What is the difference between "Morning Bell Twilight Drum" and "Twilight Drum Morning Bell"?
Many people think that it is the same, and confuse it with it, but in fact, there is an essential difference between the two.
In ancient times, striking bells and drumming were used to tell the time. Drumming in the drum tower is fixed, and the bell tower striking the bell is chime. Bell towers and drum towers were indispensable in the construction of ancient cities. The two echo each other and are generally located on the central axis of the city.
In ancient times, the night was divided into five more times, each of which was divided into one hour, and each hour was equivalent to the current 2 hours. Before the Qianlong Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, the method of beating the drum and striking the bell was more complicated, and after Qianlong simplified it to only report twice at night. Fixing and brightening respectively.
The time set for each day is a change, from 19:00 to 21:00, first hit the drum and then hit the bell, so it is called "Twilight Drum Morning Bell".
Every day, the time of light change is five more, from 3 o'clock to 5 o'clock, first hit the bell and then beat the drum, so it is called "morning bell twilight drum".
Whether it is fixed or brighter, you need to beat the drum and hit the bell, but the order is different. From this, there is a difference between "twilight drum morning bell" and "morning bell twilight drum". This is not what many people understand: striking the bell in the morning, beating the drum at night.
It seems that the use of these two idioms mainly depends on the environment at that time. If in the evening, hearing more is "twilight drum morning bell", if you hear bright more in the morning, it is "morning bell twilight drum".
In ancient times, when the clock rang, the officers and soldiers guarding the city would close the city gate and block the traffic between the city and outside the city; when the clock sounded, the officers and soldiers would open the city gate and open the market.
In addition, the method of drumming and striking the bell is also exquisite, commonly known as: "tight eighteen, slow eighteen, not tight and not slow and eighteen." So twice, a total of 108 times. ”
The ancients used 108 sounds to represent the year. There are 12 months in a year, divided into 24 solar terms, and 72 hou, and these numbers add up to 108.
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