Xiangfu tower

Xiangfu tower

Xiangfu tower is located on Guishan mountain in Xiashan Town, Chaonan District, Shantou City, Guangdong Province. It was built in 1120, the second year of Xuanhe in Northern Song Dynasty, and has been destroyed several times.

Historical legend

It is said that during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Ke Liangjin, a foreigner, returned home from the imperial court. The villagers respected him very much and asked him to take charge of important affairs. Once, Ke Liangjin heard that there had been murders in the village for years, and then he visited and observed the common customs, geography and geomantic omen. One day, Liang Jin stood outside the gate of the village and looked at the turtle mountain. He felt that the shape of the turtle mountain was like a dead body lying upside down in front of the village. He told the villagers about the evil image. The villagers thought that they could find the root of the case and asked him for advice. Liang Jin did not refuse to go up the mountain to look at the terrain and decided to build a tower at the top of Guishan mountain to change the state of "dumping corpses".

Therefore, Ke Liangjin chose an auspicious day to start construction. When excavating the base of the tower, we found an ancient porcelain bottle with a copper coin in it. Liang Jin is like a treasure. He dumps the bottle, but he can't get the money. He looked into the bottle in the sunshine and saw that there were four words "Xiangfu Tongbao" on the copper coin. Later, it was named "Xiangfu" Ming.

After several years of spring and autumn, Xiangfu tower will be built soon. Who knows, when the spire was built, the wind was strong, the rainstorm was heavy, and the bricks and stones at the spire were blown to the sky. After the storm, construction began to rebuild, and the bricks and stones collapsed again. Kelianjin ordered people to set up a god shed on the mountain, prepare a large number of goods, sacrifice earth God, and then continue to repair.

Soon, the spire collapsed again

After several decades, Zhou Guanghao, a native of Tushi (today's Taoxi), started construction again and rebuilt the spire.

It is said that when Zhou Guanghao was young, he followed his maidservant up the mountain to watch the tower. At that time, Ke Liangjin was sacrificing to the God of earth, and the mountain was very busy. Liang Jin found that a woman in the crowd was carrying a cute child. She asked the woman about the child's name and life experience, and picked up a piece of cake to give to the woman. He shook his head. Give him another piece, but I won't accept it. Liang Jin simply picked up the whole cake to give him a choice, light pick hand will be the top of a piece of cake to eat. Later on, Zhou Guanghao's eating pancakes when he was young was far fetched from his success in his later years.

During the Wanli period, Zhou Guanghao resigned and lived in seclusion in Yuxia. Seeing that the Xiangfu pagoda collapsed, he called on the neighboring squires to discuss the matter of repairing the pagoda.

Rebuilding the spire is not easy. The bricks are piled up like hills, and the construction is even more difficult in the winter. Seeing this scene, Zhou Guanghao had a premonition that the rainy season was coming and was thinking about a good way to speed up the work. He told his staff to go around and say that they would fly to the top of the tower some day and some time, and watch carefully at that time. As soon as the news spread, it soon spread to the neighboring villages.

As soon as the date arrived, people from all the villages came to Guishan. Zhou Guanghao told his employer to stand at the intersection and declared to the public: Mr. Zhou has an appointment. Anyone who watches the flying bricks must take two bricks up the mountain from the foot of the mountain. After hearing this, they ran to the pile of bricks and rushed to take the bricks.

In a flash, thousands of people climbed to the top of Guishan mountain. When the time came, there was no movement. Everyone looked around. At this time, Zhou Guanghao strode to the middle of the crowd, talking and laughing, and said to the crowd, "here comes the flying brick." Everyone was stunned and looked at each other. Light pick pointed to the bricks on the mountain and said, "these bricks were at the foot of the mountain in the morning. Didn't they fly up?" All of a sudden, they realized that Zhou DUYE was clever.

Afterwards, the construction was intensified, and the spire was finally built before spring. Zhou Guanghao inscribed the inscription for Xiangfu tower. After the completion of Xiangfu tower, there are many legends about the shadow of the tower.

It is said that the shadow of the pagoda is very wonderful. In the nearby river or the distant Lianjiang River, there have been upright and inverted ones, sometimes as big as a flower tube, sometimes blurring into a long picture, sometimes clear and countable layers. In wells, even in other people's basins, there have been tower shadows.

It is also said that Xiangfu pagoda is the "king of pagoda". When the shadow of pagoda meets, if the shadow of Xiangfu pagoda does not arrive, other shadow of pagoda will not disperse.

Some of these legends can be explained from the special geographical location of Xiangfu tower and the formation of mirage, but more from people's beauty.

structure

After crossing the Maolin winding path and climbing to the top of Guishan mountain, you can see at a glance that there is a flat tower on the top of Guishan mountain, which can accommodate hundreds or even thousands of people. It has seven floors and eight sides, and the perimeter of the tower base is 21.2 meters. The spire was damaged by lightning, but it grew "green hair" (small trees), giving people a kind of association of "crane hair and child face".

history

The present tower is a cultural relic preserved by Zhou Guanghao in 1597. It is said that when the tower was excavated, it got an ancient vase, which contained a copper coin with the word "Xiangfu", so it was named "Xiangfu tower". The tower is of brick and stone structure. The base of the tower is paved with stone strips. The body of the tower is firm and firm. The eight sides of the tower base have granite stone carvings. On the stone plaque on the east gate of the second floor of the tower, Zhou Guanghao wrote "Xiangfu tower". Zhou Guanghao's article "Ding Jian Xiang Fu TA Ji" is dedicated to the reconstruction of the ancient pagoda. This article is included in the collection of mingnongshantang by Zhou Guanghao.

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