In the eastern suburbs of Tengzhou City, Jing River on the west bank, towering over a towering tower. Whenever the slanting sun shines in the west, the sunlight, the water ripples and the tower shadow of the distant mountains reflect each other, extremely beautiful and spectacular, was named by the ancients "tower shadow high standard" (also known as "Fudu Zhiyu"), for the ancient Teng of the eight scenic spots. The tower is commonly known as Longquan Tower, originally a pagoda of Longquan Temple. Longquan Temple building scale is magnificent, from a distance you can see that the yellow wall tiles, pines and blue buildings. Into the temple to look around, but see the center of the hall, both sides of the hipped hall neatly, the hall for the Buddha statue of life, the monument room a variety of monumental carvings, elegant and simple. In the late Qing Dynasty, Longquan Temple's huge complex of buildings are mostly collapsed and out of repair, only the tower remains. Formerly brilliant and spectacular Longquan Temple has become history, but Longquan Tower through the smoke and clouds of history stands tall. Longquan Tower named, according to historical records: "and large springs, when floating residential, so build a tower to town, the name of the Longquan cover also has since the cloud. The origin of the tower name may be related to water. Longquan tower was built when? Due to the age of the long, the information is scattered, so far is still inconclusive. Qing Daoguang "Teng County Zhi" in the "Fudu Zhiyu" as the title of the poem: long with Wei Zhao Ying title, Zhuo Li Longquan Dien this rogue. CuiYi group of peaks all Yuxiu, shadow floating seven levels alone contain clear. Clouds more offspring cloud potential, on the sun should be the same as the sun. The wind over the golden bell sound eider, teach the common ear wash pazheng. According to this inference, the Longquan Tower may be in the Tang Yuanhe years after the county east of the building, about 1,200 years ago. For thousands of years, Longquanta suffered from wind and rain erosion, especially after the Qing Kangxi years of the test of the earthquake, can still stand tall, that is, with the original building quality is good, but also with the constant maintenance of the edge. In March 1938, in the famous prelude to the battle of Taierzhuang Tengxian defense war, the Japanese invaders of Tengxian city bombardment, the ancient tower suffered the ravages of war, the tower brake tilted, pick eaves arch fall off, the tower of the body of a hundred holes, bruises and scars. Tengxian county party committee, the county government set aside special funds to carry out comprehensive maintenance. 1984 July 10 officially started, clean up the top of the tower room dumped, masonry base of the ninth level of the tower wall and coupon door, with concrete poured on the top of the tower. Installed eight-petal metal lotus flower summer pot seat and treasure gourd tower brake, installed lightning protection device. Cutting grooves above the eaves on each level, pouring reinforced concrete buried ring beams, outside the brick cover, and reinforcing the Sumeru seat below the waist of the peak. After the renovation of the Longquan Pagoda more majestic and solemn, with a new attitude stands in the Jing River.
[Edit Paragraph]The White Dragon Legend of Longquan Pagoda
Legend has it that a long time ago, Teng County, this place is very beautiful and affluent, peace and prosperity, the country and the people are at peace, a thriving scene. Suddenly one day, it became dark, thunder and lightning, heavy rain. What happened? It turned out that the Jade Emperor put a white dragon that had violated the rules of heaven down to the mortal world. However, it was still unaware of the rules and jeopardized the people. The people didn't know why God was angry, so they all burned incense and kowtowed at home, asking God to stop raining. Just as the people were begging, the dragon appeared in the rain and said to the people, "If the people don't send the pigs, cows and sheep to the place where it says, it will make wind and rain and drown the crops. The people were afraid, but only promised it. Seeing that they had agreed to it, the dragon withdrew its spell and went away to wait for a good meal. After the dragon left, the people had to send their livestock, and this happened every year. In a few years, the animals were all eaten up by the evil dragon, but the dragon still wanted them every day, and the food was getting bigger and bigger. The people sighed and sighed, worried, but there is no way. One day, a white-bearded old man came here, listening to the people said this thing, then said to the people: "This is an evil dragon, can no longer be called to do evil, to get rid of it." The people were very happy to hear him say this, but immediately hesitated: can such an old man get rid of the evil dragon? It can't harm him. The old man did not wait for the people to say it, as if he had read their minds, firmly he said: "I have a way to get rid of it, as long as you send more livestock and good wine tonight, don't worry about me." When it was dark, that is, when it was time to send food to the evil dragon, the people did as the old man said. The dragon is hungry, see so many things, open mouth will eat, will drink, that is really the wind rolled up, in a short while on the wine and rice, whistling asleep. At this time, the old man from the crowd came out, reach out from the clothes drawer pulled out a like a small finger like tower, toward the dragon will cover down. Strangely enough, the tower became very big when it saw the wind, and it covered the dragon at once, and the dragon was still dreaming. When the people saw this, they were shocked, and when they wanted to thank the old man, he had already disappeared. They shouted around, only to hear the head of someone talking, look up, it is the old man, people will hula all kneeling kowtow. They heard the old man say in mid-air: "I am sent by the Jade Yellow Emperor to get rid of the evil dragon. The evil dragon was suppressed by the tower, it will never do evil. From now on, you can plant crops without worry and live a good life." After saying this, he disappeared. This is the origin of the Dragon Spring Tower. [