Pazhou tower

Pazhou tower

Pazhou tower is located in Pazhou (now Xingang East Road), Haizhu District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, near the Pearl River. Pazhou tower is octagonal pavilion type, built with green brick, with a 9-level appearance, 17 floors inside and more than 50 meters high. It is located in Pazhou, Haizhu District, Guangzhou. The diameter of the first floor is 12.7m, the side length is 4.95M, and the wall thickness is 3.97M. There are three doors. The north and South doors enter into the chamber of the first floor tower, and the west door has the chamber of the second floor (dark floor) tower on the original brick steps. Starting from the second floor, the four sides of each floor are open, such as the cross lane running through vertically and horizontally, and the two adjacent floors are staggered to open the door; the niches without doors on other sides are false doors. It is one of the eight sceneries of Yangcheng in Qing Dynasty and has the reputation of "pillar of Pazhou". It is a cultural relic protection unit in Guangdong Province.

Development history

After the mid Ming Dynasty, Fengshui was very popular in Lingnan architecture. Fengshui experts believe that Guangzhou is "the place where the mountains and rivers are exhausted, the East water entrance is empty, and Lingqi does not belong to it. Therefore, every geothermal station is dedicated to building Fengshui tower. In Fengshui's family, Shizhong Gaoping built a pagoda on Pazhou, the Pearl River in the east of Guangzhou. This is Pazhou pagoda. 12 years after the completion of Pazhou tower, another lotus tower was built on the Lotus Mountain in Panyu, which is close to the lion ocean. 19 years after the completion of Pazhou tower, another Chigang tower was built in the west of Pazhou.

During the Wanli reign of Shenzong in the Ming Dynasty, a towering tower was built on a small hill in Pazhou. According to Qu wengshan, a scholar in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, there were golden sea turtles on the water surface of Pazhou at that time. Every time these sea turtles appeared, there would be light nearby! Because of these visions, the pagoda on Pazhou is also called Haiao pagoda!

Haiao tower was built in 1597, the 25th year of emperor Shenzong of Ming Dynasty. It took three years to complete in the 27th year of Wanli. The pagoda is octagonal in shape, with eight trigrams carved on the base of each wall, and the stone tuotalis as the symbol of supporting the base of the pagoda. The landform near Pazhou has almost completely changed, but Haiao tower is still towering! With the new "Guangzhou International Convention and Exhibition Center" opened nearby, I believe Pazhou will be more and more prosperous and lively!

Pazhou tower is located in Pazhou (now Xingang East Road), Haizhu District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, near the Pearl River. It's said that there was a golden turtle floating out of the Pearl River, so it was originally called Haiao tower, which may also mean to protect Xuezi high school. Because the hill where the tower was built was connected with two mountains, such as pipa, it was called Pazhou tower. The name of the tower is still used today.

Pazhou tower was built in the 28th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1600). It is an octagonal pavilion type brick tower. The inner bore is octagonal vertical well type, with 9 layers in appearance and 17 layers in it, with a height of more than 50 meters.

The diameter of the tower base is 12.7m, the wall thickness is 3.97M, and there are three doors. From the second floor, each floor is relatively staggered, with niches on each side.

The octagons on the base of the pagoda are inlaid with stone carvings of Western figures. The carvings are simple and simple. They are excellent stone carvings of the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, when Pazhou was not connected with the South Bank of the Pearl River, the Pazhou tower on the top of the hill was just like the mainstay, so "Pazhou mainstay" was listed as one of the Eight Sights of Yangcheng in the Qing Dynasty.

The tower is a key cultural relic protection unit at the provincial level.

Pazhou tower was originally built as a geomantic tower. After the mid Ming Dynasty, it can be used as a navigation sign. It is an important site of the maritime Silk Road in Guangzhou.

We will see the famous Pazhou tower on the cruise ship of the Pearl River.

Tourism information

Pazhou tower is located in Pazhou village, East Xingang Road, Guangzhou City, also known as Haiao tower. It is one of the Eight Sights of Yangcheng in Qing Dynasty, and has the reputation of "pillar of Pazhou". It is a cultural relic protection unit in Guangdong Province. The tower was built in 1600. The tower is octagonal in plane, with 9 external levels and 11 internal levels, with a height of more than 50 meters. The base of the tower is octagonal, built of red sand rock, and each side of the facade is carved with eight trigrams. At the base corner, there is a kneeling talisman in the western image, supporting the tower with both hands or one hand, with a vivid look.

Address: Pazhou village, Haizhu District, Guangzhou

Transportation: take bus No.24, 137, 762, 262, Lu 1 to Pazhou tower station or take Metro Line 8 to Pazhou station.

Pazhou tower is not open for climbing, only for viewing from a distance.

Geographical area

Pazhou, formerly known as "Pipa Zhou", is located on the South Bank of the Pearl River in the southeast and northwest of Huangpu town. Originally it was a sandbank in the river, but now it is connected with the south bank. It was named after the outline of the sandbank in ancient times, which was similar to pipa. Because it is located on the main road of the Pearl River, it is also known as "huichengshuikou". Pazhou tower stands on Pazhou. It was first built as a geomantic tower. It complements the lotus tower on Lianhua Mountain in Panyu District, Guangzhou, and Chigang tower in Haizhu District, Guangzhou.

Pazhou tower is also an important site of Guangzhou Maritime Silk Road in history.

Pazhou tower stands on the hill of bizhou and acts as a navigation beacon.

If you were to enter Guangzhou by boat from the Pearl River Estuary, you would surely see the Pazhou tower as the mainstay, so you call it the "Pazhou pillar", which later became one of the Eight Sights of Yangcheng in the Qing Dynasty.

In 1015, zhunian state, located in the south of India, berthed here when it came to pay tribute to pearls in the Song Dynasty. At that time, there was no tower on Pipa island. According to the records of the envoys at that time, it was called "Pipa mountain in Guangzhou". Zhunian state was another name of "Zhuluo state" in the Song Dynasty.

It is recorded in the biography of Zhu Nian in the history of Song Dynasty.

From the Pearl River estuary into Guangzhou, we can see the sequence of the three towers: Lotus tower, Pazhou tower and Chigang tower.

Structural features

Pazhou pagoda is built with green bricks. The inner chamber is octagonal vertical well type. Each floor has four opposite doors, and the other four sides are provided with niches. From the second floor, each level overflows the eaves. The tower body narrows from bottom to top.

This is in contrast to our traditional architectural style, the Yellow Crane Tower. They both stress symmetry, with waist eaves escaping, and the tower body narrowing with the increase of height.

From the Buddhist images in the pagoda, we can see the thoughts of the Chinese people at that time, such as religious beliefs. Moreover, people who live near Pazhou tower always have the habit of overlooking the tower on Chongyang, which is a reflection of the inheritance of Guangzhou Customs.

Xumi tower is 5.6 meters long and 1.15 meters high. The base is paved with gray porphyry, the eight sides of the upper Fang are engraved with eight trigrams according to the orientation, and the corners of the waist are inlaid with stone tottalis.

The red leaning column is set at the corner of the tower body, and the black forehead Fang is applied at the head of the column.

The walls were plastered white.

On the forehead machine, the eaves are folded with 6 layers of water chestnut teeth bricks, and the eaves on the first floor are 0.85 meters. On the waist eaves of all levels, the flat seat is made of 4 layers of water chestnut teeth bricks, and the width of the second level flat seat is 0.69 meters. All levels of flat seats are provided with wooden guardrails.

The top of the tower is octagonal. On the cast iron basin, there is the word "Daoguang rebuilt". The top eaves have cast iron goose shaped angle beams extending out of the hanging bell.

Beside the pagoda, there is a stone tablet named "Pazhou Ding Jian Hai'ao pagoda". In 1991, with the donation of Hong Kong businessman Tang Baosen, Pazhou tower was fully repaired.

Pazhou tower is located in Pazhou, Haizhu District. Pazhou tower is octagonal in shape and built with green bricks. It has nine layers in appearance and seventeen layers in interior. There is a ladder in the tower, which can reach the top of the tower.

The height of the tower is 59 meters, the diameter of the tower bottom is 12.7 meters, and the whole tower covers an area of 111 square meters. The door passes through like a lane.

From the second floor, each level escapes from the eaves. There are four doors on each floor of the tower, and there are niches on the other four sides. Each floor is paved into a wooden building, and a ladder is built along the wall to reach the top of the tower.

The base of the tower is made of granite stones, and each corner is carved with a stone statue of tuotalishi. The western image is kneeling, and the carving is simple. This is a rare stone carving of Ming Dynasty in Guangzhou.

Pazhou tower was built in the 25th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1597). It is named Haiao tower. Because it is in Pazhou, it is called Pazhou tower.

It is a 9-level brick tower with eight sides. There are 17 layers of wooden boards in it. There are wooden ladders to climb the top of the tower. Today, the wooden floors and ladders no longer exist. The diameter of the tower bottom is several meters and the height is about 38 meters. The doors on each floor are opened on four sides, the doors on each floor are staggered, and shrines are set on the other four sides.

At the foot of the tower, there is a western image of tuotalishi stone carving, which is strong and strong. Each floor above the second floor has a waist eaves. The original Haiao Temple beside the tower is jiudi. In the Qing Dynasty, the pagoda was one of the eight sceneries of Yangcheng, which was called "pillar of Pazhou".

Address: Pazhou village, Xinjiao Town, Xingang East Road

Longitude: 113.3713

Latitude: 23.10326

Tel: 020-84424734

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