Yexian pagoda

Yexian pagoda

Yexianta scenic spot is located in the northeast of Miyun District, Beijing, covering an area of 1150 mu, of which yexianta mountain forest covers an area of 800 Mu and the park covers an area of 350 mu. Yexian park is built in accordance with Yexian pagoda, with beautiful scenery, facing the beautiful Miyun. Yexian pagoda was first built in Liao Dynasty (1039). The Jiajing Temple of Ming Dynasty was destroyed by fire. Yexian pagoda was rebuilt in the 43rd year of Qianlong reign of Qing Dynasty. In the 15th year of Guangxu reign, the top of the pagoda was struck by lightning, then rebuilt, and destroyed during the cultural revolution. In 2001, the government of Miyun District of Beijing built the pagoda again at the original site. Yeta Xiandeng is one of the eight scenic spots outside Yanjing, with the highest altitude of 332.5 meters. Yexianta scenic spot was founded in April 2009, developed by Shouzheng group and built with the strong support of Miyun District government. It is a collection of tourism, sightseeing and conference. Yexian pagoda is located on Yeshan mountain. There is a Puji temple. The pagoda is called Yexian pagoda, also known as yeta Xiandeng. Yexian tower is about 8 meters high and octagonal in plane. The tower has two floors, one on the upper and the other on the lower. Each floor has an arched gate. The door opening faces south. There are brick false windows and brick flower decorations around. The base, body and top of the tower are all brick and wood like structures. It is said that when Ji Xiaotang, an eminent monk, was practicing in the tower, there were strings of red lights on the top of the tower at night, so he called the Yexian tower "yeta Xiandeng".

Historical evolution

According to the ancient books, "Ye Xian lived on it, and lights were put on when.".

However, no one has ever seen "Yexian", but some people have witnessed the lighting.

In the old days, during the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, some believers near the foot of the mountain would go to the temple in front of the pagoda to burn incense and offer sacrifices. Some people would also hang some small red lanterns at the entrance of the temple or at the corner of the pagoda. At night, after lighting the candles, the lights would shine everywhere. Looking from the foot of the mountain, it was like the red star shining in the sky. Its scenery was so wonderful that it got the name of "Ye TA Xian Deng".

Yexian pagoda was first built in 1039 A.D. in the eighth year of Chongxi reign of Liao Dynasty. There was a temple in front of the pagoda, which was called Puzhao temple. During the reign of Jiajing and Gengshu in Ming Dynasty, the Hutu invaded the pagoda and destroyed it by fire. After reconstruction, it was changed into Puji temple.

In 1778, the Yixian pagoda was rebuilt, and the Ying of Nanhai Dashi Buddha Hall was built. In 1889, the top of the pagoda was struck by lightning (see volume I-4 of Miyun county annals in the third year of the Republic of China), and then rebuilt.

Although the tower has been rebuilt many times, its structure has always maintained the architectural style of Liao Dynasty. The tower is 12 meters high, 6 meters in diameter, octagonal in plane and hollow in three eaves. The tower has two upper and lower floors. Each floor has an arched ticket door, which can be accessed. The door opening faces south. There are brick carved false windows and various brick carvings around. The base, body and top of the tower are all brick carvings and imitation wood structures. On both sides of the lower ticket door, there are Qing Dynasty calligraphy A pair of couplets engraved on the inscription said: "high inserted Yunhan literati pen, heavy lead Tanying Samurai crown", the horizontal inscription of the three characters is "Puji Temple".

In the ten years of turmoil, this precious Liao tower was destroyed in 1967 in the name of "breaking the four old".

Related Legends

On the mountain to the northeast of Miyun Town, there is a brick tower called Yexian tower. There is a lamp on the top of the tower. At night, the red light shines. You can see it from a distance. It is said that the lamp was hung by immortal Ji Xiaotang.

There is a deep cave below the tower. There is an iron chain at the entrance of the cave. As soon as you pull it, there will be a loud noise in the cave. It is said that the iron chain locks grandma Silurus.

The ancient city of Miyun is close to mountains and rivers (Baihe River), and the land is also fertile. Therefore, every year, grain is abundant and every industry is prosperous.

But one year, a catfish spirit came to the Baihe River. It often made waves and destroyed the fertile fields on both sides of the river.

Sometimes it will turn into a woman and go to the village to harm people. People call it "grandma Silurus".

On the evening of new year's Eve, Liu Dong, a bachelor in the village, was making dumplings at home. Suddenly there was a knock on the door. Liu Dong just opened the door. A young daughter-in-law came into the yard and said that she was going back to her mother's home. It was late and wanted to stay overnight.

The woman said as she entered the room, and she fooled her legs into sitting on the edge of the Kang.

Liu Dong is a loyal and honest farmer. He immediately thinks that there is no woman in his family. It's not appropriate to keep a young daughter-in-law at home. It's not a joke if it damages the reputation of others.

Therefore, Liu Dong gently advised her to go to another home to rest. Unexpectedly, the woman blinked her eyes and sighed, tears streaming down.

Liu Dongna saw this situation and said, "then you can live. I'll go to sleep in the grass shed."

The woman heard that she didn't cry at that time. She picked up the dough stick and rolled the dumpling skin. While rolling, she chatted with Liu Dong. The woman told Liu Dong with red eyes that her husband died in less than a year, and her mother-in-law bullied her. The widow lost her job. She had to beat or scold her all day and didn't give her food, so she couldn't live any longer.

At last, the woman glanced at Liu Dong and said, "you have a good heart. If I can find a man like you, I will enjoy myself!" Even a wooden man should be moved by this sentence. When Liu Dong heard this, he blushed and didn't dare to pick a quarrel.

The woman went forward again and said in a delicate voice, "brother has no family background. If you don't dislike him, I'll leave you to cook." Liu Dong thought to himself that he didn't even have three or six certificates. How bad his reputation is! The woman seemed to hear Liu Dong's psychological words and said, "don't worry, elder brother. I'll go home tomorrow morning and come back after discussing."

In this way, the next day the woman really got up early and left. Three days later, in the evening, the woman came back with three men. enter

The door said how satisfied parents, sent three relatives to marry, and so on, said Liu Dongxi on the brow. However, he didn't know that this woman was grandma Silurus, who was harmful to people in the Baihe River.

After Liu Dong and his daughter-in-law got married, they were inseparable and loved each other. But since he got married, Liu Dong began to be weak, yellow and thin, and saw that a strong and strong young man was getting worse day by day.

On this day, Liu Dong couldn't stand it any more, so he decided to go to the pharmacy to get the medicine. As soon as he got to the door of the pharmacy, he was stopped by Ji Xiaotang, a Taoist who is good at killing people.

Ji Xiaotang said to Liu Dong, "you look scorched and evil. Who's in your family?" At the beginning, Liu Dong hesitated. After several inquiries, he told the truth.

As soon as the Taoist listened, he knew it. He said to Liu Dong, "she is not a human being. She is a thousand year old catfish essence in Baihe River. She turns into a beautiful woman and puzzles you.

If you don't believe it, drink with her at night, get her drunk and see what she looks like. " Liu Dong followed his plan.

In the evening, the couple drank each other, and the woman began to give up drinking. Liu Dong could not help but give up drinking again and again. After drinking a lot of wine, she was as drunk as mud and lay on the Kang for a short time, which showed her prototype. It turned out to be a big catfish.

Liu Dong believed that what Ji Xiaotang said was true. The next day, Liu Dong found Ji Xiaotang again and begged him to save him. Ji Xiaotang said to him, "I'll give you a talisman. You need to find a chance to stick it to her chest. She will show her original shape immediately. Then I'll go and catch her." Liu Dong had a talisman hidden in his arms and rushed home. When he got home, he took out the talisman while talking with the woman and put it on the woman's chest. However, due to his nervousness, his hands trembled when he put it on. Catfish spirit found that it was not good. With a sound of "ow", he ran out of the door and went straight to the Baihe River. When Silurus asotus came back to Baihe River, he began to make waves and flood. In a moment, Baihe River rose, turbid waves were surging, and floods came all around the county. At this time, Ji Xiaotang did not panic. He asked the people in the city to beat 100 swallows, prepare a pot of sesame oil, prepare 100 barbs and an iron chain. After preparation, they set up a big pot on the wall, fried the swallow with sesame oil, put the iron hook into the swallow's belly, put it on the iron chain, and threw it into the Baihe River. After a while, the delicious smell of fried swallow wafted all over the Baihe River. The fish and shrimp Genie smelled the smell, and you snatched it from me. The last string of barbed fried swallow was thrown into Hanoi and swallowed by catfish essence. The iron hook caught catfish essence. Ji Xiaotang recited the incantation secretly, only heard a loud crash, and the iron chain locked catfish grandmother. Ji Xiaotang pulled up the chain and locked grandma Silurus in the cave on the top of Yeshan mountain. A pagoda was built on it to suppress the spirits. In order to prevent the water monsters from making trouble after he left, Ji Xiaotang hung a lamp on the top of the tower. Seeing that she had no hope of getting out of the tower, she begged Ji Xiaotang for the date of her birth. Ji Xiaotang told him that the time when the tieshuhua was born was when the lamp was upside down. From then on, grandma Silurus stayed in the cave, waiting for the day when she was born. Since then, yeta fairy lamp has become one of the eight famous sceneries in Miyun.

unearthed relic

In the autumn of 1988, the Beijing Municipal Institute of cultural relics, in collaboration with the Miyun District Cultural Relics Management Institute, began to excavate the base of the tower. During the excavation, it was found that there was nothing above the ground, and the underground palace was also scarred. In the underground palace, more than 40 pieces of complete ceramic ware were excavated, including more than 70 ancient coins (mostly Song Dynasty coins). Among the porcelain, there are green glazed clear bottles, secret color porcelain plates, square white porcelain plates, round white porcelain plates, gourd shaped porcelain pendants, etc. the pottery is tower shaped Sutra tube (most of which are broken), as well as one piece of glass (broken), and one Buddha string bead. Although the unearthed cultural relics are not very rich, there are many excellent ones, among which the green glazed yingluojing bottle is the best. The bottle is 24.1cm high with a small mouth and a long neck

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