Mapang Area (Mapang Drum Tower and Buyang Tea Plantation)
Date:2012-04-12 09:34
Mapang Drum Tower is located at the west of the river if Mapang Village in Bajiang Town, 28 km away from the Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County. Founded in 17th year of the Republic (1928), wood for the construction of buildings are preservative from folk with medicine blisters as brown, infected with both moth and its natural color. Mapang Drum Tower is very forceful with 13 meters tall, 13 meters wide floor eaves and 9 layers of cornices, which are followed by contraction of overlapping upwards to form a pyramid. White fascia boards are with colored patterns, shoot of eaves are just like the birds kiss. The roof of the central plastic is shaped with double bird flowers. The four large poles in the building are too coarse to be encircled with two people. The hall in Drum Tower is of 132 square meters. The hall's board walls are painted with he beautiful scenery of Dong drawing. Inside the building are the railings, benches and sleep units; in the central is a hearth. It is the same with Fengyu Bridge, used used in all joints structure, not a nail, just open up some holes in the size of the column with tenon interface. With ong and short wood, diagonal crossing line, strict and closely, the structure is very solid. It is handsome in appearance with magnificent momentum and typical of the Dong ethnic style; it is an excellent representative of Dong drum tower and is the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region key cultural relics protection units. Another two towers stands in Zhaizhong by a near small stream, comparable to each other, and are combined into a Mapang Drum group.
Buyang Village is a tea village of Sanjiang County, where neat rows of tea trees and plains are. A pleasant climate, tea fragrance, especially in the fairy hill, the rows of tea is like a seat ladder that helicopter the sky. Walk through the tea gardens, the green everywhere makes you feel good, staying in Wonderland and linger.