The management of the Nanjing Drum Tower opened a special tea club for VIP

Drum Tower is a landmark building in Nanjing. In this Ming Dynasty Relics Park, which has a history of more than 600 years, it has recently been exposed to operating blind brothers and teahouses, and special “VIP rooms” have been established to prevent visitors from entering the country. According to Fang Qingsong, a member of the Nanjing Citizens and China Heritage Conservation Association, Drum Tower Park, as a provincial-level cultural and security unit, has violated regulations for operating tea houses and set up privileged areas such as “VIP rooms”. He hopes that the Drum Tower Park can be changed and returned to the public as soon as possible.

The public broke the tea house on the third floor of the "VIP exclusive"

According to Fang Qingsong, he is very concerned about the conservation of ancient cultural sites in Nanjing. As a landmark building in Nanjing, the Drum Tower has now become a commercial teahouse. In order to increase income, the park has recently removed a number of cultural relics showcases and filled the tea tables around the Kangxi Imperial Monument. The third floor of the Drum Tower has become a “VIP room,” and most people cannot even go up. Very wrong.

“Drum Tower Park represents Nanjing’s long-standing cultural heritage. The devaluation of such a valuable cultural theme park as a kinship tea house has been painful. Now that there is a 'VIP room', it’s hard to accept.” Fang Qingsong called for Drum Tower Park The restaurant management should be strengthened. With full protection, the third floor will be opened to the public and the privilege image will be eliminated.

In addition, Fang Qingsong also stated that Drum Towers now welcome weekly events such as dating sessions, and the huge flow of people needs to increase the provision of services such as tea and coffee, and they must use water and electricity to bring a wooden structure to the hall. Fire hazards. Consumers who drink tea may also produce rubbish. If they are careless, they may also cause damage to the Kangxi Monument, which has no protection measures. All these make the 630-year-old Drum Tower feel overwhelmed.

Reporter visits "VIP room" with Ming and Qing furniture

According to Fang Qingsong's response, a reporter from the Jiangnan Times came to Nanjing Drum Tower Park. Upon entering the gate, we saw a monument of “protected cultural relics protection unit of Jiangsu Province”. The red-stained wall building originated from the Ming Dynasty building platform. The entrance can be seen with the eyes of the “Drum Tower Tea House”. The second floor and the third floor of the Drum Tower are all restaurants. There are also many related promotional advertisements in the park. The second floor is called the "Kangxi Hall" and the third floor is the "VIP Lounge". Along the mottled Ming Dynasty stone steps, the reporter came to the tea house on the second floor. Because it was afternoon, the tea house had no guests, and only two staff members were arranging the tea sets. The Kangxi Imperial Monument in the center of the hall is very visible. There are actually a dozen tea tables around. On the table, there is a sign saying "Please take tea". There are bronze artifacts on both sides of the Imperial Monument, covered with a glass cover.

The reporter found that the entrance to the third floor was locked and marked as "the visitor stopped." According to the person in charge of the operation department of the Drum Tower Park Management Office, the third floor is generally used to receive leaders and VIPs and is not open to ordinary citizens. The reporter was escorted by the staff to the third floor and found that there was "nothing more." In the hundreds of square meters of space, filled with a variety of Ming and Qing mahogany furniture. The furniture is beautifully carved and very luxurious. As it was the supporting furniture left by the Qing Dynasty when rebuilding the Drum Tower, these furniture undoubtedly showed the history of the Drum Tower to the outside world.

The park explained that it is necessary to establish a "VIP room"

“The tearooms in the Tearoom have always been used, and they still play a protective role,” said Zhang Yanning, deputy director of the Nanjing Drum Tower Park Management Office. The third floor of the tea house used to be an important commanding height in Nanjing. The related departments used to set up fireworks display monitoring here. Ministry of observation points. In addition, VIP rooms also display a large number of Ming and Qing mahogany furniture, not open to the public from the perspective of the protection of these historical artifacts. However, related parties also admitted that the VIP room is also sometimes open, mainly for some of the identity of the people to meet or organize a salon. If there is a unit package, they will also use it.

For the outside world to question the excessive development of parks and endanger the safety of cultural relics, Zhang Yanning said that Drum Tower Park has historical origins in operating activities. From the time of the Republic of China, a teahouse was built here. Now, various business activities have no influence on Gulou Ancient Building itself. The Gulou Park Management Office is now a public institution affiliated to the Drum Tower and the Bureau of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. It is a unit that allocates funds for differences. The park has an annual operating target of 2 million. This is why there are still many shortfalls in funding each year. From the heart, the park also does not want to engage in these business activities, but in the current environment, it is really a last resort.

The cultural relics department is wrong but cannot punish

The reporter learned that on the problems existing in Drum Tower Park, the Cultural Relics Department and the Cultural Heritage Administrative Law Enforcement Detachment of the Nanjing Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau went exclusively to Drum Tower Park to conduct on-site inspections. The relevant law enforcement officials believe that the management of the restaurant and the provision of VIP rooms to provide private venue services are inappropriate. However, due to the fact that the relevant laws are not sound, they cannot find any basis for punishment.

In recent years, the cultural relics protection units have been transformed into operating venues that have repeatedly caused controversy and are common in the country. In September 2011, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage promulgated the "Administrative Regulations on the Operation of State-owned Cultural Relics Protection Units (Trial)". Clearly put forward five kinds of prohibitions on business activities: First, deviate from the attributes of public culture, set access thresholds for the public in various names; Second, the cultural relics protection unit as a business asset management; Third, lease, contract, transfer, Mortgage cultural relics protection units shall conduct commercial development for profit purposes; 4) obstruct public safety and cause hidden safety hazards to cultural relics protection units; 5. Other violations of laws and regulations. Drum Tower becomes a teahouse, and the third floor becomes a “VIP area.” Whether or not it belongs to the above prohibitions still requires the relevant departments to make judgments.

Drum Tower Park Introduction

Drum Tower is located in the center of Nanjing City. It was built in Ming Hongwu for fifteen years. It is grand and magnificent. It was the venue for drumming and reporting. It used to serve the people of the city day and night, and sometimes used as a welcome king and then as a book to celebrate Daqing. It was called the Ming Dynasty. The symbol of the capital. In the Qing Dynasty, the Drum Tower left only the city walls. The Emperor Kangxi of the Qing dynasty toured the building on the base of the original dynasty of the Drum Tower. There are three floors. The Imperial Monument Tree is on the second floor of the Drum Tower and records the instructions of Kangxi on local officials. So far, Gulou has been called the "Dongguqing Monument."

After the liberation of Nanjing, Drum Tower Park was managed by the garden squadron of the Industrial and Construction Corps, and it was renovated and greened. It once served as a watchpoint for the fire department. On August 30, 1957, the People's Government of Jiangsu Province listed the Drum Tower as a provincial cultural relics protection unit. In 1958, the park had an area of ​​2 hectares. It had a green area of ​​0.8 hectares and a nursery of 0.5 hectares.

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