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							<td><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">If you want to see the original bell, it is now in the Forest of Steles Museum and I have pictures of it <a href="205_Xian_Forest_of_Steles.html">HERE</a>.  The new bell shown above was cast during the Ming Dynasty  and is over 400 years old.  </font>
								<p><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">They moved the Bell Tower in 1582 so that it would remain in the center of the city after the city expanded.  When they did so, the old bell lost its &quot;ring&quot; - it went mute.  They tried all sorts of things to repair it, but finally cast a new bell and retired the old.  </font></p>
								<p><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The original bell was called the Jingyun Bell</font><font size="+1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> 景雲钟 </font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">and was cast in the 2nd year of the Jingyun era </font><font size="+1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">景雲</font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">, 711 AD of the Tang Dynasty.  It was moved to the Bell Tower when the Ming emperor built the new city walls, the Drum Tower, and the Bell Tower to establish Xi'an as a strategic defense point of the Wei River valley area.  </font></p>
								<p><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The new bell is smaller than the Tang bell. It weighs 2.75 tons (2,500 kilograms) and is engraved with the eight trigrams or gua </font><font size="+1">卦</font> <font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">(guà) of Daoism.</font></p>
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