WILD VIDEO: Ceiling of 650-Year-Old Chinese Fengyang Drum Tower Collapses, Sending Tourists Scrambling

Gateway Pundit ^ | May 22, 2025 | Staff

[Red Badger]

For centuries, the Fengyang Drum Tower stood tall over the Chinese Anhui province, working like a sort of clock marking the time of day, and announcing the beginning of official ceremonies.

But the passage of time and a recent renovation have led to a disaster last Monday that very nearly ended in a catastrophe costing human lives.

CNN reported:

“Visitors to a centuries-old tourist site in eastern China were sent scrambling after hundreds of roof tiles came loose and cascaded more than two stories to the ground.”

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The Fengyang drum Tower is one of the largest such structures in the whole China.

A major tourist attraction located 200 miles away from Chinese capital of Beijing, Fengyang is famous for being the hometown of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, founder of the Ming dynasty.

“But on Monday the quiet around the site was shattered as hundreds of roof tiles began slipping from the roof and crashing to the ground, raising a huge cloud of gray-brown dust.

‘The tile falling lasted for a minute or two’, one eyewitness told Yangcheng Evening News, a state-controlled newspaper.”

The collapse happened after the tower was renovated in 2024.

“’There was no one in the square and no one was injured’, [a local man] told state media outlet The Beijing News. ‘If it happened a little later, there would be many children playing (near the tower) after dinner’.”

Local authorities say there have been no casualties reported.

[Red Badger]

PinGGG!....................

[Dr. Sivana]

It sounds like the Chinese workmanship as better in the 1300s.

[Red Badger]

No unions back then...................

[FreeReign]

May the collapse of the ceiling of the tower foreshadow what will happen to the CCP.

[Carry_Okie]

Shedding tiles is not a “collapse.”

Good that nobody was hurt. It’ll take a while to fix. They might have to strip the whole roof.

[Red Badger]

Duct tape in the meantime.................

[Carry_Okie]

Polyethylene.

[sphinx]

We could send China about 20 million Mexican day laborers to show them how to install roof tile. I’m sure Xi would welcome the assistance.

[Red Badger]

Porryethyrene.....................

[verum ago]

It sounds like the Chinese workmanship as better in the 1300s.

Other articles are reporting this same roof was renovated in 1995 too.

So the original, non-commie built roof lasted 620 years. The first commie renovation lasted 29 years, and the second commie renovation lasted only a year.

At this rate I'd expect the next round of repairs to hold up for about 2 weeks...

[11th_VA]

It happened gradually, the suddenly …

[shotgun]

They couldn’t figure out how to reverse engineer a 630-year-old structure to last another 630 years

[SunkenCiv]

[PIF]

Collapse video:

https://x.com/ShanghaiEye/status/1924643778947695027

One of the few things from classical Chinese civilization to survive Mao’s Great Leap Backward. Destroyed now due to neglect by the CCP.

[Carry_Okie]

To paraphrase Alan Sherman: Rotsa ruck with that.

[Tom Tetroxide]

“But the passage of time and a recent renovation...”

That’s known as a tofu dreg renovation!

[Red Badger]

Termites...................

[dznutz]

Well, at least that will save them a little time with the tear off….

[TexasGator]

ceil·ing
/ˈsēliNG/
noun
1.
the upper interior surface of a room or other similar compartment.