According to the old records, "Taiping Pagoda was built in the reign of Jin, Xian and He (326-334), with Taiping Pagoda in front of the temple, Zhenwu Hall in front of it, and Yuhuang Pavilion and Shihuabiao behind it." The existing tower was rebuilt in the early Ming Dynasty, and after many overhauls in later dynasties, it was last strengthened and repaired in 29.
Taiping Tower is a brick and wood building structure, with octagonal seven levels (eleven floors in the tower), with a circumference of more than 3 meters and a height of 43 meters. Before the maintenance in recent years, the tower brake was only covered with bowls, and the tower was 35 meters high. The tower wall is masonry, simple structure. The ventricular side of the bottom tower is 1.3 meters long, and the chamber is connected with the east, south and west walkways. The caisson on each walkway is divided into two sections, and the stairway is wall-penetrating and flat-seated. The bottom floor is provided with leaning columns, and the second floor is not provided with leaning columns. There are brick-made imitation wood double-copied casters on the waist eaves and flat seats of each floor, which are made by heart. There are obvious ways to rise from the eaves of each tower to the corner beams, and the bucket does not rise with the rise, but only rises from the eaves rafters, and the corner beams are made of stone. There are no windows on each floor, and blind doors are set on all sides except the cross passage and stairway. There are more than 6 inscriptions on the top of the tower, which were cast in the first year of Longxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1163). Granite stone is widely used in the tower body, and granite is also used as a reinforcement member for Rachel above the stairway except for the entrance of the bottom walkway, the doorway and the upper corner beam of the caisson.
the Taiping tower has an isolated eaves and a corner, which is magnificent. The tower is hollow, with a floor, four doors on each floor, and niches on each side, offering nearly a thousand brick-carved Buddha statues, with beautiful images and vivid charm. There are steps in the tower, which go through the building and around the corridor, and can go up and down until the highest floor. There was a poem in the past that praised the cloud: "Zhong Ming moved the Jieta, and looked up at Tianzhu to form a double landscape. The city of Anhui is full of clouds, so what a surprise! "
during the maintenance of Taiping pagoda, from the inscriptions on the remains of the underground palace, it is verified that Taiping pagoda was originally the stupa of a boy teacher and a monk, and was later destroyed by the fire of soldiers in Shaoxing, Song Dynasty, and then rebuilt. Besides, a temple was built next to the tower, with Zhenwu Hall built in front and Yuhuang Pavilion built behind it, which was the Dojo of Zen Master Huiqin in Taiping, Shuzhou. During the Hongwu period in the late Ming Dynasty, it was robbed twice and rebuilt again. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the temple was destroyed by the fire of the rebel army commanded by Zhang Xianzhong of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Only the ancient pagoda was preserved, but all the wooden structures in the pagoda were reduced to ashes.
Taiping Tower was renovated again in 29. In ancient times, there was an ancient temple in Taiping Temple next to the pagoda, where Zen masters such as Song Fa Yan, Hui Qin, and Fojian once preached, and the incense was extremely prosperous. At present, there is a cultural relics management office next to the tower, which displays the calligraphy and painting of cultural relics of past dynasties. There is also a memorial hall for Zhang Henshui.
Taiping Pagoda is one of the oldest ancient pagodas in Anhui Province, so it is called' the first pagoda in Anhui'. The hollow tube structure with stairs in the wall and floor slabs is an intermediate form in which the China ancient tower developed from the hollow tube structure with wooden stairs in the tower to "folding on the wall", and a large number of bricks were used for floor treatment, which is an intermediate link in the history of architectural technology development of China ancient tower. In 1981, it was announced as the first batch of key cultural relics protection units in Anhui Province. On May 6, 213, it was promoted to the national key cultural relics protection unit.
Taiping Tower of Anqing Buried Hill
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