Jijia pagoda

Jijia pagoda

Jijia pagoda is 100 meters to the north and west of jihenggou village, Sunji Town, Lixin County. It was built in the Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty (1796-1820). The tower has seven floors and six sides, and is about 10 meters high. It has a wood like structure. 2、 There are brick overhanging eaves and one brick overhanging eaves at the eaves on the third floor and at the corner of the door. The first layer of the tower is embedded with a bluestone tablet, and the inscription "Jiaqing, Mengcheng County" can be vaguely seen. The second layer is inlaid with a green stone plaque, engraved with the official script of "the name of Fang is forever hanging", and the third to seventh layers are built with arched niches. As the smallest tower in the world, it is listed in the Guinness Book of records. It's a tourist attraction.

brief introduction

Jijia pagoda is located 19.5 kilometers northwest of Lixin County, Anhui Province, 700 meters southeast of sunyuan village, Sunji Town, and 100 meters west of jidazhuang. Built in the fifth year of Jiaqing (1800) of Qing Dynasty, it is a small tomb tower with seven floors and six sides. The foundation plane of the tower is in a hexagonal shape, each side is 1.48 meters long, and the height of the tower is about 10 meters. There was a temple in the tower, which was destroyed. This tower is a brick tower with imitation wood structure. The height of the first floor is about 2.2M, and the height of other floors decreases from bottom to top. 2、 One brick overhanging eaves and one brick overhanging eaves are built at the eaves on the third floor and the transition of six corners. On the southeast of the first floor of the pagoda, there is a bluestone tablet 64 cm from the ground. The tablet is 42 cm high and 82 cm wide. The inscriptions are not clear. Only the inscription "the fifth year of Jiaqing" and "written by Mengcheng Juren Li" can be recognized. On the second floor, a blue stone plaque was inlaid in the middle of the first direction, engraved with the four characters of "Fang Ming Yong Chui". From the third floor to the southeast of the seventh floor, there are arched niches in the middle of each floor. There are no windows in the tower body, hollow in the tower, no tower core column, and only cross shaped beams are used to support each floor. The top of the tower is green and red grapefruit gourd shaped with a sharp point, and the center is penetrated and consolidated by iron drill. The tower is exquisite and well preserved. It is the smallest existing ancient pagoda in the province. Key cultural relics protection units at the county level.

Historical sources

There is a story about the origin of jijiata. Ji Jiugong and Ji jiutu, two brothers, lived in the Ming Dynasty and were rich in the countryside. During the Zhengde period, floods and droughts came one after another, and the people were in dire need of livelihood. After the news was disclosed, it spread from one to ten, and from one to one hundred, hungry people from eight neighboring villages came to borrow food and money to the south of Guoyang and the north of Feihe. Three years later, the weather is not good, but the harvest is still poor, the hungry people are not covered by clothes, they can not eat enough, and they even sell their children. Jiugong and jiutu, with their eyes in their eyes and hearts in their hearts, politely declined those who came to pay back the money and grain. In the twinkling of an eye, ten years later, Ji's second Weng has reached the age of the rarest. One day, er Weng ordered his son to call more than 60 villagers as representatives of the masses and burn all the seven thick account books in public to show that he would never return them. The villagers are grateful to Jiugong and jiutu for their kindness. One by one, they raised funds to build this hexagonal and seven storey Jijia tower. The hexagonal tower means the witness of 60 villagers' representatives. The seventh floor is Yongzhi's memorial to the seven burned books.

Address: jidazhuang West, Sunji Town, Lixin County, Bozhou City

Longitude: 116.09008026123

Latitude: 33.267147064209

Chinese PinYin : Ji Jia Ta