Xingwen tower

Xingwen tower

Xingwen tower is located in the South Gate slope of Wufeng County in Yichang, Hubei Province, next to the provincial trunk road. It is one of the landmark ancient buildings in Yichang city. It was built in 1869.

brief introduction

It's said that Wufeng city and its surrounding land are frivolous, adjacent to Changyang city and its surrounding land is dignified, and the earth's atmosphere overflows, so it's difficult to be a pillar of talent, because this tower is built to control it.

The origin of Xingwen tower

Xingwen pagoda is a kind of brick pagoda modeled after the shape of Buddha pagoda, but it is not religious in nature, but a kind of "Fengshui pagoda". There are such buildings in many parts of the country. This kind of buildings are located in the southeast of the city or county. Because of Chinese customs, the southeast is the main body of the article. In order to revitalize the local culture and bring out more talents in the future, every county that has never been a famous scholar or official in the country will raise funds to build such buildings as Wenchang Pavilion or Xingwen tower. It can be seen that Xingwen tower not only carries the villagers' hope to enhance the local culture, but also embodies a local culture. Xingwen tower, also known as pagoda.

The location of Xingwen tower

Xingwen tower is located in Xiangdong village, Wufeng town. It was built in September of the eighth year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty. It is located in baotapo, Xiangdong village, Wufeng Town, two kilometers away from the county. Xingwen tower is Fengshui tower. During the eight years of Tongzhi, Deng Shihan, the county magistrate, chose this place to build a tower in order to prosper the national culture of Changle County (now Wufeng Tujia Autonomous County).

The structure of Xingwen tower

Xingwen tower, built with green bricks and stone bars, is composed of seven floors, six sides and one tower brake, with a height of 212.38 meters and an area of 42 square meters. The bottom floor is five meters high and four meters wide on six sides. The gateposts are made of stone and polished into long square shape. The couplet "the ladder goes straight up to the wild goose and the sky tower opens steadily" is engraved on both sides of the front of the gateposts. The horizontal inscription is "Xingwen tower", one foot square in three characters, and the time of building the tower is engraved on the side. There are 0.7m-diameter circular arch viewing windows on the East, West, North and south sides of the second floor and on the north and south sides of the third floor; there are 1.4m-high and 0.7m-wide arched viewing windows on the left and right sides of the fourth, fifth and sixth floors and on the north and south sides of the seventh floor; the top of the tower is a green brick "before maintenance" seal top, and the Tasha is made of alloy casting, forming a bottle shape. The eaves of the tower and the wind chime angle supported by the stack of green bricks and stones are used on each floor. The tower covers an area of 12.6 square meters. The body of the tower is wide at the bottom and narrow at the top. The pillow and slab of each floor are made of Chinese fir and pine, which are overlapped in the shape of "well". Due to disrepair, the tower body is cracked from top to bottom, and the top and eaves of the tower are overgrown with vegetation, resulting in serious natural weathering loss.

Renovation of Xingwen tower

In order to carry out the law of the people's Republic of China on the protection of cultural relics, in September 2002, under the advocacy of the people's Government of Wufeng Tujia Autonomous County, the tower was repaired by means of government funding and social donation, with a total investment of more than 600000 yuan. Xingwen tower is one of the eight scenic spots in Wufeng county. In January 1994, it was announced by Yichang municipal people's government as the first batch of municipal key cultural relics protection units.

Overview of scenic spots

survey

When the county government decided to carry out the overall maintenance, more than 2000 Wufeng people inside and outside the county voluntarily donated money

More than 130000 yuan, the County Council for the promotion of the aged and the Bureau of culture and sports invited the provincial ancient architecture experts to survey and design, and determined the maintenance plan of Xingwen tower and the construction plan of Baota park. After one year's investment of nearly 600000 yuan, we have completed the overall maintenance of the main tower, the construction of more than 3000 square meters of three-story platform guardrail and tourist trestle. Therefore, Xingwen pagoda becomes an important cultural landscape between Chaibuxi National Forest Park and Houhe National Nature Reserve. In Wufeng Tujia Autonomous County, South Gate outside the rice farm Aoshan. It was built in 1869.

legend

It's said that Wufeng city and its surrounding land are frivolous, adjacent to Changyang city and its surrounding land is dignified, and the earth's atmosphere overflows, so it's difficult to be a pillar of talent, because this tower is built to control it. The tower base is built of stone, the body is built of brick, the top is made of copper, seven floors and six corners, and the height is more than 30 meters. The gate of the bottom tower is inlaid with 3 feet long and 2 feet wide stone forehead, engraved with the word "Xingwen tower" and stone strips on the left and right. The couplet of "the cloud ladder goes straight up to the wild goose, and the tianque opens steadily from afar" is engraved, and the time and name of the tower are noted. The style is vigorous and ancient, and many people copy it. From the second floor to the sixth floor, there are stone round windows on six sides and round doors on six sides of the top floor, carved with various patterns. The design is fine, the structure is meticulous, the style is ancient and elegant, and the posture is steady.

building structure

Around the base of the tower, there is a lot of thatch. On the west side, there are several rows of sweet potatoes. On the eaves of the tower

Xingwen tower

A lot of thatch has grown, and some unknown vines have climbed to the top of the tower. Starting from the gate of the tower, I turned around it clockwise to see the detailed structure of the tower more clearly. There is a big gap in the first and sixth stone eaves on the south side of the tower. Some of the components with crane crowns are still carved stone holes. Some crane crowns are incomplete, with obvious marks of being broken. Long Chengqian, a good friend, said: "these small stone holes are used to hang copper bells. There used to be eight bells on each floor. When the wind blows, the bells will make a nice sound. Later, some people came up with the idea of these bells. They climbed up the tower, knocked down the stones with hoes, and sold the bells for money. " He had visited the Tower many times. Today, he came to Xingwen tower for the first time. Before, he just passed by the tower when he was on the train. Yang Qiyou, vice president of the people's poetry club, is also a young man. He discussed with me whether the height of each floor of the Xingwen tower is equal. I think they are not equal in height, but should be in direct proportion to the diameter of each layer. Otherwise, the tower body of each layer above will become thinner and longer, and it will not look beautiful. He also thinks that this statement is reasonable. Each floor of the tower has four symmetrical openings, and the directions of the openings on each floor are staggered. This is to make the wind directly pass through these doors when the wind blows. In this way, no matter which direction the wind blows from, the wind force borne by the whole tower can be reduced, so as to make the tower safer. Thus, it can be seen that our ancestors have reached a high level in architectural art and architectural mechanics. Because people are near the bottom of the tower, even if they look up, they can't see what the spire looks like.

Cultural relic value

The landmark building "Xingwen tower" in Laiyuan County was built in the third year of Tang Tianbao (744 AD). According to historical records, in 1539 A.D., monks and Taoists jointly presided over the maintenance of the pagoda. It has been proved by experts that the structure of the tower belongs to the architecture of Liao Dynasty and has high historical, scientific and artistic value. Therefore, in 1982, it was announced as a provincial key cultural relics protection unit by the people's Government of Hebei Province.

Xingwen tower is a solid brick tower with octagonal five level attic. After repair, it is re measured. It is 27 meters high and covers an area of 37 square meters. 6 square meters, the tower is composed of xumizuo, tower body and Tasha. The height of the first layer is the highest, and the height of each layer above is decreasing evenly. Except for the corner beam, all the tower members are made of imitation wood. Xumizuo is carved with lotus in the lower Fang and lotus in the upper Fang. The eight tortoise horns are carved with patterns. The top of the tower is octagonal. The Tasha is built on a small xumizuo. The xumizuo is made of brick to receive flowers. The receiving words are built with an octagonal iron casting cover. The cover is decorated with four sections of iron casting Tasha. The top of the first section of the Tasha is lotus. The second, third and fourth sections are the pearls.

The decoration of Xingwen pagoda is gorgeous. The eaves and seats of the pagoda are decorated with a bucket arch support. The bucket arch is a column head and a patch. The bucket arch of the eaves of the first floor pagoda has two jumps and five seats. The bucket arch of the flat seat is a three liter one. The bucket arch of the column head is added with a trowel. Under the eaves with Fang support eaves fly, eaves octagonal paved with square bricks, flat seat decorated with Diaolan, fence with brick into a strip, hope column top is spherical.

After thousands of years of wind and rain, the fifth layer of the tower body has been seriously weathered, the tower brake is inclined, and the cap has become an inclined brake tower. The Party committee and government of Yuanyuan County attach great importance to the protection of Xingwen pagoda. In 2005, with the support of governments at all levels, the Xingwen pagoda was repaired, and the original parts of the pagoda were retained to the maximum extent. Now, Xingwen pagoda has regained its former style and stands majestically at the source of Juma.

Brief history

The history of this tower is not long, it is more than 160 years ago. It is excerpted from Mr. Zhu Xiping's essay Xingwen ancient tower in the first volume of Pingxiang scenery edited by Mr. Peng Jiangliu. According to the article, the pagoda was built by AO Xinghuang, a Jinshi, who was a famous scholar who had won the title of "top ranking scholar" in modern Pingyi. Wentingshi was the predecessor of Huamiao in Pingxiang City at that time. As for whether aoxinghuang was a Xuanfeng aojiafang villager at that time, this record is obviously wrong, because 1850 is the last year of Daoguang in Qing Dynasty, and wentingshi was born in 1856. It can be seen that there are a lot of false rumors in history. People can't believe all the previous records. They should write after careful textual research. There is no article like Xiuxing Wenta Ji in Wenting style collection, which also proves that this tower can not be majored by Wenting style. However, the historical fact is that within a few years after the tower was built, a future Da Wen Wen Ting style was born in this county. Later, he became the ranking scholar of Emperor Guangxu. He was not only a unique great poet in the late Qing Dynasty, but also one of the main fighters in the Sino Japanese War of 1894-1895. He actively supported the reform movement launched by Kang Youwei and others, which was a political struggle in the late Qing Dynasty

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