One is the buildings in temples, such as pagodas, which mainly reflect the status of Buddha, such as wooden pagodas in Yingxian County, Shanxi Province, and white pagodas in Beijing Beihai Park. The second is to store the remains of eminent monks after their death, such as Tallinn in Shaolin Temple; The third category is lighthouses, such as the East West Pagoda in Quanzhou and the Gusao Tower in Shishi. Four categories are commemorative, such as Wang Teng Pavilion.

Originally produced in India, this pagoda is a Buddhist building. After the pagoda was introduced into China, it was combined with the original architectural form in China, forming a new architectural type with traditional characteristics in China. ?

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The earliest tower in China.

Nangong City, Hebei Province has a world-famous stupa-the Ordinary Pagoda. It is located in an ordinary temple in Nangong City. Built in the 10th year of Yongping in the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 67), it was completed in the 15th day of the first month of the 15th year of Yongping. It has a history of more than 1900 years, one year earlier than the Baima Temple Pagoda in Luoyang, Henan.

This tower is an octagonal solid brick tower, with grade 9, height of 33 meters and bottom diameter of 5 meters. Each floor of the tower has eaves, and a bucket arch leans under the eaves. Just to the south of Mount Sumi, there is a hole leading to the center of the tower. There is a brick well below the center of the tower, and three stone buddhas sit on the east, west and north sides of the brick well respectively. This kind of niche architecture is really rare.

In the long years of wind and rain erosion, ordinary towers have been rebuilt and maintained in Wei (Three Kingdoms), Tang and Song dynasties. During the fifteen-year maintenance period of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty, a large amount of funds were raised and the construction scale was large. This tower was renovated according to the architectural style of the Ming Dynasty.

1966 Xingtai earthquake, three bronze buddhas were shaken off from the top of the tower, all of which were red bronze bodhisattvas. The largest is Guanyin Bodhisattva, which is 4 1 cm high and weighs 8.25 kg. Guanyin Bodhisattva sits peacefully on the coast of "Haitian Buddha Country" (Putuo Mountain, a small island in the East China Sea), holding Buddhist scriptures, chanting Buddhist scriptures, wearing beads and stepping on one foot.

There is an inscription on the back: "On the fifteenth day of the first month in the fifteenth year of Yongping, the Sanzang Palace in Zhufalan Da 'er was built on May 5th in the fourth year of Morten to Taihe, and the sea monk rebuilt it until July 15th in the fifteenth year of Jiajing ..."

The name "ordinary" comes from the interpretation of the Buddhist scripture "Wonderful Lotus Sutra Guanyin Bodhisattva": "Zhou Pu is righteous". Buddhism "Purdue" refers to compassion and compassion, and Purdue all beings. "Child" is scarlet. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the imperial court where the empress lived was painted red and called "Tongting". Because the common temple behind the tower is dedicated to bodhisattvas, both the tower and the temple are red and take the word "Tong", so the tower is named "Ordinary Tower".

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People's Network-The Earliest Tower in China-Ordinary Tower