What is the landmark building in Quanzhou City?

Quanzhou Quanzhou East-West Tower is a landmark building. It stands on the squares on both sides of the Kaiyuan Temple Worship Court, about 200 meters away from the hotel. It is an octagonal stone tower with a five-story pavilion-style wooden structure.

Dongta, a famous town and state pagoda, promoted writing in the sixth year of Xiantong (865 AD)? The Zen master built a five-story wooden pagoda. Go back and go back and forth several times to destroy and rebuild, easy wood bricks. In the second year of Jiaxi (1238), the bricks were replaced with stones, and it took 10 years to complete. The tower is 48.24 meters high, with a flat corridor, four parts of the outer wall, a tower, a cloister and an octagonal column in the center of the tower. Tower frame structure. The middle tower core column runs straight through the floor and is the support of the entire tower. The central pillars of the eight-storey tower are framed by stone beams at the corners. Even with the 2-meter-thick tower walls and leaning columns, the top pillars guard the Chinese arch layers to support the narrow span of the stone beams. Stone beams and sorghum are cared for, chiseled and tenoned, and the heart of the tower and the tower walls rely on stress connections to form one, greatly improving the firmness of the tower. The walls of the tower are carved with granite work, crisscrossing and bonded accurately calculated with the builder's care. With a solid foundation, arranged in compliance with mechanical principles, the building weighing more than 10,000 tons has seen wind, frost, rain, and a solid core that remains motionless for more than 700 years. The magnitude 8.0 earthquake in 1604 AD was an unshakable, movable foundation.

The stone tower is not only very strong and elegant in style. The curved eaves of the tower extend, and the Yanjiao High Bridge Tower flies in the air, as if it were light. Each level is provided with four doors and four in-level niches and are interchangeable. In this way, the gravity is evenly dispersed, and the appearance of the tower can be more vivid and beautiful. It is an easy task for two coppers to be tied to the eaves and corners of the tower on each floor. The Tudor sound is tinkling, sweet and pleasant. The front eight chains connect the eight cocked corners with the braking top, and it's got that majestic, purple shake. There are 16 reliefs carved on the wall of each floor of the tower, engraved with the Heavenly Vehicle, the Sound Hearer Vehicle, the Pratyekabuddha Vehicle, the Bodhisattva Vehicle and the Buddha Vehicle. There are 80 statues of Xu Ling in total, such as health. The knife is delicate, smooth lines and intricate. The East Tower completed the 1997 candidacy for the National Four Famous Towers Stamp.

The west tower is called Renshou Pagoda. In the 3rd year of Zhengming (917), during the Five Dynasties Liang Dynasty, Wang Quanzhou built this pagoda by transporting timber from Fuzhou Panhai. In the fourth year of Northern Zhizhi (1114), he petitioned for the name "Renshou Pagoda". It was destroyed and rebuilt many times. The front and back were easily made of wooden bricks. The first year of Songshao's fake show was the first year (1228 to 1237 AD). Self-certified "Master Yi's bricks were used as stones, and it was built in front of the East Tower for decades. The west tower is 44.06 meters high, slightly lower than the east tower, and its scale is almost the same as the east tower. The reliefs of Avalokitesvara and the Monkey Walker, which only men take, have aroused widespread interest for tourists and scholars.

The Quanzhou Kaiyuan Temple Stone Pagoda is an ancient stone structure architectural treasure in China. The size, shape and skill of the spire building make it as exquisite as you can make it. It fully reflects the extent of the wisdom and great creativity of the working people in the Song Dynasty. This is what is called a leader, not only in China the Stone Tower is second to none in the world. In its heyday, it was a symbol of the unprecedented prosperity of Quanzhou's transportation and society in the Middle Ages. It was also a symbol of Quanzhou, a unique historical and cultural city. Now, in Eastern Europe and Eastern Europe, the tower shadow sculpture has become a precious gift for the most senior leaders of the city. Therefore, we can say that the East-West Tower has become a symbol of Quanzhou. The pride of Quanzhou people, the visual hometown shadow of overseas Chinese and Taiwan compatriots. Even if not in Quanzhou, people often say: Everyone should "stand like a tower and lie down like Luoyang Bridge, something tangible, something that weighs the weight of the tower in their minds.