The beautiful composition of Mingfu Temple Tower is 3 words

In the fourth year of Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty (Emperor Wen of Sui), a temple named Mingfu Temple was built in the southwest corner of the old city of hua county.

There are two theories about the reason why Mingfu Temple got its name. One is that there was a family in the south village of Chengguan, hua county. The head of the family was Du, whose name was Mingfu. His whole family was devoted to goodness and worshiped the Buddha, and they gave up their modest house to build a temple for people to burn incense and worship the Buddha. So people used his name as the name of the temple. Another way of saying it is: Du Mingfu was appointed as the magistrate of Slippery State in Sui Dynasty. After taking office, he found a blind man named Li Tu and said to him, "You used to be blind because a gold hairpin forced your wife to commit suicide. Now you can only get happiness if you give your own property as a temple. " Li Tu did as Du Mingfu said, and sure enough, his eyes regained sight. Accordingly. [2]

Rebuilding hua county Chronicles in the Republic of China? "Jin Shilu" reads: "I raised money to build a temple for my good friends, so I named it" Mingfu ". At first, this temple was not large, but it was expanded one after another, with a scale of 1, meters from north to south and 37 meters from east to west. Its splendid halls are famous in the county, so it is known as the famous sliding platform brake. In particular, in the second year of Baoli in Tang Dynasty, a nine-story pagoda with dense eaves and masonry structure was built in the temple, which made Mingfu Temple famous. Unfortunately, after the war, the temple has been destroyed, and only the ancient pagoda remains. [2]

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Mingfu Temple Pagoda

Mingfu Temple Pagoda has a reasonable overall design, excellent building materials and construction technology, which not only has the basic characteristics of brick pagodas in the early Song Dynasty, but also has obvious styles of brick pagodas in the Tang Dynasty, which is actually an example of the evolution of towers in the Tang and Song Dynasties.

Mingfu Temple Tower, also known as Thousand Buddha Pagoda, is a seven-level pavilion-style brick tower. The whole tower consists of three parts: tower foundation, tower body and tower brake. After renovation, the tower is 43 meters high and 11 meters in ground diameter. The plane is octagonal, and the tower body is retracted step by step. It is one of the few large-scale Buddhist temple brick towers in Henan Province and even the whole country.

Mingfu Temple Tower is tall and magnificent, and it is one of the few large-scale brick pagodas of Buddhist temples in Henan Province and even in the whole country. The pagoda is a seven-level pavilion-like shape, with a total height of 43 meters and a bottom surface diameter of 11 meters. The plane is octagonal, and the tower body is slightly parabolic. The whole tower consists of three parts: tower foundation, tower body and tower brake. The tower foundation is made of bluestone, while the tower body and tower brake are made of more than 7 kinds of gray bricks with different specifications. On the first floor, a semi-circular arch door is opened on the front, and the door is decorated with embossed curtains. There are four front doors on the second to seventh floors, and the four sides of the fifth and seventh floors are respectively built with straight windows and swastika patterns. There is a brick Pubai Fang under the eaves, and there are five regular paving on the Fang, which are used for double-copy brick stigma paving and supplementary paving. Bucket arch supports eaves, rafters and flies. The eaves tile with heavy lip and plain tile are typical styles in the early Song Dynasty. On the eaves, a bucket arch

a flat seat supported by Mingfu Temple Tower

is applied, and under the eaves and the flat seat, a laminated brick layer of embossed lotus is applied. Exquisite bamboo-shaped leaning columns composed of brick carvings and lotus flowers are built at the corners of each floor of the tower. The outer wall of the tower is inlaid with more than 5 kinds of ***1234 brick carvings of Buddha statues, with vivid figures and a legacy of the Tang Dynasty. The tower is also divided into seven layers, which are the same as the outer eaves, forming an octagonal hollow structure with a barrel shape. The stairway built in the wall is combined with the climbing walkway on each flat seat and spirals up to the top of the tower. Overhead peach-shaped tower brake. [1] There are 24 bronze bells hanging at each corner of the top floor, and the wind blows the bells, which is pleasant to hear. The top of the tower is like a Xiantao, from which visitors can climb to the top and look at the ancient city of hua county.

Mingfu Temple Museum is built on the west side of Mingfu Temple Tower, 4 meters from north to south, 2 meters from east to west, and 26 meters from east to west in front of the market, with a total area of 11.9 hectares. The museum is mainly based on the Sui style that is lacking in domestic antique buildings. It generally includes three roads, namely, China, East and West, and many courtyards. The single building forms all reflect the legacy of the ancient temples in the Sui Dynasty, which has a strong sense of history and cultural tourism appreciation value.