Wuxi Longguang Tower 100 word description, come on!

Located in Wuxi Xi Hui Park. As early as the early Ming Dynasty, there were stone pagodas in the western hills, which were later destroyed. In the first year of Jing (1522), Gu and his son rebuilt the stone pagoda; In July of the second year of Wanli (1574), it was rebuilt into an octagonal seven-story brick tower, which was named "Longguang Tower" by Shi Guanmin, the Changzhou magistrate, and was a feng shui tower to revitalize the style of writing.

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The first statement

According to legend, in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, a minister of rites in Kunshan, Gu Shang, accompanied by a local official in Wuxi, visited places of interest. He is very particular about "Feng Shui". After looking at the two mountains, he said, "Huishan is the dragon body and Xishan is the dragon head. Wuxi has not won the first prize for a long time since the Southern Song Dynasty, because there are no horns on the dragon head." The minister believed what he said at that time, so he built a strong stone tower on the western hill.

The second statement

There is also a saying that in the 23rd year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty, the light dance in palace examination and Wuxi was initially identified as the champion. Who knows that when the roll was called in the Golden Hall, Emperor Jiajing heard the sound of "light dance" similar to that of "heartless" in the north, and thought, "How can there be" heartless scholars "in the world?" Light dance was reduced to the third place and became a flower exploration. So my hometown blamed tower solid, saying that "the Dragon Horn will be empty for listening". Therefore, in the fourth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1576), the local government raised funds to build this seven-story octagonal pavilion-style brick tower, which was named "Longguang Tower" by Shi Guanmin, the then Changzhou magistrate. Wang Wen (Zhongshan), a famous painter in Ming Dynasty, inscribed the name of the tower. Stone carvings are embedded in the east outer wall of the third floor of the tower, which is a tourist feature.

Longguang Tower has experienced many vicissitudes since its establishment, especially in the autumn of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty. It is said that the ancient pagoda was badly damaged after burning for three days in a row. Although it has been repaired several times, it failed to restore its old appearance. Until the reconstruction of 1924, the main structure of the tower was changed to reinforced concrete, and a copper gate with a weight of 1.5 tons and a height of 2.85 meters was specially cast at the top of the tower, and the height of the tower was increased to 32.3 meters, making the ancient pagoda more stable and spectacular. Since 1952, the ancient pagoda has been restored several times. Especially in the overhaul of 1992, the cornices and railings were reinforced and the inclination of the tower was corrected. The lightning protection device of the tower gate was arranged and measured, which strengthened the lightning protection function of the tower, and the wall color of the tower body was also adjusted from apricot yellow to crimson, making the image of the tower more straight, dignified and radiant. The tourists climbed the ancient pagoda and looked around along the corridor. Wuxi has a panoramic view of the whole city. The new canal is like a silver dragon, winding from north to south under the tower. The endless stream of ships in the canal and the cars running on the bridge are intertwined and dazzling. From all aspects of the sky, the ancient Liangxi is like a jade chain, winding into the vast Taihu Lake, square fish ponds, like pieces of mirrors, stretching for dozens of miles along the banks of Liangxi. In the west, the mountains of Kowloon rise and fall like green waves, and a TV tower pointing directly at the sky rises from the waves, echoing the ancient pagoda in the distance, so Longguang Tower deserves to be the best place to enjoy Wuxi scenery. Every hot summer and holiday night, the colorful lights on the tower are bright and look like a pearl tower from a distance, hanging in the sky, adding infinite reverie. Longguang Tower used to be the Longguang Temple next to it. This is a temple built by pagodas. Later, some of them were transformed into buildings, which made the ancient pagoda more dignified against the backdrop of these pavilions. There is a plaque with "the lake and the mountains welcome the cool" in the hall, and there is a tea room in the hall for tourists to rest and have tea. Here, we can appreciate Pi Rixiu's poem in the late Tang Dynasty, that is, "Li Mountain lived for a day and a half, and Xia Feng listened to it".

ancient times

Kangxi, Yongzheng and Daoguang rebuilt three times in Qing Dynasty; Tongzhi four years (1865), on the evening of October 15th, the top of the tower was destroyed by fire.

Modern Times

During the Republic of China, monks of Longguang Temple raised silver from Zhu Lanfang and his wife in 1 921-kloc-0/924, and the tower gate was built with iron sleeves supporting a 5-ton cast copper gourd, which still exists today. 1930, Rong Desheng and others donated money for reconstruction again, and some components were replaced by coagulation.

Modern Times

At the beginning of the People's Republic of China, the tower was struck by lightning, and was rebuilt by the government at 1952, 1954, 1975 and 1995. Now the building is 32 or 3 meters high and the wall thickness is 1.8 meters. It is still a pavilion-style, octagonal and seven-story brick-concrete structure. 1983165438+1October 2 1 was announced by the Wuxi Municipal People's Government as a municipal-level cultural relics protection unit. It's still here today. 1983 this ancient pagoda is listed as a municipal cultural relic protection unit.