Adding one or more rulers below xaxis?

Hello,
  In one of my figure I'd like to add one or more rules below the
xAxis specifying time alignment label info:
xAxis------------------------------------------------------------------
         1 2 3 ...
       99 100
ruler1--|------------|--------------------|----------------------|------
            label1 label2 label3 label n
ruler2--------|--------------------|----------------------|-------------
            label1 label2 label3

How can I do that?
Many thanks,
Zhang Le