The tower was built in the Tang Dynasty, and the Records of Gaoyou Prefecture during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty recorded: "Zhenguo Temple is located in the southwest corner of the city, and there is a broken tower outside the temple. Tang Juzhi was built by a Zen master. During the Shunzhi period, Shen Bing Temple was burned down by fire, and Yongzheng Jia Guowei rebuilt it. " Then he said, "Broken pagoda, now called West Pagoda, is outside Zhenguo Temple in the southwest corner of Zhouzhi. This ancient pagoda has nine floors, half of which were removed by the dragon's claws, leaving only six floors, with an odd height of eight feet and an odd circumference of ten feet. Li, a citizen's city, has added seven floors. After forty-three years of Qianlong, the fire broke out and all levels were destroyed, becoming an empty tower. " It also said: "Zen master Tang Juzhi, Yi Zongzi and Xi Zongdi also went to Gaoyou, and it was too late to close the base. I urgently asked the DPRK. Zhao took his land as the town temple and lived there. He still gave the title to support the Zen master. "
The tower is square and hollow, with a bottom width of 8.6 meters and a circumference of 34.4 meters. When it was built in Tang Xizong, it was originally Grade 9, but only Grade 6 remained during the Qianlong period, just like a pavilion. In the thirty-second year of Guangxu (1906), it was rebuilt into seven floors. Due to the maintenance of the past dynasties, the same tower has left architectural traces of different times, which has also caused some scholars' controversy about the age of building the tower. The seven-story brick in the tower is an eighteen-type caisson, and hundreds of wooden columns are erected on the cross beams until the tower is braked. The tower is made of brick, with pink-gray corners, spires, bowls and copper gourd brake tops. There are small shrines on both sides of the tower gate on the 3rd-7th floors. The outline generally retains the style of brick towers in the Tang Dynasty.
1956, the Grand Canal was widened, and the tower was retained on the island in the middle of the river. At that time, Premier Zhou Enlai gave special approval when approving the plan: giving way to the pagoda. The ancient pagoda on the island in the middle of the river has been left behind, and now the Zhenguo Temple on the island has been restored for tourists to visit and relax. Zhenguo Temple was rebuilt on 200 1.
1957, the tower is listed as the second batch of cultural relics protection units in the province. On March 25th 1982, Zhenguo Temple Tower was re-announced as a provincial cultural relics protection unit. In 20 13, it was announced as the seventh batch of national cultural relics protection units.
Yangzhou Zhenguo Temple Tower
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