Dakaiyuan Temple đánh giá

Quanzhou East-West Tower is the tallest pair of stone pagodas in China. It is located on both sides of Kaiyuan Temple. The East is "Zhenguo Pagoda" and it is 48.27 meters high. It was built in Xiantong six years ago (865 A.D.). It was originally a five-storey wooden pagoda. It was destroyed and rebuilt several times before and after. To the second year of Jiaxi. It took ten years before bricks became stones (1238 A.D.). The West is "Renshou Pagoda", 45.06 meters high. In the three years of Liang Zhenming in the Five Dynasties (917 AD), Wang Juzhi built this pagoda in Quanzhou by transporting wood from Fuzhou to Quanzhou by sea. Its initial name is "Wuliangshou Pagoda". In the four years of BeiLaizheng (1114 AD), Renshou Pagoda was bestowed. It was destroyed and rebuilt many times before and after. Yimu was brick. From the first year of Song Shaoding to the first year of Jiaxi (1228-1237 AD), Yimu was stone. It was built ten years before the East Pagoda. Both towers are wood-like granite structure, pavilion-style buildings, plane octagon, five-storey and five-eaves. The towers are all Xumi seats, with 39 reliefs of Sakyamuni stories on the waist part of the base of the East Tower and various flowers, birds, insects, fish and decorative patterns on the waist part of the base of the West Tower. The center of the tower is octagonal solid body. Each niche on the tower has wings in relief Buddha statues, a total of 80. After the storms and earthquakes, the East and West towers still stand erect, showing the high achievements of stone architecture and stone carving art in Quanzhou in the Song Dynasty, and becoming the unique symbol and symbol of the ancient city of Quanzhou.