Ordinary Temple Pagoda is located in Beijiu Village, about 2 kilometers west of Nangong City, Hebei Province. There is a country road directly below the tower. The ancient pagoda was originally located in an ordinary temple. Now that the ancient temple has been destroyed, the ancient pagoda still exists. Now the ordinary temple under the tower was rebuilt in recent years. The tower is more than 30 meters high and is a nine-story pavilion-style brick tower. Each floor has a single eave, and there is a bucket arch support under the eaves. It is strange that the eaves of this tower are all curved. The first floor of the tower was originally open to the south, which was reinforced and closed in modern maintenance and wrapped by a thick protective wall. There is a door on each floor above the second floor, east, west, north and south. The tower gradually narrows upward, and a metal tower gate is placed at the top. The tower brake part of the common temple tower is relatively complete. Above the lotus seat is a temple-like brake hole, which is used to worship Buddhist relics or store scriptures. Above the gate hole is a four-ball gourd-shaped gate body. The ancient pagoda is closed and cannot be climbed. According to the monks in the temple, there is a staircase at the top of the pagoda, which should be a ladder with a folded inner wall. There is no tower room in the center of the pagoda, but rammed earth runs through it from top to bottom and plays a supporting role. Ordinary Temple Pagoda is also called the oldest pagoda in China. According to the inscription on the tower, it was built in the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, and the ordinary tower was built in the Yongping period of the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 67), more than 900 years ago/kloc-0. According to the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, "According to legend, Ming Di spent the night in the Nangong, dreaming that the Golden Man had grown up and had a bright roof to ask his ministers. Or:' there is a god in the west named Buddha, who is six feet long and golden in color.' The emperor then asked Tianzhu about Buddhism and Taoism, and found the picture image of China. Volume 1 of Biography of Monks records: "During the Yongping period, Liu Zhuang, Ming Di, Cai Cheng and Qin Jing were sent to Tianzhu in the western regions to seek Buddha. In Yuejia (now Afghan region), they met Morten and Zhu Falan and invited them to China ... "On the way back to Luoyang, Liu Zhuang and Ming Di ordered them to build a stupa in Nangong. This record has also become the earliest record of China court officially accepting Buddhism. The ordinary tower was opened in the tenth year of Yongping (AD 67) and built in the fifteenth year of Yongping. It has been repaired and rebuilt seven times in history. The first maintenance was carried out in the fourth year of Taihe in Wei (Three Kingdoms) (AD 230), the second maintenance was carried out in the fourth year of Zhenguan in Tang Dynasty (AD 630), the third maintenance was carried out in the middle of Song Dynasty, the fourth maintenance was carried out in the fifteenth year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty (AD 1536), and the fifth maintenance was carried out in the eleventh year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (AD1836) Among them, the reconstruction scale of Ming Dynasty was large, and the ancient pagoda was decorated according to the architectural style at that time. According to legend, the location of the stupa was built in the Nangong, because Liu Zhuang, Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty, was chased by Wang Mang with his father Liu Xiu, and once stayed in the Nangong to have a rest. Liu Xiuyan is a land of geomantic omen. In the northwest corner of the ordinary pagoda, there is a newly-built stone pagoda with a bowl, which is the tomb pagoda of the original abbot of the ordinary temple, Master Hong Chuan. According to the monks in the temple, the ancient ordinary temple was destroyed in the early years, and now the ordinary temple was rebuilt by Master Hong Chuan in the 1990s. After the death of the master, people cherished his morality and donated money to build a tomb tower for him. Tomb pagodas are unique buildings in Buddhism, and most of them are covered with bowls. Most of these tall pagodas with more than seven floors we introduced earlier are used to sacrifice relics, not tomb pagodas, which may be the reason why tomb pagodas are relatively low and easy to be damaged. There are not many existing pagodas, mainly in Shaolin Temple, Lingyan Temple and other pagodas. With the revival of Buddhism, the tombs of modern monks and Dade will gradually increase, and these pagodas are more like the past.
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