Drum Tower

A winter without the Drum Tower is incomplete! The New Year vibe in Beijing is really awesome. 📷Best photo spots ·The Di'anmen Outer Street on the south side of the Drum Tower, for a full view of the Drum Tower ·The entrance of the south gate of the Drum Tower, to capture the red wall and the sign of the Drum Tower ·The street sign on the East Street of the Drum Tower, for a slightly upward shot ·The red walls around the Drum Tower, for full-body and half-body portraits ·The candied hawthorn cart near the Drum Tower, using candied hawthorn as a prop ⚠️tips ·It is recommended to go there around 2-5 in the afternoon, just when the light is right ·It is recommended to take public transportation, as traffic jams are quite serious nearby ·You can prepare some props for a more atmospheric feel ·Exit from Exit A2 of Shichahai Station, and walk for 5 minutes

Tour the Drum Tower at night, enjoy the music and exhibitions, and immerse yourself in time. 🏮 The Drum Tower in Beijing is located at the northernmost end of the central axis of Beijing. With its red bricks and black tiles, it is solemn and solemn. It has experienced vicissitudes of life, but still retains its ancient charm. The bell tolls, precipitating the memory of history; witnessing time, guarding the annotations of the years. 🏮 The 'Bell and Drum Ritual Music, Sound Moving Central Axis' event at the Beijing Bell and Drum Tower, celebrating the New Year on the central axis, welcoming spring and good fortune, is festive and lively, full of New Year's flavor. The dragon-shaped beautiful decoration is even more dazzling at night, reflecting the simple and elegant Drum Tower. 🏮 Immerse yourself in listening to the national music concert brought by the Beijing National Orchestra, with ancient rhythms and drums ringing together. Not only will you learn a lot about musical instruments and music theory, but you will also immerse yourself in the appreciation of familiar ceremonial music, including the ensemble and solo performances of 'Golden Snake Dance', 'Step by Step High', 'Flower Good Moon Round', 'Jasmine', 'Dragon Boat', 'Dragon Leaping Tiger Jump', 'Gusu Row', 'Spring River Flower Moon Night', 'Joyful', a feast for the eyes and ears, full of joy. 🏮 After the concert, the Drum Tower staged a 'hard tech'. 720 ° full immersion light and shadow show, four layers of digital light and shadow art, immersive experience of the Drum Tower's time and space changes, feel the hundreds of years of history and charm of the central axis. 🏮 The 'Story of Time' digital immersion exhibition is themed on timekeeping instruments and time, reflecting the past and present. Time architecture, Chinese time, discovery of the central axis theme exhibition hall. Reporting time drums, Yongle big clock, virtual drumming and bell ringing, evening drums and morning bells, drums for orders, bells for transmission. Understand traditional timekeeping methods, the timing principles and exquisite construction of sundials, copper engraved leaks, and stele leaks, and understand the wisdom contained in arrow rulers, twelve hours, and twenty-four solar terms. 🏮 Images, sounds, and words open up the five senses, fully understand the history of the Bell and Drum Tower. Listening to the bell in the four nine cities, virtual drumming experience, old Beijing hawking sounds and other interactions, time and space travel, instant transfer to old Beijing in the four nine cities. Especially the old Beijing hawking sounds, each loudspeaker corresponds to a hawking sound, open one by one, listen to it completely, warm in the heart.

I was lucky enough to encounter the first snow in Beijing when I was traveling alone, and the Drum Tower after the snow is really too beautiful! Follow my camera and take you to cloud travel this beautiful Drum Tower after the snow! 🌟Attraction Introduction One of the iconic buildings of the ancient capital Beijing, located at the north end of the central axis of Beijing in the north-south direction, situated at the north end of Di'anmen Outer Street in Dongcheng District, Beijing. The Drum Tower has a height of 46.7 meters, faces south from the north, covers an area of about 7,000 square meters, is topped with grey tube tiles and green glazed trim, and is a double-eaved three-drip water wooden structure building. There is a low brick wall around it, and a pair of stone lions in front of the gate. 📷About Photography ✅Position one: Directly opposite the road from the Shichahai subway exit, this is a popular spot, and many people queue up here to check in. ✅Position two: The street sign of the Drum Tower West Street, where many photographers take pictures for a fee, and the red wall makes for great photos. ✅Position three: Drum Tower Square, where you can capture the full view of the Drum Tower, also a spot where it's easy to take good photos. 🌟Solo Travel How to spend time in Beijing alone? Sharing my solo travel strategy. 1️⃣About accommodation: First of all, when traveling alone, I choose youth hostels, which are economical and also a great way to meet many new friends. 2️⃣About food and drink: When eating alone, I mostly try snacks and taste the special cuisine of Beijing. 3️⃣About getting around: The most convenient way to travel in Beijing is by subway, which can take you directly to most attractions. 📷About Tickets 🎟️Ticket price: 20/person ⏰Opening hours: 09:00-18:00 🚗About Transportation 🚌Bus travel: You can take bus routes 60, 82, or 5 to the Drum Tower station and walk there. 🚇Subway travel: Take the subway line 8 to Shichahai station (C Southeast exit) and walk there. 📍Detailed address: No. 9, Zhonglouwan Hutong, Dongcheng District, Beijing

🍡The Drum Tower in winter is full of life 🏮Crowded and bustling ⛸The Shichahai ice rink is also packed with people ☀️The afternoon sun in winter combined with the atmosphere of the Drum Tower is perfect 📷The best time to take photos is from 2pm to 4pm ‼️Since there are always a lot of people, here are 4️⃣ recommended photo spots and tips 💯Few people, good light, and a great atmosphere 1️⃣The front angle of the Drum Tower, between the Huali Jie video game store and Changying Three Brothers, is the best spot. You can capture a complete view of the Drum Tower and avoid other people 🌷Also, if you're taking photos on the sidewalk, try to stay close to the flower beds by the curb, take half-body shots, slightly upward, and zoom in 2-3 times on your phone 📮Tip: Sometimes when there are fewer people and cars, you can take photos in the bike lane. It's relatively safe because there are parked cars in front, and both full-body and half-body shots work well 2️⃣The front spot of the Drum Tower, the street sign of Drum Tower West Street and the zebra crossing This is a great spot, but it's usually crowded. If you come on a weekday, definitely take a shot! If it's crowded, it's better to give up 3️⃣The second spot is on the left side of the Drum Tower, where you can capture the entire side of the Drum Tower and another super photogenic zebra crossing. Plus, there are no cars constantly driving by, so it's safe. The sunlight here at 3pm is also great! 4️⃣Don't just take photos of the Drum Tower, the grey Bell Tower at the back is also very beautiful! 🍃Use the small alley as the main scene, with the Bell Tower as the background, combined with the sunlight and trees, it's also very beautiful, and there are very few people here! 🧡These are the four free, less crowded, and super photogenic spots I've recently found 🍭🍢🍬Experience the winter atmosphere in Beijing, with the sweet smell of candied hawthorns filling the air Drum Tower

Located at the northernmost end of the imperial city's central axis, the Bell and Drum Towers are adjacent to the famous Shichahai area in the Xicheng district to the west. Recently, the Dongcheng district, not to be outdone, has created a trendy new internet-famous spot called 'Drum Tower Garden' just 200 meters east and south of the Drum Tower. This is a creative park that combines entertainment, dining, and leisure. Its architectural style blends modern and traditional elements, with many photo-worthy spots such as Chinese archways, red walls, and vintage seating. From the terrace, you can enjoy a 360-degree view of the capital's scenery, especially the Drum and Bell Towers, which look particularly majestic and atmospheric against the backdrop of the setting sun. After leaving Drum Tower Garden, you can have some Beijing snacks at the foot of the Drum Tower (every time I come to the Drum Tower, I go to Yao's), or head back to the newly renovated 'Di'anmen Shopping Mall' in Xicheng. The 'Di'anmen Shopping Mall', now no longer selling general merchandise, has turned into a large food court filled with restaurants. I remember it used to be hard to find a meal in the department store, such a dramatic change! I recommend visiting the upstairs terrace here to enjoy the night view, which is also a great choice!

⛰【Travel Tips】 📍Detailed address: No. 9, Zhonglouwan Hutong, Dongcheng District, Beijing 🚗Transportation strategy: Subway: Walk about 900 meters from Gulou Dajie Station of Line 2/8 🕙Opening hours: 9:30-17:30 💰Ticket price: Bell Tower 10 yuan/person, Drum Tower 20 yuan/person, Bell Tower + Drum Tower 30 yuan (half-price tickets available for college students, seniors over 60, and active military officers and soldiers) 🌟Highlights: The Beijing Bell and Drum Towers are a group of ancient buildings located at the northern end of Beijing's central axis, at the north end of Di'anmen Outer Street in Dongcheng District, and served as the time-reporting center of the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties. In the history of the city's bell and drum tower system, Beijing's Bell and Drum Towers are the largest in scale and the highest in form, and are one of the iconic buildings of ancient Beijing. The Drum Tower was originally built in the ninth year of Yuan Zhiyuan (1272), with a total height of 46.7 meters, a three-tiered Xieshan-style roof covered with grey tube tiles and green glazed tile edges, and is an ancient building mainly constructed of wood, sitting on a 4-meter-high brick and stone base. ☆ The Drum Tower, located at the center of the Yuan Dadu, was originally named "Qizheng Tower" symbolizing the seven elements of metal, wood, water, fire, earth, sun, and moon, but was later destroyed by fire; ☆ Rebuilt in the first year of Yuan Chengzong Dade (1297), it was again destroyed by fire; ☆ Rebuilt in the eighteenth year of Ming Yongle (1420) along with the reconstruction of the palace; ☆ Rebuilt after being struck by lightning and destroyed in the eighteenth year of Ming Jiajing (1539); ☆ Repaired on a large scale in the fifth year of Qing Jiaqing (1800), the twentieth year of Qing Guangxu (1894), and after the establishment of the People's Republic of China. Bell Tower: The Bell Tower was originally built in the ninth year of Yuan Zhiyuan (1272), with a total height of 47.9 meters, a double-eaved Xieshan-style roof covered with grey tube tiles and green glazed tile edges, and is a large monolithic ancient building with an all-brick and stone structure, which was later destroyed by fire; ☆ Rebuilt in the eighteenth year of Ming Yongle (1420), it was again destroyed by fire; ☆ Rebuilt by imperial decree in the tenth year of Qing Qianlong (1745), and completed two years later. To prevent fire, the entire building was constructed with a brick and stone arch structure (a "Qianlong Imperial Stele" stands in the center of the south gate of the Bell Tower, detailing the construction of the Bell Tower at that time). ☆ The large copper bell hanging in the Bell Tower, cast during the Yongle period of the Ming dynasty, is over 7 meters tall and weighs 63 tons. It is currently the earliest cast and heaviest time-reporting copper bell in China, known as the "King of Ancient Bells". When the bell rings, "within and beyond the capital, for more than ten miles, all listen attentively". ※Evening Drum and Morning Bell As the time-reporting center, the Beijing Bell and Drum Towers struck the drum and bell with great regularity. During the Qianlong period of the Qing dynasty, the time-reporting method was only twice at night, every evening at the fixed watch (i.e., the first watch, 19:00-21:00) and the bright watch (i.e., the fifth watch, 3:00-5:00), with the Bell and Drum Towers signaling with lights, commonly known as "matching the lights", striking the drum before striking the bell, called "Evening Drum and Morning Bell". The method of striking the drum and bell was the same, commonly known as "tight eighteen, slow eighteen, neither tight nor slow another eighteen. Fast and slow in alternation, struck twice in total." In this way, twice in total, 108 times, representing a year, is the sum of the numbers of the 12 months, 24 solar terms, and 72 pentads of the year.

💛Hello everyone, I am Beijing photographer Weipan Liuye 💛The recent hot shooting theme of travel photography must be the festive atmosphere before the Spring Festival 💛The photo was taken recently, the location is near Beijing Drum Tower, a very popular place, full of Beijing flavor 💛The little sister is wearing modern clothes this time, considering the red walls, gray tiles and other buildings, the white coat with a red scarf is not too creative, but at least it will not be too exaggerated, and street shooting is also relatively natural 📍The sunny sunset time is definitely the best, the whole street and alley will be illuminated by the sun, enhancing the atmosphere 📍Must use RAW format, so it will be easier to adjust the color to the best at the moment of sunset, restore the real environment 📍Communicate well with the little sister, normal action POSE is fine, be a little more natural, continuous shooting is fine 📍Personal opinion: I don't like the feeling of pure empty mirror without passers-by, I prefer the street shooting style with a sense of reality, so it doesn't matter if there are some passers-by 📍When taking pictures on the street, both the photographer and the model sister must pay attention to traffic safety 🔍Specific camera position coordinates: around the Drum Tower, you can go to Drum Tower West Street, Bell and Drum Tower Square, Bell Alley and other places 📸Equipment: Sony A7m4+Sony 24-70GM+Sigma 85 1.4dgdn