The third tower of Zhengding Ancient Pagoda in China
Guanghui Temple Huata, also known as Huata and Duota, is located in Minsheng Street, Zhengding County. It was founded in the Zhenyuan period of the Tang Dynasty (785-805 AD) and has a history of more than 1 100 years. The tower is 40.5 meters high and has a unique shape and structure. The Huata Tower is a brick-gray structure, and the plane of the tower body 1 floor is octagonal, with a flat hexagonal pavilion-shaped single-story suite on all sides, commonly known as the small tower and multi-tower, hence the name. There are arched entrances on the front of the tower and outside the suite. The structure of the bucket arch is very strange. The tower on the second floor is a regular octagon, with 3 rooms on each side, a flat seat under it and a bucket arch eaves tile on it. There are doors of the guard room on both sides, and there are fake lattice windows and rectangular pointed brick niches between the tips. The flat seat on the third floor is very big, but the tower suddenly becomes smaller. There are square doors and fake windows on all sides The octagon, which is more than three stories high, is supported by Lux, and the tower is tapered. The whole body is embossed with colorful sculptures such as tigers, leopards, lions, dragons and Buddha statues. Then there is the octagonal cornice with a tower gate on it, which is now damaged. Hua Tower is unique in shape and varied in layer-by-layer structure, which embodies the architectural technology of Tang Dynasty in China.