I really don't want to put the picture of the Tokyo Olympics, although the "monk" drumming is the most normal performance in it.
Many people said that after watching the Tokyo Olympics, even the dogs were frightened, and everyone rushed back to watch the Beijing Olympics to wash their eyes.
The most normal traditional drumming performance in it I don't think is as imposing as the drumming performance of the drum tower.
However, in the end, Japan's drum culture was also transmitted from China.
Then let's talk about the Drum Tower this time.
Not only Beijing, Xi'an and Nanjing, but also many ancient metropolises in Tianjin have the existence of drum towers. The bell tower and drum tower are one, which is the ancient chime system.
In the past, people did not have watches, the sunrise and the work, the sunset and the breath, usually look at the sun's shadow timing, sunny days to see the sundial, cloudy days have leaks, copper pot dripping, Buddhism after the introduction of incense timing, we see in martial arts novels about a burning incense kung fu is sauce purple. So before the introduction of the chiming bell, the ancients did not keep the timekeeping so precisely.
Twelve hours a day, one hour is two hours, and the minimum scale of the sundial is about 15 minutes today, so the ancients called 15 minutes a moment or a quarter of an hour.
Speaking back to the Drum Tower.
The drum tower is bound to beat the drum, and the bell tower is a little chime. Ancient big cities followed the way of working and resting from the morning bell and the twilight drum.
Ringing the bell in the morning makes everyone get up to work, at night drums knock the city gates shut, curfews, clean streets, everyone has seen the "Twelve Hours of Chang'an", even the Tang Dynasty has a curfew, the rulers have been using this law for safety management and other reasons, and the only powerful dynasty that does not have a curfew is the Song Dynasty.
This miraculous system was not completely abolished until the end of the Qing Dynasty, after the Xinhai Revolution.
The Beijing Bell Tower, the Drum Tower was built in 1420, and the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven is a building of the same age. Because Yongle moved the capital, these are basic supporting facilities.
Drumming and bell ringing are similar. "Tight eighteen, slow eighteen, unhurried and unhurried and eighteen." Repeat twice, 108 times in total.
108 is an important number, buddhists believe that people have 108 troubles, and the New Year bell should also hit 108 times. And from the perspective of the time of day, these 108 sounds can also be explained, because there are 12 months in a year, 24 solar terms, 72 hou, and the sum is also 108.
Talk about the very imposing drumming performance, when the drum tower is open, there is a drumming performance every hour, but the goose wants to watch the performance, you have to go up the drum tower first, this ladder has at least 70 large steps. The stone steps are still very large, and if you are not careful, you may grunt and roll down.
So the people working above are really hard, and they have to go up and down these steps to go to the toilet, and really don't drink more water. So later I don't know what the reason is, the little brother who plays the drums, the little sister gradually turns into a big brother, the big sisters, listening to this rumbling drum sound, I am also thinking, every hour listening to this, is the ear going to be deaf? It is not easy to tell the times in ancient and modern times.
The main drum is 2.4 meters high and the group drum is 1.6 meters high
There is no high-rise building in the inner city, standing here, you can enjoy the back of Jingshan Mountain, and you can also see the old Beijing Hutong at your feet and lament the change of time.