Jingxian relic pagoda

Jingxian relic pagoda, formerly known as "Sakyamuni relic pagoda", is located in the original "Kaifu Temple" in the northwest corner of Jingxian city. Although the temple is destroyed, the pagoda still exists, commonly known as Jingzhou pagoda. Jingzhou tower has a long history and a grand scale. It is a well preserved ancient building. The body of the tower is 13 stories, with an 8-sided pyramid shape, 63.85 meters in height and 50.5 meters in perimeter at the bottom. There are hundreds of spiral steps inside the tower, which can reach the top of the tower. When you climb high and look far away, you can see that you are poor for thousands of miles. At the top of the tower is a 2.05-meter-high copper gourd with a 3.3-meter-high wire mesh base under it. When the wind blows, the barbed wire base and the cave dwellers on the tower are blown by the wind, making the sound of water waves. Therefore, it has the reputation of wind waves on the ancient tower. The ancient pagoda was built in the he Dynasty, but there is no evidence to test. According to the records of Jingxian County, there is an iron plaque hanging on the upper layer of the pagoda of Kaifu temple in the county. The plaque contains the words of Qi and Sui Dynasty rebuilding. The rebuilding was carried out in Qi and Sui Dynasty, and its founding time should be in the Northern Wei Dynasty. According to this theory, the tower is nearly 1500 years old.

Jingxian relic pagoda

Jingxian relic pagoda, formerly known as "Sakyamuni relic pagoda", is located in the original "Kaifu Temple" in the northwest corner of Jingxian City, Hebei Province. Although the temple is destroyed, the pagoda still exists, commonly known as "Jingzhou pagoda".

Jingzhou tower enjoys a high reputation in China. It is as famous as Cangzhou Iron Lion, Zhaozhou Dashiqiao and Zhengding Longxing Temple bronze Bodhisattva. It is known as one of the four ancient treasures in Hebei Province. There are also folk Doggerels: lion in Cangzhou, tower in Jingzhou, iron Bodhisattva in Dongguang County.

Jingzhou tower has a long history and a grand scale. It is a well preserved ancient building. The body of the tower is 13 stories, with an 8-sided pyramid shape, 63.85 meters in height and 50.5 meters in perimeter at the bottom. There are hundreds of spiral steps inside the tower, which can reach the top of the tower. When you climb high and look far away, you can see that you are poor for thousands of miles. At the top of the tower is a 2.05-meter-high copper gourd with a 3.3-meter-high wire mesh base under it. When the wind blows, the barbed wire base and the cave households on the tower are blown by the wind, making the sound of water waves. Therefore, it has the reputation of "wind waves of ancient tower".

At the same time, Jingzhou tower was listed as the fourth batch of national key cultural relics protection units by the State Council in 1996.

History along

There is no evidence for the ancient pagoda to be built in the he Dynasty, but according to the records of Jingxian County, there is an iron plaque hanging on the upper layer of the ancient pagoda of Kaifu temple in the county. The plaque contains the words of Qi and Sui Dynasty rebuilding. The rebuilding was carried out in Qi and Sui Dynasty, and its founding time should be in the Northern Wei Dynasty.

According to this theory, the tower is nearly 1500 years old. The thousand year old pagoda has been well preserved up to now, which depends on several times of renovation.

Since the founding of new China alone, it has been rebuilt four times.

The last renovation was in the spring of 1973. In the course of maintenance, three volumes and nine volumes of Ming Dynasty wooden Buddhist scriptures and a horizontal Nirvana bronze Buddha of Sakyamuni were found in the copper gourd on the top of the tower, 20 cm long, 11.5 cm wide and 12 cm high. Architectural features

The relic Pagoda in Jingxian county is a brick Pagoda with imitation wood structure. According to the records of Zhouzhi, "the state people's Congress Sikong Liu Zuoqi built the relic pagoda, which was nine levels and completed in nine years. If you don't reach the top of the mountain, you can see that Mount Tai is high and exquisite.

The tower should have the image of "Lingshou babiao". Each floor is octagonal, with eight doors on each floor, four bright and four dark. The original tower is 61 meters high, and the Tasha was destroyed by the earthquake during the reign of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty. It is now 53.44 meters high.

In the center of the tower, there used to be a 60 meter gold nanmu tower core column, commonly known as Tongtian column, which was destroyed by thunder and fire in 1920s.

Now the eighth and ninth floors have been restored for people to admire. The top of the tower is in the shape of a general's helmet. It is steep, gentle and magnificent, which is only seen in the province.

The tower is equipped with revolving bluestone steps, which can directly climb the top floor and overlook the scenery on eight sides.

The inner wall of each layer of the pagoda is inlaid with a number of stone inscriptions, such as the process of building the pagoda and the name of the donor. The third layer is inlaid with the stone inscription of "building Guanyin Bodhisattva pagoda", the sixth layer is engraved with such titles as "Xiu Ju Zhongtian", "Dong Yan Dai Yue" and "Xi Yin Taihang", and the sixth layer of Sheri pagoda is inlaid with stone inscriptions, which records the time when Anhui cloth merchant Wang Daoji donated money to build the sixth layer pagoda Deeds.

The dictionary of China's famous scenic spots was once recorded as "Linqing brick tower". CCTV said that the canal film crew had made a special introduction.

Details of the ancient pagoda

The ancient pagoda was built during the reign of Yongping in the Northern Wei Dynasty. It has been rebuilt several times in history after several storms.

During the maintenance in 1973, three volumes of Ming Dynasty wooden scriptures were found in the copper gourd on the top of the tower, including seven volumes of Mahayana Lotus Sutra, one volume of Mahayana sutra mantra, one volume of pharmacist liuliguang Tathagata's original wish for merit, and one volume of Sakyamuni horizontal copper Buddha 20 cm in length, 11.5 cm in width and 12 cm in height.

Dentarg

In 2007, it was found that the bricks and stones on the 7th and 8th floors of the Jingxian tower had been loosened during the renovation. In order to avoid accidents, all the bottom doors of the tower were closed, and the tower climbing tour was naturally declined. However, now we can still see the magnificent style of the relic tower under the tower.

Architectural design

Jingxian relic pagoda is 13 storeys high, octahedral pyramid shaped, with a height of 63.85 meters and a perimeter of 50.5 meters. It is an ancient pagoda with dense eaves and pavilions made of brick and stone structure.

The base of the pagoda is made of solid huge clear stone. Under the base of the pagoda is a deep well, which is actually an underground palace for the collection of Buddha bones, Buddhist scriptures, Buddha statues, gold, silver and jewelry.

The body of the tower is made of green bricks. Inside the tower, hundreds of spiral steps are built from bottom to top. Climbing up the steps, you can reach the top.

In the tower, there are cave dwellers in the East, West, North and south, and there are arched corridors, which can be seen from the cave dwellers.

The top of the tower is shaped like a gourd, made of bronze, 2.05 meters high, and there is a wire mesh cover under the gourd, 3.3 meters high.

Every time there is wind, the barbed wire fence and the cave house are blown by the sky wind, such as the sound of surging waves, so it is called "wind wave of ancient pagoda".

There is a base under the tower, which is about one meter high. In front of the base, there are two Sophora japonica trees, which are thick and thin. There is not a leaf on the tree. The branches are curly and green. It is obvious that they are hundreds of years old.

There is a stone turtle in front of the tree, which is one of the nine sons of the dragon. There are traces of carrying the stone tablet on his back.

According to the research of experts, the pagoda was first built in the Northern Wei Dynasty. Since then, it has been rebuilt for many times in various dynasties. After the founding of the people's Republic of China, it has been repaired for four times. The ancient pagoda is no longer what it was when it was first built.

From the analysis of the existing architectural features, artistic modeling and masonry structure, it should be the style of the Northern Song Dynasty, which has been listed as a key cultural relic under state protection.

Relic pagoda, short for "gawen relic pagoda", was originally built in the original Kaifu temple. The temple has been destroyed, but the pagoda has been preserved.

Relic, Buddhism refers to the bead like things formed after the cremation of Sakyamuni's remains, and also refers to the bones left after the death of the virtuous monks. It is said that after the cremation of Sakyamuni, some relic were sent to the central tower of civil engineering for worship. This tower was originally called "Sakyamuni relic pagoda", which must have something to do with the relic dedicated to Sakyamuni.

There is a deep well under the tower; the suppression is the demons; that is the underground palace under the tower, in which there are relics, Buddhist scriptures, gold and silver treasures.

There is a new hall behind the tower, which is antique style, but the materials used in the building are all cement and steel. The door of the main hall was closed. Looking inside, it was empty. Looking back to the East, there was a tall Buddha statue, which was placed in the East underground. His eyes were slightly closed, and his face was kind, giving people a sense of holiness. It's a pity that the builders haven't had time to invite him into the hall and let him bear the wind and rain here. It seems that he won't be able to live in his new home until the next spring. It seems that the relevant departments want to develop the tourism industry, and they don't pay much respect to the Buddha. Behind the main hall are low houses. It is said that they used to be houses, and the government made great efforts to achieve this situation.

Pagoda renovation

There is no exact written record of when the Jingzhou tower was built. Therefore, time has added a mysterious veil to Jingzhou tower.

Buddhism had been introduced into China in the period of emperor AI of Han Dynasty (six years before the park - one year before the park), and it had been very prosperous in the Northern Wei Dynasty. However, in the period of emperor Tai Wu of Wei Dynasty, the first event of destroying Buddhism occurred in Chinese history.

If the Jingxian pagoda was built before the destruction of Buddhism by Emperor Taiwu of the Wei Dynasty, it had already been destroyed. After emperor Gao Zongwen of the Northern Wei Dynasty quickly restored Buddhism, the Jingxian pagoda must have been rebuilt, but the plaque on the top of the pagoda didn't say "rebuilt in the Northern Wei Dynasty".

Therefore, some scholars infer that the Jingxian pagoda should have been built in the Xing'an period of the Northern Wei Dynasty, from 452 to 453 A.D., more than 1500 years from today.

Some analysts believe that in the Yongping reign of emperor Xuanwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty, when he was a good Buddha, he rewarded the buildings with floating pictures of temples. At that time, more than 13000 temples were built by Chinese prefectures and counties. Jingzhou tower is so majestic that there is no match for it in the world. Therefore, this large building must have been built in the Yongping period of the Northern Wei Dynasty, i.e. 508-512 A.D., nearly 1500 years ago. After thousands of years, the ancient Jingzhou pagoda was seriously damaged by wind and rain erosion, and has been rebuilt several times in the past dynasties. It was first rebuilt in the Qi and Sui dynasties, and in the fifth year of the Huichang reign of emperor Wuzong of the Tang Dynasty（

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