Red tower

Red tower

The red pagoda is 30 meters high and stands in the middle of the four small Tang Dynasty stone pagodas. The four Tang Dynasty stone pagodas around the red pagodas have similar shapes and basically the same height, about 3 meters high.

The red pagoda is made of white marble. Each pagoda has its own door, and there are statues on the inner wall of the door. On the outer wall of the first layer of each tower, there are inscriptions or Ode to the tower, which are of great value for the architectural age of the tower. On the east side of the small stone pagoda in the northwest corner of the North Tower is engraved with the inscription "shifutu"; on the west side of the small stone pagoda in the southeast corner is engraved with the inscription "Ode to tianyiqi, Jixian County, zuoguoyi Duwei, Yizhou Prefecture of the Tang Dynasty", written by Wang Lizhen, Li Yangcheng; on the east side of the small stone pagoda in the northeast corner is engraved with the inscription "the inscription of Zigong ligongshi, Xin'an Prefecture of Yizhou Prefecture of the Tang Dynasty"; on the east side of the small stone pagoda in the southwest corner is engraved with the inscription "Shifu, Yunju Temple of the Tang Dynasty" The pictures and inscriptions are in the same order.

The red pagoda and the four small stone pagodas are all seven story eaves. They are made of stone slabs in the form of hollow, and the eaves of each floor adopt the structure of positive and negative overlapping. The overall shape of these stone pagodas in Tang Dynasty is straight and beautiful, which is similar to the famous Xiaoyan Pagoda in Xi'an and the Three Pagodas in Dali in Yunnan, and has a typical architectural style of Tang Dynasty.

Historical origin

The North Tower of Yunju temple is also known as "red tower" because it was decorated with red brush. Located in Yunju Temple of Fangshan, the tower is of brick and tile structure, 30.4 meters high. The whole tower has two floors, with octagonal central column in the middle. The upper and lower eaves are decorated with brackets.

Layout structure

The red pagoda has two floors, eight sides of which are respectively arched and concealed as straight lattice windows. It was first built in the Tang and Liao dynasties, and was maintained as a bell and Drum Tower in the yuan and Ming Dynasties. The upper part is bell shaped, the middle part is drum shaped, and the lower part is Pavilion shaped. In the middle part, there is a dengkedeng, in the bottom, there is a brick carving of yizhouji lotian, in the shape of a rebound Sanxian, and a beautiful bird named Jialing Pinying with a human face. There are also ancient banquets and other relief scenes.

Cultural relics protection

The red pagoda is a national key cultural relic.

Address: Hongta mountain, Southeast of Hongta District, Yuxi City, Yunnan Province

Longitude: 102.49338109477

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