Introduction to the Public Pavilion

Its building scale is rare in China, and it is divided into two floors, the lower floor is an arched city without beams, and the upper floor is a double-eaved four-slope top, which is very spectacular. Upstairs used to be the place where the Ming Dynasty welcomed the king and accepted the imperial edict. There are two drums, twenty-four small drums, a cloud disk, a clock, four dental sticks, a copper cylinder in a pot room and other musical instruments. These furniture have been lost since the Ming Dynasty. The existing building foundation was originally built in the Ming Dynasty, and the upstairs building was rebuilt in the late Qing Dynasty. Kangxi/kloc-visited the drum tower during his southern tour in 0/684. The next year, he built a huge monument upstairs and changed it into a monument building, but the locals still used to call it the Drum Tower.

Not far from the northeast of the Drum Tower is the Dazhong Pavilion, in which hangs a bronze bell cast by Hongwu 12 1 year (1388). This clock was originally hung in the bell tower of Jinchuan Gate. In the early years of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, he fell on the roadside and sank in the soil. In the late Qing Dynasty, he moved here and built a hexagonal pavilion with iron beams and columns.

This clock is beautiful in quality and shape and has a loud sound. The bell top is embossed with lotus petals, and the hanging beam is decorated with moire and wave angle. There is an inscription on the clock, "Twenty-nine years of auspicious Hongwu".