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1400 years ago, the Drum Tower was built during the Five Dynasties and the Southern Dynasties. It has been named as Xincheng Xu, Chaotianmen, Gongbei Building, Laiyuan Building and zhenhai tower, commonly known as the Drum Tower.

During Zheng De's period, the security of Hang Cheng was always threatened by the invasion of the coastal areas of Zhejiang by Japanese soldiers killed in battle and ronin, so a big clock with nine drums was set up in zhenhai tower as an alarm to tell the time. In the thirty-fifth year of Jiajing (A.D. 1557), Hu Zongxian, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, rebuilt zhenhai tower in order to prevent Japanese occupation, and asked Xu Wei, a great writer at that time, to write a biography of zhenhai tower and erect a monument in the Drum Tower, but it was destroyed in 1970. What is presented to the public now is the 200 1 rebuilt drum tower, and its shape is basically the same as that before reconstruction.

Walking upstairs step by step from the Drum Tower, two cannons on the city wall are always ready to aim at the outside of the city gate. A portrait in armor stands between the three crenels and looks lifelike from the bottom of the tower. The main building is now transformed into a stage. Behind the main building, you can clearly see Xu Wenchang's "zhenhai tower Story" embedded in the stone wall on the hillside. The handwriting is vigorous and powerful, and you can vaguely feel the strength of the author when he is struggling to write. 1970 just after the hot summer, the coolness at the entrance of the Drum Tower was extremely heavy, and the hot air in the air feebly turned into water drops and slipped off the stone wall. When I touch my hand, it is as cold as the twelfth lunar month. Passers-by entered the door, all slowed down and gasped.

The end of the drum tower came for no reason. I saw the fog on the rostrum. With a bang, moss-covered city bricks were knocked to the ground, and gray-yellow soil spilled all over the floor. The Drum Tower instantly became broken walls.

Why did you tear down this drum tower with a history of more than 400 years (more than 800 years among the people)? This was the only ancient building in Hangzhou at that time. According to the "City Story", "At that time, the No.3 bus was a one-way street from north to south; Go from south to north, and the east is the road near Zhonghe, which can be widened. The Drum Tower can be completely demolished, and even the old houses on both sides of Zhongshan South Road can be preserved. "

Ding Yunchuan, a 70-year-old famous historian in Hangzhou, knew a little about the scene at that time. "At that time, the Drum Tower was the most important traffic artery in the south of Hangzhou, especially the No.8 bus took the Drum Tower as the terminal. The Drum Tower is adjacent to Huangcheng, and there is a large flow of people on holidays. At that time, the mayor of Hangzhou was Zhou Feng. Considering the need to broaden roads and ease traffic, he decided to dismantle the Drum Tower. " Mr. Ding Lao said: "But I learned in later reports that Mayor Zhou wrote in a memory article that the most regrettable thing was to tear down the Drum Tower. At that time, I didn't realize that this is a historical and cultural building and should be protected. " Ding Yunchuan introduced that in the early years, because there were many wooden houses in Hangzhou, they were most afraid of fire. In order to enhance the public's awareness of fire prevention, according to historical records, there are four broken fire monuments in Hangzhou City, dedicated to the public and hung at home to prevent fire and eliminate disasters.

"I have researched and found only three, all at the entrance of the Drum Tower at that time, close to the Shuihang Pavilion and Zhongan Bridge. The patterns on these slates are the same, engraved with the same fire symbols. At that time, the stone tablet of the Drum Tower was embedded in the wall at the door. There are many people coming and going, and they often come to expand their plans. "Mr. Ding said that the two burning monuments in the Drum Tower and Shuixing Pavilion have been destroyed, and the last one was protected by his father in time, and now it has been donated to the Hangzhou Beilin Cultural Relics Protection Institute. According to expert appraisal, this ancient monument is the only one in China.

In fact, the expansion of this tablet computer can't avoid a fire at home. More of a reminder and warning. "During the Southern Song Dynasty, the Drum Tower experienced a fire, and 10 houses were on fire. At that time, the fire extinguishing ability was not as strong as it is now, and the fire could not be put out until it was burned out. Later, the Drum Tower was rebuilt and this fire monument was embedded. " Mr. Ding speculated that the rubbings of this inscription were hung in the living room at home. Every night before going to bed, citizens look up and see this symbol. When they think of the raging fire, they will subconsciously check the fire point in their homes, so as to achieve the goal of fire prevention in every home. The reporter searched near the Drum Tower and found a shop to build a flying hoop bucket. When asked, it was actually the first merchant around 10 years ago after the reconstruction of the Drum Tower. The owner Qi Jianfei is 60 years old this year. He is from Zhuji, but he speaks Hangzhou dialect fluently. More than 30 years ago, Master Qi came to Hangzhou with ancestral crafts, because Hangzhou citizens liked to use wooden barrels at that time, so business was good.

"Since the demolition of the Drum Tower in the 1970s, it has become a flower bed, but there are not many flowers and plants, only a few camphor trees at most. Because there are still many people coming and going, they often trample and have no order. I often go for a walk at night. " Master Qi recalled that the flower bed was suddenly surrounded, saying that it was to be rebuilt and began to dig down from the ground. It didn't take long to find the "antique". "There are a lot of people watching, and I go to see the excavation progress every day. All middle-aged women are carefully digging with brushes and shovels, and the progress is very slow. "

Master Qi said that the underground buildings became clear later, with wide walls and clear roads. The walls were about 80 cm wide and could accommodate one person. "At that time, the protection of the site was not as good as it is now. After several rains, the rain and the water diversion on the mountain flooded the construction site into a pond. "

It took about five years before and after this, and the reconstruction project of the Drum Tower began, that is, 200 1 year ago. What is now displayed to the public is the new Drum Tower, which was completed in 2002.