Zhenfeng Pagoda

Zhenfeng Pagoda

ZHENFENG pagoda, located in Yingjiang temple, Anqing City, Anhui Province, was originally named Wanfo pagoda, also known as Yingjiang Temple Pagoda, later named "Zhenfeng", which means "Zhenwen style". ZHENFENG tower is located in the north of Yanjiang East Road, Yingjiang District, Anqing City, Anhui Province, adjacent to the Yangtze River. Anqing Zhenfeng pagoda was built in 1568 and completed in 1570. It is one of the ancient pagodas along the Yangtze River. The pagoda not only has the function of Buddha pagoda, but also has the function of navigation.

On May 25, 2006, Zhenfeng tower, as an ancient building of Ming Dynasty, was approved by the State Council as the Sixth Batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

Historical evolution

In 1568, the construction of Zhenfeng tower began.

Longqing four years (1570), completed, named "Zhenfeng.". The person who presided over the tower construction was Wang Zongxu (another name is e Quan), a native of Taihe, Jiangxi Province. In memory of Zong Xu's contribution, posterity once made a portrait in stone. Under the tower, there is a statue in the south.

In the seventh year of Shunzhi (1650), Li ripeng, governor of Caojiang, rebuilt it.

In the second year of Kangxi (1663), governor Zhang Chaozhen rebuilt the main hall and the ten thousand Buddha pagoda

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In the 11th year of Xianfeng (1861), the 6th and 7th floors were destroyed by gunfire.

In 1870, Wu Kunxiu rebuilt the Zhenfeng tower.

In 1893, it was rebuilt.

In 1918, it was repaired.

In 1954, Anqing Municipal People's government funded the renovation and completed it in 100 days.

In 1978, Anqing Municipal People's government again allocated funds and anqing Museum "carried the tripod to rebuild".

In May 1993, abbot Wanfeng raised funds and presided over the renovation, after 22 months. The incomplete tower foundation and fence were repaired and repaired as before.

In June 2014, with the approval of the state, provincial and municipal cultural relics departments, Anqing city started the overhaul of the vibrating wind tower. It took a year.

Architectural structure

structure

ZHENFENG tower is octagonal seven level pavilion type. The brick and stone structure is conical in shape. It shrinks from the bottom to the top in proportion, with a height of 60.86 meters. It is second only to the brick and stone pagoda of Kaiyuan Temple in Hebei Province in China. The diameter of the tower base is 19.25m, the platform base is xumizuo type, the height is 0.95m, the bottom of the tower is surrounded by a corridor, the depth is 3.33M, and there are 24 eaves columns with a diameter of 0.35m around the corridor. The diameter of the bottom tower is 8.72 meters (the above layers decrease in turn), the wall thickness is 3.87 meters, and the diameter of the inner chamber is 4.85 meters. The top is octagonal basin type caisson. The second floor of the tower is for Maitreya Buddha, the third floor is for five Buddhas, and the third, fourth and fifth floors have more than 600 brick Buddha statues, with 417 on the fourth floor at most. There are 52 inscriptions on the body of the tower (35 of which are on three floors).

features

In addition to one big, two high and three wonderful features, the wind tower also has the function of navigation.

First: in the early days of the Anti Japanese War, when the Japanese invaders invaded Anqing, pan Shishang, a clerk of Anhui Provincial Library, hid the materials and books of the provincial chronicles and the library of literature and history in the Zhenfeng tower. Until the victory of the Anti Japanese War, the Japanese did not notice. This shows that the size of the wind tower.

Two high: Zhenfeng tower is 60.86 meters high, overlooking from a high place, you can see the scenery of ten miles around.

Three wonders: the design of the Zhenfeng tower is mainly reflected in the arrangement of the tower gate. The Zhenfeng tower has doors from the third floor. 168 steps spiral up, and the stone steps also spiral up. The positions are varied, sometimes from east to inside, sometimes from west to inside.

Design style

ZHENFENG tower is a seven storey pagoda, each of which has its own name. The first layer: yifangxiong Town, the second layer: ershuiyaofen, the third layer: sanjichuguang, the fourth layer: all are empty, the fifth layer: wumiao realm, the sixth layer: Liuchao Yisheng, the seventh layer: Qiji futu.

In the design of the route to climb the tower, the unique maze technique is used: first, the disjointed spiral is used at the exit of the second floor and the entrance of the third floor, so visitors often go to the second floor and can't find the entrance of the third floor; second, from the fifth floor to the sixth floor, the counter clockwise spiral stomp is skillfully used, so the tower door is very different and changeable, and nine out of ten visitors are maze. On the second to sixth floors, there are four doors for visitors to overlook. Outside the door, there are corridors and jade railings for sanitation. You can follow the corridor to see the tower, and you can also watch the extreme view from the railings. There is no corridor or door on the top floor of the tower, only a high arch window is set in the south. On the sixth floor of the tower, there is a brake rod with a diameter of 0.45M which goes up to the tower brake. The bottom of the brake rod is a sleeper (0.52M wide and 0.30m thick), and both ends extend into the bottom wall of the sixth floor. The top of the pagoda is octagonal xumizuo, with a semicircular covered bowl, five iron balls "Xianglun" and a gourd vase. It is connected with a copper shaft to form a Tasha. The construction of Zhenfeng pagoda is unique. Compared with historical pagodas, it can reflect that it combines the characteristics of ancient Chinese architecture and has a strong Oriental architectural style.

Cultural relics

Value significance

The Zhenfeng pagoda is the largest and the highest seven level floating slaughterhouse in the Yangtze River Basin. It enjoys the reputation of "the first pagoda of the Yangtze River in thousands of miles" and "no tower after anqing". The shape and structure of Zhenfeng pagoda is basically a collection of Chinese ancient pagoda architecture art, which integrates the national characteristics of ancient Chinese architecture, and develops and improves it. This pagoda is unique among Chinese pagodas for its exquisite design, unique shape and novel structure. It has high historical, artistic and scientific value.

protective measures

In January 2010, Anqing Municipal Bureau of cultural relics commissioned Tongji University housing quality inspection station to conduct structural safety inspection on anqing Zhenfeng tower.

In April 2014, with the approval of the state, provincial and municipal cultural relics departments, the wind tower was repaired. It mainly renovates the eaves of the vibration tower, which causes leakage at the top of the chamber of the multi-storey tower, peeling off of internal and external painting to varying degrees, and aging of the original lightning protection facilities. The great revisionist calendar was one year old and ended on May 31, 2015.

History and culture

Tower wind

Anqing Zhenfeng tower is built to revitalize anqing literary style. Before the Ming Dynasty, Anqing did not produce the number one scholar, and the style of writing was poor. Some astrologers, after looking at the topography of Anqing, think that the river is flowing in Anqing, so it is difficult for literary talent to take root here. They must build a tower to prevent literary talent from flowing eastward. Although this theory is absurd, after anqing built the Zhenfeng tower, the style of writing in Anqing was really prosperous and talented people came out in large numbers. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were not only great thinkers Fang Yizhi, father and son prime ministers Zhang Ying, Zhang Tingyu, number one scholar Zhao Wenkai and calligrapher Deng Shiru. There are so many scholars and writers. Tongcheng school is a prose school with Tongcheng scholars as its founders and main writers.

legend

It is said that every year on August 15, when the ice wheel is hanging high in the sky, countless tower shadows suddenly appear beside the tower shadows in the river. They are colorful, and they are miraculous. This is the annual "pilgrimage" to Zhenfeng tower, where the towers on both sides of the Yangtze River gather in Anqing. For hundreds of years, the wind and rain have been heavy, and "the Yangtze River is vast day by day, and the shadow of the pagoda cannot flow away.".

Tourism information

Ticket information

Climbing tower: 20 yuan

Traffic information

There are 10 bus lines, 13 bus lines, 14 bus lines, 18 bus lines, 1 bus line, 21 bus line, 3 bus line, 7 bus line, 14 bus line and 7 bus line through Yingjiang temple.

Address: No.148, Yingjiang East Road, Yingjiang District, Anqing City

Longitude: 117.05466637302

Latitude: 30.50125002337

Tel: 0556-5583310

Tour time: 1 hour

Ticket information: incense coupon: 10 yuan

Climbing tower: 10 yuan

Opening hours: all day