Three pagodas of Chongsheng Temple in Dali, Yunnan
The famous stupa in the southwest is located in front of the original Chongsheng Temple in the northwest of Dali, Yunnan. Three towers are arranged in a triangle. The giant tower is Chihiro Tower, a hollow brick tower with dense eaves, 16 square floor and 6948+03 meters high. Each floor of the tower has a coupon niche, a built-in stone Buddha, and a copper bowl and wheels at the top. The two small towers in the north and south are 10-story octagonal solid brick towers, each 42. 19 meters high. The surface of the tower is coated with a layer of white mud and carved with various patterns. Each floor is decorated with coupon niches, Buddha statues, lotus flowers, Ruiyun and vases. There are three copper gourd at the top of each tower. During the reconstruction of 1978 and 1980, more than 600 cultural relics from Nanzhao and Dali periods were found in the tower.
Shaanxi xi Big Wild Goose Pagoda
The Wild Goose Pagoda was built in the third year of Tang Yonghui (652) to preserve the Buddhist scriptures that Xuanzang brought back from India. This pagoda was originally named the Ji 'en Temple Pagoda, and later named the Wild Goose Pagoda according to the Indian Buddhist legends and stories recorded in the Records of the Western Regions of Datang. The tower is 64 meters high, and the tower body, bucket arch and column are all blue brick imitation wood structures. There are stairs in the tower, which can spiral up. There are arches on all sides of each floor, overlooking through the railings. There are stone gates on all sides of the tower building, exquisite line-carved Buddha statues on the lintel, and narrative drawings on Ximenmei, engraved with the temple buildings at that time, which are important materials for studying the architecture, painting and sculpture art of the Tang Dynasty. On both sides of the south gate of the tower are embedded the Preface to Tang Sanzang by Li Shimin of Emperor Taizong and the Preface to Tang Sanzang by Li Zhi of Tang Gaozong, both of which were written by Chu Suiliang, a great calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty.
Muta, Yingxian County, Shanxi Province
Yingxian Wooden Pagoda in Shanxi Province is the oldest and tallest existing wooden pagoda at home and abroad. The tower was built in the second year of Liao and Qing Dynasties (A.D. 1056). The bottom of the tower is 30m in diameter and 67. 13m in height. It has five floors and six eaves, and its plane is octagonal. The whole wooden tower has 54 different forms of bucket arches, which is the most representative pavilion tower in ancient buildings in China. Because of its solid structure, it still stands today after more than 900 years and many earthquakes. The characteristics of the pavilion tower are: first, the tower is tall; Second, the floor spacing is large; Each floor of the pagoda has wooden doors, windows, stiles and arches. There are purlins, rafters, flying heads and other imitation wood structures on the tower eaves. There are stairs in the tower for people to climb upstairs and overlook.
Zhejiang Hangzhou Pagoda of Six Harmonies
China Song Dynasty Ancient Pagoda. Yue Lun is located on the Qiantang River in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. It was founded in 970, the third year of Kaibao in the early Northern Song Dynasty. The tower is 59.89 meters high, with an octagonal plane, thirteen floors outside and seven floors inside. There are steps in the tower to reach the top floor. Feixian, Ji Le, Sea Pomegranate, Lotus, Phoenix, Lion, Kirin, Fairy Deer, Palindrome, Moire and Ruyi. The carvings on the Sumi Mountain Tower are valuable materials for studying the decorative patterns in the Southern Song Dynasty. There are also the tablets of Shangshu Province in the Southern Song Dynasty and the residual stones of Forty-two Chapters Scripture written by forty-two writers.
Leifeng Tower in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province
The Leifeng Pagoda near the West Lake in Hangzhou is widely known because of the legend of the white snake. 1924 After the collapse of Leifeng Tower, Lu Xun's two essays made it famous all over the world. It turns out that in the second year of Taiping and the second year of Xingguo (977), Qian _, the last king of wuyue, called a group of top craftsmen in the name of "respecting the Buddha" and began to build the Leifeng Tower on the mountain, the most scenic spot of the West Lake in the world.
The new Leifeng Tower has five floors, with a height of 7 1 m and an area of 3 133 square meters. Its modeling design is based on the reconstructed image of the Southern Song Dynasty. It is an octagonal pavilion tower.
Jilin Changbai Lingguang Tower
Lingguang Tower is located on a platform at the southwest end of Zhaxi in the northwest suburb of Changbai Town, Changbai County, Jilin Province. It was built in the Bohai period of the Tang Dynasty (698-926). It is the oldest ancient pagoda in Northeast China and the most representative historical relic of Bohai State in Tang Dynasty. It is a square-plane pavilion-style brick tower. There are decorative bricks on all sides under the eaves of the ground floor, and square windows on all sides from the second floor to the fifth floor. It has the style of the Tang Dynasty. Lingguang Tower is about 13m high, with an equilateral quadrilateral base, five stories high and a blue brick structure. The spire is simple. The pagoda is condescending, and the Yalu River flows under its feet day and night, climbing the ancient pagoda and overlooking the scenery of one river and two countries. The tower is of great historical value to the study of Bohai culture and architecture.
Huqiu, Suzhou, Jiangsu
Tiger Hill, also known as Yunyan Temple Pagoda, was built in the 9th year of Renshou of Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty (60 1). The existing Tiger Hill was built from the eighth year of Ganyou to the second year of Song Jianlong (959-96 1). This tower is octagonal in plan and has seven floors. Tiger Mountain is now 47.5 meters high. This tower is made of bricks and weighs more than 6000 tons. According to records, due to the foundation, Tiger Hill began to tilt to the northwest from the Ming Dynasty (1368- 1644), and the center of the tower top deviated from the center of the bottom floor with a slope of 240'. It is called "the leaning tower of Pisa in the East".
Guling Tower in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province
Ancient Lingbao Tower is the tallest and most beautiful pagoda with eight sides and nine floors. It is made of reinforced concrete and Suzhou Jinshan granite. The Valley Tower, formerly known as the Memorial Tower for fallen soldiers, was built in 193 1, which is an important part of the memorial complex for fallen soldiers. Lingta is a novel and unique pagoda, 66 meters high, with nine floors and eight sides, and each floor is covered with green glazed tiles. There are granite corridors around each floor, and a spiral staircase is built in the middle of the tower, which can climb to the ninth floor along the No.252 ladder. The tower is beautiful in shape, elegant and solemn, with national style and characteristics, and has been highly praised by people from all walks of life.
Kaifeng Tower in Henan Province
Kaifeng Tower, formerly known as Kaibao Temple Tower, was built in the Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1049) and has a history of 900 years. It is famous for its outstanding architectural art at home and abroad, and completely adopts the traditional wooden structure of China. The tower is 55.88 meters high, covered with colored glazed bricks, decorated with dozens of vivid patterns such as flying sky, unicorn and geisha music, and has the reputation of "the first tower in the world". Kaifeng Tower is famous for its outstanding architectural art. Because its appearance is all inlaid with brown glazed tiles, it looks like iron from a distance and is as strong as iron, so it has been called "iron tower" by the people since the Yuan Dynasty.
Anhui Anqing vibration tower
Zhenfeng Tower in Anqing, located on the edge of the Yangtze River, is known as the first tower of the Yangtze River. It was built in the Ming Dynasty and has a history of more than 400 years. This tower is a pavilion-style masonry structure with seven floors and octagonal structure, with an altitude of 82.74 meters and an altitude of 60.86 meters. The width and height of each layer contract from bottom to top, and the overall outline is conical. The tower has 168 steps, spiraling up to the top floor. Each tower door is staggered, the platform is surrounded by white stone railings, and the eaves of each floor are hung with wind. The pagoda consists of an octagonal sumeru, a round bowl, a spherical five-wheel and a gourd-shaped vase. In the tower, Amitabha, Maitreya and Five Dhyani Buddhas were introduced to the west. There are more than 1000 brick Buddha statues, historical fairy tales and 54 stone carvings embedded in the tower. This tower stands on the river and enjoys the reputation of "the first tower of the Yangtze River" and "not to mention the tower after Anqing".
Song Yue Temple Tower in Dengfeng, Henan Province
Song Yue Temple Tower is a national key cultural relic protection unit, located at the foot of Ji Junfeng, Song Yue Temple, 5 kilometers northwest of Dengfeng City, Zhengzhou City. It was built in the fourth year of Zheng Guang in the Northern Wei Dynasty (AD 523), and the top of the tower was rebuilt in the Tang Dynasty. After 1400 years of wind and rain erosion, this tower still stands tall. It is the earliest brick tower in China and an isolated case of ancient brick tower in China.
Baoen Temple Tower in Suzhou, Jiangsu
The Baoen Temple Tower in Suzhou was rebuilt in Shaoxing during the Southern Song Dynasty (11-11162), with a nine-story octagonal building and brick eaves. It is an important scene of Nanjiang (now Suzhou), which has been engraved in the monument of Pingjiang Map. Now known as the North Temple Tower, it is still an important landscape of Suzhou's main streets. There are double sets in Enstad, a square tower room on each floor of the octagonal tower, and a wooden ladder in the cloister between the double sets; Each floor has a flat railing, and the bottom floor has two steps (corridor around the tower). These are similar to the Sakyamuni Pagoda in Shanxi. However, the eaves of the second step and the tower on the first floor are inclined downward without double eaves. Unlike Sakyamuni. Each side of the brick tower is divided into three rooms with a door in the middle. Some wood structures were rebuilt in Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty, with high cornices and many cornices added to the flat seats, which have partially changed the original state. There is a wall between the secondary columns, with a plane diameter of 30m, close to the Sakyamuni Tower; The tower is 76 meters high, nearly 9 meters higher than the Sakyamuni Tower. Although the whole tower is huge, the number of floors is four more than that of Sakyamuni Tower, and the proportion is higher and thinner than that of Sakyamuni Tower. In addition, the eaves are held high, which also contains the elegant charm of the grand atmosphere and still reflects the architectural art style of Jiangnan.
Tallinn of Shaolin Temple in Dengfeng, Henan Province
The tombs of all the monks in Tallinn, Shaolin Temple and Shaolin Temple. It is very famous in Buddhism. After the death of an outstanding monk, he put his ashes or bones into the underground palace and built a tower on it to show his merits. The height, size and number of stories of the pagoda are mainly determined by the Buddhist attainments, prestige and merits of the monks before their death. Shaolin Temple has 232 pagodas, covering an area of 14000 square meters. After Tang, Song, Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, it is the largest ancient pagoda complex in China. The tower has different floors, generally one to seven floors, with a height of less than l5 meters, and its shapes are square, hexagonal and octagonal. There are cylinders and vertebral bodies; There are linear and parabolic shapes; It has a bottle body and a trumpet shape. There are many kinds and beautiful shapes. These towers are representative works in different historical periods, and they are a treasure house for comprehensive study of ancient architecture, calligraphy and sculpture in China.