Ji'nan: the Ming Chang bell tower will be rebuilt this year

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Shandong commercial newspaper reporter Li Shiwu

Ji'nan municipal government announced the 2013 city construction management key project promotion plan. This year Ji'nan will arrange six major 243 key urban construction projects, with a total investment of 445 billion 500 million yuan and a planned investment of 80 billion yuan in 2013. In these key projects, the upgrading of Daming Lake old area has been specially included, and the Ming long bell tower, which has been brewing for a long time, will also be rebuilt this year. The plan will improve the old park of the North Bank of Daming Lake in an all-round way, including the new comprehensive potted landscape exhibition garden and the landscape green space, the maintenance and reinforcement of the antique building, the upgrading of the infrastructure and the green space, the construction of the public toilet in the scenic area, the expansion of the West South Gate ecological parking lot. To transform the amusement park and the undersea world. In addition to upgrading the north coast, the Ming Chung bell tower will be rebuilt this year to reunite the ancient clock and platform base for many years. It is known that the great bell of the Ming Chang bell tower is cast in the Ming Chang period of the Jin Dynasty, and has a history of more than 800 years and has the name of "the first bell of Qilu". The bell is covered with lotus pattern and eight diagrams. The clock is 2.4 meters high, and the diameter is 1.8 meters. It weighs about 8 tons. After the bell was cast, it was first placed in Kaiyuan Temple, a famous temple built in the Tang Dynasty. With the change of history, the bell tower is no longer there, but the bell tower and giant bell that have seen all kinds of vicissitudes remain. In the 90s of the last century, the Ming Chang ancient clock moved to the Yantai Bell Pavilion on the North Bank of Daming Lake. In October 2008, the archaeologists from the Archaeological Institute of Ji'nan cleaned up the Taiji site of the bell tower temple on the north side of the Daming Lake Road, and found the pillar foundation, the stele and the staircase, and confirmed it as the Ming Dynasty architecture. The bell tower of bell tower is still visible. There are two big stones in the basement. These two stones are the pavilions of the bell tower in the bell tower, the bell tower, the bell tower, and the site of the tower. After knowing the news that the Ming Chang bell tower will be rebuilt, many people suggest that it should be better to use the existing bell tower platform base to restore the ancient features of the Ming Chang bell tower, so that it will have a more historical sense. If the demolition of the platform is rebuilt, the modern atmosphere is too strong, but not good. It is reported that the bell tower of the bell tower in Ji'nan has been included in the third batch of cultural relics published by the city of Ji'nan in 2007.