China's ancient tower what China's top ten ancient tower introduction

In the long river of Chinese history, Buddhist culture was introduced into our country, the tower of this ancient architecture is also widely respected by the Buddhist community, in our country there are many ancient pagodas, this side of the recommendation for you to recommend the domestic ten more famous ancient pagodas, the following take a look at it!

Yunnan Dali Chongsheng Temple three towers

Southwest China's famous pagoda, located in the northwest of Yunnan Dali original Chongsheng Temple. Three towers arranged in a triangle. The big tower is a thousand tower, for the dense eaves hollow brick tower, square 16 layers, 69.13 meters high. Pagoda body of each layer of the front open coupon niche, built-in stone Buddha, the top of the tower has a copper mantle, phase wheel. North and south two small tower for 10 octagonal solid brick tower, each 42.19 meters high. The tower body surface coated with a layer of white mud skin, carved with various patterns, each layer respectively, there are coupon niches, Buddha, lotus, Ruiyun, vases and other carvings for decoration, two towers each have three copper gourd on the top of the tower. 1978 and 1980 when the renovation, in the tower was found in the Nanzhao, Dali period of cultural relics more than 600 pieces.

Shanxi Xi'an Big Wild Goose Pagoda

The Big Wild Goose Pagoda was founded in the Tang Dynasty in the third year of the Yong Hui (652 years), for the preservation of the Buddhist scriptures brought back by Xuanzang from India and built. Tower of the original name of the Ci'en Temple Tower, after carrying the "Records of the Western Regions of the Great Tang Dynasty" recorded Indian Buddhist legends and stories and the name of the Wild Goose Pagoda. Tower height of 64 meters, the tower Fang, arch, railings are brick imitation wood structure. There are stairs inside the tower, can be circled up. Each layer of the four sides of the arch, you can look out over the fence. Tower on the ground floor on all sides of the stone door, the lintel with exquisite line carving Buddha, the west lintel of the sayings of the figure, carved at the time of the temple building, is the study of the Tang Dynasty architecture, painting, carving art important information. Tower on both sides of the south door, inlaid with Tang Taizong Li Shimin wrote the "Great Tang Sanzang Sacred Teaching Preface" and Tang Gaozong Li Zhi wrote the "Great Tang Sanzang Sacred Teaching Preface Notes", both for the Tang Dynasty, a great calligrapher Chu Suiliang writing.

Shanxi Yingxian Wooden Pagoda

Shanxi Yingxian Wooden Pagoda is the oldest and tallest wooden pagoda existing at home and abroad. The tower was built in Liao Qingning two years (1056 AD), the tower's bottom 30 meters in diameter, 67.13 meters high, five layers of six eaves, the plane is octagonal. The whole wooden pagoda*** used 54 different forms of arches, making it the most representative pavilion-style pagoda with the most arches in ancient Chinese architecture. Because of its solid structure, after more than 900 years, through many earthquake attacks, and still stands tall. Cabinet-style pagoda is characterized by the tower is tall, the second is the distance between each layer is large, each layer of the tower has a wooden structure of the door, window, square and arch. The eaves of the pagoda have purlins, rafters and flying heads and other imitation wood structures. Inside the tower there are stairs for people to ascend to the floor for a distant view.

Liuhe Pagoda, Hangzhou, Zhejiang

Ancient pagoda of the Song Dynasty in China. Located on Yuehuan Mountain on the banks of the Qiantang River in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. First built in the Northern Song Dynasty Kai Bao three years (970 years). Pagoda height of 59.89 meters, the plane is octagonal, the appearance of thirteen floors, within the seven floors, the tower has a ladder up to the top. Inside the tower on the Sumeru seat brick carving of flying fairy, music kabuki, sea pomegranate, lotus leaf flowers, treasure phase flowers, phoenix, lion, unicorn, immortal deer, as well as back to the pattern, the cloud pattern, such as Ruyi images, is the study of the Southern Song Dynasty decorative patterns of valuable information. Pagoda also has the Southern Song Dynasty Shangshu Province ultimatum monument and forty-two written by the Forty-two chapters of the scriptures of the remnants of the stone and so on.

Leifeng Pagoda, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province

The Leifeng Pagoda by the West Lake in Hangzhou is widely known because of the legend of the White Maiden, which was made famous by Mr. Lu Xun's two miscellaneous essays after the Pagoda collapsed in 1924. The Leifeng Pagoda was originally built by the last king of the Wu-Yue State, Qian _ in the name of "honoring heaven and cultivating virtue" in the second year of the Taiping Xingguo (977) to gather a group of top craftsmen and artisans and begin construction of the Leifeng Pagoda on the Xizhao Mountain, the best part of the Xihu landscape, which is the best place in the world to see the world.

The new Leifeng Pagoda*** has five floors, 71 meters high, covers an area of 3,133 square meters, styling design is based on the image of the Southern Song Dynasty rebuilt posture, is an octagonal pavilion tower.

Jilin Changbai Lingguang Tower

Lingguang Tower is located in Changbai Town, Changbai County, Jilin Province, northwest suburb of Tashan Mountain southwest end of a flat terrace, for the Tang Dynasty Bohai period (698 -926 years) built. Is China's northeastern region of the longest ancient tower, but also the Tang Dynasty Bohai country remains one of the most representative of historical relics. For a square plan of the pavilion-style brick tower, the bottom eaves on all sides of the patterned brick, the second to fifth floor of the square lattice windows in the middle of the four sides, with the style of the Tang Dynasty. Lingguang Pagoda Pagoda body height of about 13 meters, the base of the tower for the equilateral quadrilateral, the tower height of five layers, brick structure. Pagoda peak light flat plain. The pagoda stands on high, the Yalu River flows under its feet day and night, climbing the ancient pagoda, you can overlook the scenery of a river and two countries. The tower has important historical value for the study of the culture and architecture of the Bohai period.

Huqiu Pagoda, Suzhou, Jiangsu

Huqiu Pagoda, also known as Yunyan Temple Pagoda, was built in the ninth year of the reign of Emperor Renshou of Sui Dynasty (601). The existing Huqiu Pagoda was built in the latter Zhou Qianyou eight years to Song Jianlong two years (959-961). Tower system plane octagonal, seven levels. Huqiu Tower is now 47.5 meters high, the tower is all brick, weighing more than 6,000 tons. According to records, due to the foundation, since the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), Huqiu Tower tilted to the northwest, the center of the top of the tower away from the center of the ground floor 2.3

m, the slope of 2_40 's, known as the "Leaning Tower of Pisa in the East".

Nanjing, Jiangsu Linggu Pagoda

Linggu Pagoda is the highest and most beautiful eight-sided, nine-story pagoda in Nanjing, which is built of reinforced concrete and Suzhou Jinshan granite. The original name of Linggu Pagoda is Memorial Tower for Fallen Soldiers, which was built in 1931 as an important organizational part of the Cemetery Complex for Fallen Soldiers. Linggu Pagoda is a new and unique pagoda, 66 meters high, nine layers and eight sides, each layer with green glazed tiles on the eaves. Outside the layers, are surrounded by granite corridors, the center of the tower has a spiral escalator, can be along the ladder 252 steps straight up to the ninth floor. The tower is beautifully shaped, elegant and solemn, with national style and characteristics, highly evaluated by people from all walks of life.

Henan Kaifeng Pagoda

Kaifeng Pagoda, formerly known as Kaibaosi Pagoda, was built in the Northern Song Dynasty (1049 A.D.), which has a history of 900 years. It is famous for its outstanding architectural art, which is entirely in the form of traditional Chinese wooden structure. The tower is 55.88 meters high, covered with colorful glazed bricks, decorated with dozens of lifelike patterns such as flying sky, unicorn, kabuki, etc. The tower is also known as "the first tower in the world". Kaifeng Tower is famous for its outstanding architectural art. Because of its appearance of brown glazed bricks inlaid, from a distance it looks like the color of iron, coupled with its own exceptionally strong, as if cast iron, so from the Yuan Dynasty folk called "Iron Pagoda".

Anqing, Anhui Zhenfeng Tower

Anqing Zhenfeng Tower is located in the Yangtze River, known as the first tower of the Yangtze River, built in the Ming Dynasty, more than 400 years of history. This tower is a pavilion-style masonry structure, octagonal seven-story, 82.74 meters above sea level, the tower height of 60.86

meters. The broadness and height of each level are contracted from bottom to top, and the overall outline is conical. Inside the tower, there are 168 steps, which are circling up to the top. The tower door of each floor is interlaced with the real and the imaginary, the platform is surrounded by white stone balustrades, and the eaves of each floor are hung with Wind Duo. Pagoda brake by the octagonal Sumeru seat, round mantle, spherical five heavy phase wheel and gourd-shaped vase composition. Inside the pagoda, Amitabha Buddha, Maitreya Buddha and the Five Directions Buddha are offered to the West, and the pagoda is embedded with more than 1,000 brick statues of Buddha, historical and mythological statues as well as 54 pieces of inscriptions. The tower faces the river and stands, enjoys "the first tower of the Yangtze River" and "past the Anqing not to say tower," the name.

Dengfeng, Henan Songyue Temple Tower

Songyue Temple Tower is a national key cultural relics protection units, located in Zhengzhou Dengfeng City, 5 kilometers northwest of the southern foot of the Songshan Mountain, under the peak of Junji Songyue Temple, first built in the Northern Wei Dynasty in the light of the four years (A.D. 523), the top of the tower was rebuilt in the Tang. The tower after more than 1400 years of wind and rain erosion, still standing, is China's earliest surviving brick tower, but also the country's ancient tower in the isolated case. Songyue temple tower for brick eaves tower, is the only one twelve-sided tower, its nearly circular plane, divided into two sections of the tower body, and India "stupa" is quite close to the early form of the tower is a dense eaves tower.

Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, the Annunciation Tower

Suzhou Annunciation Tower was rebuilt in the Southern Song Dynasty during the Shaoxing years (1131 ~ 1162), octagonal nine-layer, brick body with wooden eaves, is an important view of the city of South - Jiang (i.e., today's Suzhou) in the "Pingjiang map" has been engraved in the monument, now known as the north of the temple tower, is still an important view of the main street of the city of Suzhou. Newspaper Temple Tower internal double sleeve, octagonal tower within the heart of each layer has a square tower room, wooden ladder located in the corridor between the double sleeve; each layer has a flat seat railing, the bottom floor has a sub-steps (around the body of the tower of the circle of the corridor). These, and Shanxi Shijia Tower similar. But the eaves of the secondary steps and the first layer of the tower is a slope down the eaves, there is no heavy eaves. Unlike the Shijia Pagoda. The brick tower body is divided into three rooms on each side, with a door in the center. Wooden structure part of the once Qing Guangxu years remodeling, eaves high, and in the flat seat added many Prime eaves columns, has partially changed the original shape. Sub-steps between the columns connected with the wall, the plane diameter of 30 meters, similar to the Sakya tower; Tower up to 76 meters high, nearly 9 meters higher than the Sakya tower. Although the whole tower scale is huge, but the number of layers than the Sakya Tower more than 4 layers, the proportion is also higher than the Sakya Tower fine, coupled with the cornice raised, in the grand also contains the charm of the show, still reflects the Jiangnan architectural art style.

Henan Dengfeng Shaolin Temple Pagoda Forest

Shaolin Temple Pagoda Forest is the tomb of Shaolin Temple monks of all generations, which is prestigious in the Buddhist community. After the death of monks with status, their ashes or bones were put into the underground palace and a pagoda was built on top of it to show their merits. The height, size and number of layers of the pagoda are mainly decided according to the monks' attainments in Buddhism, prestige and merits during their lifetime. Shaolin Temple Pagoda Forest now has 232 pagodas, covering an area of more than 14,000 square meters. Having survived through different eras of the Tang, Song, Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, it is an ancient pagoda complex with the largest area, the largest number and the highest value existing in China. Pagodas have different layers, generally one to seven levels, the height of about l5 meters below, the shape of the quadrilateral, hexagonal, octagonal; there are columns, vertebrae; there are linear, parabolic; there are bottles, . Horn-shaped. A wide variety of forms, the form of strange and beautiful, these towers are the masterpieces of each historical period, is a comprehensive study of China's ancient architecture, calligraphy, sculpture art of the treasure trove.