The history and story of Wenfeng Tower in Fuyang

Fuyang Wenfeng Tower is located in Wenfeng Park, Yingzhou Road, a main road in the center of Fuyang, Anhui Province (hence the name Wenfeng Park).

According to historical records, because Kuixing Tower was not high and literary stars were not very visible, the local literary style was weak and there were not many achievements.

In the 35th year of Kangxi reign (1696), Wenfeng Tower was built here to revitalize Fuyang's literary style. This tower is an all-brick structure with seven floors and an octagonal shape, and is 31.8 meters high. There are tower chambers on each floor, and the first floor is a separate chamber. The north door is a staircase entrance, and there is a spiral staircase running through the top. There are four coupon-shaped doors on the four sides on the first, third, fifth and seventh floors; there are three doors on each of the south, west and east sides on the second, fourth and sixth floors. The tower is in the style of a pavilion with dense eaves, with masts protruding from each level. There are brick-carved bucket arches with imitation wood structures to support the protruding dense eaves. The top is ridged and angular, with a three-stack bead-style sword and an iron five-pronged brake lever running through the tip. The shape is simple and solemn.

Wenfeng Tower and Kuixing Tower are both built in the southeast of the city, that is, Xunfang. "The Book of Mountains and Seas Illustrated Praise" says: "The earth lacks the Xun dimension, and the sky lacks the stem angles." The topography of Fuyang is high in the northwest and low in the southeast. According to "Yingzhou Chronicles": Geographical experts believe that the southeast is low and the land is light, and the earth's energy overflows and it is difficult to produce talents, so a tower must be built to control it. "Yi Xun" says that Xun is like the wind: "Follow the wind, Xun". Sparse: "Since the wind follows, nothing is against it." According to Confucianism, Xun is the palace of articles, and the tower has the shape of a Zhuo pen. Therefore, it is called "Wenfeng Tower".

Wenfeng Pagoda is both related to "Wen" and has a strong Taoist flavor. Some of the brick carvings on the tower include longevity deer, Ganoderma lucidum, dragon and phoenix, which represent good luck, and there are carps jumping over the dragon gate for the literati's prayers. , as well as the yin-yang fish pattern. This provides vivid and valuable information for studying people's ideology, aesthetic psychology and Fuyang history at that time.

In short, this type of tower belongs to the so-called Feng Shui tower in the old days

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