Simatai Great Wall Building - General Tower

"East twelfth floor is the Five-Eyed Tower, also known as the General Tower. It is the most beautiful beacon tower in Simatai Great Wall. It has a wide field of vision and a dangerous terrain. It is said that it is the place where generals command and deploy, and it is also an important contact point for information transmission in Simatai Castle.

The workmanship of the General Tower is very particular: the lower part of the stone joints, and the upper part grinds bricks to the top; The interior is made of bricks into two large arches, three passages and ten coupon doors; The top of the central room is an barrier, and the soldiers are fortified at different levels, which is very dignified. Visitors sing inside and will send out pleasant echoes; Close to the arrow window, the small horizontal arch is added, as if today's curtain groove, which is elegantly made; On the stone pillars of the tower door carved two lotus flowers; Even the brick eaves around the upper end are double-layer angular eaves of five-layer bricks; The scale of the pavilion at the top should be relatively large, and the workmanship is also the finest one from the relics. This beacon tower gives people a sense of exquisiteness, delicacy and beauty, as if it is not a defense facility for human war, but a castle in fairyland. "