【正文】 than 3020__ years. Initially used as ritual and musical instruments. It has been used in military mand since the spring and Autumn period. Ancient Chinese cities have the nature of military castles. In addition to building walls around the city, digging trenches and setting up suspension bridges, there are also bell and drum towers built in the center of the city as the mand center. At ordinary times, it reports the time by morning bell and evening drum, opens and closes the suspension bridge regularly, and it is used to warn the police and mand the city defense in case of emergency. This tight urban defense system reached its peak in the Ming Dynasty. Xi39。an is an important military and political town in Northwest China in Ming Dynasty. Its bell tower and Drum Tower rank the first in terms of architectural scale, historical value and artistic value in China.The building we see now is the bell tower, which is located at the intersection of the four streets in Xi39。an. It was built in the 17th year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty. It was originally located in Yingxiang temple on the West Street. With the eastward movement of the city center, in 20__ of Wanli of Shenzong of Ming Dynasty, the bell tower was demolished as a whole and moved to the present site.The bell tower is a typical architectural style of the Ming Dynasty, with a height of 36 meters, double eaves and brackets, gorgeous and solemn. It consists of three parts: base, body and roof. The base is square, all made of green bricks. The building is a square wooden structure, surrounded by an ambulatory on the outside and a twostory building on the inside with wooden ladders circling up. In the square hall on the upper and lower floors of the building, there are various kinds of valuable porcelain and red Phoebe furniture since the Ming Dynasty. The four sides of the doors are covered with relief paintings, with a simple and vivid style. The top of the building is a four corner structure, covered with green glazed tiles. The top dome is 5 meters high, glittering and brilliant.On the northwest corner of the bell tower is a Ming Dynasty iron bell, which weighs 5 tons and has eight trigrams on its side. It is much smaller than the bronze bell that hung in the bell tower earlier. The giant bell originally hung in the bell tower is a Jingyun bell cast in the Jingyun period of Tang Dynasty. Now the bell is collected in the forest of Steles in Xi39。an. It is said that after the bell tower was moved from Yingxiang temple to the present site, although the style and size of the tower have not changed, the Jingyun bell will never ring. There39。s no choice but to change. In order to move the jingyunzhong to the new bell tower, an inclined bridge was built in the west section of the West Street, and the bridge slope was used to transport the jingyunzhong to the bell tower. It is said that qiaozikou also got its name.There are inscriptions on the west wall of the bell tower. Song of the bell tower was written by Gong Maoxian, governor of Shaanxi Province, who built the bell tower when he was dismissed and went to Beijing. The bell tower is warmly praised in the poem. The story of the bell tower was written by Zhang Kai, the governor who had built the bell tower. It describes the life experience of the bell tower in detail. On the door of the bell tower, there are 64 woodcut relief story paintings, including Mulan joining the army, Chang39。e flying to the moon, Liu Yi39。s biography, Eight Immortals crossing the sea and so on. After the founding of the people39。s Republic of China, the people39。s Government of Xi39。an carried out three largescale repairs to the clock tower, which made the ancient building glow with its former style.Far away from the bell tower is the drum tower. The door opening at the bottom of the tower is northsouth, leading to the north gate and the South Darcy street. The drum tower was built in the 13th year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty. It is sister to the bell tower. There is a huge drum on the north side of the first floor of the drum tower, which forms a late drum with the morning bell on the bell tower, so it is called the drum tower. The building is rectangular. The height and width of the door opening on the base are 6 meters, and the depth is 38 meters. The drum tower is built with double eaves and three drops of water. The building is divided into upper and lower floors. There are two plaques under the eaves of the north and the south. In the south, the Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty engraved a book with his pen: the land of culture and military prosperity, and in the north, Li yunkuan, a scholar of Xianning County, wrote the sound is heard in the sky. In the outer eaves of the drum tower are decorated with Dou Gong, surrounded by corridors. The ceiling is painted with cloud pattern, antique, very beautiful. Bell and drum towers plement each other, making the ancient city of Xi39。an more beautiful and spectacular. Well, this is the end of the tour of the bell and Drum Tower. Thank you!西安鐘樓英語導(dǎo)游詞相關(guān)：