It took 140 years, 2,600 tons of wood, 3,000 square meters of wood, 100,000 pieces of wood components, several generations of skilled craftsmen, like building blocks to cover up the 25-storey-high millennium wooden tower. It is China's longest surviving age, the largest and highest volume of wooden tower, is one of the world's three strange towers, the world Gisney certified the world's highest wooden tower.
It does not have a nail throughout the body, completely relying on wood components built up, it has been through a thousand years of wind, rain and fire is still standing. This is the Liao Dynasty: Yingxian Shijia Tower.
As a result of a repair in the thirties, ignorant experts to the wooden tower on all levels of the mud wall removed, replaced with a wooden lattice window. It looks really beautiful, but it is equal to draw the tendons of the wooden tower, and from then on the wooden tower tilting speed increases year by year. So far has not come up with a set of feasible repair program. We believe that there will certainly be Lu Ban as able to put the wooden tower "right".
Touring such a millennium treasure need to understand some of the content in advance, the tour only know what to see, not to walk around only took a few pictures. Follow the donkey sister to see the value of Yingxian Muta tourism, that came to see what in the end?
Yingxian Wooden Pagoda is located in the city of Yingxian, Shanxi Province, generally self-driving or with a group tour, is a must have Datong travel line of sights, with a group tour to tourists about forty minutes to an hour, for ordinary tourists this time is enough, but for those who like the history of the like the ancient building want to savor the millennium wooden tower, it is best to free travel.
Tickets are 48 yuan, some people say can only look at the first floor, the second floor above are not allowed to go on, the ticket is a little expensive. I tell you, is standing in this wooden tower below look up a circle is enough to shock to your soul.
It is recommended that the scenic area of the interpreter, if you meet other teams have interpreters, you follow the back of the dilly-dallying to listen to it, I often do so, haha.
The wooden tower was built in 1056 AD, Liao Qingning two years, when Liao and Jin, Song same period. Yingxian is the border of Liao and Song, the story of the household name Yang family will happen in this surrounding dozens of kilometers. Liao built this tower, one is to enshrine the religious belief of Buddha's tooth relics, the second is to show strength to other countries, there is also an important one is the military role. Because of the project is huge, it took 140 years to complete the construction, all the repair has been completed to the Jin Dynasty Mingchang four years.
(Details click on the blue word can be seen: Yingxian Wooden Pagoda of the past and present life )
This wooden gate was built in the Qing Dynasty, three floors and four columns hanging from the top of the mountain. Wooden pagoda yin and yang are embedded in both sides of the 2-meter-long, 0.5-meter-wide blue frame with black characters on a white background horizontal plaque, the front for the "Fotu BaoSha", the back for the "Thousand Ren Linglong", for the Kangxi six years (AD 1667) should be the state governor Fu Dengrong by the book.
Into the Buddha Palace Temple, the locals call this place "Pagoda Temple", which is the entrance to the Pagoda Temple.
Come to the courtyard, the thousand-year-old pagoda stands in front of you, definitely worth you around it to look up countless laps! Not only is the tall and majestic to convince you, the hundreds of lotus-like "arch" so that you love enough, as well as the tower hanging dozens of plaques, from the emperor to the calligraphy of the calligraphy of the calligraphy of the ink, each one will let you linger on.
The tower **** there are 48 plaques, including "Shijia Tower" for the Jin Dynasty relics, 2.65 meters long and 1.7 meters wide. "The world's wonders" is the Ming Wuzong to celebrate the success of Yingzhou, the tower feast rewarding the ministers, and wrote these four big words.
The four characters of "the ultimate work of God" are the twenty-first year of Yongle (1423), Ming Emperor Chengzu led his troops to Xuanhua, playing the Tartars on the way back to the capital after the Warat came to Yingzhou, leaving the praise of the wooden tower. This plaque in the forty-first year of the Wanli (1613) May reloading.
Because the wooden tower tilted seriously, in order to protect the wooden tower now any tourists can not go up the tower!!!! The ground floor is accessible to visit. The main door of the ground floor is not large, but also a little small, the door on the "Wangu Guanzhan" plaque is the Qing dynasty Qianlong sixty-one years when the governor of Yingzhou chapter Hong book.
A huge seated Buddha is the master Shakyamuni, Buddha 11 meters high, which is China's current discovery of the highest indoor clay sculpture. Buddha statue of plump and dignified and kind, smooth clothes and colorful decorations, maintaining the style of the Liao Dynasty. There is a difference in detail with other places of the Buddha statue, the Buddha statue has a beard.
It is said to be the image of the Liao emperor at the time of the statue, such a thing is also very common, the Yungang Grottoes of the five statues of the Buddha is also the five emperors of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang, one of which is the image of Wu Zetian. There are many benefits of incorporating the image of the emperor into the Buddha statue.
Careful people can also be found on the left hand of the Buddha has traces of repair, this handprint is currently "receiving seal", according to evidence that the original handprint of the Buddha is "with the wish seal", "receiving seal "Generally is the handprint of the Western Amitabha Buddha.
The locals said the special era when those who wanted to push down the statue but did not succeed, the statue smashed two holes, loaded with precious cultural relics and historical materials were pulled out and burned a lot of the wooden pagoda's architectural repair map is also destroyed in it. So that now for the repair of the wooden pagoda can not begin. (Rumor has it that the leader of the destruction is a physical education teacher who later became seriously ill.)
On the ground floor you can also see the exquisite murals, although protected by a glass wall, you can see the achievements of the ancients in the art of mural painting.
The bottom floor walls stacked according to the columns, before and after a door, east and west six walls folded into a figure of eight shape with the shape of the wooden tower. Each wall has a statue of Buddha and Bodhisattva. Buddha and Huayan Temple Bojia teach Tibetan temple in the Liao dynasty clay sculpture similar. The four heavenly kings are painted on both sides of the north and south doorways, each holding a dharma weapon to keep one side. Dim light in the hall, in order to protect the murals are not allowed to shoot, these photos are selected from the free genuine gallery.
The temple belongs to the "front tower after the temple" layout, which is also a feature. From the bottom of the wooden tower out of the north is the main hall of the Buddha Palace Temple, which is a courtyard in the Qing Dynasty. There are Daxiongbao Hall, Guanyin Hall and Jizang Hall.
The Wooden Pagoda of Yingxian was built by Empress Dowager Xiao in order to enshrine two Buddha's tooth relics, which had not been recorded in the annals of history before, so people were unaware of them. In 1966, in the daily maintenance of the wooden pagoda found a number of precious relics, such as gold, silver, glass, crystal, giant clams, red beads, amber and other Buddhist "seven treasures", and the most valuable when the two Buddhist relics - Buddha's tooth relics. (But the folk say different, some say it is a thief pry open a statue of the stomach to steal a lot of treasure, did not have time to take away temporarily hidden in a statue of the Buddha below, after being found by tourists climbing the tower turned over to the management).
Regardless of how it came out, the Buddha's tooth relic was intact. People at the time did not recognize what it was, reported to a group of experts came to identify the artifacts, identified as two Buddha's tooth relics.
Now enshrined in the wooden pagoda below the side of the temple, this to buy a separate ticket, because it is a national treasure, so the number of tourists into the number of restrictions, bad luck is not necessarily catch. I had the honor to enter the temple worship worship relics.
Tower Temple has a "guest" meteorite, there is a legend of this, the Qing Guangxu years fell from the county 8 kilometers away from the village of Cao Niang southwest of the Sanggan River. 1954 to move to the Tower Temple.
Legend has it that the Buddha and the devil king of the fight pushed the star stone wants to smash the wooden tower, see is about to fall on the tower, the Buddha's finger a pop, the star stone (meteorite) popped up to 8 kilometers away from the wooden tower.
The stone monument in the tower temple is preserved quite a lot, the history of the recorded repairs have a dozen times, basically will set up a monument. Interested friends can slowly enjoy.
Iron tripod is tomorrow Shun eight years (1464) cast, 0.56 meters high, 0.67 meters in diameter.
The Iron Lion was cast in the twenty-second year of the Wanli reign of the Ming Dynasty (1594), and has been silently guarding the place for almost 500 years.
The octagonal iron building is also a relic of the Ming Dynasty, cast in the seventh year of the Wanli reign (1579), with a height of 0.93 meters and a perimeter width of 1.1 meters.
Each of these is a precious cultural relic that has survived hundreds of years of wind and rain, and no matter how the world changes, these stones and iron witnessed every story that took place here, and all of them are most clear about the mystery that cannot be solved, only that they will not tell us about it.
Bells and drums are all Ming Dynasty buildings, iron bells in tomorrow's second year of the Kai (1622 AD) cast, weighing 1650 kilograms. The drum was reinstalled in 1999.
If you are not in a hurry to go, find a place to sit down and quietly look at the wooden tower, the swallows return to their nests at dusk, a group of swallows hovering right above you. A gust of wind blows by, the wind chimes on the tower happen to be crisp and distant ringing. The sound of swallows flying and ringing bells intertwined in the air, like heavenly music, so that people can not help but be immersed in the carefree world of bliss ......
Always feel that it is not too much to see, I would like to know the wooden pagoda of the second floor and above What is it like? What's inside the tower? Also can wonder wooden structures are afraid of insects, why Yingxian Wooden Pagoda thousand years, but no insects it? Dozens of miles around the highest wooden tower, why not afraid of lightning strikes?
Do you want to know what is the reason? The next issue for you to reveal, and for you to show the tower of the precious statues and internal structure. Stay tuned.
After seeing the focus of the tour point out of the Tower Temple has a small square, there are travel souvenirs and antique stalls, collection experience can also see if you can pick up a leak, I do not understand just look at it.
Out of the square there is a "cool powder street", Yingxian cool powder characteristics: soft, stubborn, tendon, in short, is delicious, I every Yingxian must be on the two women cool powder store to eat a few bowls before counting addiction. We also remember to taste taste.
Well, the magnificent Millennium Pagoda Yingxian Shijia Tower we visited here, I hope you have time to be sure to visit here a trip, take this guide, to ensure that you are full of harvest is not false.