Brick pagoda of induction Temple

Brick pagoda of induction Temple

The brick pagoda of induction temple, also known as Xisi pagoda, is located between Quwo County and Quwo ancient city, west of Xihuan Road in Quwo County and south central of Lechang No.2. It is a key cultural relic protection unit at the county level. The brick pagoda of induction temple was built in the first year of Qiandao in Song Dynasty (1165 A.D.), and it was broken in two in the seventh year of Dade in Yuan Dynasty (1303 A.D.).

Historical evolution

The brick pagoda of induction temple is located outside the central and western gate of Quwo County, Linfen City, Shanxi Province. It faces south in the north. It was built in the first year of Qiandao of Song Dynasty (the fifth year of jindading, ad 1165), with a height of 12 stories. Unfortunately, a devastating earthquake occurred in Quwo in August of the seventh year of Dade in Yuan Dynasty. "The house collapsed, the ground cracked into a canal, the sensing temple tower fell four stories, and the remaining cracks became two.". Therefore, the brick pagoda of the induction temple is also called the cracked pagoda by the villagers.

Since its construction, the brick tower of induction temple has suffered many natural or man-made damages. Among them, there are many large earthquakes recorded. In addition to the great damage to the pagoda caused by the earthquake in the seventh year of Dade in the Yuan Dynasty, there were two great earthquakes in the 34th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty and the 34th year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, which caused heavy casualties, but there was no record of the great damage to the pagoda. In 1941, the Japanese army carried out the "three lights" policy of burning, killing and robbing in North China. Due to the need of city defense, the Japanese troops stationed in Quwo burned down the induction temple outside Quwo city and tried to blow up the brick tower inside the temple with explosives. As a result, only a small part of the tower was sunk under the tower. The whole ancient tower was still standing, so they had to give up. The ancient tower still stood in place. This also proves the exquisite construction technology level of ancient Chinese working people from one aspect.

There are only seven layers left in the existing pagoda of induction temple, with yellow mud brick and plain surface. The first floor is high, and the eaves of the tower are made of brick carvings and imitated wood structure, with large brackets. The eaves above the second floor are all overlapped eaves. There are wooden remains at the corner of each eaves, which seems to be used for hanging wind chimes. The outermost layer of the eaves of each tower is carved with curvilinear patterns, slightly like hook head and dripping water. The inner space of the tower is large, with octagonal inner wall, brick gate in the south, brick niche in the north and brick caisson at the top. In the upper part of the inner wall, except for the East and west sides, there are component mortise holes on the other six sides. It can be judged that the floor beam structure is well shaped, which is used to carry the climbing of wooden ladder.

building structure

The brick tower of induction temple has a base of more than 700 square meters and a total height of 44.1 meters. The brick and wood structure above the third floor collapses to the middle, forming a crack between the East and the west, also known as the cracked tower. The tower is a brick tower with octagonal pavilions and dense eaves. The upper layer of its foundation is the specimen Pavilion layer, and the eaves are made of five bricks and brackets. All the above two floors are of dense eaves structure, and the tower body is octagonal. The project is arduous and rarely seen.

The brick pagoda of induction temple is the dense eaves pagoda style prevailing in northern China during the Liao and Jin Dynasties. The tower is octagonal in plane, hollow and upright in shape. The dense eaves on more than one floor of the tower decrease the depth of each floor with the height, which makes the appearance of the tower more tall and strong, showing the brave and bold temperament of the northern people. In the great earthquake of the seventh year of Dade in Yuan Dynasty, the tower fell four floors, and the remaining two or more floors split into two parts, so it is also known as "cracked tower". In the middle of the last century, the induction pagoda is the tallest building and the oldest existing building in Quwo, which is the landmark of Quwo.

According to the legend of the old people, at the beginning of the construction of the tower, the earth piles were built around the tower, and the earth piles up until the brick tower was completed, and then the earth was pulled off by the car. This construction method gathered the wisdom and sweat of the Quwo people.

Pagoda culture

There was a nursery rhyme in Quwo: "Quwo people are homesick. They can't leave their mother for one day. They can't see the cracked tower for three days. Their eyes are red and their tears are streaming." The "cracked tower" in the nursery rhymes is the brick tower of Quwo induction temple.

It has been 842 years since the construction of the induction Temple Pagoda. The ancient pagoda was divided into two parts in the Yuan Dynasty, and it has been 700 years. It can be said that it has experienced many vicissitudes and experienced far-reaching experience. It has witnessed the rise and fall of Quwo in the past dynasties. It can be said that it is a silent witness of history.

Because the induction temple where the induction Temple Pagoda is located is near the East and west gate of the old city, it is a place where local people often visit for worshiping Buddha and offering incense. It is also a place where literati, dignitaries, poets and friends often meet in Quwo history.

Li Shangsi, a member of Quwo city in the Ming Dynasty and the right servant of the Ministry of officials, wrote in his poem "summer collection of four temples in the city": the collection of summer flowers in the palace, the open mind of visitors in the Qing Dynasty. When a peak is quiet, two trees embrace the platform. Xi Yinqing lotus, Zunyi ancient pagoda Yin. Because of your wonderful understanding, you have a natural and unrestrained white cloud heart. The poem describes a party under the pagoda of the induction temple, which shows that it was a good place for people to enjoy the summer heat at that time. Gu Yanwu, a patriotic scholar who lived in Yiyuan, Donghan village, Quwo, and taught in Jiangshan academy, often wandered under the ancient pagoda. It is said that after seeing the pagoda of induction temple, he once said, "look up the pagoda and cherish the ambition, visit Donghan and review the past, and you can find the spring of wo.".

Retouch

The brick pagoda of induction temple has a long history and suffered from 800 years of wind and rain erosion and war. Although it stands in a corner of the ancient city, it was repaired twice in the 10th year of Shunzhi and the early days of liberation, but its foundation slightly subsided, resulting in a slight tilt of the tower. In the 7-year yuandade earthquake, tiny cracks also appeared in the tower which was divided into two parts. The residual bricks on the top of the tower also fell from time to time in the wind and rain, so it is urgent to repair them.

In April 2007, the Quwo County Party committee and government set up a leading group for the repair project of the induction Temple Pagoda. In the name of the government, they issued a donation proposal to all sectors of the society. The County Cultural Relics Tourism Center, the competent department, and social figures who are keen on cultural relics protection, also raised donations everywhere.

The maintenance project started in May 2007 and ended in November 2007. It took more than half a year to complete the rescue and reinforcement of the tower, restore a layer of bucket arch cornice, and repair the part that was bombed by Japanese invaders. The total cost was more than 400000 yuan. Finally, the ancient tower appeared in front of Quwo people with a new look.

Address: Quwo County, Linfen City, Shanxi Province

Longitude: 111.46910013434

Latitude: 35.637360874998

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