The square tower is the common name of Baosheng Temple Tower, which is located in the eastern suburb of Gaochun, Nanjing. Belonging to the early pagoda-style building, there are only two square pagodas in China, and Baosheng Temple Pagoda is one of them. The Square Pagoda is the landmark building of Gaochun and one of the two square pagodas with the longest preserved history in Jiangnan area. Copper bells are hung on the eaves of each floor of the pagoda. As soon as the wind blows, the ringing bells spread everywhere. Seen from a distance, this ancient pagoda stands on the earth like a huge pen. Seen from a close distance, it rises like a jade bamboo shoot and is magnificent. Local officials in past dynasties regarded the tower as the treasure of towns and counties, while the people listed it as the first of the four treasures of Gaochun. According to legend, 1, more than 700 years ago, Gao Chun was near osawa in Danyang, and Zhou Yu, a general of Soochow, was stationed in China to practice naval inspection on the lake. Sun Quan's mother sometimes goes to Gaochun to play with Xiao Qiao. At that time, there was a fairy cave outside the east gate of Gaochun, where a Taoist priest of Xu lived. Seeing through the world of mortals, he practiced alone for longevity, and planted all kinds of exotic flowers and herbs in front of the cave, so he named the cave "Xu Xiandong". On the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, there was a heavy snow. The next morning, I saw that the chrysanthemums in the cave were still attractive, but outside the cave was a silvery white world. Plum blossoms are in full bloom in front of the cave, and the fragrance is released. On a whim, I cooked a pot of "Laba porridge" and warmed a pot of "Baihua wine", and invited a friend named Chen Mingyi Jun in Xichun Town to play chess and make poems for fun. At seven o'clock, Xu said to Chen, "Our garden is more beautiful than fairyland. In my husband's opinion, it is endless fun. How will my husband thank me? " Ye Jun was as drunk as a fiddler at this time and angrily replied, "You don't own this garden. I will change my name to Chen Xiandong tomorrow." In this way, if you say a word to him, you will not realize that both sides will touch each other. Dao Jun will take away the hip flask and hurt Ye Jun. Chen Dao said, "There will be no meeting in the county" and left. You are full of anger, go to the county government. Because I was drunk and slipped, I ran into a sedan chair where grandma went out to enjoy the scenery. When she opened the curtain and leaned down, she saw that she was a drunk, so she ordered her follower Chen Tie to get up. After this scare, Ye Jun turned into a cold sweat, and his drunkenness disappeared. Realizing that the old woman has many connections, she bowed her head and admitted that she had become polite and elegant. Grandma looked at a scholar carefully, so she asked him why, and asked him to be a guide and go directly to Xuxiandong to enjoy the scenery. After Daojun left again, Daojun drank wine alone and didn't feel as drunk as a fiddler, so he closed the garden gate and went into the cave to have a rest. Sun Mu's sedan chair is very slow because the road is narrow and slippery. When you arrive first, when you see the garden gate closed, you shout loudly and ask Dao Jun to come out to meet you. Daojun saw that he was single outside the door and followed a group of people. He thought he must have come for revenge, so he opened the door with one hand and walked to Ye Jun with the other hand on the doorknob. Ye Jun was knocked unconscious, and his granddaughter came and told him to "catch this beast". Daojun's audience shouted "madam" and "yes" and fainted to the ground with an "ah". Seeing that Xu fainted, the attendants were afraid that their granddaughter would be frightened, so they turned around and helped her into the cave to rest. Then they enjoyed the view of the garden and dug up some strange flowers and plants. When they left, it was dusk in Guang Chen. The second gentleman who fell on the side of the road has long been forgotten by his granddaughter. Legend has it that because of his innocent death, Xu and Chen Jun often appeared in their granddaughter's dreams, crying and complaining, crying and quarreling, which scared her granddaughter into a trance and fidgeting, so she had to let her son find a way to solve the problem. When Sun Quan refused to comply, he ordered Zhou Yu to act as his agent. Zhou Yu was ordered to choose the day of his grandmother's eightieth birthday, and invited Mr. Feng Shui to look at the foundation outside the east gate of Gaochun. In the second year of Chiwu (239), he built a square pagoda with brick and wood structure, one for his birthday and the other to ward off evil spirits. Baosheng Temple Pagoda, located in the eastern suburb of the county seat, is one of the two square pagodas with the longest preserved history in our province (the other is Changshu Chongjiao Temple Pagoda), a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit in Jiangsu, and a landmark building in Gaochun, an ancient city. In the seventeenth year of Tang Zhenyuan (80 1), monks closed the temple and built it in Longcheng Mountain, and named it "Longcheng Temple Tower". During Song Xiangfu's reign, it was renamed Baosheng Temple, and Tayin Temple was renamed. The original buildings in the temple, such as the mountain gate, the main hall, the living room, the wing room and the study room. , were destroyed by the fire, only the pagoda survived. According to the Qing Dynasty's Rebuilding Pagoda Monument and the inscription of brick carving in Taki, this pagoda was built in Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty for three years (1 133), and was advocated by Liu Chuan and other Yi people. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, it was repaired many times. In the tenth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty (1637), Xu Yifan and Ge Qizhuo advocated that the tower be used as a Buddhist scripture pavilion in the temple after it was repaired. After several repairs, the ancient pagoda was preserved.
The shape of the tower is a square, seven-story pavilion structure with brick and wood structure, with a total height of 33.5 meters. The bottom of the tower is connected with the tower through an eaves gallery, giving people a sense of stability and majesty. The pagoda gallery is not only a building need, but also an occasion for monks to recite scriptures and worship around the pagoda. The iron tower can be folded step by step on the escalator. The first floor and the seventh floor of the tower wall are provided with pot doors in four directions. In order to reduce the wind resistance to the towers on the second and sixth floors, the door and the door are separated and have a unique shape. The eaves of the tower are gradually gathered from bottom to top, and the wing angle is slowly raised. The waist eaves of each tower wall are brick arches, two overhanging arches are set outside the tower, and wooden railings are erected around them to form a cloister, so visitors can overlook the lake and enjoy the scenery of the town. The top of the tower consists of a covered bowl and an exposed seven-phase wheel. All parts are cast with pig iron, weighing about 3.5 tons and 6.36 meters high. The short-sighted Baota of Baosheng Temple is like a bamboo shoot rising from the ground and looks like a pen from a distance. For thousands of years, it has been praised by Gaochun people as "the first in Four Treasures of the Study". In recent years, with the attention of governments at all levels, the protection of cultural relics has been further strengthened. As a key cultural relic, the pagoda was repaired in 1986, making the slender and tall tower more solid. The Baota Garden of Baosheng Temple, with the pagoda as the center, covers an area of more than 4,700 square meters, surrounded by a 256-meter wall, with a foyer at the entrance and exit, and a hexagonal pavilion and a Yunlong pavilion in the courtyard as a resting place for tourists. More than 65,438+000 pieces of inscriptions, stone carvings, folk products and excellent cultural relics were exhibited in Gaochun. When tourists come here, they will appreciate the inscriptions, be fascinated by the ancient times, and naturally express their infinite feelings about the rise and fall of dynasties. Hundreds of precious flowers and trees are planted in the tower garden, which can be described as red cherry blossoms in spring, magnolia flowers in summer, osmanthus fragrance in autumn and wintersweet flowers in full bloom. Being in its environment is refreshing and lingering. Today, the Baosheng Temple Tower, which is open to the outside world, welcomes many tourists all the year round. People stood at the bottom of the tower and looked up at the tower, only to see the eaves covering the sky, the horns soaring into the sky, and the tower brakes towering into the sky. The copper bell hanging from the wing corner of each floor is fascinating, as if it were ringing. It is said that the wind chimes of the stupa are sounded by people, and fans will have mixed feelings when they hear it, and they will stop doing evil; Smart people listen to what they say, cherish time, climb the stairs to the top floor room and look out the window. The roads in Xichun ancient town are as dense as cobwebs, and the high-rise buildings in the urban area stand tall and bustling. The ancient city in the south and the stone mortar in the north are sparkling, Huashan and You Shan on the lakeside are beautiful, and the scenery of the fields in the east is also vivid. Climbing to the top of the mountain to see the scenery, I feel cheerful and boundless.