The Construction And Planning Of The Xi’an Bell Tower

Xi’an Bell Tower was built in Hong-wu period of Ming Dynasty(1384),It situated in central zone of Xi’an,and it also The largest and oldest City Bell Tower in china which kept up to now.Because of the specific Geographic position,Xi’an Bell Tower become landmark of Xi’an.and was moved at here in Wan-li period.Many phenomenon of construction is inherited common practice of Song Dynasty,but most of construction remain feature of Ming Dynasty.Bell Tower have specific function in ancient times which be used to tell time,a majority of them is pavilion.People also suspension a huge Bell in the Bell Tower.Because of load of Bell has influence on Pavilion,it is important to make it more firm.The structure of Bell Tower is different from universal pavilion.Bell Tower could divided into two types.One type is a part of Buddhist temple or Taoist temple,also be situated in front of The main hall.Another one is City bell tower,also be situated in central zone of ancient city,all trunk road are confluence here.The main content of this Paper is about construction and planning of Xi’an Bell Tower.On the one hand,according to the historical documents,exploring the function and history flux form the time of found from now,meanwhile we could infer historical and social facilitating conditions about the flux.By getting the information about Xi’an Bell Tower in a way of investigating and mapping,.we could present the delicate structure and style of Xi’an Bell Tower.At last,I take the construction of Xi’an Bell Tower as a standard,combined other example of china ancient pavilion and other architecture which built in Ming Dynasty to exemplification many ambiguous content about evolution of china ancient pavilion and the transfer of technology in early Ming Dynasty.All the work we do could also tracing the origin of construction and planning of Xi’an Bell Tower,at the same time,it could explore the ins and outs which hidden behind the Design methods about Xi’an Bell Tower.