Jiading fahua tower

Jiading fahua tower

Jiading fahua tower, also known as Jinsha tower, is located in Zhouqiao old street of Jiading. It was first built in the Kaixi period of the Song Dynasty. Since then, it has been repaired to varying degrees in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Jiaqing and the Republic of China periods of the Qing Dynasty. In January 1996, the underground palace of fahua pagoda was cleaned up and excavated, and a number of precious cultural relics such as Buddha statues, books, ancient coins and jade ware of song, yuan and Ming Dynasties were successively discovered. In 1996, the tower was restored in Ming Dynasty style. Now, the old street has formed a beautiful scenery of Jiangnan Water Town, which is a combination of one tower, two rivers, three streets and four bridges.

Jiading fahua tower

Jiading fahua tower is located in the center of Jiading town, Jiading District, also known as Jinsha tower. Fahua tower was built in the Kaixi period of the Southern Song Dynasty (1205-1207). At that time, it was also called "Lianqi city". Ten years later, Jiading was established as a county.

This tower is the center of the county construction, because it is the highest point in the city and the center of the four main streets in the East, South, West and North.

After the tower was built, it was rebuilt in 1308. After several times of rise and fall, to the Ming Dynasty Wanli years damage is particularly serious, leaving only the bottom is still relatively complete.

In the 36th year of Wanli (1608), Chen Yiyuan, the magistrate, raised money to rebuild the building, but still restored the seven storey building. There are pot doors on all sides, brick and wood structure, 40.83 meters high. There are flat seats, railings and waist eaves on each floor. The cornices between the floors are tilted, and the eaves bells are hung below. The wind-driven bells ring, which are crisp and pleasant.

"Sunset in Jinsha" was one of the cultural attractions of Jiading at that time. Lou Jian, a calligrapher and one of the four masters of Jiading in the late Ming Dynasty, inscribed the plaque of "fahua tower".

In 1924, when Dai Sigong, a native of the city, raised money to overhaul the tower, he changed the gallery on the ground floor, the waist railings on each floor, and the top of the tower on the seventh floor to a reinforced concrete structure.

After the founding of new China, Jiading people's government announced it as a cultural relic protection unit.

In 1994, the Shanghai Municipal Administration of cultural relics and the Jiading County Government decided to jointly allocate nearly 2 million yuan to repair the FA Hua tower, which was seriously tilted (with a displacement of 120 cm), and to move the surrounding residents and shops.

In February, the underground palace at the bottom of the pagoda and the niches in the six storey pagoda room were first cleared, and tens of thousands of cultural relics of song, yuan and Ming Dynasties, such as ancient coins before Song Dynasty, basibawen coins of Yuan Dynasty, jade figurines, jade carving animals, stone statues, silver boxes, bronzes, porcelain and ancient books, were cleared.

During the restoration, a number of contemporary treasures, such as "century Baoding" sub Ding, high-grade purple sand teapot, laser glass "Shengguang", porcelain "Sanyang Kaitai", Deng Sanmu's seal "Shoushan Stone couplet of Qing Dynasty", silver 2000 Santana car and gold light bulb model, Nanxiang Xiaolong steamed bread jade carving, gold shield, silver lamp, Liuqing bamboo carving and boxwood carving, will also be restored Wait, go to the underground palace.

It was completed at the end of 1996. Through the theodolite measurement, the whole tower body "stands straight" and meets the requirements. Moreover, the inherent style of the ancient tower "bells ring in the sky" has been restored, and three-dimensional floodlighting has been set for it, which makes the legend of "four corners shine" come true.

There are stairs on each floor of the tower, and you can see the scenery of the whole city.

Under the tower, the winding river, the deep streets and the antique old houses make up a scene of Jiading.

The legend of Jiading fahua tower

It is commonly known as Wenbi peak, which means praying for Chinese style imperial examination.

There is no temple beside the fahua tower, standing majestically in the downtown streets.

There is a legend about Jiading tower.

It is said that at that time, the academic name of Jiading declined, so someone proposed to build a tower on the street at the intersection of Hengli River and Lianqi River, named fahua, which means that people can get the wisdom of Buddha to encourage scholars to forge ahead.

After the construction of the pagoda, Jiading was indeed "famous", so the pagoda was regarded as the source of Jiading's literary style.

The tower of fahua has a special flavor in winter!

Transportation guide

Address: Southwest Bank of the intersection of Lianqi River and Hengli River, Jiading town, Jiading District (Denglong bridge and south street below the tower)

Transportation Guide: Metro Line 11 (Jiangsu Road to Jiading North), take Hujia line (people's Square to Jiading passenger transport center), Huqian line (Yan'an middle intersection of Weihai Road to Jiading passenger transport center), Xinjia line (Shanghai railway station to Jiading passenger transport center), Beijia line (Shanghai North District bus station to Jiading passenger transport center), HUTANG line (Shanghai railway station to Jiading passenger transport center) Tangxing Town, Putuo District), North an line (Zhenping Road, Putuo District to Anting Town, Jiading District), Songjia line (Wusong wharf to Jiading bus passenger transport center) can reach Jiading town bus station. After getting out of the bus station, turn right along Chengzhong road to Tacheng Road, turn left at South Street and go straight to fahua tower (turn right at South Street and go to Jiading Confucius Temple, namely Jiading Museum and China imperial examination system Museum, And huilongtan Park).

In addition, you can take Jialuo line to Tacheng Road station at Jiading bus station and get off at fahua tower.

Self lifting route: Yan'an Road Viaduct - S20 outer ring expressway - s5 Hujia Expressway - Jiading town Bole South Road - Bole road - Tacheng road - South Street - fahua tower.

Address: qiaolao street, Jiading District, Shanghai

Longitude: 121.25067791628

Latitude: 31.383986404993

Chinese PinYin : Jia Ding Fa Hua Ta