During the Ming and Qing dynasties, ancient Chinese bells were divided ... to accompany the singing of songs. A bell is struck at a Buddhist or Taoist temple to draw the devotion of worshippers ...

Historic England said the bell was installed in the tower in the 1950s to replace one looted by British troops from a temple in Canton during the Anglo-Chinese War (Opium War) of 1857-61.

The Tam Kung Temple, on the top floor of a narrow building on Government Street, is the oldest Chinese temple in Canada ...

KYOTO--Monks at Chion-in temple in Higashiyama Ward here did a test run of its famed hanging bell on Dec. 27 to prepare for the traditional bell-ringing ceremony on New Year’s Eve. In the test ...