The legend about Jiujiang Suojiang Tower

Wu Xiu, the prefect of Jiujiang at that time, built the Suojiang Tower not only to control the water supply of Suojiang, but also to pray for the prosperity of literary style. Suojiang Tower is a Feng Shui pagoda in Jiujiang. It is also called Wenfeng Tower and Huilong Tower, but not many people know this name. Perhaps eliminating floods is people's greatest wish for the tower. ?

As soon as the news of the tower's construction came out, people enthusiastically donated money. The largest donations included the imperial envoy Wai Lang Ke Youpei and the rural eunuch Cai Yanchen. Legend has it that the prefect Wu Xiu stood on Huilongji next to Suojiang Tower in the northeast of the city and told his colleagues that the logs needed to build the tower had not yet been solved, and it would be nice to have a Shenyun Hall like Donglin Temple. Sure enough, a few days later, more than 200 logs floated down the river, solving the urgent need. As the saying goes, if you build a tower to lock the river, the gods will help you. In the autumn of that year, the tower was completed, and people in the city rushed to tell each other about it, calling it the "Jiangzhou Giant Temple". ?

The Suojiang Tower is a pavilion-style masonry hollow tube imitation wood structure, 25.6 meters high. The tower has six sides and seven levels, with a hexagonal spire. The bottom layer is made of bluestone, and the tower door faces west. The stone eaves are made of stone, the eaves are straight, the stone brackets are chiseled, the brick eaves are built, and the wing corners are slightly warped. On the southeastern side of the sixth floor of the wing corner, there is a hole drilled to fasten the bell. Sometimes the river wind blows, and the sound of the bell is pleasant to the ear. The top of the tower is a spire made of stacked bricks. The tower is made of iron and consists of three layers of bowls, dew plates and hookahs. There are wooden stairs spiraling up inside the tower. From the top of the tower, you can overlook the Yangtze River and Hubei Huangmei. ?Suojiang Tower, as a Feng Shui pagoda in Jiujiang, has stood for more than 400 years and has experienced the hardships of history and the erosion of wind and rain. According to records, in the thirty-sixth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, an earthquake occurred in Jiujiang. Suojiang Tower and two of the four iron oxen statues on the river bank fell into the river, but Suojiang Tower remained intact. In the 13th year of Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty, the government at that time rebuilt Suojiang Tower and added the Fish Watching Pavilion. During the Xianfeng period, the Taiping Army and the Qing Army fought fiercely in Jiujiang. The Suojiang Tower was destroyed in the war, and the two remaining iron oxen disappeared. Only the Suojiang Tower survived. ?

The Japanese invaders did the most harm to the Suojiang Tower. In 198, they marched westward across the Yangtze River and bombarded Jiujiang with heavy artillery. The Suojiang Tower was hit in many places and the tower was penetrated in three places. Some bullet holes were up to ?5 meters in diameter. All suffered varying degrees of damage, and the tower body was tilted. But she still stands tenaciously on Huilongji. ?

Since liberation, the People's Government has allocated funds for the repair of Suojiang Towers for many times, and carried out slope protection and reinforcement of the Huilongji Bank that was on the verge of collapse. The ancient Suojiang Towers have regained their vitality and vitality. In 1987, the tower was listed as a key provincial cultural relic protection unit. ■