The Purple Water Tower, located outside the east gate of Guangshan County, Xinyang City, Henan Province, is named after the Purple Water River.
The Purple Water Tower was built in the late Ming Dynasty and completed in the third year of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty (1664). The tower was destroyed in Qianlong and rebuilt to the sixth floor in Guangxu. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), seven floors and towers were restored. For the Feng Shui Tower. Historically, due to the low terrain in the east of the county seat, there were many ponds. Whenever it rains, all the water in the county town gathers here, leading to flooding. Therefore, there is a legend that the tower was built to suppress floods.
According to the Records of Guangshan County in the thirty-fifth year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty and the Draft of Guangshan County in the twenty-fifth year of the Republic of China, the Purple Water Tower was built in the third year of Kangxi (1664). In the 21st year of Qingganlong (1756), the Purple Water Tower was destroyed, leaving only the first and second floors. In the 22nd year of Guangxu (1896), Wang Yushan, a magistrate of a county, presided over the restoration of the Purple Water Tower and inscribed the front of the Purple Water Tower. Only five or six stories have been repaired, and the residual height is about 20 meters. Due to the shortage of funds, the Purple Water Tower cannot be completed. 198 1 year, the provincial cultural relics bureau allocated10.9 million yuan for maintenance and repair, and it was completed in the summer of 1984. On the basis of the original six floors, another floor was added, and the tower top and tower gate were built.
The Purple Water Tower is an octagonal seven-level pavilion-style brick tower with a height of 27 meters. The pagoda door on the first floor has a pagoda room and pagoda road, which can be boarded step by step. There are four symmetrical semicircular arched doors on the second to sixth floors, two true and two false. Each floor has overlapping tower eaves. The top of the tower is octagonal with a tower gate on it. The ground floor is 7.9 meters in diameter and the tower foundation is 2.5 meters high. The tower foundation is made of granite, and the tower body is made of gray bricks. To the west of the Tower Gate, the word "Purple Water Tower" is engraved on the Shimen, with the inscription "The Story of Wang Yushan in Zhiguangshan County" in the upper section and "Rebuilding Xia Meng in Guangxu Shen Bing" in the lower section. There are tower rooms in the tower, stone steps between the walls and ebony floors. You can climb the stone steps between each rotating wall.
Xinyang guangshan purple water tower
The Purple Water Tower is a landmark building in Guangshan County, and people often use "Purple Water String Mountain" to symbolize Guangshan County.
1980 guangshan county people's government listed Xinyang guangshan purple water tower as a county-level cultural relics protection unit.
In September 2000, Xinyang Guangshan Purple Water Tower was announced as a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit.
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