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9,999 yuan for the 1st New Year strikes of bell & drum

www.chinanews.cn 2005-01-31 17:54:40

On January 28, 2005, an auction for the naming right of the "2005 Lingyan
Praying Fest" and the first strikes of the bell and the drum in the New
Year were held in the millennium-old Lingyan Monastery in Changqing
District of Jinan. The Pearl New World Square Group finally won the bid
for 9,999 yuan, beating 6 other bidders and earned the naming right, the
"first bell" and the "first drum" in the New Year. The bell and drum
referred in the auction were built on the sixth Zhengtong Year of the
Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). The organization revealed that all the auction
income would be used for protection of historical relics.

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