When the Big Wild Goose Pagoda was first built, it was five stories, with brick surface and earth core. Master Xuanzang personally participated in the construction of pagodas and moved bricks and stones, which took two years to build. However, Master Xuanzang personally organized the construction of this tower, which was eroded by wind and rain due to the soil on the surface. After more than 50 years, it was gradually destroyed. During the Chang 'an period of Wu Zetian in the Tang Dynasty (70 1 ~ 704), Empress Wu Zetian and nobles invested in rebuilding the infrastructure and renovated it into a seven-story pagoda, which was more majestic than before. People often say that "saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda", which probably comes from this.
The plane of the tower is square and consists of two parts: the tower foundation and the tower body. The side of the tower foundation is 48 meters long and 4.2 meters high, and the tower body is on it, with a side length of 25 meters and a height of 59.9 meters. The height of the tower foundation and tower body is 64. 1 m. Each floor is made of imitation wood structure, and the walls of each floor of the tower are made of brick flat columns and wall frame. Put a big bucket on the top of the column, and open a brick voucher door in the middle of each floor. The plane inside the tower is also square, and each floor has floors. An escalator is installed to spiral up to the top of the tower. In the Ming Dynasty, a thick layer of brick was laid outside the tower, and the brick was ground with cracks and was very strong. There are exquisite line-carved Buddha statues on the bottom lintel, and the west lintel is the Buddha statue of Amitabha, engraved with a magnificent hall. There are two stone tablets embedded in the brick niche of the south gate at the bottom of the tower: Preface to Tang Sanzang and Preface to Tang Sanzang, both written by Chu Suiliang, a famous calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty, with delicate fonts, which are two famous stone tablets in the Tang Dynasty. On the lintel of Xishimen, there are lines depicting architectural patterns and Buddha statues in the Tang Dynasty. The layout of the picture is rigorous and the lines are smooth. According to legend, it was written by Yan, a famous painter in the Tang Dynasty, and Wei Chiyi, a monk. It is an important material for studying ancient architecture in China.
Since the Tang Dynasty, every 14th, 15th and 16th day of the first month, traditional temple fairs, commonly known as "Yanta Temple Fair", have been held in Jeju, which is extremely prosperous. At the same time, it is also a place where scholars gather, and everyone has to climb the tower and write their own names, so the inscription on the Wild Goose Pagoda has become something that scholars envy and yearn for. In front of the tower, there are stone carvings of Shaanxi juren titles for more than a thousand years from Tang Dynasty to Qing Dynasty. In addition, literati often climb the tower to recite poems.
The full name of Little Wild Goose Pagoda is "Little Wild Goose Pagoda in Jianfu Temple", which is located in Jianfu Temple in the south of Xi 'an 1 km, facing the Big Wild Goose Pagoda from east to west. Because the scale is smaller than the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, it was built later, so it is called Little Wild Goose Pagoda. The Little Wild Goose Pagoda was built in 707 AD, with a grade of *** 15 and a height of about 45 meters. According to legend, in order to preserve the Buddhist scriptures brought back from India, Master Yijing asked the imperial court to invest in the construction of Jianfu Temple Tower. Emperor Li Xian was very weak, and the queen had to make up her mind about everything. When the queen learned of this incident, she immediately ordered the concubines, Gong E and Cai Nv in the harem to donate money to repair the tower. Imperial secretary rushed to Little Wild Goose Pagoda and gave generously. The money donated to build this tower has not been used up.
Little Wild Goose Pagoda is a brick pagoda with dense eaves and a slightly spindle shape. Original height 15 floor. Because the top of the tower is incomplete, it is now 43.94 meters high. Its plane is square, the bottom length is11.56m, each floor has brick eaves, and one door is opened in the north and south. 1980, a full-scale stone carving of the pagoda in the 14th year of Ming Dynasty was unearthed in the temple. According to stone carvings, the top of the tower was originally composed of a circular brake seat, two layers of phase wheels and a pearl-shaped brake top. The plane of the tower is square, with the bottom length of11.38m. It is located on a square brick platform, with the bottom length of 23.8m and the height of 3.2m.. The bottom of the tower is high, and the height of more than two floors decreases step by step. Each layer overlaps the eaves, and two layers of water chestnut teeth are built under the eaves. There are ticket doors in the north and south of the tower bottom, and ticket windows in the north and south of each floor above. The north and south ticket gates on the ground floor are made of bluestone, and the lintel and door frame are covered with creeping weeds in the Tang Dynasty. Fine carving and smooth lines. The tower is hollow, and the wooden floor and ladder spiral up. From bottom to top, each layer shrinks in turn, and the higher it is, the thinner it is. The overall outline is a natural circle and a rolling braking curve, which is tall and beautiful. When it was first built, the whole tower was painted with chalk, silvery white, shining in the moonlight, and the treasure was solemn.
After 1300 years of wind and rain erosion and more than 70 earthquakes of magnitude 4 or above, the Little Wild Goose Pagoda still stands! 1487, an earthquake of magnitude 6 occurred in Shaanxi, and a crack more than one foot wide opened from top to bottom in the middle of Little Wild Goose Pagoda. However, after a lapse of 34 years, in another major earthquake in 152 1, the cracks closed again overnight. People call the closure of Little Wild Goose Pagoda "divine union".
In September 1555, a small Beijing official named Wang He stayed at Little Wild Goose Pagoda on his way home. Monk Kang Guang, who witnessed this "heavenly alliance", was amazed after listening to this wonderful story he told, and engraved this historical material on the north lintel of Little Wild Goose Pagoda. After that, it was 1556, 1563, 169 1, 172 1 year, and this phenomenon of separation and integration appeared again. 1965 When restoring the Little Wild Goose Pagoda, experts found that according to the geological conditions in Xi 'an, ancient craftsmen specially used rammed earth to build the tower foundation into a semi-circular sphere, just like a "cauldron". The Little Wild Goose Pagoda was located in the center of the "cauldron" and was evenly dispersed by the pressure after the earthquake, making it like a "tumbler", which still stood tall after more than 70 earthquakes.
The Big Wild Goose Pagoda and the Small Wild Goose Pagoda have become the landmark buildings of Xi. Looking at the Wild Goose Pagoda and listening to the morning bell, people are immersed in the long river of history and cause infinite reverie. ...