Nansi Tang pagoda

Nansi Tang pagoda

The tower was built in the first year of Tang Zhenguan (AD 627) and is located in the present Pucheng middle school in Pucheng County. During the December earthquake in 1555, the body of the tower cracked and the top two floors collapsed. In 1953, the tower was restored. At present, stairs are installed on the lower three floors of the tower for going up and down. The tower is a national key cultural relic protection unit

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brief introduction

Nansi Tang pagoda, formerly known as HUICHE Temple relic pagoda,

It was built in the first year of Zhenguan reign of Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty (627 AD). This tower

It has a history of 1300 years. It is 25 years earlier than the big wild goose pagoda of Xi'an Ci'en Temple built in the third year of Emperor Gaozong of Tang Dynasty and 80 years earlier than the small wild goose pagoda of Xi'an anjifu temple built in the first year of emperor Jinglong of Tang Dynasty. It is one of the earliest Tang pagodas built in our province. The site of the pagoda is HUICHE Temple (now Pucheng middle school) in the southwest corner of the city.

structure

It is a square hollow brick tower with dense eaves. It is a typical example of the perfect evolution from the pavilion style wooden tower to the masonry structure. It is completely made of bricks in accordance with the form of wood structure. The eaves, beams, square columns, brackets, walls and doors and windows of each layer are closely connected and overlapped in appearance. The distance between each layer is very short, and the eaves layer is almost invisible 2、 The three-level overlapping eaves are as many as 15 stories, so it is named "dense eaves" brick tower. From the second level to the sixth level, there are two opposite doors in each level, and the directions are staggered. The seams of the tower are glued with glutinous rice juice, which are solid and beautiful. There are lattice windows and carved animals between the layers of the tower, which are exquisite, unique and magnificent.

The original tower has 11 storeys, but now only 10 storeys. The height of the tower is 3.16 meters. The south side of the first tower has a ticket door, in which there is a statue of Tang Dynasty stone Buddha (lack of head and hand). The north side of the second tower is embedded with a stone tablet, which is engraved with the six characters "pagoda of Buddhist relics". The original wooden ladder inside the tower can reach the top, which was destroyed in the early years. There are several bells on the tower, which will make a pleasant sound when the wind blows. On the one hand, it can be used to scare away the birds, protect the building, and on the other hand, it can decorate the tower.

The whole tower is exquisitely shaped, straight and beautiful, with simple and bright colors, scientific design, perfect structure and exquisite brickwork. It shows high brick facing technology. The proportion of base and tower body is coordinated, symmetrical and steady, and the curve is smooth. It not only strengthens the integrity of the structure, creates a beautiful overall outline, but also achieves the artistic effect of towering upward, which can be called the completion of art and structure United States, so that after many earthquakes still safe. After the completion of the tower, according to county records, there were cracks in the body of the tower during the December earthquake in Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, but it was still intact. It was rebuilt in 1953 and three stairs were restored in the tower.

Historical function

The pagoda occupies an important position in Chinese history, which has rich national cultural connotation and symbolic significance, especially for the Tang Dynasty, when Buddhism prevailed and the pagoda was built at its peak. The Nansi Tang pagoda provides the most reliable precious material for the study of Chinese history, religion, aesthetics, architecture and society at that time, and will become a research hotspot in the Tang Dynasty It is an important historical source of social history, culture and art.

It is worth mentioning that Nansi pagoda also played a great role in the crisis of the Chinese nation, After the Xi'an Incident broke out on December 12, 1936, Chiang Kai Shek intended to destroy the achievements of the KMT communist cooperation promoted by the Xi'an Incident. He used the means of estrangement and disintegration to cause chaos between the Northeast Army and the northwest army. In particular, he bought Tan Zixin, the commander of the 10th Cavalry Division of the Northeast Army stationed in Pucheng under Yang Hucheng's command. He was cruel, vicious, capricious and did a lot of harm Surname, wantonly hunting and killing Communists. On February 3, 1937, Tan Zixin launched a mutiny, shot and killed the sentry of Yang's residence, and put Yang Hucheng's mother sun Yilian under house arrest, in an attempt to force General Yang Hucheng to give up his idea of resisting Japan and saving the country. After the mutiny, Pucheng security regiment carried out fierce resistance against tanzixin's rebels, while many guns and ammunition provided by Yang Hucheng for the security regiment were stored in Nansi tower secretly. Tanzixin's rebels took Nansi tower as their main target. After more than three hours of fierce fighting, the rebels' attacks were repulsed and could not be attacked for a long time. Nanta used its own way They saved the lives of the revolutionary soldiers and wrote down their own traces in the history.

General situation of Tourism

According to the legend of the old man, during the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Xuanzong Li Longji came to the capital

Fengxian (Pucheng County changed to Fengxian in the fourth year of Kaiyuan) once stayed in HUICHE temple when he sacrificed his father Qiaoling.

Ticket Price

Admission: 10 yuan

Located in the southwest corner of Pucheng County.

Address: Pucheng middle school, Pucheng County, Weinan City

Longitude: 109.582183789

Latitude: 34.951259613037

Ticket information: market price: 10.0 yuan

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