Drum Tower is located in the south of the old city of Tianjin Tianjin is the most comprehensive so far to preserve, the largest hall in the Qing Dynasty architecture. It reflects the architectural style of the Lingnan China, together with living in the city of Tianjin, Guangdong Province were the difficult start.
About 300 years ago, businessmen in Guangdong and Fujian, Chaozhou businessmen to form a merchant fleet Zimbabwe business. Their merchant shipping, oil into a red bow, above pictures have big eyes chickens, known as the "big ship of chicken eyes." Each spring, when the monsoon wind, they will be loaded with cargo, the mighty, northward along the coast, Shun into the Haihe River in Tianjin. Tianchang in the course of time, these businessmen formed to help build (Min-help), to help tide and wide 3 major factions, in order of business, facilitate the reunion, they raise funds to build a "Center of Fujian and Guangdong", 3 in turn help in the management of Hall values.
The late light, just in time to help widely in value as a person who owed money caused by conflicts, to help build, to help tide refused to help the broad value, and not allowed to view the accounts to help Canton, Canton to help Hall of Fujian and Guangdong into a situation of exclusion.
Qing Dynasty, Tianjin Customs Road Cantonese Tang Shaoyi, in order to help the development of extensive consolidation of forces, re-raising initiative to build its own hall, and take the lead in silver donated 4 thousand two. This initiative by the wide response to the warm help of businessmen, a very short time to raise funds on more than 90,000 Silver, the Drum Tower in Tianjin, the city bought the former South Main Street, Yan Yun sites so as to enable us to start the construction of the new Hall. 33 Guangxu (1907 AD) on January 14 the completion of the new center, named the Guangdong Center. Hall, as a large courtyard, most of the wood tile from the purchase of Guangdong, Hong Kuo house, Rohan high gable , The halls are a gallery building, the ornate interior decoration, very Lingnan characteristics. Hall was also built around the shop room, housing more than 300 years, Hall and the construction of the south-east of the "South Park", Zaihua planted the tree, and set up medical room for the rest of the Guangdong Association recuperate. South Taohua Lin was a garden, vineyard, very beautiful scenery. Hall-scale construction, the Lingnan style, by the door, the main building, offers, Xilou, such as suites, covers an area of 20 acres, the existing Tianjin is the largest and most ornate decoration of the Hall of the Qing Dynasty architecture. Into the main entrance hall into a large courtyard, a brick wall to the south, are in the middle is Square, the former for a tall Men Ting, Yan Xia middle of the hanging, "Chu Hai Ling-hui," horizontal inscribed board. Raised the upper end of the main entrance of the nine-storey ladder-like structure, as a result of "Sacred Mountains of China into the air." Re-entry, is a courtyard, the main building offers all outstanding Langxia, after the main building through a small courtyard, entered the main hall of the building, "Town Hall" City Hall is a fellow on the eastern side of the hotel, the building courtyard, is on the south side of South Park, commonly known as Taohua Yuan.
Xilou Tianjin, Guangdong is the center of the main building, hanging in front, "Ridge Ning Bo and the" Giant of the important broad courtyard, through the Gadao, is a seven or eight hundred people with a capacity of the wooden structure of the indoor theater, upstairs view For box seats, the ground floor of Block is scattered. Xilou stage 10 meters deep and 11 meters wide, is at the top of the small wooden mortise components from the spiral caisson, carved exquisite technique, good sound effects. Hengmei front to Toudiao Gun Xiuqiu design techniques carved lions, Liangjiaodiaocheng Hanbaoyufang lotus-shaped Chui Hua-chu, set a positive stage Huge "day official blessing," wood, official days, the boy, apes and monkeys, pine and cypress, and the Yunqi 4 angle of the bat, constitute an energetic, coordinated the screen. Xilou also carved doors and windows of a lion, a phoenix, peony, and other traditional decoration.
Tianjin, Guangdong Center Xilou to the most well-known. Xilou unique design: the stands upstairs downstairs at the Second , Seats scattered seats, tea, boxes of three. Xilou stage and all wood structure, in order to Xilou Liangjia span, we see beautifully carved. For the stage-out, no wooden pillars, sitting South, extending to the north, near the square, in front of Xilou, viewers can watch performances on three sides. Xilou this stage and the layout, with Beijing Palace, the Summer Palace Xilou, similar to the stage, but slightly smaller scale, can also accommodate people Qi Babai. The design stage of the umbrella hanging ding unique ingenuity: the top of the stage with hundreds of sub-brackets deformation, constitute caisson-style cages and weighing about 10 tons, with foreign round, and a pile of tenon end, butterflies and spin on. Modeling is not only unique but also play a speaker Fruit. As long as the actors in the top of the umbrella concert, the speakers can not sound up to the audience. Atrium middle of the stage set, "blessed day official" media space wood color. Official days, an al Fairchild on Taiwan, Qunhou play in the pine and cypress, Ganoderma lucidum, 1.40 mouth is the branch of the bat, delicate composition symmetric. Steeplechase box and the door Geshan Feng has also carved peony wear, squirrels, grapes, flowers, such as Four Seasons design, fine-blade, and life. Back upstairs to the dressing room, surrounded by hospital Zaihua plant trees, clean taste. Was well-known Peking Opera performer Mei, Yang Xiaolou, etc. performed in this theater. In August 1918, the establishment of the Tianjin Museum Exhibition Yu will be the Ministry of Social Rong invited to Beijing to Tianjin to perform, his total for three days. On the third day of his two sooner or later, Taiwan is not even the opera, civil and military band playing "Tie Guan map." Among them, "Cihu" Han Shichang is a speech, a final, "read St. troops" is the full text read out by imperial decree, and run Zhu Ma, Shashi hot. 1919 Yingchao drama has played here.
Into the Hall, the main building from the east and west sides of the aisle have a small courtyard, then came to Canton Hall of the main building of song and dance --- Taiwan, which is Xilou. Xilou sit Southern North, accounting for the entire construction of the 2 /3. In the face of a pair of black He holds joint column, "Zhong Jian identified Fenmo Chinese folk song and dance all the world states, Cheng Fan Xi Nu Pa bomb string anxious to make possession of human feelings, "pointed out that the theme of the Xilou. Xilou-out table for the stage, the audience capacity of the audience Siwu Bai.'s Amazing is not the stage A pole on three sides of the audience can watch the performances from different directions, not to block vision, which is different from it in ancient China It's unique in the stage.
More magic is in the middle of the stage hung suspended top of the umbrella, with the top brackets and a pile of thousands of deformation, uneven joints, like spiral pattern, mix up the stack, Kouzhao shape of a full 6 meters in diameter Bowl, a "cage" caisson. In addition, Tu Jin Qi Green Yao even more luster to people. It is not only beautiful design, superior technology, design and science, be able to stage the sound absorption Qiongxing to the top, played a "sound together," the efficacy, and then send a clear response from every corner of the Xilou. As a result, the speakers do not have to be equally outstanding performance results. From the stage up front "Caisson cages" not support a pole, but steady hanging space. Several tons of their own self-respect, how's it hanging in mid-air? By the relevant research, a sideways back to the original beams, the device at the bottom of the iron posts on both sides of the bar, on the surface by means of wood carving art cleverly concealed it up. Gongqiao with the wisdom of our predecessors, is Shen Lin Habitat click one's tongue after all commendable.
Hall completed in the second year in Guangdong, Shanghai and the western theater by the beginning of the new theater, built China's first-frame of the new opera theater, opera from the old park is gradually phased out. Xilou the Guangdong Center of China's classical theater, "the last remains." 198 Hall of Guangdong in alteration to become China's first museum theater.
In 1912, in Tianjin, Guangdong Center has several historic events. In February, held here to celebrate the establishment of the General Assembly of the Republic of China. March, in response to the call of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, formed raised national joint donation . In August, Sun Yat-sen to Zimbabwe, held at this grand welcoming the General Assembly. September, was held to welcome Huang Keqiang, Chen Qimei, Song Jiaoren the General Assembly. Later, Sun Yat-sen Li from Tianjin, Taiyuan, again, and held 6 of thousands of people to participate in the General Assembly.
In the northern Xilou rare, in 1911 performed on the revolution Drama. August 24, 1912, the North Branch of the United League has invited Dr. Sun Yat-sen in this speech. "May 4", where people often hold meetings or performances, the famous performing artist Mei Lan-fang Yang Xiaolou and others have been in this Xi Lou's show.
1925. An Xing Health communists set up days Federation of Trade Unions, also in the Guangdong Center for the site. The fall of Tianjin, the hall was once run by the Japanese invaders by learning to teach police officers. Now, after the re-decoration of the Hall of Guangdong has become China's understanding and appreciation of theater arts and drama to display China's cultural window.
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