At that time, as soon as the news of building the tower came out, people enthusiastically donated money, the biggest of which was the imperial envoy Ke Youpei and the township official Cai. Legend has it that Wu Xiu, the county magistrate, stood on the Huilongji near the Suojiang Tower in the northeast of the city and told his colleagues that the logs needed to build the tower had not been solved. If only there were a lucky temple like Toringi. Sure enough, a few days later, more than 200 logs flowed down the river, which solved the urgent need. As the saying goes, build a tower and lock the river, and God helps. In the autumn of that year, the tower was completed, and the citizens rushed to tell each other, which was called Jiangzhou Giant View. ?
The Lock River Tower is a pavilion-style masonry hollow pipe imitation wood structure with a height of 25? 6 meters. This tower has six sides, seven floors and a hexagonal spire. The ground floor is paved with bluestone, and the tower door faces west. Stone waist eaves, straight eaves, stone chisel bucket arch, brick eaves, wing angle slightly tilted. Outside the southeast of the sixth floor of the wing corner, there is a hole where the bell is tied. Sometimes the river wind blows and the bell rings sweetly. The top of the tower is a brick pyramid-shaped roof, and the tower gate is made of iron, which consists of a bowl cover, an exposed tray and a hookah. There are wooden stairs hovering in the tower, and the top of the tower can overlook the Yangtze River and Huangmei, Hubei. ? As the Feng Shui Tower of Jiujiang, Suojiang Tower has stood for more than 400 years and has withstood the hardships of history and the erosion of wind and rain. It is reported that an earthquake occurred in Jiujiang in the thirty-sixth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty. Two of the four iron cows near the Lock River Tower and the riverbank fell into the river, but the Lock River Tower was intact. In the thirteenth year of Qianlong, the then government rebuilt the Suojiang Tower and built a fish-watching pavilion. During the Xianfeng period, the Taiping Army and the Qing Army fought fiercely in Jiujiang, and the Suojiang Tower was destroyed by the war. The remaining two iron cows were gone, and only Lock Tower survived. ?
The Japanese invaders did the most harm to the Suohe Tower. 198 attacked Jiangxi and bombarded Jiujiang with heavy artillery. Suohe Tower was shot in many places, and the tower body was penetrated in three places. Some bullet holes are as high as? 5 meters, the bucket arch, waist eaves and flat seats of the tower body were damaged to varying degrees, and the tower body was skewed. But she still stands stubbornly on Huilongguan. ?
Since liberation, the people's government has allocated funds for many times to repair the Suojiang Tower and reinforce the slope protection of Huilongguan embankment on the verge of collapse. The ancient Suojiang Pagoda has regained its vitality and vigor. 1987, the tower was listed as a provincial key cultural relics protection unit. ■