Rongjiang county in Guizhou province is currently constructing the world's highest ethnic Dong drum tower in Liujiang square, Rongjiang county, in Guizhou province.
The drum tower is a 27 storey concrete and wooden structure, 55.8 meters high and covering an area of 600 square meters.
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| Rongjiang county in Guizhou province is currently constructing the world's highest ethnic Dong drum tower in Liujiang square, Rongjiang county, in Guizhou province.(Photo/China Daily Guizhou Office) |
The Drum tower is a featured architecture among ethnic Dongs. It is well known that a village with a drum tower must be an ethnic Dong village. It represents a major place for ethnic Dong people to gather.
Culturally and spiritually, the drum tower also represents luck and prosperity collecting the ethnic Dong people's culture and wisdom.
