Bell Tower
Xi'an Bell Tower is one of the largest, grandest and best-preserved Ming Dynasty buildings in China. It is located in the center of the western city, at the intersection of four streets, east, west, south, north and south. It is the landmark of the ancient city of Xi'an and is known as the "Pearl of the Ancient City".
In the 17th year of Hongwu (1384), Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, ordered the construction of bell towers in all cities of the country to make the world a town. Xi'an bell tower was first built, was originally located in Xi'an Street, Guangji Street, Yingxiang Guan, facing the east and west sides of the Drum Tower. At that time this place was opposite the North and South Gate, the center of the city. After the expansion of the Western Market, as the city center moved eastward, the location of the Bell Tower was also west of the city center. Therefore, in 1582, under the auspices of Gong Maohsien, the governor of Shaanxi, Emperor Shenzong of the Ming Dynasty ordered the counties of Xianning and Chang'an to relocate it to its present location. When relocating, "only build the building outside the foundation, and change nothing". After the completion of the Bell Tower, Gong Maoxian wrote "Bell Tower Song" block stone tablet embedded in the Bell Tower. 1740, the Qing Dynasty Qianlong five years, Governor Zhang Kai rebuilt the building, it is still in accordance with the original structure of the early Ming Dynasty. Only the Jingyun Bell of the Tang Dynasty, which was originally hung indoors, was moved out of the building so that the sound of the chimes could be transmitted far and wide. The upper floor is dedicated to Emperor Wenchang. The name of the bell tower is also derived from the fact that it chimes the time every morning.
The bell tower is a wooden structure with heavy eaves and three dripping four corners, covering an area of 1,377 square meters. The building base is square, 8.6 meters high, 35.5 meters wide, made of green brick and lime, the center of each of the four sides has a 6-meter-high, 1-meter-wide coupon-shaped doorway, and the four main streets are interconnected for use. There is a height of 36 meters from the ground level of the bell tower to the golden dome. The base has hollow cylindrical cloisters. The building has two floors and three heavy eaves. The roof is covered with green glazed tiles and the building is made of wood. From the brick steps to the large terrace on the brick base, one enters the hall on the first floor, which is 7 rooms wide and 3 rooms deep. The hall has doors on all sides and is surrounded by a platform and topped by a caisson painted with squared off colorful paintings. From the escalator at the southeast corner of the first-floor hall, one can spiral up to the second-floor hall with wooden partition doors on all sides and a corridor leading to the outside. The two-story beam-frame structure is brick-laying with open-dug columns, and the pyramid roof is made of angle beams and wellhead beams. The beam nodes show traces of Song and Yuan practices.
The whole building is painted gold, with brushed beams and carved floors. There are also 64 exquisite wood carving stories on the four red doors, such as Mulan in the army, Chang'e running to the moon, listening to the qin in the west wing, Bole's horse, Liu Yichuan, and the Eight Immortals crossing the sea. Beautiful composition, exquisite carving, with high artistic value. The corners of the building fly up and the bell hangs down. The top of the building has a 6-meter-high round gilded crown on the glazed lotus throne, which is more solemn and grand, showing the unique style of Ming Dynasty architectural art.
During the reign of the Kuomintang reactionaries, the bell tower was once a temporary prison for progressives and revolutionary youths, with troops stationed upstairs. The copper leaves of the gilt roof were stripped and sold, and the building was tired and destroyed. from 1953 to 1958, the state carried out a large-scale comprehensive repair of the bell tower, reinforced the base of the tower, removed and replaced the stairs, floors, and some of the columns, added railings, and refurbished all the doors and windows. Inside and outside the building was painted, gilded roof installed as is, and increased lightning facilities. 1980, after a number of repairs. 1996, in order to further develop and utilize cultural relics, promote the development of cultural undertakings, the West decided to replicate the Tang Jingyun bell. Tang Jingyun bell cast in Tang Jingyun two years, originally used for Tang Jinglong Hall. Tang Ruizong Li Dan private
August 6, 1956, Shaanxi Provincial People's Committee announced the bell tower for the provincial cultural relics protection units. November 20, 1996, the State Council announced the bell tower for the national key cultural relics protection units. At the same time announced the scope of protection: its key protection area around the base of the Bell Tower; general protection area 36 meters away from the key protection area; control area 72m away from the general protection area.
The Drum Tower
Xi'an Drum Tower is located in Xi'an West Street at the southern end of the North Gate, east of the Bell Tower. The Drum Tower was built in the 13th year of Hongwu of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Great Ancestor of Ming Dynasty, and rebuilt twice in the 38th year of Kangxi of Qing Dynasty and the 5th year of Qianlong of Qing Dynasty. Upstairs there is a huge drum, every day to beat the drum to tell the time, so it is called "Drum Tower". Through the vicissitudes of time, the giant drum has long been gone, but in the drum tower is standing tall.
West Drum Tower is the largest drum tower in China. Its architectural form is a slanting mountain style with heavy eaves and three drops. The brick base of the high platform is 52.6 meters long from east to west, 38 meters wide from north to south, and 7.7 meters high, with a gate 6 meters high and wide in the middle of each north and south. The building is located in the center of the base, with 7 wide rooms and 3 deep rooms, surrounded by corridors. The first floor is equipped with waisted eaves and flat base, and the second floor is covered with green glazed tiles. The eaves and base of the building are decorated with turquoise painted arches, making the building's overall architectural hierarchy distinct and opulent. The building's green brick staircase is located on both sides of the brick plinth, and there is a wooden staircase on the west side of the first floor that can ascend to the second floor of the building. In the center of the building under the south gable, there is a "Wusheng Emperor" blue and gold plaque, which is the Shaanxi governor Zhang Kai remodeling the building, the Qianlong emperor "imperial pen" replica. In the center of the north eaves, there is a plaque "Heavenly Listening", written by Li Yunkuan of Xianning. The two plaques not only explain the significance of the building, but also appear to be the finishing touch, so that the building is full of vitality and more magnificent. But they were destroyed in the 10-year havoc of the Cultural Revolution, and now the cultural relics administration has begun to restore them.
From the 1950s, the people's government has carried out many repairs to the Drum Tower, and in the 1990s a large-scale gold-colored repairs. In order to further develop and utilize cultural relics resources, promote the development of cultural tourism, restore the "morning bells and evening drums", in 1996, Xi'an decided to re-create the drum tower drums. The drum is 1.8 meters high and 2.83 meters in diameter. It is made of high quality cowhide. The belly of the drum is 3.43 meters in diameter and weighs 1.5 tons. It has a 1996 bubble nail on it, representing that it was made in 1996, plus four 2000 copper rings, symbolizing the year 2000 and inspiring people to enter the 21st century. The sound of the drum is loud, thick and powerful, and can be heard for ten miles under heavy hammer. It is the largest drum in China. Between the Bell Tower and the Drum Tower is the Bell Tower Square, dotted with green grass and red flowers. Unique sound and light fountains change from time to time, is a good place for people to relax and entertain in the ancient city.
Bell Tower
Wuhan Yellow Crane Tower
Bashan peaks rushing to accept the clouds Xiang Yunshui, the vast Yangtze River in the hinterland of Sanchu and the Han River's longest tributary convergence, creating the two rivers and three towns separated by the majestic posture of Wuhan. It is located in the eastern edge of the Jianghan Plain, the hills of southeastern Hubei in Ye Ping's lakes and swamps undulating between the turtle snake mountain sandwiched in the middle. River boat series, as if weaving the Yellow Crane Tower, heaven and earth.
The Yellow Crane Tower is a masterpiece of classical and modern fusion, the architecture is poetic and beautiful. She is at the confluence of mountains and rivers, reflecting the folk customs of the Chinese nation, the spatial consciousness of being close to nature, and the philosophical concept of revering the universe. Climbing up the Yellow Crane Tower not only makes one's mood happy, but also makes the mind penetrate and mingle with the cosmic imagery, thus purifying the mind. This is probably the reason why the beauty of the Yellow Crane Tower lives on with the sun and the moon.
Yellow Crane Tower, towering over the Snake Mountain in Wuchang, enjoys the reputation of "the world's first scene", and Hunan Yueyang Tower, Jiangxi Wang Tengting and known as the "three famous buildings in Jiangnan". The Yellow Crane Tower was built in the second year of Wu's reign during the Three Kingdoms period (223 A.D.). Legend has it that it was built for military purposes. In order to realize "ruling the country by martial arts" (from which the name "Wuchang" is derived), Sun Quan built a city as a defense and a building as a lookout. In the Tang Dynasty, its military nature gradually evolved into a famous scenic spot, where writers and writers of all ages visited, leaving behind many popular poems. Tang Dynasty poet Cui Hao wrote: "In ancient times, there was a yellow crane carrying saints to heaven, but today there is no Yellow Crane Tower." . The Yellow Crane has never returned, and the long white clouds have not been seen for thousands of years. Every tree in Hanyang is clear from the sunlight, and Parrot Island is covered with sweet green grass. But as I look homeward, the twilight grows thicker, and a mist of sadness fills the waves of the river. "It became an eternal masterpiece and made the Yellow Crane Tower famous.
To the first year of Tang Yongtai (765 AD), the Yellow Crane Tower began to take shape, so that many celebrities in Jiangxia, "must travel must feast". But the frequent wars, the Yellow Crane Tower repeatedly built repeatedly abolished. The last "Lou Qing" was built in Tongzhi seven years (1868 AD), destroyed in Guangxu ten years (1884 AD). Since then nearly a hundred years have not been rebuilt.
October 1981, the Yellow Crane Tower reconstruction project groundbreaking, completed in June 1985. The main building is modeled after the Tongzhi Building of the Qing Dynasty, but is taller and more majestic. Using modern construction techniques, the reinforced concrete frame imitates a wooden structure. Flying eaves *** five floors, topped with soft cushions, golden glazed tile roof, 51.4 meters high, 30 meters wide at the bottom, 18 meters wide at the top. Large murals, couplets and artifacts are arranged on each floor of the entire building. Outside the building, there are some auxiliary buildings, such as bronze sculpture of yellow crane shape, statue pagoda, pagoda, xuan, pavilion and so on. It makes the main building more magnificent. Overlooking this building, you can see when I watch the Yangtze River always rolls forward and the panoramic view of the three towns.
Since its establishment, the Yellow Crane Tower has been modeled differently in each dynasty, but all of them are ancient, majestic and full of personality. Compared with Yueyang Tower and Wang Teng Pavilion, the plan design of Huanghe Tower is octagonal on all sides, which is called "four sides". These figures reveal the symbolic and ethical representational function of figures in ancient architectural culture. From the fa?ade of the building, the eaves of each floor are directly related to the name of the building, shaped like a yellow crane, spreading its wings to fly. The whole building is magnificent and exquisite, full of the charm and beauty of change.
The unique scenery in the world
Yantai Penglai Pavilion
It is said that Penglai, Fangzhang and Yingzhou are in the center of the sea, where the gods and goddesses live, and no one can go there. It is difficult to be trusted because of its peculiar writing and many remarks of Fangzhang. And the city where Dengzhou lives is called Penglai. Is not the Qin and Han monarchs traveling east to follow the trail, meaning that the fairy fruit can be found, Penglai is not visible, but its empty name is Penglai? Confuse the descendants. According to the three mountains of the Fangshi, generally called the name of plants, birds, animals and monsters, but also said that the fairy palace is very large, there is a peaceful atmosphere. If you eat these plants, you can live forever. Long-lived people want to reach their own place, far away from that country where there is nothing. Looking at the sea, I can not help but think of something, and I do not doubt that there are speakers. Xinjiao has been ruling the country for a little over a year, and his age isn't too bad. The wind and rain are coming, spring and fall harvest, the grains are plentiful, and the people are safe. Because Surabaya Run is big, the god has a temple, so its temple is newly built, that is, its old temple is used to build this pavilion, and it will be a place for people from Zhou to come and visit. Thousands of feet, ten thousand miles, floating waves of gold, Fusang sunrise, Thistle River crossing the silver, silver bells born of the moon, smoke floating fog crossing, Bishan far out, sand turbid tide ebb and flow, egrets flying, fish floating, singing echo. Look upward, the body into
Penglai Pavilion was built in the Northern Song Dynasty Jiayou years, more than 900 years of history. Later, after the expansion of the Ming Dynasty and the reconstruction of the Qing Dynasty, Penglai Pavilion has become today's magnificent architectural complex, covering an area of nearly 33,000 square meters, interspersed with temples and gardens. It mainly consists of buildings such as Lüzu Hall, Penglai Pavilion, Sanqing Hall, Tianhou Palace, Dragon Palace and Maituo Temple. The main building, Penglai Pavilion, is situated at the top of the Ya Dan, at the position of the stars arching over the moon. It is a two-story wooden structure with 16 red beech pillars on the ground floor. The lucky ones can see the mirage spectacle.
The sheltered pavilion on the west side of the Lege faces the sea, with doors and windows wide open. The pavilion is said to be lit with candles that don't sway when the sea winds howl. To the east of the pavilion is the Stele Pavilion and Su Gong Temple. The stele is inscribed with the head of "Sea Market" in regular script and the head of "After Inscription to Wu Daozi's Book" in cursive script, which are certified to be the handwriting of Su Dongpo. The shrine was built to commemorate Su Dongpo's tenure as the assassin of Dengzhou, with stone statues and poems carved on the wall. East of the temple, there is the Binri Building, which is said to be the place where Su Dongpo drank and watched the sunrise. There is an immortal bridge at the foot of the pavilion. It is said that the Eight Immortals crossed the sea.
At the Temple of Heaven, there is a Tang Huai tree with a circumference of nearly four meters and a trunk more than 10 meters high. It is said to have been planted by Emperor Tang Taizong when he led his army on an eastward expedition.
Penglai Pavilion, 76 kilometers east of Yantai City, is easily accessible and attracts tourists all year round. There are many hotels in the county to receive domestic and foreign tourists.
Penglai Fairy Road
Tengwang Pavilion in Nanchang
Wang Teng Pavilion, known as "the first building on the West River", stands on Yanjiang North Road in Nanchang City, where the city borders the river. It is magnificent and unique. It is famous for Wang Bo's famous "Autumn Tengfu Tengwang Pavilion farewell preface", referred to as "Tengwang Pavilion preface" and the world. Wang Bo's Preface to the Tengwang Pavilion is a household name that has been passed down from generation to generation. After Wang Bo, Wang Ou in Tang Dynasty wrote "Tengwang Pavilion Fugue" and Wang Zhongshu wrote "Tengwang Pavilion Records", which was called "Three Kings and Ge Teng" in history books and became a good story. Literary Han Yu also wrote: "Jiangnan beautiful scenery, Wang Teng Pavilion for the first, called the magnificent chic." Therefore, it has the reputation of "the first building in Jiangxi Province", and Yueyang Tower in Hunan Province and Huanghe Tower in Hubei Province, which are also known as "the three famous buildings in Jiangnan". Pavilion name, pavilion to text recitation, through the vicissitudes of the millennium and prestigious.
Wang Teng Pavilion was built in Tang Yong Hui four years (653), created by Li Yuan's son when he was the governor of Hongzhou. The pavilion was named "Wang Teng" because Li Yuanying was named Wang Teng during the reign of Zhenguan.
Over the past 1300 years, Wang Teng Pavilion has been destroyed and rebuilt many times. Today's Wang Teng Pavilion is a Song-style building. Song Daguan two years (1108), the pavilion collapsed due to age and disrepair, the minister Fan Tan remodeling, larger than the Tang Pavilion. Two pavilions, "Yajiang" and "Bitter Cui", were built to the north and south of the main pavilion, gradually forming an architectural complex with the pavilion as the main body. Its majestic appearance and majestic momentum is known as "the most Wang Teng of all times". 1942, Liang Sicheng, master of ancient architecture, and his disciple Mo according to the old Song paintings in the "Celestial Pavilion" drew eight paintings "reconstruction of Tengwang Pavilion plan sketches". 1989, October, the people's government of Nanchang City, Nanchang City, the People's Government allocated a huge sum of money, Wang Teng Pavilion carried out a historical 29th rebuild. 29th reconstruction. Based on the "Sketch Plan for the Reconstruction of the Tengwang Pavilion" and with reference to the Song Dynasty's Li Mingzhong's "Construction Method Style" (this book is equivalent to the current building code), the architects designed this grandiose pavilion modeled after the Song Dynasty. The main building of this famous pavilion has a floor area of 13,000 square meters, a height of 57.5 meters, and ***9 floors. Its base is a 12-meter-high pedestal, symbolizing the ancient city wall. On both sides of the main entrance is a huge couplet handwritten by Mao Zedong during his lifetime, "Sunset and loneliness fly in tandem, and the waters of autumn are *** long", while masterpieces and couplets and plaques by many ancient and modern calligraphers are gathered in a single pavilion.
Main Building
Gule Iron Pagoda is located on the east bank of the Yellow River in the western part of Zhoupu Ancient City, Yongji City, Shanxi Province, with a height of six floors, the front side facing the Zhongtiao Mountain and the bottom facing the Yellow River. It is a famous attraction in the middle of Tang Dynasty. It is known as one of the four most famous buildings in ancient China, together with the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuchang, the Yueyang Tower in Dongting Lake and the Wang Teng Pavilion in Nanchang.
Legend has it that storks and magpies (zygomorphs, cranes and other waterfowl) used to live on it in those years, hence the name. The building was built in the Northern Zhou (557-580 AD) and destroyed in the early Yuan Dynasty. Unfortunately, the Magpie Building was flooded after the Song Dynasty, and then the water receded.
Because of the spectacular architectural structure, clever construction, location advantages, beautiful scenery, the Tang and Song dynasties literati climbed the building to enjoy the scenery left many immortal poems, including Wang Zhilu "climbed the stork tower" of the "mountains cover the white sun, the ocean leaks the golden river" poem. But you only have to climb one flight of stairs to open up a view of 300 miles. "It can be called the best song in the ancient times, which has been passed down at home and abroad. Shen Kuo's "Dreams and Streams" gave eight words to the Magpie Tower: "Look at the middle lane from afar, and look at the big river from afar. "For more than a thousand years, it has had a profound impact on inspiring and revitalizing the Chinese nation.
At the beginning of the 21st century, the Chinese people rebuilt the Magpie Building. By 2001, the main project has been topped out, is expected by the end of 2002, this is located in Yongji City, on the banks of the Yellow River, a small nine-story building will be completed.
The stork building is not far from the Pu Rescue Temple, a cultural attraction in the ancient city of Zhoupu, Yongji City, Shanxi Province. The two famous cultural attractions have become pillars of local tourism.
The building serves as an ancient attraction with the pleasure of climbing and composing poems. Stork Tower had a unique style in the Tang Dynasty, and many poets visited and won prizes, leaving behind many masterpieces. In addition to Wang Zhilu, seven other poets of the Tang Dynasty, including Changdang, Geng Yong, Ma Dai, Sima Zai, Li Yi, Zhang Qiao and Wu Rong, also wrote poems here.
Close to the birds, high up in the dusty room. The sky surrounds the leafy pings, and the river crosses the mountains.
While the first two lines of this poem use the height of the stork to express the poet's lofty and ethereal feelings, the last two lines write about the surrounding scenery to express his unrestrained passion. The Song people rated this five-character stanza very highly and considered it comparable to Wang Zhilu's poem of the same name.
Long-term clients often get drunk and tall buildings get lower and lower. Yellow River line, Guanxi, Huayue town. Go as far as possible to a thousand sails, come as late as possible. If you've never been proud in your life, you'll be disappointed in things. Geng Yong's five rhythms are imposing. At the same time, he regrets that his ambition didn't work out. Ambition is hard to give. It's sad to watch!
Yao Xi Wang Lou, a woman, pregnant with ancient times. Tong chiseled, about the temple. Hundreds of birds hanging rainbow, dragon pool shine back. If the clouds can be controlled, Miles will set sail for. Ma is a poet friend of Jia Island, Wu Li is the most coincidental. This poem is rich in imagination, showing the poet's broad-mindedness.
The building sees thousands of miles, the shadow of the building into the golden boy. The trees are separated from Shaanxi, the mountains and rivers bend Qin. Rise and fall, leave white, red dust live today. Where does the stork fly to? The wall grass grows in the spring. The first four lines of Sima's poem describe the scenery seen by the heron lodging, and the last four lines express the feelings of rise and fall between the present and the ancients.
The western wall of the stork tower is a hundred feet, and the clouds and trees of Tingzhou are boundless. Han's flute and drums follow the flowing water, Wei's mountains and rivers are half-fallen. Hate a thousand years, worry a day, is a long time. Wind and nostalgia, away from the spring, also hurt themselves. Li Yi is famous for his seven-character stanzas, and his border poems are also famous and widely circulated
Daguan Park is located in the western outskirts of Kunming about 3 kilometers on the banks of the Dianchi Pond, near the vast Dianchi Pond, far away from the Taihuashan Mountain. Known as the "one in case of water building" of the Grand View Tower towers over it, the garden is also named so - the Grand View Garden. The Grand View Tower is one of China's national buildings. It was built in 1828 and is a good place to see Dianchi Pond. It is called "Daguanlou" because of its vast and spectacular scenery. Daguanlou is a three-story wooden structure with a simple and ancient shape. In the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Sun Beiweng, a poor scholar in Kunming, wrote a couplet of 180 characters, which was a sensation. In the early years of the Republic of China, Daguanlou was set up as a park, Tang appropriated funds to repair, its bronze statue was erected in the center of the site. 1940, the building in front of the pool three white stone piers, imitation of the West Lake, "three pools of the moon seal" scene.
The Grand View Garden is named after the 180-word "First Long Couplet of Ancient and Modern Times" written by Sun Beiweng, a famous scholar of the Qing Dynasty. According to its terrain can be divided into three blocks: near the flower garden, the Grand View Tower, the building outside the building, the Deer Park, the Yuyuan Garden, the Garden, the Hundred Gardens.
Daguan Park flowers and trees, rockeries, pavilions, bridges, running water. The scenery is extremely beautiful. Newly renovated nostalgic promenade with a twist, the threshold outside the silver water and jade mountains; moon Pavilion, Guanjiatang green trees, surrounded by flowers. Moonlight night to listen to the flute is the best. The cloud wigwam, fantastically exquisite; back to the island surrounded by water; it is as beautiful as grass. After Yuyan Bridge to continue westward, where the gathering waves embankment pressure waves and lying, Daguan Tower stands in front of the eyes, "the world's first long association" of the ancient and modern said that people stop and watch.
Daguan Park is adjacent to Dianchi, Dianchi is a plateau lake, the smoke and waves, elegant style. It is affected by the Tertiary Himalayan movement and the formation of the plateau limestone fracture lake. Elevation of 1886 meters, the lake is 39 kilometers long in the north and south, 13.5 kilometers wide in the east and west, with an average width of about 8 kilometers; 199.5 kilometers of coastline; the lake covers an area of 318.27 square kilometers; the lake has a maximum depth of 8m, an average depth of 5m, and a water storage capacity of about 1.57 billion cubic meters. It has the largest area among the many lakes in Yunnan; it ranks sixth among the inland lakes in China. The mountains surrounding Dianchi belong to the Kunlun Mountains, the eastern branch of the Yunling Mountain Range winding southward, collectively known as the Wumeng Mountains, with dozens of peaks.
Wanyi Shui Building