Introduction to Wild Goose Pagoda The Wild Goose Pagoda was built in the third year of Tang Yonghui, that is, in 652 AD, and was designed and built by Master Xuanzang himself. According to the seventh volume of Ci En Chuan, the master first wanted to build a 30-foot-high stone tower on the north side of Zhenguan Duanmen in the Tang Dynasty. However, Tang Gaozong thought that such a project might take a long time, and suggested building a brick tower in the west courtyard of Ji 'an Temple in Tang Dynasty. Therefore, the location of the Wild Goose Pagoda is now in the West Courtyard of Jionji in the Tang Dynasty, which is called Ci 'en Temple Pagoda.
The original Big Wild Goose Pagoda, with five floors and four corners, is only 65,438+080 feet high, and each base surface is 65,438+040 feet. Its shape is strange and its construction method is relatively simple. It is made of loess and glutinous rice juice, piled into a tower, and covered with bricks outside. Each floor provided 65,438+0,000 to 2,000 relics, and only the top floor was made of stone.
In the twenty-second year of Zhenguan, Master Xuanzang translated Yoga (the theory of division and land) and invited Taizong to write Preface to Tang Sanzang. Later, Prince Li Zhi wrote a preface, which was inscribed by Chu Suiliang in Yonghui for four years and placed in the tower. The preface tablet of the holy church is made of black marble and stands on a square stilt. The height of the flat is five feet eight inches seven minutes, the bottom is three feet three inches, and the top is two feet eight inches six minutes. Five statues of Shiga are engraved on it, and three portraits are engraved on the bottom. The left and right edges were engraved with precious pictures in cursive script, and the upper part of the monument was beheaded. All the questions are surrounded and signed, and the skills are exquisite and beautiful. " There are still these two monuments on both sides of the south gate on the first floor of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda.
After the completion of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, it only took less than 50 years, and it was overgrown with weeds and even close to collapse, so it had to be rebuilt. From 70/kloc-0 to 704 AD, the height of the tower was increased from 180 feet to 300 feet, and the number of floors was increased from five to ten. The tower was also changed from solid to hollow, with four doors on each floor. In 77 1 year, Zhang Bayuan, the first scholar, wrote two sentences in the poem "Ci 'en Temple Tower": Ten floors are empty, and forty doors are facing the wind. This shows the grand occasion at that time.
In 904, the first year of God bless, Zhu Wen forced Tang Zhaozong to move the capital to Luoyang. Chang 'an was devastated and the Wild Goose Pagoda was destroyed, leaving only seven floors. It was not until 930 AD that the five-generation Anzhongba was rebuilt, and the tower was changed from ten floors to seven floors. The style of these seven floors has not changed since the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Today's Big Wild Goose Pagoda has four corners, seven floors and a height of 64.7 meters. Its appearance is a brick-like wooden structure. There are nine tiles on the first and second floors, seven on the third and fourth floors and five on the other three floors. There are four doors on each floor, with wooden escalators built inside, which can climb to the top. On both sides of the south gate on the first floor, there is a small niche room with a shrine tablet.
Jionji Grand Jionji was founded in the Sui Dynasty, formerly known as Wuliu Temple, about 1400 years ago. In the 22nd year of Zhenguan in Tang Dynasty (AD 648), the then Prince Li Zhi ordered the construction of a temple to commemorate his dead mother, Empress Wende. According to Cien Biography, in the Jean Temple in the Tang Dynasty, "there are more than ten courtyards in Yun Ge, with a total of 1,897 rooms", and the whole temple area accounts for half of Jinchang Square, which shows its large scale.
Dali Temple Building Dali Temple faces south and adopts the traditional central axis layout. From south to north, it consists of five parts: Shanmen, Daxiong Hall, Dharma Hall, Wild Goose Pagoda and Genjyo Sanzo Courtyard.