Where is the Lake Town Pagoda?
Huzhen stupa is located in the pagoda courtyard of Xiajie, Huzhen, Longyou County, Zhejiang Province. The date of its construction can no longer be tested, but there are many inscriptions on the second and sixth floors of the tower, such as "the pagoda was rebuilt in July of the third year of Jia", which clearly shows that the tower was rebuilt in July of the third year of Jia in the Northern Song Dynasty (1058). In 200 1 year, Huzhen stupa was announced by the State Council as the fifth batch of national key cultural relics protection units. The stupa is a solid brick tower with six sides and seven floors, with a height of 3 1.5m, a width of 2.3m on both sides of the base, and a height of1.6m. The external structure completely imitates the wooden pavilion structure, which is a classic in the imitation wood brick tower. It is unique to make the shape of a wooden pavilion tower with bricks. The overall proportion of the tower is moderate, with slender shape and exquisite structure.
There are various columns, arches, flat seats, doors, etc. Especially the layers of waist eaves with large curvature give people a delicate and light feeling, and wind chimes are hung on each eaves; There are _ niches on each floor to worship Buddha statues (most of the original white marble Buddha statues have been lost and are now replicas); The top tower gate is well-preserved, with a copper gourd connected with six iron cables. The whole tower is exquisitely shaped and well preserved, which is extremely rare among the Song Pagoda in the province. When the Song Pagoda was restored in the early 1990s, archaeologists found a large number of cultural relics on the top two floors, among which a bronze seven-level pavilion square pagoda cast in the sixth year of the Northern Song Dynasty (1054) was particularly eye-catching. There is also a well-preserved old street in front of the Tayuan, which is now a historical and cultural protection area in Zhejiang Province.
Huzhen Town: Huzhen Town of Longyou County is located at the east gate of Quzhou City, with a town area of 104.5 square kilometers, 7 1 administrative village, 3 neighborhood committees and 1 farm, with a total population of 59,600. It is an important commercial port with a strong commercial atmosphere. Within the territory of zhejiang-jiangxi railway, electrified double-track and No.46 provincial highway pass through the town, Hangjinqu Expressway and Qujiang River pass through the town, and Shi Liping Supervision Zone is among them, with outstanding location advantages. . Huzhen, located in the triangle of Jinhua, Lanxi and Quzhou, is a relatively developed town in underdeveloped areas of Zhejiang Province and the central town of Longyou County and Quzhou City.