It is said that Sakyamuni was once incarnated as a dove to save lives, so Xuanzang named this pagoda after a bird, but the name Wild Goose Pagoda came from the Tang Dynasty.
Second, geese represent gifts and letters in the traditional culture of China. For example, when Confucius went to consult Laozi, the gift he brought was geese. When Su Wu was herding sheep and was trapped in the bitter and cold place of the North Sea, he also sent books by Hongyan to pin his thoughts on the big man. So Xuanzang is also named after the Wild Goose Pagoda.
The Big Wild Goose Pagoda is located in the Great Jionji in Jinchangfang, Chang 'an, Tang Dynasty (now south of Xi 'an, Shaanxi Province), also known as "Ci 'en Temple Pagoda". In the third year of Tang Yonghui (652), Xuanzang presided over the construction of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda to preserve the Buddhist scriptures brought back to Chang 'an by Tianzhu via the Silk Road. The pagoda had five floors at first, then it was covered with nine floors, and then the floors and heights were changed several times. Finally, it was fixed as a seven-story pagoda with a total height of 64.517 meters and a bottom side length of 25.5 meters.
The Wild Goose Pagoda, as the earliest and largest existing quadrangle-style brick pagoda in Tang Dynasty, is a typical material evidence that the ancient Indian Buddhist temple was introduced into the Central Plains with Buddhism and blended into Chinese culture, and it is a landmark building that embodies the wisdom of the ancient working people in China.