Santai tower

Santai tower

Santai tower was first built in 1783, the 48th year of Qianlong in Qing Dynasty and rebuilt in 1815, the 20th year of Jiaqing in Qing Dynasty. He is a stone pagoda with seven pavilions in eight directions. The top is 31 meters high, with external cornices, high hanging in the dark corner, three stars on the top of the pagoda, wheel tower brake, exquisite stone carvings on the tower base, and stone terraces on both sides of the East and the West. The shape of Santai tower is unique and has high historical and artistic value.

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brief introduction

In May 2002, Hunan Provincial People's government announced it as a provincial cultural relics protection unit. Scope of protection: take the tower foundation as the starting point, to the west of Zijiang second bridge in the East, to 20 meters in the south, to 100 meters in the West and to Zishui dike in the north.

The foundation of Santai pagoda was called "santaizhou" (now called "Qingshuitang") in Qing Dynasty, so it was called "Santai pagoda". He and doukui pagoda at the foot of Guitai mountain on the South Bank of Zijiang River (built in 1747, the 12th year of Qianlong reign of the Qing Dynasty) faced each other across the river, calling for each other from afar.

Ancient meaning

The ancients built two pagodas on both sides of the Zijiang River, before the east gate of the county, which have two meanings. One is to lock the dragon and suppress the demon. It is said that every spring and summer, when there is heavy rain, an angry Yellow Dragon in the Zijiang River will make waves together with the monsters at the bottom of the river, submerge the land on both sides of the river and endanger the people on both sides. People build pagodas by the river, hoping to lock the Yellow Dragon. The second is to build a pair of pagodas outside the east gate of the county to form a majestic County Gate, so that the boats sailing on the river can feel the "power" of the ancient city of Yiyang.

history

When the tower was built

Santai pagoda, built in 1783, has seven floors and eight sides. The pagoda is well preserved. It seems that it is also the product of the hot building of pagodas in Qianlong's heyday. In fact, the predecessor of Santai pagoda is not a pagoda, but Santai Pavilion. Although the foundation is also the original site of the pagoda, it is not Shuibei, but on hejiazhou in the water. It was built by Wang Dekun, the magistrate of Wanli County in the Ming Dynasty in the thirtieth year. At that time, Zijiang was not like the straightened river now. Because Yiyang is located in the lower reaches of Zishui River, the river in the middle also has the flavor of lake There is no obvious channel, However, there are many continents, such as he Jiazhou, Qingzhou, qinglongzhou, luowuzhou, caijiazhou, Lijiazhou and so on. In the Ming Dynasty, Santai pavilion was built in he Jiazhou, which was originally used for gathering scholars. In the 28th year of Wanli, Yao, the daughter of copper workers in Yiyang, was selected as the imperial concubine. This is the only beauty who has been selected as imperial concubine in Yiyang for thousands of years After the event, Mr. Feng Shui summed up a sentence: "Qingzhou Lu Yiquan, Yiyang No. 1". The so-called "Lu Yiquan" was because the water level of Dongting Lake had been raised and Qingzhou was submerged in the water. If the water level was low in winter, Qingzhou would be exposed, but "Chu No. 1" was obviously the hope of a place, which combined people's hope with nature This is the traditional way of conjecture and judgment in China. Naturally, in order to realize this hope, the county magistrate at that time set up the Santai Pavilion. There is no specific record of Santai Pavilion in history. However, 25 years after the establishment of Santai Pavilion, Xie Xixian, a scholar, was admitted to the imperial examination in the reign of Chongzhen. Naturally, Qingzhou also emerged in advance. Therefore, Yiyang people firmly believe that "with Qingzhou's fist exposed, Yiyang won the first place". In the 11th year of Chongzhen, Yiyang celebrities Luo Yuyi and Guo Duxian rebuilt the pavilion. But not long after that, the Manchu people came to the world. The Dynasty changed, and the role of Santai pavilion was lost. Because at this time, they gathered here to recite poems and compare with each other, which implied that they mocked the Manchu people for conquering the world by force. Therefore, they declined later.

As for the construction of Santai Pagoda in the 48th year of Qianlong period, it was a century and a half later. In fact, during the construction boom of Qianlong period, many pagodas were built on both sides of Yiyang River, including many tributaries. However, due to the problems of scale and grade quality, Santai pagoda failed to be named and registered. Even because of the quality problems, Santai pagoda had been rebuilt several times. Therefore, it seems that the Qianlong period was a political period Many of the tower construction projects are also bean curd projects.

Three towers now

However, it should be added that the well preserved Santai pagoda was rebuilt in 1870. At that time, the commercial water transportation culture of Yiyang wharf had risen. Naturally, the downstream river had been dredged. The Santai tower in hejiazhou, Jiangxin, had already reached the north bank. But at this time, after more than half a century, the Santai tower was about to collapse. As a result, the owners of Yiyang became rich and donated money to renovate it. According to the records, "the stone bank was built 30 feet away, and the tower was seven stories high Zhang, Jun Li firm, magnificent. In the void, the graceful Dragonfly twists and turns to the top of the tower. There are four doors on the top of the building. You can see the vast distance from the mountain to the water.

Originally, it was just a spontaneous renovation with good quality and quantity. Originally, it was a good thing for the local people. However, it annoyed a man in the south bank, that is, Xu zhitan, the owner of a newly rising winery in Yiyang at that time, who used to "wash Hankou wharf with wine". This man was born to be a fighter. When he saw the renovation of Santai Pagoda in the north bank, he thought that he had brought the river demon town to the south bank, so he was very unconvinced, although he didn't trust him Chao Gai, the king of pagoda heaven, was so overbearing that he demolished the pagoda on the other side and built it. However, he used one person's financial resources to deal with the heroism of all the owners on the other side. So in the ninth year of Tongzhi, he built a tower with stronger quality than that on the north side of the river in the second middle school of Yiyang City. He named it "doukui tower", which obviously means to fight the north side.

legend

It is said that in the spring and Autumn period, in order to avoid the disaster, Xishi's cousins came to Wuxie shiguping and lived in seclusion. They ate all kinds of fruits and practiced. After they became immortals, they were recognized as dry daughters by the Jade Emperor and called back to heaven as "seven immortals". Among the seven fairies, the fifth and sixth are the most naughty and like to play in the water. Because of missing the strange mountains and waters of Wuxie, he often sneaks to the pool under Santai tower to have a bath. One day, a monk came to Xiyuan for a visit. He heard a girl laughing. He followed the sound, calmed down and held his breath. He climbed to Santai tower and looked down. He found that two fairies were taking a bath. He couldn't help but feel happy. When his nostrils twitched, he smelled the fragrance of orchid. When he looked aside, it turned out that there were two girls' red and green clothes on the big stone. Monk you quickly took the clothes into his arms. At this time, the two fairies, who were playing and playing, also found that someone was peeping on the stone. They quickly dived into the water and begged the monk to let them go. However, the monk refused to return the clothes to the two girls, and threatened that if they agreed to marry him as their wife, they could return the clothes. They refused, so the monk went out with his clothes in his arms, and the two fairies had to follow each other naked from afar, all the way to xilongtan. Monk you stops, and the two immortals hide in the grass and probe to him, pleading again for the return of their clothes. Monk you still refuses. Suddenly, the time for the two immortals to return to heaven has passed. The two fairies finally got angry and killed monk you. At this time, Zhou Deng, the God on duty in the sky, found that the two fairies had come down to earth without permission and caused trouble, so he quickly told the Jade Emperor. The Jade Emperor was furious and punished them for never going back to heaven. The two fairies were full of tears and shame, and finally turned into two rocks with hatred, staying in the lonely Xiyuan gorge all the year round. Although the two fairies turned into mountain peaks, their yearning for the five sisters in the sky is growing day by day. They hope that their relatives in the sky can see them. As a result, the rock mass rises year by year, and there is a beautiful landscape of "double peaks". And their tears turned into a clear stream and gurgled out of the valley. Their red clothes and green clothes turned into a forest of tall and straight Phoebe trees with luxuriant branches and leaves, becoming another wonder of the Xiyuan gorge in Wuxie.

Address: Zishui downstream, Heshan District, Yiyang City, Hunan Province

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