Introduction of Xi Wild Goose Pagoda Introduction of Xi Wild Goose Pagoda

1. The Big Wild Goose Pagoda is located in Daji Temple in Jinchangfang, Chang 'an (now southwest of Shaanxi Province) in the Tang Dynasty, also known as "Ci 'en Temple Pagoda". In the third year of Tang Yonghui (652), Xuanzang presided over the construction of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda to preserve the scroll Buddha statues brought back to Chang 'an by Tianzhu via the Silk Road. There were five floors at first, then nine floors were built, and then the floors and heights were changed several times. Finally, it was fixed as a seven-story pagoda with a total height of 64.517m and a bottom length of 25.5m..

2. The Wild Goose Pagoda, as the earliest and largest existing quadrangle-style brick pagoda in the Tang Dynasty, is a typical material evidence that ancient Indian Buddhist temples were introduced into the Central Plains with Buddhism and merged into China culture, and it is a landmark building that embodies the wisdom of ancient Chinese working people.

3.1961March 4th, the State Council announced the Wild Goose Pagoda as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units. 20 14 On June 22nd, at the 38th meeting of UNESCO World Heritage Committee held in Doha, Qatar, the Wild Goose Pagoda was successfully listed in the World Heritage List as a site in the Silk Road: Chang 'an-Tianshan Corridor Road Network jointly applied by China, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.