Introduction to Jitang Drum Tower: Jitang is located on a slope and is settled in a triangle. It was separated from Zhaoxing Village in 1538. There are three drum towers in Jitang, one in the lower village and two in the upper village. The lower village is the most spectacular. Xiazhai Drum Tower was built in the late Qing Dynasty. It is 22 meters high. It is made of 16 large fir trees to form a skeleton. The shape adopts layer-by-layer retracted square beams and golden melon columns to support the layer-by-layer protruding eaves. The eaves adopt a herringbone bucket arch structure without a single The nail and rivet are all made of fir wood with tenons and tenons, and the connection is seamless. The whole building has 11 floors, with spires at the four corners, an iron top mast, and five pottery Ruyi vases stacked at the base of the mast; the eaves are covered with small green tiles, the ridge is plastered with white lime, the wing corners are high, and each eaves corner is , respectively, clay sculptures of lions, tigers, rabbits, birds and other animals; in the center of the front between the first and second floor eaves, there is a clay sculpture of "two dragons playing with a pearl", under the eaves of the screen squares, with gray murals depicting various stories, characters, landscapes, flowers, trees and animals, etc. ; The large pillars on the bottom floor and the couplets holding the pillars reflect the Dong people’s desire to celebrate peace.

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