What is the history of Chongwen Pagoda?

Key cultural relics protection units in Shaanxi Province. Chongwen Township, Jingyang County, 32km north of Xianyang (now located in the playground behind chongwen middle school, Chongwen Town). Founded in the 21st year of Wanli of Ming Dynasty (1593), it was initiated and presided over by Li Shida and built by a craftsman in Zhenjiang, Nanjing, and completed in the 31st year of Wanli (1605). The tower has a total of 13 floors and a height of 87.438+08 meters. According to the design principle of bagua ceiling in ancient buildings, the tower foundation to the top of the tower are all made of blue bricks. It is octagonal, and its base is 9 meters long. The ground floor has double eaves, and the word "Chongwen Pagoda" is engraved on the south tower door. The top floor is a castle-like tower stack, and the top is copper gourd. 1979, eight bronze Buddha statues, Bodhisattva statues and Heavenly King statues were found at the top of the tower. They are lifelike and lifelike, and they are treasures of the Ming Dynasty. According to the inscription of Chongwen Tower Temple in Tiefo, the tower was built to encourage children in Jingyang, Sanyuan and Gaoling counties to study hard. It was built in the Ming Dynasty 19 (159 1), took 19 years, and was completed in the 36th year of the Ming Dynasty (1608). Introduction of Jingyang Chongwen Pagoda in Xianyang Chongwen Pagoda is located in chongwen middle school, southeast of Jingyang County 10 km, standing on the north bank of Jinghe River. The tower was built in a.d. 1593 in the twenty-first year of Wanli of Ming dynasty, and one floor was built every year. Completed in the 31st year of Wanli 1605. It is a provincial key cultural relics protection unit. Chongwen Tower is 8 17 meters high with 0/3 floors. It is designed according to the principle of gossip ceiling in ancient architecture, each floor is closed with gossip ceiling, and all floors are made of blue bricks from the bottom to the top of the tower. All the towers are octagonal, 9 meters on each side of the bottom floor and 72 meters around. There are four windows on each floor, and there are four niches outside each floor, which cross each other. Stone Buddha statues in the Ming Dynasty, placed in Buddhist niches, stand or sit, have different shapes and are extremely exquisite and vivid. On the second floor, there is a metal standing Buddha statue cast in it. The ground floor has double eaves, and the word "Chongwen Pagoda" is engraved on the south tower door. From the top of the tower to the top of the tower, you can visit inside and outside each floor. The battlements of the castle are built around the top floor. If the weather is fine, when you climb this tower, you can see the scenery of Xi 'an, Hua Yue and Mount Li. Every year on the 23rd and 24th of the first lunar month, people climb the tower, which is bustling and very lively. 1. Transportation: Xianyang takes bus No.2 to Jingyang, Xi 'an and Xianyang take buses to Jingyang County. 2. Tickets: 3 tickets for 3 yuan. Opening hours: 9: 00 ~ 18: 00 history.

Chongwen Pagoda is located in chongwen middle school, southeast of Jingyang County 10 km. It is the tallest brick tower in China with a long history. About 360 years ago, this tower is one of the best preserved brick towers in China. Now it is a provincial key cultural relics protection unit. There is a cultural management office and special protection.

Chongwen Pagoda was founded in the 21st year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty (1593), initiated by Li Shida, an important official in Jingyang, and built by a craftsman in Zhenjiang, Nanjing, and completed in the 31st year of Wanli (1605). It is a pavilion-style brick tower with an octagonal plane and thirteen floors, with a total height of 83.218m. It is a bagua suspended ceiling designed according to the principle of ancient architecture, and the tower body is made of blue bricks from bottom to top.

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Chongwen Pagoda, 13 floor, with an octagonal plane and a height of 83.5438+08m, is a pavilion-style brick tower. It is designed according to the principle of gossip ceiling in ancient buildings, and each floor is closed with gossip ceiling. Chongwen Pagoda is built of blue bricks from the bottom to the top of the tower. All the towers are octagonal, 9 meters on each side of the bottom floor and 72 meters around. Chongwen Pagoda has four windows on each floor and four shrines outside each floor, which cross each other. Stone Buddha statues in the Ming Dynasty, placed in Buddhist niches, stand or sit, have different shapes and are extremely exquisite and vivid. On the second floor, there is a metal standing Buddha statue cast in it. The ground floor has double eaves, and the word "Chongwen Pagoda" is engraved on the south tower door. From the top of the tower to the top of the tower, you can visit inside and outside each floor. The battlements of the castle are built around the top floor. If the weather is fine, when you climb this tower, you can see the scenery of Xi 'an, Hua Yue and Mount Li. Every year on the 23rd and 24th of the first lunar month, people climb the tower, which is bustling and very lively.

All the towers are octagonal, with a ground floor of 9 meters on each side and a circumference of 72 meters. There are four windows on each floor, and there are four niches outside each floor, which cross each other. Buddhist niches are built with stone carvings in the Ming Dynasty, sitting or standing, with different shapes, which are extremely vivid. The South Pagoda Gate on the second floor is engraved with the word "Chongwen Pagoda", which is the largest brick pagoda in China. It can climb from the top of the tower to the top of the tower, and can be visited inside and outside each floor. The whole tower of Chongwen Pagoda is made of blue bricks. Each floor of the tower has four doors and four niches, and the carved Buddha statues of the Ming Dynasty are built in, which are different in shape and lifelike. There are brick steps in the tower, which can reach the top of the tower in twists and turns. On each tower eaves, several layers of giant bricks are folded and extended to form a waist eaves platform with a width of more than one meter for tourists to visit. The bucket arches and brick eaves rafters on each floor are assembled with specially-made ground bricks, and the tenons and mortises are interlocked, and there are brick carvings with various patterns, which are extremely spectacular. Wind chimes are hung on every cornice. In the early morning and moonlit night, wind chimes jingle, adding charm to the ancient pagoda. Castle battlements are built around the top floor. When the weather is clear, visitors can look out at the battlements and look around. At night, they can see the magnificent scenery of Bashui around Chang 'an and Lishan, and they can also see the Jinghe River and Weihe River vividly. There is an original copper basin at the top of the tower, and there are 8 different types of bronze Buddha statues under the basin. Unfortunately, the copper basin was broken and stolen after the drought in Guanzhong in 1929, and the small bronze Buddha was dug up by local children in 1980 to sell copper. Fortunately, it was discovered and redeemed by the county cultural unit and is now in the county museum. There used to be several evergreen cypresses on the top floor, but now there are none. 13 floor, that is, the top of the tower, is a copper gourd about 5 meters high, which is quite magnificent.

One legend is that ...

It is said that Qian Qian, the favorite concubine of the 12th Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, died. The emperor heard that her soul had drifted to Penglai Island, so he told Li Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry to build a 30-foot-high "Wang Xian Tower" 20 miles away from Beijing.

The title of this Li Shangshu is Chongwen, originally from Jingyang County. He has been in office for more than 20 years and has never been home. He often misses his hometown. Today, I heard that a tower will be built 20 miles away from Beijing (Jingjing). Naturally, I can't say how happy I am. Busy with his wife and daughter on a starry night. After returning to his hometown, Shangshu told the states and counties about building towers and raising silver, and immediately set about site selection and clearing the foundation. People nearby were very happy when they heard that Li Shangshu had built a tower for Jingyang, and they rushed to raise money. In dozens of villages in the south of Jingyang County, brick kilns have been built (this area was later called Fang Yao), and there are also villages dedicated to building towers and grinding rice noodles (later called Mozi Village). In a few days, skilled craftsmen came one after another.

Just as the foundation stone was laid, Shangshu declared that he was going to Beijing, and mistakenly changed "Beijing" to "Beijing", which caused Wanli's anger and was asked to cut it. When the news reached home, there was no one in Jingyang who did not shed tears for Shangshu. At this time, some craftsmen said, "Since Shangshu has been killed and a river beach has been built, it is better to build a memorial tower for Shangshu." Everyone gathered in Shangshu Village. You talked and I talked, so that your wife could make up her mind. Shangshu has a daughter named Cui Yun. Miss Cui Yun was in great pain, and her heart was moved by the villagers' comments. She believes that it is impossible for her father to be resurrected. It is better to fulfill her father's wish and use the wishes of the villagers to build a tower for her hometown. She said goodbye to her mother, put on men's clothes and called herself the son of Shangshu. Her free and easy manner is almost beyond recognition. She secretly swore to heaven that she would not build a tower or wear women's clothes. In this way, the beach of Jinghe River is busy again. Some people are carrying materials and others are digging foundations. Cui Yun is very busy. She wears it through the crowd from time to time. On this day, it was difficult to start the foundation. I saw that the tower foundation had been dug more than 30 feet deep, and the bottom was full of quicksand mud. How can this geology support a tower 20 or 30 feet high? Choe yun couldn't help worrying. Cui Yun's spirit of dressing up as a woman and building a tower moved Xuan Nv for nine days. She gave Cui Yun a dream and said, "If you build this tower, it will be higher than the rest of the world, and the beach of Jinghe River can't afford it. I specially called the eight brothers of the Kim family for you. Each of them, as the cornerstone, can lose 10 thousand yuan. " Cui Yun got up and saw the dazzling golden light in the pit, so he urged everyone to go down to remove silt and quicksand. At the bottom, he saw an octagonal bluestone, five or six feet high, with eight bronze figures on it. There are four poems engraved in the center of the stone tablet, which are: "Heavenly heart and people's heart, building a tower bank, filial piety to the daughter, and the famous tower worships the heaven." As you can see, God helped them and worked very hard. The sun and the moon are fast, and it has been seven years. The tower has been built with seven floors, four floors less than originally planned, and the original silver is almost used up. Cui Yunbian sold his family's property, and his fellow villagers also donated money, but he still could not make ends meet. In desperation, Miss Cui Yun changed into a Taoist costume, and went all over Guanzhong to collect money. Thirteen floors were built in less than six years, two more than originally planned. Then, a clay sculpture of Shangshu was made in the main hall of Cui Yun Temple under the tower of Chongwen Temple, and a golden body was specially made for Jiutian Xuan Nv at the top of the tower.

On the day when Chongwen Pagoda celebrated the tower, there were crowds of people in the east of Jingyang and around Chongwen Pagoda, and everyone was happy to sing and dance. Later, Tabei Village was named Yongle (now Yongle Town). condition

In order to see the soul of the beloved princess that day and inspire the people in Guanzhong, the Wanli Emperor built this 30-foot-high strange tower, which is a wonder in Shaanxi and named Chongwen Pagoda. Every year, many tourists come to the Tower Fair, and people can see Chang 'an, Xianyang, Huaqing, Hot Springs, Taibai, Mount Li, Zhaoling and Ganling from a distance. The scenery is really spectacular.