Bianjing Drum Tower
| Bianjing Drum Tower | |||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 邊靖樓 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 边靖楼 | ||||||||
| Literal meaning | Frontier-Pacifying Building | ||||||||
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| Watchtower | |||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 瞧樓 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 瞧楼 | ||||||||
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| Drum Tower | |||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 鼓樓 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 鼓楼 | ||||||||
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The Bianjing Drum Tower, also known as the Bianjing Pavilion 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.