Kui Lighthouse

Kui Lighthouse

Kuiguangta in Dujiangyan City is located in kuiguangta Park, 101 kuiguanglu, Dujiangyan City, Sichuan Province. It was built in the Ming Dynasty and rebuilt in 1831. It is 52.67 meters high and weighs about 3460 tons. It is a 17 story dense eaves hexahedron, part of which is a double tube brick tower. It is the most ancient brick tower in China. In 1985, it was listed as a municipal cultural relics protection unit in Chengdu, in 2002 as a provincial cultural relics protection unit in Sichuan, and in 2013 as the seventh batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

Historical reform

[name]: kuiguangta

Category: Ancient Architecture

The Qing Dynasty

[current situation]: it is located in kuiguangta Park, 101 kuiguanglu, Dujiangyan City, Sichuan Province

KuiGuang tower is located in KuiGuang Road, west of Dujiangyan City, Sichuan Province. KuiGuang pagoda was built in Ming Dynasty and later destroyed. It was rebuilt in the 11th year of Daoguang reign of Qing Dynasty (1831 AD). It is of blue brick structure and pavilion style. Each brick is engraved with the word "Qing" in regular script. The body of the tower is hexagonal, with 17 storeys and a height of 52.67 meters. There are spiral stairs inside the tower, which can go up to the ninth floor (actually the fifth floor inside). The ninth floor and the tenth floor are the fifth floor in the interior, and the above seven floors are single tube hollow structure.

On the plaque of the northern gate of the pagoda, it was written by Pu Tian and Guo Shangxian, the inspector of kuigung pagoda, on the auspicious day of mid winter in Xinmao, the 11th year of Daoguang. KuiGuang pagoda has nothing to do with Buddhism, because the ancient pagoda was originally built in Guanxian County, Sichuan Province (it was renamed Dujiangyan City in 1988) and close to Qingcheng Mountain in the West. It was built to decorate Fengshui.

Historical data

Guanxian (now Dujiangyan City) kuiguangta, there was a primary school, called taziba primary school. Before liberation, the primary school was called Baomin primary school, and its full name was the seventh Baomin primary school in KuiGuang Township, Guanxian county. The primary school was rebuilt from Zhou Gong Temple (in memory of Zhou yinpei who presided over the reconstruction of Kui Kuang pagoda). In the temple of Duke of Zhou, there is an ancient Phoebe tree with a history of more than 100 years. It has a beautiful crown, thick shade and two big horizontal branches like arms. It forms a winding embrace to KuiGuang pagoda. The tower and the tree are beautiful. The tree was once said to be a sacred tree, burning incense and praying for blessings. In the 1980s, the ancient tree was cut down. Now, to see its beautiful posture, we have to turn to the old photos before the 1980s!

The origin of this old tree has something to do with the name of Wenyun in the era of imperial examination. In order to bless the examination in the era of imperial examination, local people once raised funds to build KuiGuang pagoda to promote the cultural movement and sacrifice Wenqu star at the official call. KuiGuang pagoda was built in Ming Dynasty and destroyed in war at the end of Ming Dynasty. In 1831, Zhou yinpei, the magistrate of Guanxian County, deeply felt that Guanxian's cultural movement was not prosperous, so he took the lead in donating money to rebuild the Kui lighthouse. However, due to its long history, the site of the ancient pagoda has long been deserted, so it has to be relocated. County Magistrate Zhou thought that after the Minjiang River came out of the mountain, it was like a runaway wild horse, and the water veins fanned out on the plain, which scattered the Wenyun in Guanxian county. Therefore, a tower must be built at the right place to suppress the Wenyun. He looked at the earth and the sky at night. One day, he boarded the Kuixing Pavilion of Wenbi mountain and looked up to the south of the city. But he saw that the forest was deserted and the rice waves were rolling. It seemed that there was a spirit of the earth. At night, he was pleasantly surprised to find that the South extension of the two-point line between Beidou Kuixing and Kuixing Pavilion spire was the field of taziba, which he liked during the day. The next day, he rushed to taziba and ordered people to remove the weeds and dig up the soil, which coincided with the ancients. After digging a few feet, it was the base of the tower built by the ancients. The broken bricks still exist.

After a few years, a 17 story dense eaves hexagonal brick tower with a height of more than 50 meters was built. After the completion of the new Kui lighthouse, it stood in front of the Dujiang River, with 102 gold-plated tower bells ringing like shaole. Especially in March, sunny, around the tower, golden rape flowers bloom, blue sky, white clouds, yellow flowers, green trees, white tower, what an intoxicating pastoral scenery.

On the day of the completion of kuigung pagoda, scholars from the East and west of Guanxian, taxi girls in the city, villagers from all towns and townships, and officials at all levels put on their festive costumes, rode in sedan chairs, and came to the foot of the pagoda, where firecrackers and drums were singing. Officials sit on the stage according to their positions. County Magistrate Zhou's speech is nothing more than a set of sayings, such as emperor Tu YONGGU, Emperor Dao Ya Chang, Kui Guang you me, and Wen Yun Jiu Chang. In the middle of the ceremony, the governor of Sichuan, Xuezheng, bowed his hand to the magistrate of Zhou county and said, "today's celebration, why don't you see the master of ink painting (equivalent to today's chief engineer)? The head of Zhou county was appointed to take charge of Mo Shi.

When Master Zhang Mo was seated, Xuezheng asked, "is the Kui Kuang pagoda you built important in the West or in the east?"? Master Zhang Mo kowtowed quickly and said, "I'm just as heavy as the four sides! Xuezheng cried angrily: come on! Pull down the forty boards! At the end of the fight, Xuezheng asked again, but ZhangMo's answer remained the same. Xuezheng is furious and wants to fight again. On execution, zaoli whispered to ZhangMo master: Xuetai is from Hexi. Master Zhang Mo suddenly realized that the west is heavy! Xuezheng said with a laugh: ah, that's right. Heavy and homophonic, the stage of Hexi Xiucai, Ju Zi clapped and laughed, shouting Hexi (JU)! Hexi middle (Jinshi)!

After the celebration, the scholars and Juzi in Hedong were not satisfied, so they planted a Phoebe tree in the east of kuigung pagoda, hoping to use the weight of Phoebe tree to produce the effect of "central importance in the East". The longer the tree grows, the more beautiful it is. The evergreen dark green of the four seasons makes the focus of kuigung pagoda landscape turn to the East. Pray that the students of "Eastern Middle School" often kowtow to this tree and burn incense. For a long time, this tree has become a "sacred tree", attracting people from all walks of life to worship and pray.

It is said that at the beginning of his design, when he used stones and bricks, he made the tower base slightly deviate from the center of gravity, laying the foreshadowing of "East heavy (middle)". One hundred years later, the heavy tower base in the East began to tilt, making KuiGuang tower the second leaning tower of Pisa. Twenty years ago, Kui Kuang tower was still a vast field. Today, it is surrounded by high-rise buildings and endless traffic. The companion of the tower - Phoebe is dead, she can no longer hear the noise, tower, will envy Phoebe?

Kuiguangta Park

On March 10, the "forum on naming kuiguangta Park and soliciting opinions on couplets, paintings and sculptures" jointly held by the Publicity Department of the municipal Party committee, the Municipal Bureau of culture and sports, the education, science, culture and Health Committee of the Municipal People's Congress and the education, science, culture and Health Committee of the CPPCC municipal committee was held in the conference room on the third floor of the municipal government. Municipal leaders Liu Junlin, Wang Yifu, Xu Shouguang, Yan Daixiong, Sichuan famous sculptor Dai Jialin, cultural celebrities fan Wenzhao, Li Qimin, Ma Ying, Wang Li, Bian zaibin, Ma Shiji, Wan Tianyin, Li Mintai, Wang Youguan, Gao Kai, Zhang Dongshan, Ma shoubin, etc. attended the forum.

Mayor Liu Junlin made a wonderful speech at the forum. After affirming the whole preparation work of kuiguangta Park, he said that at the beginning of the preparation for the construction of our public buildings and public facilities, in addition to the necessary expert argumentation, we should widely listen to and solicit the suggestions and opinions of people from all walks of life and the general public. We must solicit them in the media and try our best to enhance the subjective consciousness and participation of the public. For the collected calligraphy and painting, couplets, text manuscript, must be properly preserved as historical data, can also be published, as elegant cultural gifts to friends from afar. Finally, Mayor Liu specially urged: kuiguangta Park night plan must be done well. But we can't use the built-in light, we need to use the external light. Although it's very difficult, the Kui lighthouse is a cultural relic, so we can't drill holes in it! In all construction, we must have a high sense of cultural relics protection. Wang Yifu, chairman of the Municipal Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference, put forward five hopes and requirements: first, the naming of the park should have local characteristics, and the characters should be careful and strictly controlled; second, the connotation of couplets and reliefs should be high, and the production should be excellent, rather than excessive; third, the explanatory characters should be popular, so that people can understand; fourth, the calligraphy works should not use computer characters, but the works of local calligraphers with different styles Fifth, we hope that we can use local good stones, such as the big blue stone of Lingyan mountain. Xu Shouguang, deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress, and Yan Daixiong, vice chairman of the Municipal Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference, also put forward their hopes and demands.

The local cultural celebrities attending the meeting were very excited and excited about the construction of kuiguangta Cultural Park, competing to speak. Starting from sculpture, couplets, literature, calligraphy, painting, cultural relics, ancient architecture and other fields of their own expertise, they talked about a lot of professional views, and put forward a lot of places to be improved and constructive suggestions. The participants also carefully examined and approved Zhou yinpei's bronze statue sketches, large relief sketches and park design drawings one by one and put forward useful suggestions.

With a cost of tens of millions of yuan, the kuiguangta Park in Dujiangyan, which has the largest number of floors among the existing ancient pagodas in China, has been transformed into a kuiguangta park covering an area of 18 mu. It officially opened on April 3 and is open to the public free of charge.

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