Simatai Great Wall Building - white tower

East Eighth Tower, also known as White Tower by locals. From a distance, you can see the collapsed corners of the beacon tower on the north side. The white ash of the wall is exposed and glistening, which looks like the crystal tears in the eyes of the injured, so the locals call it White Tower. As recollected by the old generation, during the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese aggressors exchanged fire with the anti-Japanese troops here, and the Japanese aggressors' artillery hit this tower. This ruined beacon tower stood as indelible evidence of the Japanese invaders. The building structure of White Tower is unique in Simatai, with brick arch corridor outside and wooden roof in the central room. On the upper floor, there are pillar foundation stones left at the four corners of the central room, and there are steles in the tower, but no steles are found. Some people speculate that it is a transitional product of the middle-level structure of beacon tower from "wooden beam-column structure" to "brick arch structure".