Drum Tower is the symbol of Dong Village. Dong Zhai Drum Tower, with magnificent momentum, rigorous structure and exquisite craftsmanship, is a concentrated expression of Dong people's architectural skills. A pagoda shaped like a polyhedron. It is generally more than 20 meters high, from 1 floor to the top, supported by 16 Chinese fir columns. The center of the building is wide and flat, about 65,438+00 square meters. There is a big fire pit made of stone bars in the middle, surrounded by wooden railings and long wooden benches for rest. At the spire of the building, there is a treasure gourd or a Millennium crane, which symbolizes the auspicious peace of the stockade. The eaves of the building are prominent and inclined, giving people a delicate and elegant feeling, such as flying and jumping.

Xi 'an Drum Tower is located at the southern end of the north courtyard gate of Xi 'an Xi Street, and it is adjacent to the bell tower in the east.

Drum Tower was built in the 13th year of Hongwu (1380), 30th year of Kangxi (1699) and 5th year of Qianlong (1740). There is a huge drum upstairs, which strikes the time every day, so it is called "Drum Tower". After years of vicissitudes, the giant drum is long gone, but it stands tall in the Drum Tower.

Xi Drum Tower is the largest drum tower in China at present. Its architectural form is three drops of water on the double eaves of a mountain. The brick base in Gao Tai is 52.6 meters long from east to west, 38 meters wide from north to south and 7.7 meters high. In the middle of the north and south, there is a coupon cave door with a height of 6 meters and a width of 6 meters. The building is located in the center of the pedestal, with 7 rooms wide and 3 rooms deep, surrounded by cloisters. The waist eaves on the first floor are flat, and the second floor rests on the top of the mountain, with double eaves and green glazed tiles. The eaves and seats of the building are decorated with turquoise painted arches, which makes the whole building clear and spacious. The blue brick staircase building is located on both sides of the brick abutment, and there are wooden stairs on the west side of the first floor to climb the second floor. In the middle of the south eaves of the building, there is a plaque with a blue background and a red edge, which was made by Zhang Kai, the governor of Shaanxi Province, after rebuilding the building, imitating the "imperial pen" of Emperor Qianlong. There is a plaque hanging in the middle of the north eaves, which smells in the sky. It is said that it was written by Li Yunkuan of Xianning. The two plaques not only illustrate the significance of the building, but also make it full of vitality and grandeur. However, it was destroyed in the ten-year catastrophe of the Cultural Revolution, and now the cultural relics management department has begun to repair it.

Since the 1950s, the people's government has carried out many repairs to the Drum Tower, and in the 1990s, it has carried out large-scale maintenance. In order to further develop and utilize cultural relics resources, promote the development of cultural tourism and restore the "morning bell and evening drum", Xi 'an decided to copy the drum surface of 1996 Drum Tower. The reproduction drum has a height of 1.8m and a diameter of 2.83m, and is made of all high-quality cowhide. The abdomen is 3.43 meters in diameter and weighs 1.5 tons. There are 1996 foam nails, which means the system of 1996, and four copper rings ***2000, which symbolize the year 2000 and inspire people to enter 2 1 century. The drum is loud and powerful, and can be heard ten miles away under the heavy hammer. It is the largest drum in China at present. Between the bell tower and the drum tower, the bell and drum tower square is open, dotted with green grass and red flowers, and the unique acousto-optic fountain changes from time to time, which is a good place for people to relax and entertain in the ancient city.

The building structure of the Drum Tower has two floors and three double eaves. There are seven rooms in front (south). There are three rooms deep, and a cloister around. According to the column spacing, there are nine rooms on the front and seven rooms on the side. The ancient building is commonly known as "seven rooms and nine halls". The roof is covered with neatly trimmed grey tiles, and the building foundation is majestic, with no other decoration except the ends and tail.

The structural technology of Drum Tower has made many innovations on the basis of applying the style of Tang Dynasty and the architectural rules of Song Dynasty. There is not a nail in the whole building structure, and the eaves and seats of the building adopt the principle of bucket arch structure. The architectural appearance is magnificent, simple and beautiful, which endows it with strong national characteristics.

The roof is the crown of ancient architecture in China. As early as the Han Dynasty, working people created many kinds of roofs, such as Fudian, Xieshan, Hangshan and Jian Peijun. In feudal society, the roof had a strict hierarchy, and double eaves were a form monopolized by the ruling class to improve their dignity and authority: double eaves halls were the most respected, such as the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Forbidden City; Double eaves mountain is the second kind, such as Tiananmen Square. The roof form of the Drum Tower is "Xieding Peak", which is the same as Tiananmen Square, but one meter higher than it.