In Chinese ancient architectural culture, what is "arrow tower"?

2019/10/1812:20:11 history 2180

God has eyes. In today’s Beijing, after the Jiumen Gate Tower was basically demolished, due to its special location, there is finally an ancient building of Zhengyangmen "Arrow Tower" left behind. It is located at the north end of Qianmen Street. One of the important buildings at the southern end of Tiananmen Square on the central axis of Beijing City.

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The Zhengyangmen Arrow Tower seen today was built in 1439 at the beginning, that is, the Ming Dynasty orthodox four years. It is a real relic of the Ming Dynasty. Its architectural form is a brick fortress, and the doorway is five-volt five The coupon arch coupon style. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, this gate was exclusively dedicated to the emperor. Only the royal dragon cart and phoenix can be used. Its height reached 24 meters. It was also the only gate in the nine gates that opened the gate of the arrow tower.

The reason why it is called "arrow tower" is naturally related to the bow and arrow. Everyone carefully looks at the architectural regulations of the arrow tower. On the fourth floor, there are a total of 94 small windows designed on the east, south and west sides. This small window is called "Arrow Window". It was used for defense against archery in ancient times. As long as the enemy arrives under the city, there will be a thousand arrows. Together, they shoot the people into "porcupines".

The following is an old photo of the arrow tower in the late Qing Dynasty. You can clearly see that the previous arrow tower was a walled urn city. The architectural regulations in the Ming and Qing dynasties have always been the same. The area of the urn city between the Zhengyang gate tower and the arrow tower is very large. It is large, 108 meters long from north to south, 88 meters wide from east to west, and has doors in all directions. The arrow tower is located at the top. However, in 1915, in order to improve the traffic between the inner and outer cities, the government at that time demolished the moon wall and east-west gates of Wengcheng. Formed the current regulations. The author hopes that the things left by this ancestor will be preserved for a long time, and that the historical tragedy of the city gates will not be demolished in a certain period of turmoil, and a palatable Beijing city will be left to future generations.

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