Lingguang tower

Lingguang tower

Lingguang tower is located on the flat platform at the two southern ends of Tashan mountain in the northwest suburb of Changbai Town, Changbai Korean Autonomous County, Jilin Province, with an altitude of 820 meters. This is the title of Zhang Fengtai, the first magistrate of Changbai Prefecture in Qing Dynasty. In 1908, it was discovered that it was a hollow square tower with five stories, with a height of 12.86 meters.

Lingguang tower, tower brake was gourd shaped, 1.98 meters high. The body of the pagoda is made of brick and mortar, and the eaves are stacked astringently. The bottom side is 3.3 meters long, and the top side is 1.9 meters long. The inner layers of the tower are built into parallel overlapping top with holes, which are connected from top to bottom.

Lingguang tower, the underground palace under the tower, is connected to the corridor to the south, and there are earth steps leading to the ground. It is an important historic site to study the relationship between Bohai Sea and Tang Dynasty. It has important architectural technology, cultural art and tourism value. On January 13, 1988, it was approved by the State Council and announced as the third batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

The origin of history

Lingguang tower

Located on the top of Tashan mountain in the northwest suburb of Changbai Town, Changbai Korean Autonomous County, Jilin Province, with an altitude of 820 meters, it has a history of more than 1000 years.

Lingguang tower is the only ancient architectural relic of Bohai State in Jilin Province, which is the style of Tang Dynasty tower. It is a key cultural relic protection unit. The original name of Lingguang tower has long been lost. It is said that a long time ago, when the earth's crust changed, everything overturned, only this tower towering, coupled with its unique shape, Lingguang Shuangqi, fluttering eyebrows.

Therefore, in 1908, Zhang Fengtai, the first magistrate of Changbai Prefecture in the Qing Dynasty, compared it to the Lingguang hall in Shandong Province in the Western Han Dynasty and named it Lingguang tower. Lingguang tower is built with green gray square brick, which is a hollow tower of pavilion type. It is composed of passage, corridor, underground palace, tower body and Tasha. Although the brick has been exfoliated sporadically and the tower body is slightly tilted after thousands of years of wind, frost, rain and snow erosion, it is still as strong as a rock and towering clouds of people. Even the peeled fragments are very hard. When they are relatively knocked, the sound is crisp and pleasant, and the aftersound is continuous. There are 11 steps in the passage.

Blue brick structure

In the middle of the soil steps are paved with various shapes of green bricks. Behind the passage is a brick corridor.

When it was repaired in the spring of 1984, it was found that there was an underground palace under the pagoda, which was proved to be a Buddhist pagoda (relic pagoda) in the Bohai Sea. The underground palace is rectangular, 1.9 meters long from north to south, 1.4 meters wide from east to west and 1.5 meters high.

The walls were made of brick and covered with large slabs of stone. The walls and tops of the underground palace were whitewashed. In the center of the back wall of the underground palace, there is a stone pedestal with a flat surface, which is used to place relics. The base of the tower is built by ramming on the cover stone of the underground palace. Above the base is the main body of the tower. The tower is about 13 meters high and is divided into five layers. Each layer of culvert of the tower body is square, and each layer has brick eaves.

The first floor is 3.3 meters long and 5.07 meters high. There is an arch in the south, which is 1.65 meters high and 0.9 meters wide. On both sides of the upper part of the arch and on the other three sides, a whole block of brown pattern brick is built respectively. There are lotus petal patterns on the East and west sides and cirrus patterns on the north and south sides. These pattern bricks form a word respectively.

In the East is the word "Guo", in the south is the word "Li", in the west is the word "Wang", and in the north is the word "Tu". According to the order, it can be read as "Wang Li land" or "national land". The second floor of the tower is 3 meters long and 1.65 meters high. The third floor is 2.4 meters long and 1.5 meters high. The fourth floor is 2.1 meters long and 1.2 meters high. The fifth floor is 1.9 meters long and 1.45 meters high. In the south of the tower, there are square niches on the second, third and fifth floors, about 0.2 meters high and 0.2 meters wide. The fourth floor in the south of the tower and the second, third, fourth and fifth floors on the East and west sides have a square window with a side length of about 0.2 meters.

Documentation

There are no niches or windows on the first to fifth floors north of the tower. Tower brake in the top of the tower, gourd shaped, about 2 meters high, is made of five iron pot phase cover. There are few documents about the construction age of Lingguang tower. It is recorded in Changbai huizhenglu: "the tower has five floors and is surrounded by eight Zhang. Although there is no stele to study, according to the ancient pagoda of fakumen, the Jinshi family calls it yuan pagoda, and so on, it is undoubtedly a historic site between Liao and Yuan Dynasties."

There is also a note in Jianggang annals of Changbai Mountain: "it is said that this tower was built in the Tang Dynasty. The bricks at the bottom of the tower can be filled with feet, and the mud is not very delicate. The top of the tower was broken by the strong wind in the Ming Dynasty, and it is still a que today." From the above two kinds of records, one is a simple analogy, the other is based on the legend, which is obviously not reliable.

It was after the founding of new China that the mystery of the age of the ancient pagoda was really solved.

archaeological research

Archaeologists have made detailed surveying and mapping of the pagoda and analyzed and studied various factors. In terms of category comparison, Lingguang pagoda is very similar to Tang Dynasty brick pagodas in Central China in terms of construction style, such as Xiaoyan Pagoda in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province and Fawang Temple Pagoda in Dengfeng, Henan Province. In terms of geographical location, Changbai County was under the jurisdiction of Bohai in Tang Dynasty, where there are many Bohai relics.

Taking many factors together, it is more convincing to conclude that Lingguang tower is a building of Bohai Sea period in Tang Dynasty. At present, three Bohai pagodas (excluding stone lighthouses) have been found in Jilin Province. One is Madida Pagoda in Hunchun, the other is Princess Helong Zhenxiao's tomb pagoda, and the third is Changbai Lingguang pagoda.

The former two collapsed in the early years, leaving only ruins, so we can't see the whole picture; only the Lingguang pagoda survived alone, which is extremely rare, and its academic research value is more important.

Location

Lingguang tower in Changbai Korean Autonomous County, Baishan City, Jilin Province, China is located in Changbai Tashan park

Baishan: Baishan City is located on the west side of Changbai Mountain in the southeast of Jilin Province, with beautiful natural scenery, 126 ° 7 'e to 128 ° 18', 41 ° 21 'n to 42 ° 48'.

It is adjacent to Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in the East, Tonghua City in the west, Jilin City in the north and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea across the Yalu River in the south.

It is 180 kilometers from east to west, 163 kilometers from north to south, 454 kilometers long and 17485 square kilometers wide.

The urban area is 1388 square kilometers.

Address: on the flat tableland at the two southern ends of Tashan in the northwest suburb of Changbai Town, Changbai Korean Autonomous County, Baishan City (in Tashan Park)

Longitude: 128.188774

Latitude: 41.424738

Ticket information: free.

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