A long time ago, Daming Town was a Wang Yang, where a ten-headed dragon lived. Rushing out of the water broke the sky, or was it made up by Nu Wa?
I don't know how many years passed. Pangu created the world and built many mountains safely. Dragons can't return to the sea. When he was hungry, he made waves and devoured livestock, wild animals and people.
In order to survive, people have to carry pigs and drive cattle and sheep there on the eighth day of April every year, no matter how far they live Dragons also eat a boy and a girl every year.
One year, on the eighth day of April, a young couple, with their children on their backs and their daughters in their arms, cried and walked with heavy steps in the crowd. It turned out that it was their turn to give the virgin as a sacrifice to the dragon.
At this moment, the three daughters of the Queen Mother drove Xiangyun to browse the celestial phenomena and passed by here when they returned to the palace. They held Xiangyun to see the scenery, and several people killed the dragon after some struggle.
The dragon has nine heads, its brains burst, and it fell to the ground dripping with blood, becoming Jiutou Mountain, so now all the stones in Jiutou Mountain are red. The bright red blood of the dragon flooded Daming City, and the bright red blood became black, red, black and red blood became dark blood, and the dark blood became fertile soil.
People sow, harvest crops, release cattle and horses and live a happy life. People say, "We are lucky today, because the three daughters of the Queen Mother built a big tower, a small tower and a half tower." On the eighth day of April every year, people burn incense and kowtow to the beauty stone.
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Daming Pagoda architectural style:
The tower is an octagonal thirteen-story solid brick tower with dense eaves, with a total height of 80.22 meters, a base diameter of 36 meters, a perimeter of 1 12 meters, and the first floor of the big eaves is close to the ground 1 1 meter.
Each side of the sculpture has a subtle and realistic relief of the bodhisattva sitting statue.
Each bodhisattva has two attendants on the left and right, and a pair of flying wings on the top. There is one on the left edge, which looks like a two-stage tower, with the name of Bodhisattva on the top and the name of Bodhisattva on the bottom.
For example, on the left edge tower in the north, there are carved "Qunv Town Side Talk Tower" and "Vajrayana Hand Bodhisattva", all in Chinese.
Whether it is Buddha relief or other cultural ornaments, it is a rare artistic treasure.
The large eaves are wood-like structures, with dense eaves above the second floor.
The tower top base is 7. 16m high, and the copper top is 2.88m high.
The whole tower is magnificent, beautifully shaped and exquisite in craftsmanship.
Due to hundreds of years of wind and rain, especially after the Yuan Dynasty earthquake of magnitude 7 and the Tangshan earthquake of 1967, the top of the tower tilted and most of the goggles and bronze mirrors fell off.
The tower may have been built many times in history, but there is no historical record. It's just that there are two lines of Mongolian characters on both sides of the bodhisattva statue on the front of the tower, which translates into "Jiaqing Year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty".
In order to protect this precious cultural relic building, the state invested more than 500,000 yuan 198 1 to completely repair the building. The construction lasted for three years and was completed in August 1984.
After the reconstruction, it not only restored its original appearance, but also replaced the original copper roof, adding more than 0/000 wind instruments and 40 bronze medals. After this renovation, the ancient pagoda's thousand-year-old features have taken on a new look, and its original majestic posture has been restored.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Daming Pagoda