When was Linqing Tower built in Shandong?

This tower was built in the thirty-ninth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, with a height of 6 1 m, nine levels and eight sides. Pavilion-style, almost vertical, wood-like, with a general's helmet-like top, unique in the province. The base has eight sides, each side is 4.9 meters long, and the bottom area is 186 square meters, and its space area can reach 7000 square meters. The eaves are made of ceramic imitation wood and protrude from the arch. The corner arch hangs down and the ceramic lotus hangs down. The words "Amitabha" are embedded in the lower part of the bucket arch, and the words "stupa" are engraved on the lintel. Entering the tower room, there are corner-shaped stone ladders on each floor, which can be circuitously climbed to the top floor. Each floor has a dome top with a dragon skeleton on it, and the ground is horizontally supported with all-silk nanmu floors and horizontally paved with blue bricks. There are eight doors, four open doors and four secret doors on each floor. There is a carved stone in the center of each tower. On the mosaic wall of the portrait, the original Jin Sinan Mutong Tianzhu in the center of the pagoda goes up to the underground palace under the pagoda to support the plane load of each floor. This was left over from the Song Dynasty. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the literati in Linqing got together to discuss that the geomantic omen in Linqing was unfavorable, and told Zhong Wanlu, the provincial judge who was sent to Linqing at that time, and finally decided to move the Guanyin statue to the north of brick city, that is, to the north of Tuchengkan, to build a pagoda. This is the "Tianguan" of the north confluence of Wenwei River in Linqing, which can be "strangled". After the matter was settled, Liu Zuo, the laid-off minister of the Ministry of Industry, was chosen to be in charge, and it was officially named "stupa", which planned five floors from forty years of Wanli to forty-five years of Wanli. The sixth floor was donated by Wang Daoji, a cloth dealer in Linqing the following year. After another three years, the nine-story pagoda was finally built. Linqing Tower should be the image of "receiving the spirit of eight tables". The plane of each floor of the tower is regular octagon, and the ventricles of the first to fifth floors and the seventh and eighth floors of the tower are square. The sixth floor and the ninth floor are octagonal, and the ventricles of the fifth floor tower are all provided with door opening vouchers, which lead to the outside of the tower. The plane composition of the tower is integrated with the vertical design. As far as the whole tower is concerned, if you look down, you can capture all the scenery in all directions; As far as each floor is concerned, the layers are interlaced, and the scenery obtained is different, forming a unified change, enriching the dramatic spatial change effect of "eight tables of spiritual income". As for the inner space of the tower ventricle, there is no layer-by-layer change, and because the channel is long, narrow and dark, it is more important to suppress it first and then raise it, so as to see the big from the small. The architectural structure of the ventricle of the sixth floor tower is quite ingenious and the most exquisite. Those who arrived first were pleasantly surprised to find that "I suddenly saw a distant mountain 300 miles away". "Taihang Mountain in Bindaizong at dusk" is really an unprecedented spectacle in Linqing, which is located in the plain. On the sixth floor, above the coupon windows on the east and west sides of the tower room, there are stone carvings of "Introducing Taihang to the West" and "Extending Daiyue to the East", and above the coupon cave of the North Buddha Shrine, there is an inscription of "Showing the Midheaven". This can best reflect the meaning of "receiving eight tables". On the seventh floor, the ventricle of the tower was transformed into a four-in-one tower wall, and the top of the tower was changed from vault to flat roof supported by bucket arch. The brick carvings in the east, west, south and north are "Azhong Buddha", "Amitabha Buddha", "Baosheng Buddha" and "Achievement Buddha" respectively, which means seven-level pagoda and four-sided Buddha. With its unique spatial treatment, it shows the realm dignity of Buddha and reaches the climax of spatial sequence. On the eighth floor, it seems to be similar to the first to fifth floors, which will arouse people's memories and form a moment of silence after the climax. For the octagonal ninth floor tower room, the spatial form is related to the treatment of the sixth floor in similar and different impressions; The gradually gathered dome disappeared from the tower core column pulled out from the underground palace, marking the successful end of the internal space sequence of the whole tower; When we think of the external space image of the tower core column running through the top of the tower, we can't help but feel that the space of the Eight Tables Buddha is not over yet, and it continues into the sky. One of the eight scenic spots in ancient Linqing. Looking from a distance, the canal is like a belt, and the green embankment is winding, which is refreshing. There is a Jason Chung made of copper on the eaves of the tower, which is blown by the wind and makes a crisp and pleasant sound. The bell in front of the tower is one of the eight scenic spots in ancient Linqing.