Did Wu Zetian make a colossus when he ascended the throne? Tian Tong pagoda

The Temple of Heaven, also known as the Tang Tian Pagoda and the Temple of Heaven, was founded in 689 in the Tang Dynasty. It is located in the core area of Taichu Palace in Luoyang, Sui and Tang Dynasties, on the north side of the main hall of Miyagi.

Heaven is the tallest building in the famous "Seven-Sky Building" in the central axis complex of Luoyang City in Sui and Tang Dynasties. It is a sacred place for the Buddha to feel the four seasons and communicate with the sky. The giant Buddha in the sky is made of sandwich technology, which is quite huge, and the little finger can hold dozens of people.

Mingtang and Paradise built during Wu Zetian's reign are the two tallest buildings in Luoyang Taichu Palace. They changed the tradition of single-storey main hall of the central axis of the palace, and made the three-dimensional outline and style of Luoyang Palace more magnificent.

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In the spring of 688 A.D., Wuhou refused public opinions, demolished the main hall of Luoyang Palace, the capital of the East-Gan Yuan Hall (namely the Ganyang Hall of the Sui Dynasty), and built a main hall in its place. At that time, Tang Ming and Paradise were the tallest wooden buildings in Luoyang. Tang Ming is about 86 meters high, overlooking from the third floor of heaven.

Tang Ming was built on a pedestal, 300 feet (88 meters) square and 294 feet (86 meters) high, with three floors. The lower layer is a plane square, the middle layer is a dodecagon and the upper layer is a quadrilateral. The middle and upper floors are domes, and an iron phoenix stands at the top of the upper floors, one foot (2.94 meters) high.

Later, a five-story paradise was built in the Sui Dynasty hall to the north of the Ming Dynasty hall to store the giant Buddha statues.

Paradise site is located at the northwest of Tang Ming site 155 meters, and on the west side of Miyagi axis area. It is a kind of building foundation, with a five-fold circular bearing foundation on the square abutment, and its shape is very unique. This is a Buddhist temple building built by Wu Zetian and ordered Xue Huaiyi to store Buddha statues.

The base address of the park is only Tai Ji, which is connected with Gongcheng West Corridor in the east, East-West Corridor House in the north, and brick apron and 4.33m wide East-West Corridor in the west, which are connected with other buildings. The abutment is slightly square, 77.7m wide from north to south and 69.15m wide from east to west.

In the center of the abutment is a stone circular pit, and there are two columns outside, a rammed earth foundation and a gravel building foundation. The cornerstone of the column has two circles, the inner circle 12 and the outer circle 20. The cornerstone consists of four bluestones, a layer of rammed earth and a layer of cornerstone.

The rammed earth foundation is 5.35 meters wide in one week, and it is directly hit on the raw soil. Gravel foundation is an annular belt-shaped building foundation composed of residual stones, with a width of about 0.5 meters.

Canal: East-west, made of bricks and stones bonded with white ash. It twists and turns in the north of the abutment and surrounds the north of the abutment. The canal is about 2 meters wide, the north-folded part is about 15 meters long from north to south, and the north of the abutment is about 63 meters long from east to west.

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