Pagoda courtyard tower

Jingketa

synonym

Shengta Yuanta generally refers to Jingke pagoda

Jingke tower, also known as shengta Yuanta, is located on Jingke mountain in the west of Jingke mountain village, Yizhou Town, Yixian County. It is a key cultural relic protection unit in Hebei Province. The ancient pagoda was first built in 1103 A.D. during the Wanli period of Ming Dynasty and the Kangxi and Qianlong periods of Qing Dynasty. Beside the pagoda, there are stone steles recording the status of restoration at that time. On the east side of the pagoda, there was shengta Yuan Temple, but only some remains are preserved.

brief introduction

According to the county records, the mound on the west side of the pagoda is Jingke's tomb, and the Jingke museum was also built here. These add solemn and stirring stories and wonderful legends to the ancient pagoda.

Jingke tower is located on the top of Jingke mountain village, 2 li southwest of Yi county. The tower is 26 meters high. Xumizuo is octagonal and 13 stories. It is of brick and wood structure, white, with eight corners on each floor hanging Fengduo. The first floor is higher. There are false doors on the North, South, East and west sides, false windows on the inclined plane, and iron tower brake on the top.

Jingke pagoda is built on the tomb of Jingke's clothes. It is made of sand and stone. It is the former site of Jingke hall in ancient times and also the tomb of Jingke's clothes. The tomb is 34 meters high and covers an area of 2400 square meters. Crown Prince Dan of Yan said goodbye to Jing Ke and knew that he had gone or not, so he took his clothes and made a fake grave and buried it in it.

Historical evolution

In the third year of Qiantong reign of Liao Dynasty (1103 A.D.), the pagoda and temple were built on Jingke's tomb. After that, it was rebuilt and repaired in every dynasty. In the third year of Qiandao reign of Song Dynasty (the seventh year of Dading reign of Jin Dynasty, the 24th day of maoshuo in 1167 AD), Liu Kai, the assassin, returned to his hometown. He used 200 pieces of relic to store them in gold bottles and silver pavilions, buried them in the underground palace and rebuilt the pagoda. At that time, Yi was under the jurisdiction of Jin Dynasty and was not the place of Liao Dynasty. However, the inscription on the tablet was "a record of rebuilding the sacred Pagoda in Yi Prefecture of Liao Dynasty". The inscription was made in the Southern Song Dynasty. It can be seen that the local people naturally did not forget their homeland. After Zhang Rou began to build Baoding mansion and lotus pond in Yuan Dynasty, he built stone statues in front of Jingke's tomb, planted pines and cypresses on the mountain, and retained several trees at the beginning of liberation. In the sixth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1578), it was rebuilt, and the shengta temple was changed into a courtyard. Next to the pagoda was a tree. In May of the fourteenth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1586), Xiong Wenxi, the imperial censor, inscribed "jingkeli, an ancient righteous man", unified the stele. In the sixth year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty (A.D. 1721), the stele was merged again. In 1986, the people's Government of Yi county carried out maintenance.

Address: Jingke mountain, Yi County, Hebei Province

Longitude: 115.49551236355

Latitude: 38.874162574221