Do you have an introduction about the Three Pagodas in Jiaxing?

First of all, I recommend the book Memory of Jiaxing written by Mr. Minglu. There is an article "Journey to Three Towers" in it, which may be helpful to you. Excerpts are as follows. This book is hard to buy now, but official website can read it online for free in Jiaxing Library. In addition, we are proud of the Three Towers, which was published in the February issue of National Geographic magazine 1926. If you are interested, you can also search for related photos online. There used to be a temple of Wang Yue near the other three towers. The original site is probably located near the former site of Jishui Middle School. In the temple, there is a bronze knight personally carved by the descendants of a statue, on which there are four characters in calligraphy: "Sincerely serve the country". It is a precious cultural relic in Song Ningzong, which was recovered many times after the death of Song Dynasty. During the light years of the Qing dynasty, the bronze knight was restored to the shrine and exhibited in Hangzhou before the Anti-Japanese War, but it was lost during the Anti-Japanese War, which made people sad.

The following is the full text of "Journey to Three Towers":

Forty years ago, most Jiaxing people had to go through Xiliqiao Ferry Port to go to the Three Pagodas. This ferry probably lasted until the early 1970s, and Xili Bridge was rebuilt between 65438 and 0973. Since 1949, stupid Kuomintang soldiers blew up Xili Bridge in the middle of the night (trying to stop the PLA from entering Jiaxing), in the past 20 years, Aerxian, a villager in Santa Village, ferried the ferry to facilitate pedestrians. After the death of Aer, his son, Jin Guan, successively ferried the ferry. At that time, the ferry fare was 20 cents per person, excluding the return trip. At that time, this twenty cents could eat half a mung bean popsicle, so we children often cheated: we disembarked and went ashore, but Ah Er (a black and thin old man in my memory) couldn't manage so many "wild children" and often stood at the stern and shouted at him.

Most of the time to visit the Three Pagodas is in spring. What impressed me most is that once you ferry ashore, you will find the wide Tang River and the endless fields on the south bank of the river. Willow trees by the water, bamboo villages in the fields, golden rape flowers and purple Chinese milk vetch, and two or three pink peach blossoms from the corner of the farmhouse are really eye-catching! Walking on the pond road, the spring breeze blows, the river waves vividly, and the sound of the river waves is soothing, and it will be close to you for a while. At that time, there were many stone archways on Tang Lu Road, but I don't remember whether they belonged to "a good wife in Beijing". The cemetery marked "123" was founded by Yao, formerly known as "Fuan". It is said that the grave keeper is a famous Beijing opera actress who often wears a black velvet cheongsam and never marries, accompanied by a dog. The original appearance of Wang Yue Temple, the hometown of national hero Yue Fei, is naturally less than what I can see at my age. This ancestral temple was originally built by Yue Shengyuan, a descendant of Yue Fei, during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. On the wall, four characters are written in red letters: "Sincerely serve the country". There are many Yue temples in China, but as far as I know, Yue Fei's ancestral temple is in Tangyin, then Jiaxing. After the collapse of this ancestral temple in the early 1950s, it was not until recent years that the story of reconstruction came out, but the sound was very low. Wang Yue Temple is on the west side of Yin Xue Temple. The first place I went to the Three Pagodas was Yin Xue Temple. The temple is not big. I remember it as three pagodas. On the shallow main hall, there is a two-foot-high little Buddha. The sculpture is rough, uneven and pitiful. Going to the blood-printed temple is mainly to worship the "blood-printed monk" on the west column of the stone archway in front of the temple. Jiaxing folk story "Blood-stained monks give their lives to save lives" is well known to women and children. The story goes like this: In the early Ming Dynasty, Japanese invaders invaded Jiaxing, robbed dozens of women in Santatang and locked them in Wang Yue Temple. Later, all the monks in the temple were released. When the Japanese pirates knew about it, they tied the monk to a stone pillar and burned him alive. Unexpectedly, the monk's blood seeped into the stone pillar and became a standing image, which lasted for a long time. The blood column is still there. When I was a child, I always admired the "blood monk" when I heard the stories told by adults. Just a few steps away from the ruins of Wang Yue Temple, there are three brick pagodas, which are located in front of Chachan Temple and Temple. The Blood Seal Temple, Wang Yue Temple, Chachan Temple and the Three Pagodas seem to be connected together. In the past, gardening also emphasized combination, otherwise it would be difficult to become one of the "Golden Harvest Eight Scenery" just by hanging three towers. Old East Pagoda Temple in Rudong Pagoda and Maichen Tomb in Zhu Han; If it is as old as Xinyang Temple, there are Leifengjing, Cai Yun Bridge, Prime Minister Pei Qinghui Hall and many other famous places in the temple.

The three towers are not very tall, they are all made of seven layers of bricks, and their shapes are pretty good. At first glance, the two towers in the east and the middle seem to have been damaged, but the towers are still strong and can't collapse. These three pagodas were built in the Tang Dynasty, and there are few records about their rise and fall since then. Local chronicles only note "reconstruction in the second year of Guangxu reign (1876)". From the reconstruction of 1876 to the demolition of 197 1 year, the history of the three towers I saw was less than a hundred years. If it weren't for the beautiful countryside in spring, the white boat in the three pagodas on March 16th of the lunar calendar, the wild vegetable Malantou walking in Tomb-Sweeping Day, the children burying pots and boiling wild rice in the fields beside the pond road, and the story of the "blood-printed monk" in the blood-printed temple and the "sitting monk" in the tea temple, I can't imagine how worth seeing these three pagodas are. If you want to express your nostalgia for the past, sing the morning drums and dusk bells of Xili Bridge and sing the frost-leaf reeds outside the tea temple, you must ask the poets who have been here in the past to remember.

I hope the above answers are helpful to you.