About 100 meters southbound from the bus station in Weishi County, an ancient pagoda suddenly came into view: the tower is 8 stories high, nearly 30 meters high, with a blue-gray tower body, a hexagonal pavilion with double eaves, simple and elegant, tall and straight-this is the famous xingguo temple Tower (also known as Dongguan Tower) in Weishi County. Xingguo temple Tower has a long history. According to old books, "There is a temple in Dongli, Weishi County called Xingguo. Zhao was stunned by the strategy of rejuvenating the country and was defeated repeatedly, leaving only a floating map and an abandoned address. " A floating picture is a tower. Therefore, the xingguo temple Tower was built in the Taiping and Xingguo period of the Northern Song Dynasty (976-984 AD), with a history of 1000 years. 1963, the ancient pagoda was announced as the first batch of key cultural relics protection units in Henan province. The height of each floor of xingguo temple Tower decreases from bottom to top, and the width of the flat seat is also about 100 meters from the south of Weishi County Bus Station. An ancient pagoda suddenly came into view: its height was nearly 30 meters, its body was blue-gray, hexagonal, with double eaves, simple and elegant, tall and straight-this is the famous xingguo temple Tower (also known as Dongguan Tower) in Weishi County. Xingguo temple Tower has a long history. According to old books, "There is a temple in Dongli, Weishi County called Xingguo. Zhao was stunned by the strategy of rejuvenating the country and was defeated repeatedly, leaving only a floating map and an abandoned address. " A floating picture is a tower. Therefore, the xingguo temple Tower was built in the Taiping and Xingguo period of the Northern Song Dynasty (976-984 AD), with a history of 1000 years. 1963, the ancient pagoda was announced as the first batch of key cultural relics protection units in Henan province. The height of each floor of xingguo temple Tower decreases from bottom to top, and the width of the flat seat gradually converges. The Aquarius-style copper gate is buckled at the top, and the whole tower looks solemn, honest and resolute. The ancient pagoda is a brick tower, and the inside and outside of the tower body are laid with blue bricks, all of which are laid by horizontal masonry method, and the tower body is solid and stable. Each floor of the tower consists of flat seats, tower body and overhangs, and the arches and flat seats under the eaves are made of imitation wood bricks. Arches are made of a large proportion of materials and are made regularly. There are four shops and five shops, which are the perfect embodiment of architectural art in Song Dynasty. Another notable feature of xingguo temple Tower is that the inner and outer walls of the tower are inlaid with brick shrines. The brick of the niche is square and stone-like, and the niche is concave and round. There are mainly two kinds of reliefs in niches, one is a Buddha sitting cross-legged, the other is a bodhisattva sitting cross-legged, and the others are standing cross-legged and sitting cross-legged. All niches are carved with round knives, with smooth lines, exquisite carvings and vivid images. There are 4 10 Buddhist niches, including 288 external walls and 22 internal walls. Due to the serious damage during the Cultural Revolution, the underground layer subsided, and it was impossible to find out the respective numbers of Buddha statues and Bodhisattva statues. Except that the bottom floor is eroded by saline-alkali moisture, the shrines on each floor are distributed in an orderly way, making the whole tower beautifully decorated. According to experts, these niches are of great value to the study of Buddhist culture and sculpture art. From the bottom tower door, you can see the brick tower core column and spiral tunnel. The tunnel is very narrow and only one person can get up and down. Brick steps are also extremely steep. Go around the tower core column and reach the top floor. The tower core column is connected with the wall as a whole, and the brick core column is pulled by wooden columns and balance beams. The buildings in the tower are exquisite, ethereal and solid. There are five doorways on the top floor, and there is enough light in the tower. The brick column in the south is embedded with the pagoda rebuilt in Jiajing twenty-five years and the inscription on the three floors of the tower. Unfortunately, the inscription is vague. Standing at the top of the tower, Weishi County has a panoramic view. The ancient pagoda has experienced thousands of years of wind and rain erosion and floods, especially in 1938, when the Japanese invaded the Wei family, and the ancient pagoda was severely damaged by shelling and yellow water flooding. However, the ancient pagoda still stands proudly today, which fully shows the intelligence and superb architectural art of ancient architects in China.