The Yongfeng Pagoda Review

Yongfeng Pagoda, located in the southeast corner of Juye County, was built in the late Zhou Dynasty (951-960 A.D.) and was not built until the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127 A.D.). The tower is a brick and stone structure, 30 meters high, Seven-level octagonal four-door pavilion, 36 meters in upper perimeter, 44 meters in lower perimeter, with a circular pavilion-type brick and wood structure at the top of the tower, 1.85 meters high, covered with green tiles. There are five layers on the ground, and the bottom two layers have been silted underground. Yongfeng Pagoda has a history of more than 1000 years. After floods and earthquakes, it is still intact. In the morning, we climbed the pagoda and looked out. The eastern side was covered with bright mountains and sunshine. In the north, there was the Grand Hall of the Confucian Temple, which was magnificent and magnificent. There are also Heta Pagoda near Yongfeng Pagoda. The stone bridge intersects with it. The scenery is very beautiful. Yongfeng Pagoda, also known as the Van Pagoda, according to "Juye County Records" - "Yongfeng Pagoda was built by the Tang people, but did not meet the top, the Song people continued. There is a temple in the east of Tarim, covering an area of more than 20 mu. Because there are eight bronze Buddhas built in the temple, it is called the Great Buddha Temple. In the temple, ancient Berlin stands, covering the sky and the sun. Tourists, monks and monks come in abundance, smoke around the clouds, and incense is strong. It was a famous tourist resort at that time. " According to "Juye County Records" - "Yongfeng Pagoda, formerly "located in the Pre-Confucianism Buddhist Temple of County Administration". In the Tang and Song Dynasties, the Great Buddhist Temple was more than 20 mu in square area, with pagoda courtyard built in the West and Buddhist scriptures hidden in the pagoda; the pagoda carved beams and painted pillars built in the pagoda were magnificent, the Buddha statues were vivid and vivid, the tomb drummed with morning bells and smoke, which were ancient tourist attractions. In the Song and Yuan Dynasties, north of Yongfeng Pagoda was a downtown commercial area in Jizhou City. There were theatres, restaurants, hotels, daily storytellers, singers, fighters, performers, gongs and drums and orchestras. Whenever the ancient meeting, businessmen gathered, bustling, bustling, extraordinary. Because of the great changes in history, it has now become the county hostel. There is also a beautiful legend about the construction of the tower. Legend has it that in ancient times there was a dragon who often rioted in Ozawa, flooding raged, and the people did not live. The son of King Totali, who put the dragon under control, the flood receded, and the wild water gradually dried up, turning the vast water into a thousand mu of good land. The Dragon King was so angry that he sued Nezha and was convicted. Later, King Totali broke the Buddhist pagoda that subdued Prince Nazao into three and threw down the Tianmen. The bottom of the pagoda fell in the West neighboring county of Hancheng, and the pagoda was in the vast wilderness. The top of the pagoda floated to the East neighboring county of Jinxiang. Later generations, in memory of Naju, look forward to a bumper harvest year after year. They named the pagoda Yongfeng Pagoda. Yongfeng Pagoda is a four-door Pavilion brick tower with eight edges and other sides. It has five storeys, 31 meters high, 44 meters long at the lower level and 36 meters long at the upper level. The first layer is brick-stacked eaves, while the other layers are made up of two overhanging eaves of Huagong arch, which are crossed and scattered, solid and firm. There are coupon doors on the east, south, West and north sides of each floor, which are different in light and shade. They are either patio or corridor inside the tower. The height and diameter of each layer of the tower body decrease gradually from bottom to top, and the income and distribution are appropriate. On the west side of the tower is a series of stone steps, from which the steps can enter the tower. At the bottom, there are pagoda ventricles. There are seven Buddhist stone statues on the interior wall. At the entrance, a Buddhist statue is 40.5 cm in length, 100 cm in breadth, and five Buddhist statues in a row, which are 28 cm in height. Yongfeng Pagoda is surrounded by water. The body of the pagoda is inclined. It was repaired many times in Ming and Qing dynasties. In 1990, the people of the county raised funds and donated 180,000 yuan to repair the tower, which was more attractive.