Go to the Linqing Tower and walk to the new bridge, go up the river embankment and follow it northward for about 2 or 3 miles and you will be there
Go east at the Wuyansong Hualian Supermarket intersection Pass the intersection of East Ring Road and continue east for about 3 miles to the north of the road
The Linqing Relic Pagoda is located in Daqiao Village, Xianfeng Road Subdistrict Office, Linqing City, on the east bank of the Wei Canal in the north of the city. It is now a national key cultural relic. Protective unit. It is known as the "Four Famous Canal Towers" together with Tongzhou's Randing Tower, Hangzhou's Liuhe Pagoda and Zhenjiang Wenfeng Pagoda.
This tower was built in the 39th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1611). The tower is 61 meters high, with nine levels and eight sides. Pavilion style, the whole body is nearly vertical, imitation wood structure, the top of the temple is in the shape of a general's helmet, which is the only one seen in the province. The base has eight sides, each side is 4.9 meters long, the bottom area is 186 square meters, and its space area can reach 7,000 square meters. rice. The outer eaves are made of brick and wood. The eaves are made of ceramic imitation wood with overhanging brackets. The corner bucket arch is drooping with earthenware lotus flowers. The lower part of the bracket is inlaid with the four characters "Amitabha" in pottery, and the lintel is engraved with the characters "Relic Pagoda": Entering the pagoda room, there are corner stone staircases on each floor, and you can climb to the top layer by layer. Each floor has a dome roof with a dragon skeleton on the top. The ground is flat with all-silk nanmu floorboards and the flat surface is paved with blue bricks. There are eight doors on each floor, with four lights and four darks. There are carved stones in the chambers of each floor of the pagoda, and portraits are inlaid on the walls. The original golden nanmu pillar in the center of the pagoda reaches the sky and reaches the bottom of the pagoda to support the load of each floor. This practice is undoubtedly a legacy of the Song Dynasty.
Linqing Relic Pagoda was not built for "relics", but because of Feng Shui. The stone inscriptions in the pagoda include "Relocation of Guanyin Bodhisattva Pagoda" and "Construction of Guanyin Bodhisattva Pagoda", etc., leaving detailed descriptions of the reasons and processes of the construction of the pagoda.
During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the literati and gentry of Linqing gathered together and believed that the feng shui of Linqing was unfavorable. They sued Zhong Wanlu, the imperial envoy to Linqing and the inspector of punishment at that time, and finally decided to move the statue of Guanyin to the North Water of Zhuancheng. Guanxia, ??that is, to the north of Tuchengkan, and build a pagoda. This is the "Tianguan" where the Linqingwen and Wei rivers converge to the north. It can "block the mouths of the two rivers and open up the Tianguan for thousands of miles." ". After the matter was settled, Liu Zuo, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, who was idle at home, was elected to take charge of the matter, and it was officially named the "Relic Pagoda". It was planned from the 40th year of Wanli (1612) to the 45th year of Wanli (1617). The fifth floor was built. The sixth floor was donated and built solely by Linqing cloth merchant Wang Daoji in the following year. It took another three years to complete the nine-story pagoda.
Linqing Pagoda corresponds to the image of "the eight forms of spiritual gathering". The planes of each floor of the tower are regular octagons, and the ventricles of the first to fifth floors and the seventh and eighth floors are square. The sixth and ninth floors are octagonal, and there are door openings in the ventricles of the five-story tower leading to the outside of the tower. The plane composition of the tower is coordinated with the vertical design. As far as the whole tower is concerned, when you climb up and look out, you can capture the scenery from all eight sides; as for each layer, the layers are staggered and the scenery is different, forming a unified change and enriching the "spiritual collection of eight The dramatic space changing effect of "table". As for the internal space of the tower's ventricle, it also changes layer by layer, and due to the narrow and dark corridor, it is first suppressed and then expanded, showing light and small things becoming larger. The architectural structure of the sixth-floor tower chamber is even more ingenious and sophisticated. The people who were the first to arrive were pleasantly surprised to find that "a distant mountain suddenly appeared three hundred miles away." Chao Bin Dai Zong Mu Taihang" is really a strange scene that has never been seen in Linqing, which is located in the plains. The east and west sides of the sixth floor pagoda chamber The inscriptions on the stone above the window are "Introducing Taihang to the west" and "Yuan Daiyue to the east", and above the ticket cave of the Buddhist niche in the north is the inscription "Xiu gathers in the middle of the sky", which best embodies the meaning of "eight forms of spiritual harvest". .
On the seventh floor, the ventricle of the tower has transformed into a four-sided tower wall. The upper part has been changed from a dome roof to a flat roof supported by brackets, with brick carvings on the east, west, south and north. They are respectively "Azhong Buddha", "Amitabha Buddha", "Baobao Buddha" and "Achievement Buddha", which correspond to the meaning of the seven-level pagoda and the four-sided Buddha. With its outstanding space processing, it shows the dignity of the Buddha's realm and achieves the goal. The climax of the spatial sequence.
On the eighth floor, it seems to have returned to the same form as the first to fifth floors. This will evoke some memories, forming a moment of tranquility after the climax. .
When it comes to the octagonal ninth floor of the tower, the spatial form is linked to the treatment of the sixth floor in the impression of similarity and dissimilarity; the gradually gathering dome hides the core pillars that were pulled out from the underground palace and penetrated the entire tower. This marks the successful end of the internal space sequence of the whole pagoda; and when thinking of the external space image of the pagoda's core pillar passing through the top crown of the pagoda as a pagoda, one can't help but feel that the space of the Buddha with eight spiritual expressions is still like The meaning is still unfinished, continuing endlessly until the sky.
Climbing high and looking into the distance, the canal is like a belt and the green embankments are winding, which makes you feel relaxed and happy. There is a small bell made of copper on the eaves of the tower. It is blown by the wind and makes a crisp and sweet sound. Hearing the bell on the bank of the tower is one of the eight ancient Linqing sceneries.
The Linqing Relic Pagoda is located in Daqiao Village, Xianfeng Road Sub-district Office, Linqing City, on the east bank of the Wei Canal in the north of the city. It is now a national key cultural relic protection unit. It is known as the "Four Famous Canal Towers" together with Tongzhou's Randing Tower, Hangzhou's Liuhe Pagoda and Zhenjiang Wenfeng Pagoda.
This tower was built in the 39th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1611). The tower is 61 meters high and has nine levels and eight sides. Pavilion style, the whole body is nearly vertical, imitation wood structure, the top of the temple is in the shape of a general's helmet, which is the only one seen in the province. The base has eight sides, each side is 4.9 meters long, the bottom area is 186 square meters, and its space area can reach 7,000 square meters. rice. The outer eaves are made of brick and wood. The eaves are made of ceramic imitation wood with overhanging brackets. The corner bucket arch is drooping with earthenware lotus flowers. The lower part of the bracket is inlaid with the four characters "Amitabha" made of pottery; the lintel is engraved with the characters "Relic Pagoda": Entering the pagoda room, there are corner stone staircases on each floor, and you can climb to the top layer by layer. Each floor has a dome roof with a dragon skeleton on the top. The ground is flat with all-silk nanmu floorboards and the flat surface is paved with blue bricks. There are eight doors on each floor, with four lights and four darks. There are carved stones in the chambers of each floor of the pagoda, and portraits are inlaid on the walls. The original golden nanmu pillar in the center of the pagoda reaches the sky and reaches the bottom of the pagoda to support the load of each floor. This practice is undoubtedly a legacy of the Song Dynasty.
The Linqing Relic Pagoda was not built for "relics", but because of Feng Shui. The stone inscriptions in the pagoda include "Relocation of Guanyin Bodhisattva Pagoda" and "Construction of Guanyin Bodhisattva Pagoda", etc., leaving detailed descriptions of the reasons and processes of the construction of the pagoda.
During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the literati and gentry of Linqing gathered together and believed that Linqing's feng shui was unfavorable. They sued Zhong Wanlu, the imperial envoy of Linqing and the inspector of punishment at that time, and finally decided to move the statue of Guanyin to the North Water of Zhuancheng. Guanxia, ??that is, the (north) side of Tuchengkan, and build a pagoda. This is the "Tianguan" where the Linqingwen and Wei rivers converge to the north. It can "block the mouths of the two rivers and open up the Tianguan for thousands of miles." ". After the matter was settled, Liu Zuo, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, who was idle at home, was elected to take charge of the matter, and it was officially named the "Relic Pagoda". It was planned from the 40th year of Wanli (1612) to the 45th year of Wanli (1617). The fifth floor was built. The sixth floor was donated and built solely by Linqing cloth merchant Wang Daoji in the following year. It took another three years to complete the nine-story pagoda.
Linqing Pagoda corresponds to the image of "the eight forms of spiritual gathering". The planes of each floor of the tower are regular octagons, and the ventricles of the first to fifth floors and the seventh and eighth floors are square. The sixth and ninth floors are octagonal, and there are door openings in the ventricles of the five-story tower leading to the outside of the tower. The plane composition of the tower is coordinated with the vertical design. As far as the whole tower is concerned, when you climb up and look out, you can capture the scenery on all eight sides; as for each layer, the layers are staggered and the scenery is different, forming a unified change and enriching the "spiritual collection of eight The dramatic space changing effect of "table". As for the internal space of the tower's ventricle, it also changes layer by layer, and due to the narrow and dark corridor, it first suppresses and then expands, showing light and small things becoming larger. The architectural structure of the sixth-floor tower chamber is even more ingenious and sophisticated. The people who were the first to arrive were pleasantly surprised to find that "a distant mountain suddenly appeared three hundred miles away." Chao Bin Dai Zong Mu Taihang" is really a strange scene that has never been seen in Linqing, which is located in the plains. The east and west sides of the sixth floor pagoda chamber The inscriptions on the stone above the window are "Introducing Taihang to the west" and "Yuan Daiyue to the east", and above the ticket cave of the Buddhist niche in the north is the inscription "Xiu gathers in the middle of the sky", which best embodies the meaning of "eight forms of spiritual harvest". .
On the seventh floor, the ventricle of the tower has transformed into a four-sided tower wall. The upper part has been changed from a dome roof to a flat roof supported by brackets, with brick carvings on the east, west, south and north. They are respectively "Azhong Buddha", "Amitabha Buddha", "Baobao Buddha" and "Achievement Buddha", which correspond to the meaning of the seven-level pagoda and the four-sided Buddha.
With its outstanding spatial processing, it shows the dignity of the Buddha's realm and reaches the climax of the spatial sequence.
On the eighth floor, it seems to have returned to the same form as the first to fifth floors. People will be evoked some memories, forming a moment of tranquility after the climax. When it comes to the octagonal ninth floor of the tower, the spatial form is linked to the treatment of the sixth floor in the impression of similarity and dissimilarity; the gradually gathering dome hides the core pillars that were pulled out from the underground palace and penetrated the entire tower. This marks the successful end of the internal space sequence of the whole pagoda; and when thinking of the external space image of the pagoda's core pillar passing through the top crown of the pagoda as a pagoda, one can't help but feel that the space of the Buddha with eight spiritual expressions is still like The meaning is still unfinished, continuing endlessly until the sky.
Climbing high and looking into the distance, the canal is like a belt and the green embankments are winding, which makes you feel relaxed and happy. There is a small bell made of copper on the eaves of the tower. It is blown by the wind and makes a crisp and sweet sound. Hearing the bell on the bank of the tower is one of the eight ancient Linqing sceneries.
Five-Style Pine
Five-Style Pine is located in the "Jinyi Chen Family Tomb" in the northeast of Chenjiafen Village in the east of Linqing City. It is said to have been planted during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty. The tree is 16 meters high, with a trunk circumference of 1.9 meters. The crown is shaped like a giant umbrella, with protruding branches and an umbrella-like crown. It smells more fragrant than sandalwood. In 1935, "Linqing Local Chronicles" recorded: "In the east of Chenjiafen Village, inside Chen's Tomb, there is a pine tree with towering black color and deep beauty." In the name of "Lonely Pine in the Eastern Suburbs", it was included in the "Ten Scenic Spots of Linqing". Its leaves have five shapes: rice grains, bamboo shoots, needles, thorns, and trumpets, so it is called "Five-like Pine". Some people say that this pine is a knot of five kinds of pine and cypress seedlings, which become one over time, so it has five kinds of leaves. Others say that the tree itself is a species with different leaves and belongs to the conifer family. This pine burned twice in 1943 and 1969, which lasted for more than 80 days. The trunk was empty and the number of dead branches increased. In 1987, the Municipal Urban Management Committee raised more than 10,000 yuan to build steps and stone railings, repair and maintain them, and the ancient trees took on a new look.