北京鼓楼和钟楼
Twin Ming-era towers where a giant bronze bell and the last of twenty-five original drums once told the whole city the time.
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This guide to Beijing's Drum and Bell Towers opens with a local legend: on stormy nights, people say they hear the bronze bell above them crying for a lost shoe. It traces the story back to a Ming-era founder named Deng, whose casting of a massive bronze bell kept failing as an impossible deadline closed in, and to what his daughter did after she overheard talk of what might save it. A worker pulled only a single embroidered item from the flames afterward.
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