Linggu Pagoda

Linggu pagoda is the highest and most beautiful Pagoda in Nanjing. It is made of reinforced concrete and Suzhou Jinshan granite. The original name of Linggu tower is memorial tower for the dead. It was built in 1931 and is an important part of the cemetery complex for the dead.

Designed by maofei and Dong Dayou, Linggu tower is graceful, elegant and solemn, with national style and characteristics, and highly praised by people from all walks of life.

According to the report of the premier's Mausoleum Management Committee, after leading the northern expedition, establishing the capital of Nanjing, and completing the unification, in 1928, the national government "cherished the memory of the former workers, and those who won the victory would be given a mediocrity, and those who died miserably would be given additional pity. But now the dead soldiers were killed, and the corpses were all over the field, and the loyal souls had no choice but to collect the bones of the dead soldiers, build cemeteries, and comfort the loyal souls."

Linggu Pagoda

Linggu pagoda is the highest and most beautiful Pagoda in Nanjing. It is made of reinforced concrete and Suzhou Jinshan granite. The original name of Linggu tower is memorial tower for the dead. It was built in 1931 and is an important part of the cemetery complex for the dead.

Designed by maofei and Dong Dayou, Linggu tower is graceful, elegant and solemn, with national style and characteristics, and highly praised by people from all walks of life.

According to the report of the premier's Mausoleum Management Committee, after leading the northern expedition, establishing the capital of Nanjing, and completing the unification, in 1928, the national government "cherished the memory of the former workers, and those who won the victory would be given a mediocrity, and those who died miserably would be given additional pity. But now the dead soldiers were killed, and the corpses were all over the field, and the loyal souls had no choice but to collect the bones of the dead soldiers, build cemeteries, and comfort the loyal souls."

brief introduction

structure

Linggu pagoda is a novel and unique pagoda, 66 meters high, with nine floors and eight sides, and each floor is covered with green glazed tiles.

Outside each floor, there is a granite corridor. In the middle of the tower, there is a spiral escalator, which can climb up to the ninth floor along the 252 steps.

Designed by maofei and Dong Dayou, the tower is graceful, elegant and solemn, with national style and characteristics, and has been highly praised by people from all walks of life.

The inside and outside walls of the tower are inlaid with bluestone inscriptions.

There are four gates and four steles on each floor of the eight sides of the tower. There are 28 inscriptions in the tower. On the 12 inscriptions on the second, third and fourth floors, the full text of "farewell speech of Prime Minister Sun at Huangpu Military Academy when he went north" on November 3, 2003 is engraved. It is the Standard Cursive ink of Mr. Yu Youren, the old man of the Kuomintang, in July 23 of the Republic of China.

The 16 steles on the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth floors are engraved with the lecture of prime minister Mr. Sun at the beginning of Huangpu Military Academy on April 14, the 13th year of the Republic of China, which was inscribed by Mr. Wu Zhihui, a veteran of the Kuomintang, in May 22, the Republic of China.

Outside the tower, the first floor is Chiang Kai Shek's four big characters of "loyal to serve the country". The second floor is Chiang Kai Shek's "table of sending Qian" written by Ye Chulun. The third to eighth floors are still Chiang Kai Shek's "classmate records and preface of Huangpu Military Academy No. 1-6", which are written by Dai Jitao, Zhang Jingjiang, Niu Yongjian, Liu Jiwen, Zhou Bonian and Yang Tianji.

In addition to the first layer after cleaning the mortar, the word "loyal to serve the country" reappears, the second layer to the eighth layer has not been cleaned. There is no inscription on the ninth floor of the tower for visitors to visit the scenic area of Zhongshan and the forest sea with green waves.

On the front lintel of the first floor of the tower, there are three gilded characters of "Linggu tower" in regular script, which are also Gao Yilin's ink.

On the lintel of the back of the first floor is engraved with the four characters of "You Zhi Jing Cheng", which is the handwriting of Fu Huanguang, former director of the garden group of Zhongshan Mausoleum garden.

On the first floor, four seal characters of "Chenggong" and "Chengren" were engraved on the lintels of the East and West doors.

Today, thousands of tourists climb the Linggu pagoda every day to enjoy the beautiful scenery of Zhongshan forest and Nanjing, a famous historical and cultural city.

Cemetery area

The cemetery area consists of the first, second and third cemeteries.

The first cemetery is on the central axis, behind the wuliangdian, which was converted into four flower beds during the cultural revolution.

The second cemetery is on the east side of Linggu Temple. It was rebuilt as the tomb of martyr Deng Yanda in 1957.

The third cemetery, on the west side of Wuliang hall, was abandoned during the cultural revolution.

At that time, all the tombs in the cemetery area were made of red brick and covered with precast concrete slabs, facing north and south. In front of each tomb, there was a 30 cm high half lying bluestone tablet, which was not engraved with names, but was replaced by serial numbers. The list of soldiers and soldiers killed in the battle was kept in Nanjing Municipal Archives.

From March 1931 to November 1935, the cemetery was completed. After the completion of Gongji, a grand public sacrifice was held in the cemetery hall on November 20, attended by more than 10000 people from the Central Committee of the Kuomintang and people from all walks of life. Chiang Kai Shek himself served as the chief sacrifice.

According to Chiang Kai Shek's instructions, in July 1936, the cemetery of the dead was handed over to the premier's Cemetery Management Committee.

In addition to the security protection of Linggu Temple, a cemetery area for the dead was also set up. More than 10 cemetery workers managed the cemetery and undertook the cleaning and greening work.

After the completion of the cemetery, people from all walks of life of the Kuomintang party, government and army presented many precious memorials for display in the cemetery and memorial hall, and opened them to the public for visitors to see.

Historical evolution

According to historical records, song Zheyuan, commander of the 29th army, presented a pair of four foot high bronze lions; Zhang Zizhong, mayor of Tianjin, presented a five foot high bronze tripod; General Yang Hucheng presented a stone tripod engraved with the word "Ding Chui Xun"; a pair of white jade stone sculptures presented by the 17th Army stood in front of the memorial archway; Chen Jitang presented a bronze censer for the exhibition hall; and Liu Zhen presented a bronze censer for the exhibition hall The platform outside the Chen Fang memorial hall is in the middle.

Besides, there are also souvenirs such as stone tripod, bronze tripod, stone lion, silver tripod, silver shield and silver wreath presented by Shang Zhen, He Jian, Liu Shi, Guan Zhongxin, Gu Zhutong, Jiang Dingwen, Wei Lihuang and many other groups and individuals.

Only a pair of stone lions on both sides of the gate of the Red Mountain Gate, a pair of white jade carved stones in front of the memorial archway and a stone tripod behind the SONGFENG pavilion have survived, and the rest are missing.

During the Anti Japanese War, the cemetery buildings were damaged, especially the Memorial Hall (today's SONGFENG Pavilion). After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, the government returned to the capital and made simple repairs.

In June 1947, the KMT government formulated the "measures for commemorating the dead soldiers in the spring and Autumn Period", which is the memorial day of the Huanghuagang uprising; the autumn Memorial Day is September 3, which is the memorial day of the victory of the Anti Japanese war. On the eve of the KMT's defeat in 1949, Li Zongren, the "acting president", led civil and military officials to the cemetery for the last Spring Festival.

After the founding of new China, the cemetery area was changed into Linggu park. People's governments at all levels and relevant cultural relics departments attach great importance to the protection of cultural relics and historical sites here. The cemetery guard squadron of the public security forces is on guard day and night. Like the whole Zhongshan cemetery area, it is 24 hours a day without interruption, so that buildings and trees are not damaged.

After the establishment of Linggu Park, the management department of Zhongshan cemetery has renovated the buildings damaged during the Anti Japanese War and the ten years of turmoil in stages and batches, and gradually restored the original appearance of history.

Current situation of pagoda

Due to years of disrepair, there are many dangerous situations in Linggu tower. For example, the roof tiles and eaves drip off, the concrete surface of some beams, rafters and watchboards of the tower body crack off, the steel bars are exposed and rusted, and the granite railings of the external gallery are loose, which affects the structural safety of the tower body and further threatens the personal safety of tourists.

In view of these situations, Zhongshan Cemetery Administration has spent more than 1 million yuan to renovate the Linggu pagoda since May 2004 in accordance with the cultural relics protection law. Nearly five months of restoration work has basically eliminated all kinds of security risks mentioned above, and reached the requirement of "repair as old" for cultural relics protection.

The restoration work of Linggu pagoda has been completed, but new mysteries have come one after another. The inscription written by Chiang Kai Shek on Linggu pagoda seems to have evaporated, and not a word can be found! Linggu pagoda is famous for its inscription of many famous people in the Republic of China. For example, the outer wall at the bottom of the tower is engraved with the four characters of "loyal to serve the country" written by Chiang Kai Shek. There are 28 black marble steles embedded in the inner wall of the tower, engraved with Sun Yat Sen's "farewell speech" and Sun Yat Sen's "lecture on the beginning of school" in Huangpu Military Academy when he went north, written by Yuan Laoyu Youren and Wu Zhihui of the Kuomintang respectively. However, few people know that there should be 28 inscriptions written by Chiang Kai Shek outside the tower.

According to authoritative materials such as the capital records and the biography of the premier's mausoleum, there are also stone inscriptions on the outer walls of the second to eighth floors of Linggu tower, which are engraved with the table of Yiqian written by Chiang Kai Shek and the preface to the classmate records of the first to sixth issues of Huangpu Military Academy. Unfortunately, these inscriptions recording the national revolution and the history of Huangpu Military Academy were artificially covered with cement after the founding of the people's Republic of China. After cement removal, the 28 stone tablets on the second to eighth floors of Linggu tower are as flat as a stone, without a word, but some chisel marks can be seen.

Tourism information

traffic

You can take route 2 or 3. There are small tourist trains in Zhongshan Mausoleum, or you can rent 8-10 seat battery cars in the mausoleum. Tickets / opening hours are divided into two parts: the "Republic of China culture" and the "Ming Dynasty culture".

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