The Drum Tower is the tallest building in the Dong villages, which shows the masculine beauty, and is still an important place for village rituals, deliberations, gatherings, welcoming guests, celebrations, songs and dances, and entertainment, and is an important place for the inheritance of the traditional culture of the Dong people.
Sanjiang Drum Tower*** has 60 pillars on the ground, covering an area of 600 square meters, together with the decorated square, 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 festivals.
The drum tower in addition to the top two layers, the remaining 25 layers of tile surface isometric collection points, layer by layer tight, so that the floor is pyramid-shaped, dignified and smooth, **** there are 27 layers of tile eaves. The eaves of each layer are light and warped, with delicate carvings and brightly colored eaves boards, forming a sharp contrast with the huge, rugged body of the building, making the lightness, clumsiness, sparseness, thickness, rigidity and flexibility perfectly knit together as a whole.
Supporting the drum tower of the four cedar main columns are more than 70 centimeters in diameter. The first pillar age 208 years, diameter of 85 centimeters, 27 meters long, the second pillar age 206 years, the third and fourth pillar age in more than a hundred years. This is rare in the history of the drum tower building.
The Drum Tower in the design of the drum tower to take the length of the drum tower, unique features, *** design has four layers of observatory, the highest layer of the observatory is located in the 25th floor. On the base stone of the Drum Tower, there are relief carvings reflecting the daily life scenes of the Dong people, such as grabbing flower cannons, stepping on the song hall, playing oil tea, cockfighting, birdfighting, sericulture and weaving, etc. 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 artisans everywhere.