Wang Kaijie is a thoughtful businessman. He knows that "to get rich, build roads first". He built Dongyang Village Bridge and Qingdun Dashiqiao with sole investment, which made the traffic from Mibai to Shagang very convenient.
Wang Kaijie also won the title of "Great Good Man" and "Living Bodhisattva", and his business grew. But one thing has been bothering Wang Kaijie. He is over 30 years old. Although he has a wife and a concubine, he has no children.
On one occasion, Wang Kaijie went back to Suzhou to tell the Zen master Yiqing about his troubles. Yiqing monk, one of the founders of Cao Dongzong School, made outstanding contributions to the development of Buddhism in northern Jiangsu.
Zen master Yiqing said to Wang Kaijie, "benefactor, as long as you build a temple in Dongyang Zhuang, the Bodhisattva will bless your descendants." After returning to Dongyangzhuang, Wang Kaijie decided to spend huge sums of money to build a temple.
In the south of Dongyangzhuang Bridge and the west side of the street, more than ten acres of land were purchased, and the Shanmen Hall, Daxiong Hall and more than a dozen wings were built. In the ninth year of Qing Qianlong (A.D. 1744), the temple was completed.
Wang Kaijie led his family and dozens of local monks to Suzhou by boat, and respectfully invited Zen master Yiqing as abbot. When the old monk came here, it was midsummer, and he was very moved to see people lining up to welcome him. After entering the temple, he wrote down the banner "There are many pure lands in Yuan Ze, frogs sing cicadas and Zen machines" and named the temple Jingtu Temple.
Later, Wang Kaijie had four men and three women. The local people think that the spirit of Bodhisattva in Jingtu Temple is increasing, and more and more people go to the temple to offer incense.
Due to the large number of descendants, it has also become a famous Wang family in Louzhuang Town. His children and grandchildren built manors and houses in the west of Zhuanghe River in Dongyang, which became Xiaolouzhuang.
As Jingtu Temple is located at the junction of three counties (Hai 'an, Jiangyan and Dongtai), the land and water transportation is convenient, and pilgrims keep coming all year round. At the peak of incense, Li Sanke in Fiona Fang could hear the sound of morning bells and drums and monks chanting scriptures.
The incense of Jingtu Temple lasted for nearly 200 years, during which many eminent monks emerged, and many young monks who became monks here later became abbots of famous temples. During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, in order to avoid the disaster of war, monks became monks in succession and monasteries declined.
After the founding of New China, the last abbot, monk Mingxi, went to Chikulin Temple in Zhenjiang, leaving only two monks, Dongming and Aiming, to guard the house. During the Cultural Revolution, temples were severely damaged, and Buddha statues and ancient books were set on fire.
In the 1980s, all the temples in Dongyang Village were demolished and converted into village factories and brigade headquarters. At this point, the ancient Pure Earth Temple disappeared.
Soon, a local Buddhist named Yan Kaoshan built a small temple at his own expense on the site of the ancient Jingtu Temple and set up a incense table to worship the Buddha statue. 1997 at the request of local monks and customs, with the approval of the provincial government, the Louzhuang Town Government decided to rebuild the Jingtu Temple.
Considering the remoteness of the original site and inconvenient transportation, we moved to Shu Ren West Road, Louzhuang Town. As soon as the news came out, it was quickly funded by all parties at home and abroad.
Louzhuang Town invested more than 5 million yuan to rebuild the Pure Earth Temple according to the architectural style of that year. When the temple was laid, it was very lively and unprecedented.
Elder Yang Ming, President of Shanghai Buddhist Association, abbot Nengxiu of Yangzhou daming temple, former abbot of Jingtu Temple, and Master Mingxi, then President of Changshu Buddhist Association, all came to observe the ceremony with illness. In 2000, at the request of local monks and celebrities from all walks of life, Master Xuexian, who had worked in Shanghai Jade Buddha Temple for many years, came to Jingtu Temple as the abbot.
In 200 1 year, Master Xuexian paid a visit to Elder Jing Hui, the first vice president of the Chinese Buddhist Association, and accepted the dharma book at the Buddhist Temple in Berlin, Hebei Province, becoming the 49th generation descendant of Lin Ji. In April 2002, Jingtu Temple was announced as a cultural relic protection unit in Jiangyan City.
In the spring of 2003, Master Xuexian held a grand enthronement ceremony. Leaders of the Buddhist Association of China, Buddhist associations of other provinces and cities, eminent monks of major monasteries, thousands of China believers, local leaders and monks and nuns from Singapore and the United States attended the ceremony.
2. The historical evolution of Jingtu Temple Tianshui Jingtu Temple is also called Shuman Temple. Since the late Tang Dynasty and the early Song Dynasty, Shuman Temple has been called "Ji Gu Temple", "Kyoto Temple" and "Pure Earth Temple" successively. It is one of the important parts of Maijishan Scenic Area, which is famous all over the country. Shan Qi, Shuixiu and Linmao here are all beautiful in the north and the south. The years have gone through many vicissitudes. The once glorious sacred scene has also been covered up for a hundred years. By the early 1990s, Schumann Temple had been abandoned, leaving only five thatched cottages, surrounded by lush trees and animals in Shan Ye.
Master Hai Zheng, the great monk of Wutai Mountain, came to Shuman Temple at the beginning of 199 1 and started to build and rebuild the Buddhist temple. In the early stage of planning, Master Hai Zheng led his disciples to sleep in the wind, eat wild vegetables, drink mountain springs and understand the topography. He went south to Fujian and Guangdong alone for dozens of times to raise money for the construction of temples. In the early days of building the temple, he personally visited the site, planned the layout of the temple and designed the Buddhist temple. With the policy support of Tianshui Municipal Government and Beidao District Government, a large-scale authentic King Kong Dojo-Shuman Jingtu Temple, which lasted for thirteen years, suddenly stood in front of people.
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3. The historical origin of Yao Temple in Linfen Yao is said to be the son of the fifth grandson of the Yellow Emperor, whose real name is an ancient emperor at the end of primitive society in China. Confucius said in "The Analects of Confucius Taber": "Only the sky is big, only Yao is on the side. Swing, the people are incompetent. " It can be seen that Yao Wang's merits are boundless and the people love him. Later generations built the Yao Temple four kilometers south of Linfen to commemorate the first famous monarch in ancient China, King Yao. Its location is called Yaomiao Village. Because the capital of Emperor Yao is Linfen, it is called Pingyang in history. Yao Temple was built in Linfen, which further confirmed the correctness of this statement.
4. The history of Shanghai Jingtu Temple In the early years of Qing Qianlong, Wang Kaijie, a wealthy Suzhou businessman, came here to start a business.
Wang Kaijie is a thoughtful businessman. He knows that "to get rich, build roads first". He built Dongyang Village Bridge and Qingdun Dashiqiao with sole investment, which made the traffic from Mibai to Shagang very convenient.
Wang Kaijie also won the title of "Great Good Man" and "Living Bodhisattva", and his business grew. But one thing has been bothering Wang Kaijie. He is over 30 years old. Although he has a wife and a concubine, he has no children.
On one occasion, Wang Kaijie went back to Suzhou to tell the Zen master Yiqing about his troubles. Yiqing monk, one of the founders of Cao Dongzong School, made outstanding contributions to the development of Buddhism in northern Jiangsu.
Zen master Yiqing said to Wang Kaijie, "benefactor, as long as you build a temple in Dongyang Zhuang, the Bodhisattva will bless your descendants." After returning to Dongyangzhuang, Wang Kaijie decided to spend huge sums of money to build a temple.
In the south of Dongyangzhuang Bridge and the west side of the street, more than ten acres of land were purchased, and the Shanmen Hall, Daxiong Hall and more than a dozen wings were built. In the ninth year of Qing Qianlong (A.D. 1744), the temple was completed.
Wang Kaijie led his family and dozens of local monks to Suzhou by boat, and respectfully invited Zen master Yiqing as abbot. When the old monk came here, it was midsummer, and he was very moved to see people lining up to welcome him. After entering the temple, he wrote down the banner "There are many pure lands in Yuan Ze, frogs sing cicadas and Zen machines" and named the temple Jingtu Temple.
Later, Wang Kaijie had four men and three women. The local people think that the spirit of Bodhisattva in Jingtu Temple is increasing, and more and more people go to the temple to offer incense.
Due to the large number of descendants, it has also become a famous Wang family in Louzhuang Town. His son.
In the early years of Qing Qianlong, Wang Kaijie, a wealthy Suzhou businessman, came here to start a business. Wang Kaijie is a thoughtful businessman. He knows that "to get rich, build roads first".
He built Dongyang Village Bridge and Qingdun Dashiqiao with sole investment, which made the traffic from Mibai to Shagang very convenient. Wang Kaijie also won the title of "Great Good Man" and "Living Bodhisattva", and his business grew.
But one thing has been bothering Wang Kaijie. He is over 30 years old. Although he has a wife and a concubine, he has no children. On one occasion, Wang Kaijie went back to Suzhou to tell the Zen master Yiqing about his troubles.
Yiqing monk, one of the founders of Cao Dongzong School, made outstanding contributions to the development of Buddhism in northern Jiangsu. Zen master Yiqing said to Wang Kaijie, "benefactor, as long as you build a temple in Dongyang Zhuang, the Bodhisattva will bless your descendants."
After returning to Dongyangzhuang, Wang Kaijie decided to spend huge sums of money to build a temple. In the south of Dongyangzhuang Bridge and the west side of the street, more than ten acres of land were purchased, and the Shanmen Hall, Daxiong Hall and more than a dozen wings were built.
In the ninth year of Qing Qianlong (A.D. 1744), the temple was completed. Wang Kaijie led his family and dozens of local monks to Suzhou by boat, and respectfully invited Zen master Yiqing as abbot.
When the old monk came here, it was midsummer, and he was very moved to see people lining up to welcome him. After entering the temple, he wrote down the banner "There are many pure lands in Yuan Ze, frogs sing cicadas and Zen machines" and named the temple Jingtu Temple. Later, Wang Kaijie had four men and three women.
The local people think that the spirit of Bodhisattva in Jingtu Temple is increasing, and more and more people go to the temple to offer incense. Due to the large number of descendants, it has also become a famous Wang family in Louzhuang Town.
His children and grandchildren built manors and houses in the west of Zhuanghe River in Dongyang, which became Xiaolouzhuang. As Jingtu Temple is located at the junction of three counties (Hai 'an, Jiangyan and Dongtai), the land and water transportation is convenient, and pilgrims keep coming all year round.
At the peak of incense, Li Sanke in Fiona Fang could hear the sound of morning bells and drums and monks chanting scriptures. The incense of Jingtu Temple lasted for nearly 200 years, during which many eminent monks emerged, and many young monks who became monks here later became abbots of famous temples.
During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, in order to avoid the disaster of war, monks became monks in succession and monasteries declined. After the founding of New China, the last abbot, monk Mingxi, went to Chikulin Temple in Zhenjiang, leaving only two monks, Dongming and Aiming, to guard their homes.
During the Cultural Revolution, temples were severely damaged, and Buddha statues and ancient books were set on fire. In the 1980s, all the temples in Dongyang Village were demolished and converted into village factories and brigade headquarters.
At this point, the ancient Pure Earth Temple disappeared. Soon, a local Buddhist named Yan Kaoshan built a small temple at his own expense on the site of the ancient Jingtu Temple and set up a incense table to worship the Buddha statue.
1997 at the request of local monks and customs, with the approval of the provincial government, the Louzhuang Town Government decided to rebuild the Jingtu Temple. Considering the remoteness of the original site and inconvenient transportation, we moved to Shu Ren West Road, Louzhuang Town.
As soon as the news came out, it was quickly funded by all parties at home and abroad. Louzhuang Town invested more than 5 million yuan to rebuild the Pure Earth Temple according to the architectural style of that year.
When the temple was laid, it was very lively and unprecedented. Elder Yang Ming, President of Shanghai Buddhist Association, abbot Nengxiu of Yangzhou daming temple, former abbot of Jingtu Temple, and Master Mingxi, then President of Changshu Buddhist Association, all came to observe the ceremony with illness.
In 2000, at the request of local monks and celebrities from all walks of life, Master Xuexian, who had worked in Shanghai Jade Buddha Temple for many years, came to Jingtu Temple as the abbot. In 200 1 year, Master Xuexian paid a visit to Elder Jing Hui, the first vice president of the Chinese Buddhist Association, and accepted the dharma book at the Buddhist Temple in Berlin, Hebei Province, becoming the 49th generation descendant of Lin Ji.
In April 2002, Jingtu Temple was announced as a cultural relic protection unit in Jiangyan City. In the spring of 2003, Master Xuexian held a grand enthronement ceremony.
Leaders of the Buddhist Association of China, Buddhist associations of other provinces and cities, eminent monks of major monasteries, thousands of China believers, local leaders and monks and nuns from Singapore and the United States attended the ceremony.
5. The historical story of Huamen in Linfen, about 300 words. Everyone is familiar with it. There are state-owned city gates, city gates, courtyards and houses.
For human beings, doors have existed since ancient times and are everywhere. They are the basic way of human life and the ancient composition of human architecture. Many cultural symbols of many countries and nationalities in the world are reflected in gate buildings, such as Tiananmen Square in China and the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Then, why did Linfen Du Yao build the Huamen, which is known as the first gate in the world? ? First of all, Huamen is a monument of Chinese civilization.
As we all know, the south of Shanxi is the oldest birthplace of the Chinese nation. As early as more than 4,000 years ago, the ancestor Yao made Linfen its capital, which formed the earliest pattern of China, initiated the ancient civilization of China and was honored as the ancestor of civilization. It can be said that the door of Chinese civilization was opened by Yao Shun, and Huamen was built to commemorate Yao Di's unification of China, open the door of civilization and show the historical origin of the Chinese nation.
Therefore, Huamen is also the gate of Chinese civilization. Because it represents and embodies the oldest history and culture in China, it can be called "the first in the world" culturally.
Secondly, Huamen is the largest portal building in the world. Huamen Scenic Area has a total area of 150 mu, a building area of 22,000 square meters, a width of 80 meters and a height of 50 meters, symbolizing 5,000 years.
At present, the highest gate in the world is the world-famous Arc de Triomphe in France, which is 49.6 meters high and was built in 1806. It was Napoleon's triumph after defeating the Austrian-Russian Coalition forces for 30 years. And Huamen was built in three years, higher than the Arc de Triomphe? 0.4? In terms of building scale and height, rice ranks first in the world and is called "the first door in the world".
It is often said that not seeing the Arc de Triomphe means not going to France, so it is a great pity not to go to China goalkeeper in China. ? Thirdly, Huamen is the first cultural tourism landscape in China.
China is an ancient civilization with a long history, which is unparalleled in the world. However, door cultural tourism has been popular in Europe, such as France and Italy, which all have famous door architectural landscapes.
Although Tiananmen Square in China is world-famous, it is not an independent architectural landscape of the city gate, but a part of the entrance and exit of the Forbidden City and its scenic spots. The completion of Huamen made Huamen architecture a unique cultural landscape, opened up a new field of cultural tourism in China, and filled the blank of Huamen cultural tourism.
Therefore, as far as tourism culture is concerned, Huamen is the "first door in the world" for China tourism. ? Huamen Scenic Area is a large-scale cultural project independently completed in Yaodu District.
Su Qingping is the chief designer and founder of Huamen. It took three years from construction in 2002 to completion in 2004. Whether it is design, construction or capital investment, Du Yao relies on his own strength. It can be said that the completion of Huamen embodies the wisdom and strength of Du Yao people and is also the contribution of Du Yao's children to China culture.
The construction of Huamen adopts the essence of the world gate architecture, which is not only magnificent in appearance and novel in shape, but also rich in functions and profound in cultural connotation, and has high architectural, historical, cultural, artistic, tourism and commercial values. Next, we will let you feel the distant and profound Chinese civilization through the top ten landscapes, and experience the happy mood of climbing high and looking far.
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6. What are the historical sites in Linfen, the Thousand Buddha Cave in Linfen?
Address: Located on the rock of Yingli Village, 5 kilometers east of Xiangning County, Shanxi Province.
Introduction of scenic spots
Thousand Buddha Cave is commonly known as Buddha Cave Temple. It is located on the rock of Yingli Village, 5 kilometers east of Xiangning County, Shanxi Province, at the southern end of Luliang Mountain. On the mountain, the southern end of Luliang Mountain. There are dense trees and fragrant flowers on the mountain. Among the flowers in the jungle, huge stones stand out from the crowd, with a length, width and height of 20 meters and a volume of nearly 800 cubic meters. The Buddha cave was dug at the waist of the boulder. The cave is 3. 1 m high, 4.5 m wide and 4.5 m deep. There are carved shrines and Buddha statues on all four walls. The knife method is simple and solemn. Some descendants painted murals of Buddhist stories, and the ceiling was carved with algae wells. According to its carving style, it should be a work of Sui and Tang Dynasties. The two courtyards in front of the cave are Ming and Qing dynasties buildings, including mountain gates, wing rooms, affiliated halls and memorial halls. At the end of the boulder, the Thousand Buddha Cave became a Buddhist temple behind the temple. The temple is small in scale, rigorous in layout, simple in structure, elegant in shape, and quite elegant in contrast with the surrounding rocks and trees. The stone tablet in the temple records the grand worship ceremony and the reconstruction of the temple.
Guajiashanshi
Address: Xujiashan, south of Jixian County, Shanxi Province.
Introduction of scenic spots
Guajiashan stone carving is located in the south of Jixian County, Shanxi Province. This place is backed by Jinping Mountain, facing Qingshui River, willow cliff, arch bridge like rainbow and beautiful scenery. According to county records, Tang Wei Chijingde once went out to stay here, and later changed his name to Jinping Guajia. It is also said that Emperor Taizong and Qin Qiong went to Chang 'an and once hung a mountain top, hence the name. In the third year of Emperor Kai of Sui Dynasty (AD 583), five areas of Buddha statues were carved on the stone cliffs at the foot of the mountain, each with two or three niches. Most of the niches are one Buddha and two bodhisattvas, with lotus petals tied around the waist and bodhisattvas on both sides. Among them, there is a Buddhist niche, a Buddha lying down, his right hand holding his chin, and his left knee bending, which is vivid in shape and free in expression. The combination of carving techniques and line carving is unique compared with the round carving in other grottoes.
Ding Cun
Introduction of scenic spots
Ding Cun, a famous "Dingcun Man" and "Ding Cun Cultural Site" located in Xiangfen County, southern Shanxi Province, is a national key cultural relics protection unit. Up to now, more than 20 courtyards and 33 private houses have been preserved in Ding Cun during the Ming and Qing Dynasties from the 21st year of Wanli (1593) to the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, which reflects the village pattern in the northern countryside during the Ming and Qing Dynasties and is divided into three buildings: north, middle and south. Most courtyards face south, and the gates of the Ming Dynasty are mostly in the southeast corner. Most of the courtyards have purlins, lobbies, gatehouses and wing rooms, all of which are brick and wood structures. There are figures, flowers, birds, animals, classical operas, historical stories and other woodcarving and brick carving patterns on the building components, which are the fine works of China Ming and Qing residential buildings. The museum displays nearly 10,000 cultural relics in some courtyards, and draws or simulates some folk customs in southern Shanxi in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. There are 10 exhibition rooms in the first courtyard of the museum, which show the folk customs in southern Shanxi that have been passed down from generation to generation. The quadrangle of the museum mainly displays the folk wedding rituals and customs since the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, as well as the rituals and customs in southern Shanxi such as the "Twelve Genus Map" to congratulate and serve parents. Built in the courtyard in the 36th year of Qing Qianlong, folk handicrafts such as embroidery, paper-cutting and woodcut, as well as objects and materials such as songs and dances, puppet shows and puppet shows, which are widely circulated in urban and rural areas in southern Shanxi, are displayed. In addition, there are exhibition rooms for folk paintings, folk mirrors, folk porcelain and production tools.
7. How old is Linfen Yao Temple, which is located in the south of Shanxi? Yao Temple was founded in the Western Jin Dynasty with a history of 1700 years.
The former site is located to the west of Fenhe River. In the Western Jin Dynasty, Yuankang moved to the east bank of Fenhe River, and in the third year from Tang Gaozong to Xianqing (658), the temple site was moved from the southwest of Fucheng to the present site in the south of the city. Yao Temple is a ancestral temple with profound historical and cultural background and a history of 5,000 years of civilization, commonly known as Sansheng Temple. It is a temple dedicated to the ancestors of Yao, Shun and Yu.
More than 4,000 years ago, Yao made Pingyang the capital and Kyushu the capital, which formed the earliest pattern of China. Pingyang became one of the earliest cradles of China civilization and was called the first capital of China. Among them, Guangyun Hall is the main hall dedicated to King Yao, with a height of 27 meters. There are 42 stone pillars in the surrounding promenade, on which dragons and clouds are carved. The craft is good.
As the old Guangyun Temple was destroyed by fire, the temple we see now was rebuilt in recent years. Located at the southern end of Qinshu Road, Linfen City, Shanxi Province.
8. Linfen Du Yao Jiadezhai Historic Linfen is located at the connecting midpoint of Taiyuan, Zhengzhou and Xi 'an, with outstanding location advantages and convenient transportation and communication. Located in the southwest of Shanxi Province, it is adjacent to Taiyue in the east and to Changzhi and Jincheng. It faces the Yellow River in the west and faces Shaanxi Province across the river. It starts from Hanxinling in the north and is adjacent to Jinzhong and Lvliang. The south borders Yuncheng. Linfen is named after its location on the bank of Fenshui, which is "Lei Huo in the east, Linfen River in the west, Qin Shu in the south and Youyou River in the north". It has an important geographical position and has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times.
With a long history, this city is one of the important birthplaces of the Chinese nation and the cradle of the Yellow River civilization, and is known as "the first capital of China". The city is an important grain and cotton production base in the north of China, which is rich in wheat and cotton, and is known as the "hometown of cotton and wheat" and "fertile soil". The city has formed a diversified industrial system, which is an important part of the construction of new energy and industrial base in Shanxi Province. The city is rich in natural resources and is one of the three high-quality main coking coal bases in China. There are many intangible cultures in this city, including Zhou Pu Bangzi, majestic gongs and drums and other folk art forms. It is called "the hometown of plum blossoms", "the hometown of paper cutting" and "the hometown of gongs and drums".
Linfen is an important economic town in the south of Shanxi, and its total economic output ranks second in Shanxi Province. In 2009, Linfen ranked 29th among 1 13 national key environmental protection cities, up 84 places from 2005. The number of days above Grade II increased from 187 days in 2005 to 334 days in 2009, removing the "black hat" of national pollution.
9. Jingtu Temple Tower Information Jingtu Temple Tower in Gaoyou City, Jiangsu Province, also known as Dongmen Pagoda.
The tower was built in the thirty-fourth year of the Ming Dynasty (1606), and it is just 400 years old this year. 1906 (Guangxu period of Qing dynasty), which was overhauled once.
In 34 years of the Republic of China, a corner was damaged by artillery fire because of the war, and it was repaired the following year. 1963, Zhu Guangrong, a student from Gaoyou Middle School, climbed to the top of the tower and took some cultural relics out of the temple and handed them over to the cultural center.
Among them, more than 40 volumes, such as the Huayan Sutra of Dafang Guangfo and the Paramita Sutra of King Kong, are now in the Nanjing Museum. The original floors and escalators in the tower can be climbed and then gradually destroyed.
1957, the provincial people's government announced this tower as a provincial cultural relics protection unit. The overhaul from July last year to April this year can be described as a physical overhaul from the inside out, from head to toe.
About 30 meters high, brick, octagonal. 1957 was listed as a provincial cultural relics protection unit.
Jingtu Temple Tower and Zhenguo Temple Tower (also known as Ximen Tower) are far opposite, one is majestic and steep, and the other is solid and heavy. There is also a beautiful folklore. These two pagodas are a male and a female, and they get together every night ... More than ten years ago, people of insight in Gaoyou collected and sorted out the book Legend of Zhuhu Lake, which recorded folk legends such as "Tale of a Tower Man and a Tower Woman", "Legend of Gaoyou Pagoda" and "Zhang Sloppy Climbing the Tower". Last year, the Jingtu Temple Pagoda (commonly known as Dongmen Pagoda) was renovated.
Over the years, Dongmen Pagoda is not only one of the landmark historical and cultural buildings in Gaoyou, but also accompanied by many legends and mysteries. In the process of restoring the East Gate Pagoda last year, the author approached it more than once with curiosity and exploration, looking for its history and perceiving its vicissitudes.
While consulting a lot of historical records about it, I also visited and learned some little-known stories about Dongmen Pagoda. Take this opportunity to "tell the whole story" for readers.
Exploration of the Pure Earth Temple Tower Last June, the author first boarded the East Tower. I don't know how many times I photographed its magnificent posture from a distance in different seasons and different locations in the past, but this time I was so close to it that I was full of curiosity and impulse when I looked at it and photographed it.
Looking up from the ground floor to the top of the tower, all the stairs are gone, and all the stairs are unobstructed. Broken walls is everywhere, which makes people feel sad and sad as soon as they walk into the ruins of the castle. Climbing up from the outside of the tower along the newly-built feet layer by layer, there are many decorative components of ancient buildings such as brick carvings and lamp niches that have never been seen before or observed at close range. Although some of them have been damaged, their exquisite craftsmanship is still amazing. At the top of the tower of more than 40 square meters, you can see miscellaneous trees.
At the top of the tower more than 40 meters above the ground, dozens of trees of different sizes and varieties can actually grow, which really makes people impressed by the tenacious vitality of nature. Among them, elm, neem and mulberry are the most common. The largest tree is more than 20 centimeters in diameter, and its branch area is nearly 10 square meter, led by two trees in the northeast corner and southwest corner.
Of course, due to years of water shortage and weathering, some trees died on the top of the tower. In some places, the flashing bricks at the top of the tower are inverted because the roots are arched, and most of the flashing bricks are loose on the slope of 30 to 40 degrees from bottom to top.
The center of the spire that goes straight into the sky also deviates to the northeast, and a hole is found in the southeast corner of the tower. I guess that's the only "passage" for several students to climb out of the tower to get books. The whole tower wall is more than 2 meters thick.
What surprises and admires people most is the brake at the top of the tower. The structural design is not only beautiful and generous, but also exquisite and coordinated, which is amazing. According to experts in ancient architecture, the pagoda is the phoenix crown of the whole pagoda and the apex of the pagoda.
Tasha * * * consists of six parts, from bottom to top, namely, bowl cover, treasure bead, dew plate, phase wheel, phoenix cover and treasure bottle. Except for the Aquarius above, the whole brake part is cast iron. The bottom layer is like two large iron pots, called Gai Bowl, with a diameter of nearly 2 meters. The outer periphery is engraved with exquisite decorative flower patterns, which are arranged in an orderly manner. There are seven phases of wheels from bottom to top, with a maximum circle diameter of 1.9 meters, each circle is about 20 cm high and the iron ring is 2 cm thick.
At its top, the phoenix cover extends from the inside out with eight lifelike faucets in different directions. The height of the topmost copper vase is 1.5m, and the maximum diameter of the "belly" part in the middle is1.4m. It is installed in three stages.
What modern people can't imagine and marvel at is that from the fifth floor to the top of the tower, it is actually a nanmu column with a height of 20 meters and a diameter of about 60 centimeters. Its weight and height make it hard to imagine how craftsmen put them in place 400 years ago.
On the west side of the column, a vertical line is clearly engraved: "The port-digging camp officials are waiting here". After textual research, the word "port-digging camp" was set up by the Qing army for coastal defense, and "port-digging" was a place name. Rudong, Jiangsu, is now the "Digging Port Town" left by Shunzhi for three years (1646).
In other words, 40 years after the tower was built, naval officials stationed in Rudong County visited it. It can be seen that the Jingtu Temple Tower has long been a scenic spot in Gaoyou.
Regarding the installation of this column, according to the engineers and technicians responsible for the maintenance of the East Tower, it is likely that when laying on the first floor, this thick and heavy brake column will be placed in the middle of the tower, and the surrounding area will be slowly lifted up with ropes and the like; There is also a guess that when the first floor is built, it will be placed in the tower, and when it is built to the fifth floor, it will be hoisted with ropes or simple pulleys at one time; Another guess is to use the most traditional method-use the soil around the tower as a scaffold, and then transport it from the scaffold along the slope for installation. This is just like the pyramid architecture in ancient Egypt, leaving many mysteries for future generations.
Zhejiang Huangyan Jingtu Temple Tower Jingtu Temple Tower is located in Yan Rui, Xichaoji Township, huangyan district. It was built in the 30th year of Yuan Dynasty (1293). It is a five-story six-sided pavilion-style brick tower with water chestnut teeth under its eaves. Collect points layer by layer from bottom to top.
Pot doors are set on all sides of each floor, and tower gates are disabled. The tower disappeared in the county annals. According to the tower brick, there are words such as "Yan Rui Courtyard Monk Nature" and "Yuan Gui Four Years", which are preliminarily determined.