Nanan Temple Pagoda

Nan'an Temple Pagoda is an ancient pagoda standing on the west side of the South Gate of Yuxian city. It was built in the Northern Wei Dynasty and rebuilt in the Liao and Jin Dynasties. It is an interesting contrast with the Yuhuang pavilion built on the wall of the northern city. Both of them are national key protected cultural relics. It is also said that "Nan'an temple was built first and then Yuzhou City". This magnificent ancient building is a solid octagonal brick tower, 28 meters in height, with 13 layers of dense lining. The base of the tower is 2.5 meters high, with a beast head carved in the middle of each side of the tower base. It is decorated with imitation wood brick lining, with lotus petals on the lining. The tower is placed in the lotus seat, just like a lotus, very beautiful and elegant. The first floor of the tower is high, with columns at each corner. The whole tower is an integral whole, tall and magnificent in the distance, and floating in the clouds in the near. Although the whole tower has gone through wind and rain and human vicissitudes, it is still intact, which shows the outstanding style of ancient architecture in China.

Nanan Temple Pagoda

Nan'an Temple Pagoda, located in the west side of the South Gate of Yu County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, was built in the Northern Wei Dynasty and later preserved as a reconstruction of the Liao Dynasty. On June 25, 2001, Nanan temple tower, as an ancient building of Liao Dynasty, was approved by the State Council to be listed in the fifth batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

Nan'an Temple Pagoda is a brick Pagoda with 8 sides and 13 levels of solid dense eaves, which was built in the Northern Wei Dynasty when Buddhism was prevailing and rebuilt in the Liao Dynasty. Because it is located in Nan'an temple, it is named Nan'an Temple Pagoda. The tower is an integral whole, towering, just like a beautiful, elegant and solemn loft.

In addition to a bullet mark left by warlords in 1926 (the 15th year of the Republic of China) on the east side of the bottom of the tower, the whole body of the tower is still intact despite the wind and rain and vicissitudes. It is an important ancient Chinese building.

Later, the temple destroyed the pagoda, and the name of the pagoda still follows the old name.

Nan'an temple tower is 28 meters high. The base of the tower is made of overlapping stone strips. The body of the tower is placed on the lotus seat. The first floor of the tower is high, and there are tower columns in each corner. There are arched partition doors and small windows around. The top of the tower is carved with Panlong, and above the Panlong there are brick arches. It becomes lower above the second floor. There are iron horses hanging on each floor. The breeze blows and there is a sound of Ding Dong. Lotus is carved on the top of the tower to support the brake body.

Nan'an pagoda, one of the famous cultural relics in Yuxian County, was announced as a national key cultural relics protection unit by the State Council in 2001.

historical origin

Nanan pagoda is named after the temple. Nan'an temple was once a famous temple in Yanyun with a long history. It is said that it was founded in the Han Dynasty and is suspected to be built in the Northern Wei Dynasty. The pagoda is located in the center of the temple for people to visit. From the Northern Wei Dynasty to the Liao Dynasty, the temple was full of incense. When Weizhou city was built in 580 (the second year of Xiangxiang in the Northern Zhou Dynasty), Nan'an Temple already had a large scale.

Therefore, there has always been a legend of "Nan'an temple first, and then Yuzhou City" in Yuxian County. According to the records of Yuzhou annals, the pagoda of Nan'an temple was built. In the early years of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty, the commander Zhou Fang demolished and built Yuzhou City. Because of the large scale of the pagoda, the newly built south wall and moat were passing through the temple, so the temple was abandoned and the pagoda was preserved. The dense eaves brick Pagoda in China began in the Northern Wei Dynasty, but the practice of the first layer of the Nanan Temple Pagoda with the horizontal banner hanging down for one week first appeared in the Liao Dynasty. According to the analysis, the Nanan Temple Pagoda should be built in the Liao Dynasty.

According to 1706 (45 years of Kangxi), the pagoda of the ancient Nan'an temple was built in the Han Dynasty It can be seen that it has a long history.

Nanan temple was built in 1706 (the 45th year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty) on the only mu of land under the pagoda of Nanan temple. The pagoda is a courtyard with a width of 17.4 meters from east to west and a length of 24 meters from south to north. Nanan guita is located in the southeast of the temple. There are three main halls in the courtyard, with one Zen room on each side of the main hall. The west side of the tower is a stele tower, in which there are two stone tablets rebuilt in Qing Dynasty.

building structure

Nan'an temple tower is composed of four parts: tower base, tower base, tower body and tower brake. The base of the pagoda is made of stone bars. It is 2.5 meters high. On it is an octagonal brick pagoda. A beast head is embossed in the center of the pagoda from east to west, north to south, and the seal characters "Fu" and "Lu" are carved on the other four sides. On top of it is an imitation wood brick eaves, on which the lotus petals are carved for three weeks. The tower sits in the lotus petals, as if it were held up by the lotus, which is very tall and magnificent.

The first floor of the tower is high, with floating tower columns at each corner, brick certificate arched false partition doors on the East, West, North and south sides, door certificate embossed with two dragons playing with pearls, and flower lattice blind windows on all sides. On the top of it, there is a horizontal cutting forehead, which hangs down for a week. On the forehead, there is a Dou Gong, and the Dou Gong is on the 13th floor of the pagoda with dense eaves. Each layer out of the overlapping astringent eaves, tile top, no doors and windows. There is a bronze mirror inlaid in the middle of the four facades of each floor. The sun is shining and the gold is shining. The eaves of the pagoda are closed layer by layer, making the outline of the pagoda present a gentle rolling brake shape. Each layer of the eaves wing angle are hanging iron duo, breeze Buddha, duo sound Ding Dong, forming a dynamic and static harmony. The Tasha is made of iron. It is supported by a brick carved lotus. It is composed of a bowl, a phase wheel, a round light, a moon, a pearl and a cover.

Nanan Temple Pagoda has a beautiful overall shape. The tall pagoda rises from the ground. The strict xumizuo, the exquisitely carved pagoda body, the closely overlapped 13 layers of dense eaves and the huge and exquisite Pagoda Temple form an orderly artistic image of weight, length and density. In the architectural art, the pagoda has received the artistic effect of integrity, elegant and straight. After more than a thousand years of wind and rain, many earthquakes, but without the slightest tilt, are still well preserved, towering.

Return of cultural relics

At 9:00 a.m. on March 9, 2011, the underground palace under the pagoda of Nan'an temple was stolen. Precious cultural relics in the underground palace, including the gold pagoda of the Liao Dynasty, the Silver Pagoda of the Liao Dynasty, the painted wood carvings of the four heavenly kings and the huakou porcelain plate of the Northern Song Dynasty, were looted.

After the incident, the State Administration of cultural relics immediately informed the fifth Bureau of the Ministry of public security of the details of the case. The Ministry of public security listed the case as the first batch of cases under supervision of the "2011 special action against cultural relics crime".

In October 18, 2011, after 6 months' efforts, the task force crossed 9 provinces, such as Beijing, Shanxi and Shandong, screened more than 60 people in the hotel and 3600 suspicious calls, and retrieved more than 100 suspects from the DNA. The suspect was eventually captured 12, and 109 pieces of stolen cultural relics were recovered.

Address: Yuxian County, Zhangjiakou, Hebei

Longitude: 114.57043

Latitude: 39.838076

Traffic information: within walking distance of Yuzhou ancient city

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