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The Bell Tower is located 65,438+000 meters north of the Drum Tower. It was built in the ninth year of the Yuan Dynasty. In the early days, it was the central pavilion of Wanning Temple in Yuan Dynasty, and was later destroyed by war. In the eighteenth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, it was rebuilt with the Drum Tower and became a bell tower, but it was destroyed. Qianlong in Qing Dynasty was rebuilt for ten years and completed two years later. In order to prevent fire, it is all made of masonry structure, and it is also used as the office space of Beijing air defense headquarters.

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The bell tower covers an area of 6000 square meters and is 47.95 meters high. There is a voucher door at the bottom base, and you can climb the main building on the second floor through 75 stone steps. There is an octagonal bell stand in the middle of the bell tower, and there is a big bronze bell "Ming Yong Ji Le Ri", which is 7.02 meters high, 3.4 meters in diameter and weighs 63 tons. It is the heaviest and largest existing bronze bell in China. The sound of this clock is long, round and loud, and it can travel for dozens of miles.

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Once there was a golden furnace mother temple near the bell tower, which was dedicated to a craftsman's daughter. According to legend, she jumped into the furnace to cast a bell so that her father could finish the bronze bell on time, but now only the ruins of this temple are left.