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Legend, Jiaying concept is completed, the sky of the fairy sent a large copper bell, placed on the bell tower above. When the music cents left, on the view of the Road long said: "bell for the mother clock, this clock for the mother clock, sub-clock placed in Luoyang, if hit clock, mother bell resonance, sincere hit clock, Hard to bring auspicious wishful ".
Bell tower on the tall copper bell, Yongzheng first year, bell high 1.65 meters, 1.06 meters in diameter, weighing about 2 tons. The bell for the two dragon opera beads, bell body set pattern ring pattern, a symbol of the Yellow River waves and curves of the guard, and the berm of the dam; bell feet cast gossip symbols, symbols above the octahedral diamond, a symbol of Jiangshan Siji map.
This clock strange place: one is the clock of the gossip arrangement, that is not the ancestors of the ancestors of the ancestors of the hexagram, but also in the days of Wang Wang Gua, the gossip arrangement of heaven and earth in the north, directed at Beijing; Side, directed at the Yellow River often Zhijian shop, Wei Jia Zhuang, Ma Jiaying. This is what is more worthy of discussion. Second, the bell of the eight feet, followed by knocking the bell of the eight feet, actually issued eight high and low strength sound. So called this clock "gossip eight tone bell".
This peculiar gossip pattern and one and eight syllable skills of the mystery, to be archaeologists, Zhou Yi scholars, vocalists and metallurgical experts to answer questions.
Drum Tower of the original two drums, upstairs hanging "Eight Immortals River drum" for the sacrifice dedicated, downstairs for the "welcome drum", the emperor minister to Jiaying sacrifice, the drums greeted.