Qiyun tower

Qiyun tower

Qiyun pagoda was originally known as sakasheri pagoda, JinFang pagoda and Baima Temple Pagoda. It was built in Yongping period of Eastern Han Dynasty and rebuilt in Jin Dynasty. Qiyun tower is about 200 meters southeast of the gate of Baima temple in Luoyang. It is the earliest existing ancient building in Luoyang and one of the few architectural remains of Jin Dynasty in Central Plains. The modeling of the tower has the characteristics of the dense eaves Pavilion tower in Tang and Song Dynasties, and adopts the method of imitating wood structure, which provides a rare physical example for the study of the architectural characteristics of Jin Dynasty, especially the structural characteristics of the brick tower in Central China. From the shape and internal structure of the tower, the tower has high historical, scientific and artistic value. In 1961, the State Council announced that Baima temple and Qiyun pagoda are key cultural relics under state protection.

brief introduction

Qiyun pagoda was founded in 69 A.D. in Yongping of the Eastern Han Dynasty, nearly 2000 years ago. It was rebuilt in the 15th year of Dading (1175 A.D.). The rebuilt Qiyun pagoda has a history of more than 800 years.

The tower is three fifteen meters high and has thirteen stories. It covers an area of more than 40 mu. Since 1989, under the leadership of the Municipal Bureau of religion, the late abbot of Baima temple, master Haifa, has invested millions to build the Qiyun pagoda, with more than 30 Buddhist temples, classrooms, observation halls, monk rooms, mountain gates and stele corridors. It has become the first Buddhist monastery in Henan Province. At present, more than 30 Buddhists are studying Buddhism here.

Qiyun pagoda, qingliangtai, Tenglan tomb, duanwenbei, midnight bell and zhenjingtai are called "six scenes of Baima Temple".

history

According to the records of Qiyun Pagoda in Shiyuan dabaima temple, on February 8, 2008, Emperor Liu Zhuang of the Han and Ming Dynasties came to Baima temple to meet two Indian eminent monks, Teng and LAN. It is said that a long time ago, a mound of earth suddenly rose up there, more than one foot high. People leveled it and came back. When it is bright, people think it is strange, so it is called "holy tomb".

After the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Qiyun pagoda was destroyed several times. After the Five Dynasties, Zhuang Wu, Li and Wang Zeng built a 9-level wooden tower, more than 500 feet high.

According to textual research, Li Jixun in the early Northern Song dynasty founded "dongbaima Temple" and built a wooden pagoda since the third year of Kaibao, Taizu of Song Dynasty. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the wooden pagoda was destroyed by fire. In the 15th year of jindading, the Linji monk qiyanyangong rebuilt a brick pagoda, which was called sakyasherita, JinFang pagoda or Baima Temple Pagoda. Monk ruxiu in the Qing Dynasty called this tower Qiyun tower, which has been widely accepted since then.

Bhiksuni Dojo

Jingjian, surnamed Zhong and named Lingyi, was born in Pengcheng. Later, his family moved to Luoyang. Jingjian, who was born in a scholarly family and had a good education, often taught Qin Shu to noble children before becoming a monk.

At that time, there was no bhiksuni in the Central Plains, so she went to see Zhishan, a monk in the western regions. At that time, there were 24 women who became monks with Jingjian at the same time, which caused a sensation in Luoyang City. Jingjian led the nuns to establish Zhulin temple in the west of Luoyang palace city as a place for practicing and promoting Buddhism. Later, Hu Seng Tan Capricorn set up an altar in Luoyang, and Jingjian and other four people went to the altar to receive the full precepts, becoming the first bhiksuni to become a monk in China. Jingjian and others were admonished, which caused a sensation in the Buddhist circles of Central Plains. Women from all walks of life who wanted to become monks were worshipping Jingjian as teachers, and the number of bhiksunis was increasing.

In 1990, Qiyun pagoda courtyard was opened as the first bhiksuni dojo in Henan Province, which became a place for bhiksuni's activities.

Main facilities

Qiyun pagoda is a square with a north facing south seat. It is composed of three parts: base, body and brake. The shape is a thirteen level brick tower with dense eaves, with a total height of 26 meters. The appearance of the tower is a beautiful parabola, and the internal structure adopts architectural forms such as walkways, shafts, niches, chambers and arches. The structural materials skillfully combine bricks, wood and stone to form a unique style of ancient tower. In front of the pagoda, there are three inscriptions of the 15th year of jindading and the rebuilt inscriptions of Ming Dynasty.

Architectural features

Qiyun tower is about 300 meters east of Baima Temple Mountain Gate. It is about 25 meters tall and has 13 floors. It is a square brick tower with dense eaves. The side length of the tower is 7.8 meters and the height is 35 meters. It has 13 floors. Under the eaves of the first floor tower, it is decorated with a wooden style bucket arch and covered with a bottle style tower brake. The outline of the tower is slightly parabolic, exquisite and elegant. An arch is opened to the south of each floor, where you can climb and look out.

At the bottom of the tower is a square waist xumizuo, each side is about 7.8 meters long, and its waist length and width are 6.78 meters. The largest perimeter of the tower is in the middle of the tower, and the top of the tower is covered with a bottle type tower brake. The outer contour is slightly parabolic from bottom to top, with unique shape and soft and smooth lines.

The mystery of frogs

There is another wonder about Qiyun pagoda. Standing about 20 meters south of Qiyun pagoda, you can hear the cry of "wow wow" from the tower, which is very similar to the cry of frog. Several students from No.23 middle school in Luoyang City have made several topographic surveys to uncover the mystery of Qiyun tower's magical frog call

Clap your hands about 20 meters away from the Qiyun tower, and the sound waves are reflected when they reach behind the tower. Among them, the sound waves propagating along the horizontal direction first touch the tower body and are reflected back, and then the first tower eaves also reflect the sound waves back; the second, third, fourth and so on successively reflect the sound waves back. It also includes the focusing phenomenon formed by the sound waves reflected from the eaves of each tower. The echo that people hear from Qiyun tower is a complex "comprehensive echo" formed by the superposition, continuation and so-called "focusing" of several simple echoes.

legend

Once upon a time, there was a big pool in Baima temple, named toad pool. There is a toad spirit living in the depth of the toad pool. If it is not happy, it will set off turbulent waves in the pool and destroy people's families.

One winter, on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, it was the anniversary of Buddha becoming a Taoist. An old monk passed by and accepted toad essence after listening to people's story. Ask the old monk for mercy, and never do bad things again. Under the command of the old monk, toad spirit moved bricks and stones and built a pagoda beside toad pool. Because the pagoda towered into the clouds, it was called Qiyun pagoda.

Di Gong Temple

Di Gong temple is a stone's throw away from Qiyun tower and Baima temple. According to legend, there was a Di Gong temple here in the Song Dynasty. In Tang Dynasty, Baima temple was regarded as di Renjie's incense house.

Di Gong temple was rebuilt by Baimasi town in the early 1990s. It has three parts: ancestral garden, garden and cemetery.

After Di Gong temple was assigned to Baima temple, the ancestral garden and garden were returned to qiyuntani courtyard. There are artificial lakes, artificial mountains, lush forests, Xiuzhu, winding paths and pavilions. The atmosphere of Jiangnan gardens is in sharp contrast to the solemn and solemn style of Baima temple. The reflection of Qiyun tower on the artificial lake is beautiful. 　

Maintenance protection

Due to the disrepair and lightning strike, the tower is in danger. In March 2009, Luoyang City decided to repair and protect the tower to restore the historical style of the original building as far as possible.

The local collapse part of the platform of the tower was repaired by using the methods of plain soil tamping, plain concrete cushion, plain cement slurry to build the bonding layer and square green brick paving. The weathered and caustic brick will be removed and rebuilt according to the existing brick specifications and sizes. For the external cracks of the wall, plain cement slurry will be used to fill the joints, and then lime slurry will be used to point the joints. The overlapped eaves collapsed due to lightning stroke were excavated and repaired. It is planned to use a waist iron to hoop the first to tenth floors of the tower, and replace the seriously decayed wood members in the tower. In addition, lightning protection facilities should be installed on the tower to prevent lightning stroke.

Address: about 200 meters southeast of Baimasi Mountain Gate in Luoyang

Longitude: 112.60648345947

Latitude: 34.725597381592

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