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Futa is located at the top of the east mountain of Lucheng, Chuxiong City, the capital of Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. The CPPCC of Chuxiong Prefecture proposed social donation to rebuild the Ming Dynasty pagoda site. The project started in March 2003 and completed in October 2004. The tower is an octagonal nine storey building with an outer corridor, 59 meters high. It is the first ancient landscape Pagoda in China to display the profound connotation of Chinese blessing culture with color painting, wood carving, stone carving and copper casting art.

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The outer wall of the pagoda is carved with the patterns of green dragon, white tiger, rosefinch and Xuanwu, as well as the calligraphy of Fu by Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty, Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty, Emperor Gaozong of Qing Dynasty and Emperor Xuanzong of Qing Dynasty. Each floor of the tower displays a theme of happiness: prosperous financial resources on the first floor, prosperous career on the second floor, academic achievements on the third floor, family harmony on the fourth floor, son sun Chengcai on the fifth floor, peace and auspiciousness on the sixth floor, virtue accumulation on the seventh floor, health on the eighth floor and longevity on the ninth floor. On the first floor of the hall is a bronze coin with a diameter of 3.66 meters and a weight of 3.6 tons. On the wall are inlaid with ink jade and marble carvings with gold-plated calligraphy of Sun Yat Sen, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Liu Shaoqi, Zhu De and Deng Xiaoping. From the second floor to the eighth floor, there is a different shape of bronze statue of leshimaitreya. The ninth floor is 1.48 meters high and weighs 1.2 tons. Each layer of Dou Gong, Liang Zhu, caisson painted a variety of auspicious patterns. On the first floor, there are four bronze doors engraved with double garden Fu characters, and on the second to ninth floors, there are doors and windows carved with basswood Fu characters and patterns. Outside the tower, there are three layers of blue stone reliefs with 108 pieces of lucky carving patterns. Inside and outside the pagoda, there are numerous Fu characters and patterns. There are several wooden palace lanterns with the character "Fu" on each floor of the tower. Outside the tower, the pavilion is equipped with modern lighting, which makes the night fall and the sky dazzling.

To the south of the pagoda is a 500 square meter red rock square. Under the two-story 17 steps of blue stone fence, there is a tower stele. The base of the stele is 1.5 meters high, and the four sides are 7 meters long stone pillars. On the base of the stele stands a 6.9-meter-high green stone stele. On the front of the stele is engraved with the word "Fu" written by Mao Zedong, and on the back is the story of the pagoda in Chuxiong. East of the tower is the classical courtyard "Fuyuan". To the south of the stele is the Fudao which rises from the Qinglong river. There are three Qingshi "fumen" archways which are more than 10 meters high.

Go up Dongshan, walk along Fudao, enter fumen, view Fuyuan, watch Fubei and enter futa. Climbing the pagoda and enjoying the scenery, you can have a panoramic view of the beautiful Lucheng city. You can enjoy the blessings of the pagoda, and you can see the beauty of the city. People in the tower, happiness in the heart, relaxed and happy, each in his own place.

The cultural symbol of Chuxiong

Every city with cultural accomplishment must have its own city landmark. Suzhou, with heaven above and Suzhou and Hangzhou below, is the "turtle city" built by Wu Zixu more than 3000 years ago; Fuzhou, Fujian, is the "banyan city" built by Fuma ye in the early Ming Dynasty; Quanzhou, by the sea, is a "carp city"; beautiful Changsha is the star city of "Changsha star" in the sky; Maitreya county, Yunnan, is the "Buddha city" in Southeast Yunnan Xianju County near Hangzhou is the "white fish city"; Wenzhou is the "Big Dipper Seven Star City"; Xi'an (Chang'an) is the Qinglong, Baihu, Zhuque, Xuanwu city of "four fortresses are solid, eight rivers are separated"; Dragon occupies Nanjing City, Jinma, Biji Kunming City, etc.

In the land of the motherland, every city with vitality, historical and cultural traditions, that is, temperament and personality, must have its own symbols in the inheritance of urban context. Fortunately, in the process of building a well-off society and a harmonious society, the people who love Chuxiong have raised funds to build China's first pagoda, the symbol of Chuxiong.

The establishment of "China's first pagoda" also marks the establishment of the cultural symbol of the spirit of mountains and rivers and the spirit of humanity in Chuxiong since then. It has become the spirit of the blessing culture of Chuxiong.

Ancient Chinese pagodas

China is an ancient country with a long history and rich cultural heritage. Ancient pagoda architecture is one of the components of China's cultural heritage. According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 2000 ancient pagodas in the cultural relics protection units at or above the county and city level that have been published or filed in China. If you add in the total number of ancient pagodas that have not yet been included in the cultural relics protection units at or above the county or city level, it can reach 10000. Tower also occupies an important position in the creation of artists, painters and poets, forming a part of Chinese culture.

The pagoda was originally a Buddhist building, which began in India. In other words, the pagoda culture is a kind of foreign culture. According to the Buddhist Scripture, around the 5th century BC (Sakyamuni was born in 567 BC; died in 485 BC), after Sakyamuni "Miedu", his disciples Ananda and others cremated the corpse, there were many hard "colorful" sarlra. The disciples divided the ashes and relics into eight parts and buried them in the main places where Sakyamuni lived. They built their own pagodas, which contained relics, scriptures, statues of Buddha, magic weapons, etc. for worship, and decorated with seven treasures outside. They became memorial buildings for Buddha. The ancient Sanskrit of the pagoda is St ū Pa; the Pali is th ū PA. After it was introduced into China, it was translated into Chinese as "sou Du Bo", or "Ta Po, Dou Po, Fu Tu, fo Tu, etc., commonly known as" pagoda "or" Ta ".

"Zuodubo" is a hemispherical tomb in India, in front of which there are stone or wood marks in the shape of "Kai". In the late Western Han Dynasty, Tasui Buddhism was introduced into China from India. As late as the early Eastern Han Dynasty (about 68 A.D.), wooden pagodas appeared in Baima temple, the first Buddhist temple in China. The architectural form of the foreign pagoda was transformed by the Chinese architectural style of overhanging mountain framework and Dougong carving at that time, and it became a single-layer Pavilion style tomb Pagoda with distinctive Han characteristics. And then combined with the wooden structure of China's pavilions, a kind of Chinese high-rise multi-level pagoda is derived, which is completely different from India. It has the combination of building, pavilion, Que and temple, and the overall structure of underground palace, tower base, tower body and Tasha.

While the shape of the pagoda is localized in China, the symbolic commemorative significance of the pagoda is not only used as the tomb of the "body relic", but also evolved into the "body relic", which is a symbolic memorial of spirit, culture and ideal. From burying human ashes to commemorating human spirit and marking local culture and spirit, this is a great sublimation. It is said in the Dharma Sutra master's product that "the seven pagodas should be set up in the places where the sutras reside. They should be decorated by Gao Guangyan. There is no need to restore the relic.". This is because "Buddha has real body and Dharma body", and Dharma body is the spirit and culture of Buddha. In this way, the localization of the pagoda in China makes the shape of the pagoda become more pavilions, the number of tower levels increase, "close to the clouds", and also makes the pagoda become a memorial building of spirit and culture from a memorial Buddha's tomb. This reflects that the Chinese culture does not refuse foreign culture since ancient times, but has a strong compatibility. We should absorb and absorb foreign culture, and then create new taste and value from form to connotation. This also shows that the absorption of foreign culture by the Chinese nation must have a process of localization. This is different from the attitude of "westernize completely", "do not break and do not stand", "eradicate the old Chinese culture to achieve modernization" and put the garbage discarded by foreign countries on the ancestral tablets of their own countries.

The construction of Chuxiong pagoda reflects the spirit of Chuxiong people's inheriting Chinese excellent culture and learning world advanced culture.

When you come to the central Yunnan Plateau, the first thing you can see is Chuxiong's "China's first pagoda". It's really "a pagoda with a clear view, and a thousand miles of sunshine."

The pagoda is not only the eye-catching landscape of Chuxiong, but also the symbol of Chuxiong's harmonious era and the landmark of Chuxiong's spiritual culture. The pagoda is a place of great admiration. Pagoda, with the image of being tall and straight, enables people to climb high and overlook the mountains and rivers. If you climb to the top of the ancient pagoda near the river, it will be "spectacular and the world is wide.". Longjiang River is vast, but it can't be returned. It can be seen from the bird's eyes and heard from the wind. Pagoda is the material embodiment of local spirit and local culture. The place where FOTA is located gathers people and exchanges culture. Therefore, one side of soil and water has one side of culture, and one side of culture has its own architecture adapted to the local culture, among which the most striking one in Chuxiong is the pagoda.

Chuxiong pagoda also plays a role of "navigation". On the undulating Central Yunnan Plateau, the land is vast, so it needs to have signs to indicate the direction. The tower is the center of the distant view. Since ancient times, it has guided people's harmony, "guiding thousands of sails to sail at night" and "sailing at night, guided by Lighthouse". So on the road of life, in the vast world, there is a tower to attract vision with "blessing heart", people will not lose their way.

Futa also decorates the mountains and rivers and beautifies the landscape, forming the composition center of Chuxiong urban design. Chuxiong pagoda is a combination of reason, Qi and form among heaven, earth and human. She is graceful, exquisite and charming, competing to write the posture of the sky, competing to model the shadow of the mountains in Central Yunnan. The pagoda stands tall and straight into the cloud. Welcome the dawn and send the sunset to accept the aura of heaven and earth.

The first place of dragon

Water mouth, also known as air port, is the door of a place, also known as the door face. A person with a beautiful face is the symbol of a person's spiritual temperament. The location of the pagoda makes Chuxiong spectacular and beautiful. The place where the tower is built is the key position where the Earth Dragon enters the first stage and the wind, water and gas are exposed. According to Shuikou, fotasiong was built on the top of a high mountain in Chuxiong

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