Yuanying Temple Pagoda

Yuanying temple tower is named after Yuanying temple, where the tower is located. Yuanying Temple Pagoda is a typical pagoda building of Liao and Jin Dynasties, with octagonal thirteen story solid eaves. Its architectural structure is fine, beautiful, simple and spectacular. From afar, the ancient pagoda is magnificent, especially in the sunset.

Yuanying Temple Pagoda

Yuanying Temple Pagoda, located in the northwest corner of Changli County, Hebei Province, is named after Yuanying temple. Yuanying Temple Pagoda is an octagonal thirteen story solid dense eaves. Its architectural structure is fine, beautiful, simple and spectacular. From afar, the ancient pagoda is magnificent, especially in the sunset.

In 2001, Yuanying Temple Pagoda was announced as the fifth batch of national key cultural relics protection units by the State Council.

A brief introduction to the pagoda

Yuanying Temple Pagoda, known as "Xiahui soudu" in Jieshi's ten ancient sceneries, is located in gutasi street, northwest corner of Changli County, Hebei Province. It is named after Yuanying temple, which was built in the past. The original date of Yuanying Temple Pagoda is missing, but from the perspective of its architectural style, it belongs to the Liao (916-1125) and Jin (1115-1234) periods, and has been identified as the Jin Dynasty pagoda by relevant experts.

Folklore

Visitors to Changli, an ancient city at the foot of Jieshi mountain, can easily find that the most attractive scenery in the city is the Yuanying temple tower, which stands in the northwest corner of the city and looks like "daoshentongguan" when the sunset is all over the sky.

The predecessors compared it to a huge pen tube standing upside down to write something in the sky. In Changli county annals, there is a poem describing her as: "the floating Tu stands high, the pen flies in the air, swaying the golden bell to send the evening wind.

Xia Ying is Zhu Tian, and Tian is a piece of paper However, if you don't go to the front, it's hard to imagine that there is a deep spring well in the south of the tall ancient pagoda, which is close to the base of the pagoda. When you bend over and look into the well, the beautiful and beautiful view of the ancient pagoda reflected on the water is even more amazing.

It has been rebuilt many times

Yuanying temple tower has a long history as Changli County, which was built thousands of years ago. It is a typical pagoda building in the Liao and Jin Dynasties. It is more than 12 feet high, with 13 stories and eight sides of dense eaves.

On the base of the tower, which is close to the spring well dug in the unknown year and month, there is a beautiful carved flat seat supported by xumizuo. On the flat seat, there are two layers of Yanglian, holding up the Tiangong Pavilion carved with green bricks. From the Tiangong pavilion to the top of the tower, the eaves of each layer are rolling and flying, which is very simple and beautiful. The spire of the tower is the copper roof of the wind mill standing aloft in the air. From a distance, it is particularly dazzling. Whether Yuanying pagoda was first built in Liao Dynasty or Jin Dynasty is hard to know. So far, it is only clear that it has been rebuilt many times in Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty that Yuanying pagoda has been preserved.

building structure

Yuanying Temple Pagoda is octagonal in plane, with a total of 13 stories and a height of about 40 meters. It is a solid brick pagoda. The whole tower is composed of tower base, flat seat, lotus terrace, tower body, dense eaves, tower brake, etc. All kinds of patterns are carved on the flat board. The tower has a total of one floor, on which there is a "Tiangong Pavilion" carved with green bricks. There is also a well under the ancient pagoda, about 20 meters deep. There is spring water flowing out for many years. The spring water is sweet and delicious.

Yuanying Temple Pagoda, with its fine structure, beautiful shape, simple and magnificent, has high historical value.

Facilities in the temple

Water well under the tower

The well under the ancient pagoda is five or six feet deep. The spring is full all year round, sweet and delicious. The spring well is surrounded by stone fences to prevent people from entering the well by mistake. Whether this deep well was dug before or after the construction of the pagoda has not been recorded, which has become an eternal mystery.

In 1620, Yang Yubi, the magistrate of Changli County, presided over the reconstruction of the temple. He named the temple "Yuanying Temple" because there was a well under the pagoda, and "water comes from the source, and the pagoda has its own shadow.".

Renovation of ancient pagoda

It can be seen that tower and well have been together for a long time, at least for more than three or four hundred years. Yuanying Temple Pagoda is listed as one of the ten ancient Jieshi scenic spots because of its magnificent scenery, which looks like a red pen and empty book at sunset. After the Tangshan earthquake in 1976, the body of the tower was seriously tilted and the top collapsed. In the 1980s, after five years of careful construction, the millennium old tower was rebuilt. The restored Yuanying Temple Pagoda has completely maintained its original historical features, and now it has become the site of Changli County Museum, which displays the long history of gujieshi area.

Cultural relics protection

After the founding of new China, Yuanying pagoda was first listed as a provincial cultural relic protection unit in Hebei Province, and then listed as a national key cultural relic protection unit by the State Council in 2001. As time goes by, everything looks new. Now, in Hebei, Liaoning and other places, there are few ancient pagodas of Liao and Jin dynasties that have been completely preserved. However, Yuanying Temple Pagoda, which has been accompanied by a deep spring well for thousands of years, is still towering in Changli County, which has changed its old appearance. It's really inconceivable. It should be said that this is one of the wonders of Hebei Province and even the whole Shenzhou.

cultural meaning

Yuanying Temple Pagoda is included in China famous pagoda

April 24, 2007 15:02 source: Wang enlin

In the vast and beautiful motherland, you can see ancient pagodas everywhere. There are pagodas in the city and in the countryside; there are pagodas in the mountains, by the river, by the river and by the sea; there are pagodas in the mysterious Buddhist temples and Taoist temples, and there are pagodas in the magnificent and solemn palaces and palaces. These various kinds of ancient pagodas are comparable with other kinds of ancient buildings in China in terms of their beauty of modeling, ingenious structure, gorgeous carving and decoration. In order to understand the pagoda culture systematically, the author has been trying to buy a book "ancient pagoda of China" edited by Mr. Luo Zhewen, a famous ancient architecture expert, for many years.

Recently, Ms. Meng Xiujuan, an old classmate of Chang Shi, who lives in Beijing, sent me two books: Archaeology: theory, method and practice, written by Colin renfrou, a famous archaeologist and professor of Cambridge University in England, and Paul Bain, a professional archaeologist; China's famous pagoda, CO written by Luo Zhewen, a famous ancient architecture expert in China, Liu Zhiyuan and Liu Chunying.

According to Meng Xiujuan's telegram, in order to buy the two books, her old wife Wang Xin spent a whole half day searching in the huge Wangfujing bookstore. In the end, she bought the book, but her neck hurt as if she had lost her pillow. When I called to thank Mr. Wang Xin, he said excitedly: "thank you! If Xiujuan hadn't asked me to buy this book for you, I would not have known that Duobao Pagoda in Fangshan is one of the famous pagodas in China.

Then he talked to me about the tower in his hometown and the situation of playing and reading under the tower when he was a child. From his passionate words, I feel: like me, he is also deeply intoxicated by the ancient pagoda in his hometown.

Although the famous pagoda of China is not my dream of ancient pagoda of China, I like it more because the contents of the two are basically the same, even more substantial, especially the Yuanying Temple Pagoda in my county. So I read it through that night. Famous tower of China was published by Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House in June 2006. This is undoubtedly a rare gospel for the majority of "tower fans" to understand, understand and study the tower culture.

artistic value

The Yuanying Temple Pagoda in our county is mentioned in two places in China famous pagoda. One is in the fourth part, when introducing the dense eaves tower, the last summary is: "from the development history of dense eaves tower, after Liao and Jin Dynasties, there were more dense eaves towers built in the north of China, while the Pavilion tower was still the main tower in the south. China's existing well-known dense eaves pagodas include Tianning Temple Pagoda in Beijing, Yuanying Temple Pagoda in Changli, Hebei, and Chongxing Temple twin pagodas in Beizhen, Liaoning, etc Another is in the sixth part, which specially introduces Yuanying Temple Pagoda: "located in Changli County, Hebei Province, it belongs to dense eaves pagoda.

The tower is octagonal and thirteen story, brick, with a height of about 36 meters. A prominent feature of this tower is that the carving decoration of the first layer of the tower is quite different from that of the general dense eaves tower. It doesn't take the Buddha, Bodhisattva, king of heaven, strongman, flying sky and canopy as the theme, but takes the double tower, the city que, the flying corridor and the attic as the design of the Tiangong Pavilion. This kind of form has not yet been seen. It is a very precious example. " From March 1983 to June 1987, Yuanying Temple Pagoda was overhauled for four years and four months.

According to the major Mr. Zhang Pengqi, during this period, Mr. Luo Zhewen visited Changli many times to inspect Yuanying Temple Pagoda and guide the maintenance and construction work. Therefore, Mr. Wang has a deep understanding of the structure and artistic characteristics of the pagoda and its important position in the development history of ancient Chinese pagodas. Therefore, the description of the tower in the book is very profound. Under the introduction, black and white photos of the tower were specially distributed. We can fully understand the lofty position of Yuanying Temple Pagoda in the mind of ancient jiantaidou by studying its words and appreciating its photos.

There are more than thousands of ancient pagodas standing on the land of our country. There are more than 250 tombs of monks in the Pagoda Forest of Shaolin Temple in Dengfeng, Henan Province; 167 tombs of monks in the Pagoda Forest of Lingyan temple in Changqing County, Shandong Province; more than 80 tombs of monks in the Pagoda Forest of Fengxue temple in Ruzhou, Henan Province If the tombs of monks in all the ancient Buddhist temples all over the country

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