Tongzisi Lighthouse

Tongzisi Lighthouse

Tongzisi lighthouse is on Longshan mountain, 20 kilometers southwest of Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province. The temple was founded by monk Hongli in 556 A.D., the seventh year of Tianbao in the Northern Qi Dynasty. It is said that there are two children hiding in this mountain for meditation. Seeing that the mountain stone looks like a Buddha, they engraved a Buddha statue, which is 57 meters above the ground. It's named Tongzi temple. In front of the temple, there is a stone pagoda with a height of more than 4 meters and a hexagonal plane. The tower has a hollow body and a built-in light room.

Introduction to scenic spots

Tongzi temple was built in the seventh year of Tianbao in the Northern Qi Dynasty. It was destroyed in the first year of jintianfu and rebuilt in the first year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty. It's said that when two boys were in the mountain for a retreat, they saw the extraordinary momentum of the rocks, so they carved a 57 meter high statue of Buddha here, and the name of the temple came from it. The pagoda was built in the Northern Qi Dynasty, with harmonious proportion and beautiful shape. It is the oldest lighting stone pagoda known so far in China and a key cultural relic at the provincial level. On the Northeast cliff of Tongzi temple, there is the site of Shimen temple, in which there is a grotto with beautiful lotus patterns carved on the top. Gaoyang Zengdeng temple, the cultural emperor of the Northern Qi Dynasty, overlooks the city view of Bingzhou (today's Taiyuan). The temple was destroyed in 1117 and rebuilt in 1522. The architecture and stone Buddha statues in the temple have long disappeared. In front of the temple, there is a lamp burning stone tower, which is 4.12 meters high. It is hexagonal in plane. The base of the lower part is about half of the full height. The tower has a hollow body, a built-in lamp room, three doors and smoke exhaust at the top. The proportion of tower body is moderate and the shape is beautiful. Although it has experienced more than 1400 years of wind and rain, it is still the oldest stone pagoda known in China.

Transportation guide

External air traffic Taiyuan Wusu airport is located in the southern suburbs, about 18 kilometers away from the urban area. It has direct flights with Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Chengdu, Guilin, Nanjing, Shenyang, Xi'an and other major cities in China. There is no fixed civil aviation shuttle bus from Taiyuan to the airport. The most convenient way is to take a taxi. It takes about 30 minutes to take a taxi from Taiyuan to the airport. Taiyuan railway is the terminal of Beijing Taiyuan railway and the starting point of Taiyuan Taiyuan railway. It connects dozens of large and medium-sized cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Xi'an, Chengdu and Baotou. There are more than 20 express trains passing through and terminating in Taiyuan every day.

Taiyuan railway station is located in the easternmost side of Yingze street. From the urban area, you can take many buses such as 1, 5, 33 to the railway station. The ticket office of the railway station is Datong. It takes about 5 hours to get there. The fare is 70 yuan (including a snack). In addition, there are expressways from Taiyuan to Gujiao and Wenshui.

Address: longshanshang, Jinyuan District, Taiyuan City

Longitude: 112.44124159217

Latitude: 37.731575282469

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