What is the significance of restoring the ancient pagodas in Beijing?

Beijing's pagodas are no longer just symbols of ancient buildings, they have inherited the Chinese tradition and play a new role with the development of the times.

Nowadays, the pagoda not only decorates and beautifies the environment, accompanies the main building and increases the atmosphere of the building; but also has a certain significance. Pai Lou also like porcelain, is on behalf of China's image into the future, to the world.

Because of the change of the times, most of the Beijing pagoda has been lost, therefore, the protection and restoration of the pagoda's work appears to be very urgent.

Entering the 21st century, Beijing's parks and temples have restored a lot of pagodas, but these pagodas are mostly retro, and there is nothing new to say.

However, because of the vast amount of work, the construction of these pagodas is not uniformly simple to repeat, so it still has its artistic value.

Front Gate Street pagoda commonly known as "five pagodas", is six columns and five five floor twelve knocking rod of the large pagoda. Early liberation after the tower is the moat, the river has the zhengyang bridge, five towers of plaques written on the "zhengyang bridge" three big words, so the five towers also belong to the bridge towers.

Republic of China, in order to pass the tram, five pagodas, four pagodas, a single pagoda of bumpers removed, all replaced by concrete beams. In order to improve the traffic situation, after the liberation of the "Qianmen five pagodas" or was demolished.

In order to adapt to the development of urban transportation, Qianmen Pai Lou was rebuilt in 2001, changed into a two-pillar large-span five-floor Pai Lou.

The new pagoda is 22 meters wide, and the top of the "Viro cap" on the cupola is 14.95 meters high. Although the design is still based on the shape of the old pagoda, try to maintain the original style, but the original pagoda has six columns and five doors, in order not to affect the traffic, the middle of the four columns were changed to pendant, 6.5 meters from the ground. The plaque was changed to "Qianmen Street", which is more imposing than the old pagoda.

With the accelerating process of reform and opening up, Beijing's tourism is booming. The development of tourist attractions and promote the construction of the pagoda.

Tanzhe Temple is one of more than a hundred existing pagodas in Beijing, and it was the first pagoda to be restored after the Cultural Revolution. Before the restoration of the Tanzhe Temple, the roof was crooked, and the columns were rotten, and the roots of the columns in the stone were brown and spongy, and would have collapsed if they had not been supported by the bumpers.

Tanzhe Temple was built in the Jin Dynasty, more than 1,700 years ago. Thus, there are folklore: "first Tan Tuo Temple, after the Youzhou (Beijing) City" said.

Tanzhe Temple in the past would have been in disrepair, and catch a catastrophe is scarred, its restoration work can be described as time-critical, the task is heavy, and the funds are more than the main halls of the repair project occupied.

In 1936, the mayor of Beiping ordered many of the pagodas are replaced with reinforced concrete columns, and even the square is also replaced with a cement structure. At present, the Tanzhe Temple Pai Lou restoration methods, the State Law on the Protection of Cultural Relics, the repair and maintenance of ancient buildings "must strictly abide by the principle of not changing the original state of cultural relics," the use of cement components for the restoration, although it can also be "restored to its original state or preservation of the status quo," but inevitably make this ancient heritage into a "fake antique".

Tanzhe Temple restoration project began in 1984. Craftsmen first set up to protect the roof of the scaffolding, and then a few jacks at the same time from the large square to the roof of the crooked tilt up to level. The whole building is detached from the rotten column roots hanging in mid-air, carpentry to the rotten parts of the building columns cut off, clamping rod stone inside the rotten wood dug away, followed by the clamping rod stone water, rotten wood chips were washed clean.

Then, the workers to the pagoda prefabricated steel legs, they use four tile-shaped steel plate clamped to the floor columns, and then fastened to the floor columns with countersunk bolts. These four long steel plate is tile cylinder shape, can increase the strength, together and is a cylinder, on the hold floor columns under the support of the clamping rod stone, just to avoid the iron big through the nail. Four columns were replaced with such steel legs and feet. Clip pole stone filled with cement, four steel plate and become cement steel.

Cement solidified, and then the Tanzhe Temple pagoda repainted color painting, pagoda suddenly a new look.