A Study On Time Buildings In Song Dynasty

In ancient China,various kinds of time buildings were built to convey the changes of day-to-day time.Due to the close relationship between astronomical observation and time,and the limit of technical and financial resources,the time buildings of the past dynasties have been monopolized by the authorities.Generally speaking,the time buildings of the Song Dynasty were divided into two categories of the court and the local city.The time buildings of the court is mainly bell tower and drum tower,while the local building is different in style,which was called differently and had different way of development.According to the existing statistics,there were 109 time buildings in Song Dynasty,and had more outstanding development.Both Kaifeng in the Northern Song Dynasty and Lin'an in the Southern Song Dynasty had drum tower.In most local cities,there has been obvious growth in the number of time buildings.Besides,Qiaolou(??),drum towers,drum corner buildings were the largest number.In addition,some areas had appeared military gates,royal books,county buildings and other buildings temporary undertaking the time of the building,Cheng du also built bronze pot pavilion as an independent time-telling building.In the Song Dynasty,two kinds of time buildings were listed in the time and time instruments.The time instruments of the Song Dynasty were watch and engraving.The engraving in the court drum tower was weighting leak,and the accuracy is relatively high.The everyday time change by relevant signs,such as the time card and weather card.And to convey by the drum tower,to sever the court and capital city.In local building,the time instruments were relative simple,other places with time card and related equipment,daily time-telling had the clearly defined.County cities only had engraving leak and drum.In addition to kinds of instruments,there were relevant management agencies and managers.The drum tower in the court of the Song Dynasty was mainly managed by astronomical institutions.Local time buildings are always built by state and county governments,and daily management is carried out by local government.From the managerial aspects,the management staff of the court drum tower have building kettle,the selection and relevant and relevant students,the relevant and transfer of relevant personnel had been standardized,which was part of the entire astronomical institution.Local time buildings were served by soldiers,or officials in the governments,the relevant personal according to duties division of labor mainly has leak person,the card person,drum craftsman,straight leak person,drum person and so on.The 12-hour and 100-hour were accurate in the daily timing and time-telling in the Song Dynasty time buildings and followed by the Yuan and Ming Dynasties.The bell tower and drum tower in the court always had various types of personnel in charge of daily time and telling,bell and drum works according to different time.The time telling was relative simple in local cities the instruments of time card were also used in Chengdu and Yuanzhou..The court and local time building broadens the traditional political space,promotes the development of science and technology,activates the thinking,and enriches the daily life.In this process,the time of day and night was quantified,the government was more orderly,Communication in different regions and classes were more frequently and harmonious,and the life of the people was quick.The setting,running and evolution of the time building had become the corner of observing the development of ancient Chinese civilization.