Is there a temple with strong incense in Jining (and the following counties and towns), Jushilin?

Jining, a famous historical and cultural city in Shandong Province, was called Rencheng in ancient times. Due to the successful excavation of the Grand Canal, Jining was the most prosperous commercial capital in southwest Shandong during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and many historical sites are still preserved. The four pagodas in China-Guangxiao Temple Pagoda in Guangzhou, dangyang yuquan temple Pagoda in Hubei, Chongjue Temple Pagoda in Jining, Shandong, and Chongjue Temple Pagoda in Liaocheng, Shandong-are famous ancient buildings that make the ancient city of Jining shine.

Chongjue Temple Tower is located in the north of Tieta Tample Street, Jining, Shandong. There are no towers in the temple. Chongjue Temple was built in the first year of the Northern Qi Dynasty (560 BC), and the iron tower was built in the fourth year of Chongning in the Northern Song Dynasty (1 105 BC). In order to repay her husband's wishes, his wife often built a seven-level iron floating tower in the temple at her own expense. Since then, the temple has been renamed "Tieta Tample". When the tower was first built, there was no casting at the top of the tower, and it was stopped because of an accident. In the praise of the tower, later generations all said with regret: "The tower has no top, the sword of a gentleman is graceful, and the crown has no ornaments. The talkers often think that beauty is not perfect ..." Until the ninth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 158 1 year), under the advocacy of Gong Mian (Xishan) in Jining Road, they jointly raised funds to build the seven-story building into nine.

Temple Tower, formerly known as Chongjue Temple, is also known as Shi Jia Temple. The tower was originally an octagonal seven-story pavilion-style building with eleven floors, including the tower foundation and the tower brake, with a height of 23.8 meters. The base of this tower is a brick octagon. The tower foundation is 1.9 m deep, which is higher than the base surface. It was paved as a lodger on the flat ground. In order to prevent distortion, the heart is filled with a lattice frame made of nanmu, and a tall Chinese fir runs through it from the bottom. The tower seat is equipped with a west-facing brick-like wood building tower room with a door in the south. The top of the room is caisson-shaped, all made of blue bricks. There is a stone tablet carved in the Song Dynasty with 1000 pessimistic voices and 1000 eyes. Buddhist myths, lectures, flying stories, and inscriptions on stupas in the seventh year of Guangxu reign (A.D. 188 1 year) were engraved on three sides of the Buddha's seat.

The tower body of the iron tower is octagonal, and the brick body is filled with iron shell brick core. Each floor is equipped with tower eaves, flat seats, goulan, etc. , tower eaves and seats are equipped with bucket arches. It gradually decreases from bottom to top, forming obvious points, showing a resolute, straight and beautiful outline.

The upper part of each tower is provided with cornices protruding 30cm, and each floor is provided with octagonal flat seats with a thickness of about 5cm. The reclining seat is equipped with a fence 30 cm high along the edge. The patterns of the fence board are varied, and each layer has its own characteristics, such as double-sided continuous glyph pattern, four-ball grid pattern, peony pattern, etc., which are carefully carved. Between the fence and the tower, there is a 20 cm corridor, and 20 cm grooves are cast on all sides of each floor of the tower to replace the column. Under the eaves, each side is supported by four piles of bucket arches. The cornices are far-reaching, the semi-arch is sparse, the casting is rigorous, and the characteristics of wooden structures are not lost, giving people a magnificent feeling.

There are rectangular doors on all sides of each tower, and 36 doors are opened in the whole tower. There are niches on the other four sides, with built-in Buddha statues, and two sitting buddhas are cast on each side. Thirty-six of them sit cross-legged, with smooth lines and vivid images. The inscription on the iron tower is cast on the southeast and northeast walls of the first floor of the tower, with the words "the husband of the regular family, willing to cast it" in fine gold regular script, and the words "Long live the emperor, glory to future generations" are cast on the southeast wall of the second floor of the tower. There are also characters on the northwest wall of the sixth floor tower, but it is difficult to identify because of serious erosion.

At the top of the tower is a peach-shaped bronze gold medal and a lotus-shaped base, and it is also a copper-cast copper-plated pagoda. The cornices have nine floors, and the eight ridges extend outward, and the wind hangs on the cornices, making the whole tower particularly spectacular and brilliant.

All the components of the whole tower are carved patterns like wood, all made of iron. The structure is rigorous and spectacular, which embodies the shape of wood structure buildings in Song Dynasty, and also shows the level of metal casting and smelting technology and the creative ability of building technology at that time. Juejue Temple Tower is a precious artistic heritage of China.