Bianjing Drum Tower

Bianjing Drum Tower
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Literal meaningFrontier-Pacifying Building
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinPien-ching Lou
Wade–GilesBiānjìnglóu
Former names
Watchtower
Traditional Chinese瞧樓
Simplified Chinese瞧楼
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinQiáolóu
Wade–GilesCh‘iao-lou
Drum Tower
Traditional Chinese鼓樓
Simplified Chinese鼓楼
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinGǔlóu
Wade–GilesKu-lou

The Bianjing Drum Tower,[1] also known as the Bianjing Pavilion[2] and by its Chinese name as the Bianjing Lou, is a drum tower in Shangguan, the seat of Dai County, Xinzhou Prefecture, Shanxi, in the People's Republic of China. It dates to 1476 and is 39.3 meters (129 ft) high.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference linsanity was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ CUT (2016).