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The Puyuan Pagoda at Jingu Temple in Liquan, Shaanxi

A brick pagoda from the Qing Dynasty, also known as the 'Puyuan Bao Pagoda'. It was built in the early Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. This octagonal ten-story pavilion-style brick pagoda, composed of the pagoda base, pagoda body, and pagoda finial, is 36 meters high. The base is 3.9 meters long and the wall is 3.1 meters thick. The pagoda body is hollow, built with green bricks. The south side of the first floor opens a door, with a pagoda room inside, 3.4 meters in diameter: on each side of the first floor, there are two stone steles arranged in upper and lower rows; from the second to the seventh floor, there are arched windows and niches alternately arranged, with stone statues embedded in the niches; on each side of the eighth floor, there are round Bagua symbols carved in brick; on each side of the ninth and tenth floors, there are stone statues embedded; the octagonal spire on the top of the pagoda is adorned with a flame pearl finial. It is a key cultural relic in Shaanxi Province.
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Posted: Feb 8, 2024
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