Clock Tower Center (in simplified Chinese钟楼)is located in Xi’an, the North and the South East and West 4 Street interchange, with a total 36 meters high, the base 86 meters high, 355 meters long on each side, an area of about 13,774 square meters.

To it as the center of radiation of east, south, west, North Avenue, and 4, respectively, and the Ming city wall east, south, west, north four-phase, that is, people in Xi’an proud clock tower. There is a lot of our country left over from the ancient clock tower and this is in the greatest shape and preserved the most complete one. Xi’an, northwest of the Ming Dynasty are military and political stronghold, and its clock tower building in terms of scale, historical value or artistic value of various aspects of measurement, are ranked highest in the nation building of similar records.

The features of the centre were quite good. Clock Tower was built in Ming emperor Hongwu seventeen years (AD 1384), and at the beginning of construction, the address at this Guangji corner with Gulou confrontation. Ming Wanli Shenzong decade (1582 AD) from an officers in Gong Xian Tour, chaired the overall migration to the Clock Tower this site. Clock Tower building was a typical artistic style of the Ming Dynasty, with brackets, saveing the towering roof, eaves a little bit curving, and gorgeous solemnity. The square structure of the buildings, were from the ground to the roof 36 meters high from the base, floor and roof are composed of three parts. On each side of the base 35.5 meters long, 8.6 meters high, all produced by green-brick structure, surrounded by the middle of each 6 meters high are competing in cross-hole coupon, in the past four street intersection are truck channel flow vehicles from the coupon through the hole, with the construction of city development, coupons holes cannot be required to adapt to traffic flow, and now tickets have long been closed holes; in a separate circular ring around the Clock Tower Road. Design of the tower is constructed reflects the people of ancient China’s superb intelligence.

If you are fond of old Chinese culture, you should try to visit this tower and get a taste of it.