465 ~ 1487 years). However, it is much smaller than the bronze bell hanging in the Bell Tower. The original bell hanging in the Bell Tower was a huge bell cast during the Jingyun period of the Tang Dynasty, "Jingyun Bell" (now hidden in the Beilin Museum). It is said that after moving to the present site, although the style and size of the building did not change, the Jingyun bell could not ring. There is nothing to do, only another change.
Bell tower doors and windows carved exquisite complex, showing the prevalence of decorative arts of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Carefully appreciate the door on a piece of relief, they will tell you many interesting anecdotes of ancient times. The first floor of the north door, from west to east in turn; gnarled bearded guest; Mulan from the army; Wen Ji returned to Han; blowing cock to attract the phoenix; red leaf inscription poetry; Ban Zhao reading; Bolangsha vertebrae Qin; singing Choumei sand. The first level of the east door, from north to south in turn: Changsheng Hall oath of allegiance; chain trick; crafty rats night disturbances; hanging angle reading; Bianzhuang stabbing tiger; Chang'e to the moon; Dongpo inscription wall; Li Bai invites the moon. The south gate of the first floor, from east to west, is: King Wen visited the wise man; Bo Ya played the qin; the dragon painted the point of the dragon; the snake started the army; Bo Le looked at the horse; Liu Yi passed on the book; Shun ploughed the Alexandrian mountains; and Zhaqiao taught the book. The west door of the first floor, from the south to the north, is as follows: Pillowed on a pole, Li Ling's soldiers are trapped, Yuji shoots apes, Long You celebrates chickens, Huang Er transmits a book, Sun Yi releases dolphins, Tao Kan carries bricks. South door of the second floor, from east to west **** eight "eight immortals across the sea, each showing their powers" picture, in turn, Zhong Li Quan, Zhang Guolao, Lu Dongbin, Cao Guoyu, Tie Qiao Li, Lan Caihe, Han Xiangzi and He Xiangu. The north door of the second floor, from west to east **** eight spoons "immortal drunkenness" images, in order of Zhong Li Quan, Zhang Guolao, Lu Dongbin, Cao Guoyu, Tie Qiao Li, Lan Caihe, Han Xiangzi and He Xianjun. The east door of the second floor, from north to south, is in the following order: "Single Sword to the Meeting"; "Drumming the Golden Mountain"; "Mother Yue Pricking Words"; "Mother Meng Choosing Neighbors"; "Zi Lu Carrying Rice"; "Painting and Teaching Sons"; "Warm Jiao" and "Warming the Cock and Dancing". The second level of the west gate; from south to north are: writing scriptures for geese; Mao Shu loves lotus; Ba Bridge willow; trekking in the snow to find plums; Tao Qian loves chrysanthemums; searching for the hidden not to be encountered; the lonely mountain to release the cranes.
4. Xi'an bell tower stories or legends, short and conciseOne of the legends: Do you know what is under the Xi'an bell tower? There's a spring where the sea water comes out, and there's a giant sleeping turtle inside! Once upon a time, Guanzhong 800 miles of Qin River is a boundless country, Xi'an is annihilated in the sea, the sea water is not a river convergence, is now the location of the bell tower spring out of the sea, the sea there is a few zhang long giant tortoise all day long in the noise, it will be a move over the mountains and the sea of the huge waves, half of the slope of the first people to live by the mountains and the water, their homes were repeatedly flooded.
In order to protect the peace of a party, their own homes no longer have flooding, the pioneers invited craftsmen, the construction of a clock tower covered the spring of the sea water, and specifically begged the gods to lock the giant tortoise with a chain of locks, so that it sleeps in the spring, it will be a huge body as a plug plug, so that seawater will not be rushed out of the Guanzhong this undersea plains to gradually reveal the face. If you don't believe it, every late at night, to the ground near the bell tower or the wall of the bell tower to listen carefully, will be able to hear the gurgling sound of seawater, and the sound of the long-sleeping tortoise, how many years past now can still be heard very clearly.
The spring of the underground waterway has been leading to the Bohai Bay, the original is the formation of the water of the sea Guanzhong Zeguo, the giant tortoise is also from the sea through the waterway to climb to Guanzhong. Legends of the second is said to be the Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne shortly after the Guanzhong area of successive earthquakes, folk legend has it that there is a dark river under the city, there is a dragon in the river, the dragon in the dragon in the turn, Chang'an in the vibration.
Zhu Yuanzhang was afraid, the heart feels unsettled, and thought of ways to press it. Taoist magicians gave him the idea to build a bell tower in the center of the city of Xi'an, the bell is the sound of heaven and earth, which can suppress the dragon.
To this end, Zhu Yuanzhang built one of the largest bell towers in the country, and called the "world's most famous bell" Jingyun bell to help.
5. History and culture of the bell tower in Xi'anHello, I am glad to answer this question for you.
Xi'an Bell Tower:
1. The largest and best-preserved of all existing bell towers in China!
2. It was first built in the 17th year of Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty (1384) at the mouth of present-day Guangji Street, opposite to the Drum Tower, and was relocated in its entirety to the center of present-day Xi'an City in the 10th year of the Wanli reign of Emperor Shenzong of the Ming Dynasty (1582), and is a national key cultural relics protection unit!
Historical background:
1. After the capital of the Ming Dynasty, Nanjing, during which there is a capital of the proposal, a minister advocating the relocation of the capital of Xi'an, Zhu Yuanzhang had some of the heart, specifically sent Prince Zhu Biao went to Xi'an to investigate the field, select the base site of the palace, and draw a map of Shaanxi into the offering. After returning to Nanjing from Shaanxi, Prince Zhu Biao presented a map of Shaanxi to his father, Zhu Yuanzhang, and detailed the geographical advantages of Xi'an, that: "lifting the world if the world Guanzhong, the world's mountains and rivers, but the number of Qin for the danger of solid," proposed to move the capital to Xi'an. But soon Prince Zhu Biao died young, at this time Zhu Yuanzhang has been old, the late loss of the old man emaciated, move the matter of the capital was not settled, but Xi'an bell tower has been built in accordance with the level of the royal building!
2. 198 years after the bell tower was built (1582), the bell tower overall relocation, this eastward relocation is related to the development of the city of Xi'an eastward expansion, the bell tower on the second floor of the west wall, embedded in the bell tower eastward relocation of a "song" monument, which describes the process of relocation of the whole of this huge building.
6. Historical Records of Bell Tower1. The building where the big bell is hung, such as: Xi'an Bell Tower, Beijing Bell Tower and so on. Tang Duan Chengshi "Youyang miscellany altar sequel - temple tower on the record": "the system of the temple, the bell tower in the east." Song Zeng Gong 《江州景德寺新戒坛记》："﹝ 智暹 ﹞不舍其天夜之勤，凡二十年，为佛殿，山门，两廊，钟楼与戒坛。" Waking up HengYin - Dugu Sheng return to haunted dreams ":" This temple is called Longhua Temple ...... and there is a bell tower, upstairs copper bell, ringing fifty miles away."
2, the installation of clocks higher buildings, such as the Hong Kong Kowloon Railway clock tower, Haikou clock tower. Zhou Zu "Shanghai Morning," Part IV, 37: "Nanjing Road, Maho intersection, there is a tall clock tower ...... it also saw the liberation of Shanghai."
7. Xi'an Bell TowerXi'an Bell Tower was built in the 17th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, and its original site is at the entrance of Guangji Street.
In the ninth year of the Wanli reign, it was relocated to the intersection of four main streets, east, west, south, north and south. There is a beautiful legend about the relocation of the bell tower.
Wanli years, Guanzhong earthquake Taoist Gao Chengzhi asserted that there are 10,000 years of aragonids in the underground monster, so the governor will be moved to the current site of the Bell Tower shocked the demon haunted ***, since then Xi'an peace and prosperity for all the people. The couplet on the front of the bell tower reflects this legend.
In fact, the bell tower's eastward movement is directly related to the development of Xi'an city eastward. The Bell Tower was always at the center of Xi'an's transportation geography.
The main purpose of the bell tower in ancient times was to tell the time, the morning bell and the evening drum became one of the symbols of Xi'an, but in the past, the time was not early in the morning to ring the bells, and at dusk to beat the drums. According to the evidence, the old Xi'an chimes were actually bells and drums.
The bell name cloud: Jing Yun, cast in Tang Taizong Jing Yun two years, the bell is two meters high, up to one point five meters in diameter, weighing 10,000 pounds, the body of the bell cranes and dragons soar, the bell sound dozens of miles. Initially placed in the bell tower at the mouth of Guangji Street, after the relocation of the bell tower in the Ming Dynasty on top of the bell tower.