Chigang Pagoda, located in Xintou, southeast of Guangzhou Bridge, belongs to Haizhu District. It is a rare ancient pagoda in Guangzhou, named after its location in Chigang.
Guangzhou Chigang Pagoda is located at the new bridge head in the southeast of Guangzhou Bridge. It is one of the existing ancient pagodas in Guangzhou. Located in Chigang, hence the name. It was built in the forty-seventh year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty 16 19. It is the third Feng Shui pagoda built after Pazhou Pagoda and Lotus Pagoda.
Pazhou Pagoda is located 40 miles southeast of Guangzhou City, Lotus Pagoda is located 80 miles southeast of Guangzhou City, and Chigang Pagoda is located at the foot of the southeast city, which constitutes the three pagodas of the Pearl River that lock the mouth of the second river to gather the spirits. Therefore, the pagoda is majestic and towering, echoing the Pazhou Pagoda in the east, becoming the two feng shui pagodas of the Pearl River passing through Guangzhou.
The place where Chigang Tower is located is mostly red sandstone, so it is called Chigang. At an altitude of 20-30 meters, it was surrounded by the original Pearl River water, which later silted up into farmland and fish ponds. Villages were formed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The tower is an octagonal pavilion-style blue brick tower similar to Buddhist pagodas, with a height of more than 50 meters, 9 floors in appearance and 17 floors in the tower.
The diameter of the tower bottom is 12.5m, and the height is about 50m. There are three doors on the first floor, each of which is made of stone steps. The tower foundation is made of red sandstone with gray porphyry surface. On the east side is granite paved in later repairs, and there are stone steps leading to the base at the door opening on three sides.
Like the tower, the tower foundation is octagonal, each side is 5.5 meters long and the height is 1 meter. Totalix stone carvings with foreigners' images on each side are lifelike and are rare stone carvings of the Ming Dynasty.
The surface of the tower is painted with white ash, and a red pillar stands on each octagon. The stigma has a square with teeth, and each layer above the second floor escapes from the waist eaves. The eaves pick out the platform with brick teeth, and the people who board can walk out of the tower and look out from the platform. At the top of the tower, there is an octagonal tower top, and the nearby ancient pagoda no longer exists.