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Ｇｕａｒｄ　Ｔｏｗｅｒ　ｏｆ　Ｔａｉｓｈａｎ 　　Taishan guard tower originated from bandit. The more bandits the more guard towers built in Taishan. 　　Taishan suffered a lot from bandits at the beginning of the Republic of China. During the 10 years from the 6th to the 15th year of the Republic of China, Guanghai district had been attacked for 73 times. 3214 families and stores were robbed and 734 villagers were injured or even hit to death. And during the 13 years from the 9th to the 15th of the Republic of China, 1114 houses and 56 guard towers had been burn up by the bandits. In Haiyan district next to Guanghai, there were already 536 houses and 56 guard towers burn up by the bandits only in the fifth month of the lunar 13th year. It was thus obvious that bandits sweeped over the whole county. From the 6th year of the Republic of China, Xinning Megazine set up a special column to report the banditry information for our fellow villages at home and abroad. News of such kind could be found everywhere in the magazine of that time, which made you shocked. 　　According to the incomplete statistic of Taishan County Annals compiled in the 60s, there were totally 5000 guard towers built to prevent the bandits. Some of them could be dated from 100 years ago and most were built at the beginning of the Republic of China and in the 20s till 30s. The guard towers were mainly built by the donation of the overseas Chinese and the rest were built by the common earnings and fundraising of the village. The buildings were usually four to five floors high. The top ones could be nine to ten floors high. Most of them were armored concrete structure. The walls were more than one chi thick. Some were built with yellow concrete and lime. Some built with green brick. Some built with concrete and stone. There were shot holes in every wall. The shot holes were in funnel shape, which was convenient for peeping outwards and the bullets were not easy to shot inside. There was usually an observation tower on the