According to the records of Liangshan County in Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty, Wenfeng Pagoda was built for other reasons. In the seventh year of Daoguang reign in the Qing Dynasty, Liang Yi ordered Xu Mingxiang to write in the article Rebuilding the Test Shed and Building the Tower: Liangshan County is a metropolis in eastern Sichuan and the hometown of a great scholar who came to know virtue in the Ming Dynasty (Yi Xian, named Mr. Qu Tang). At that time, the county called on the squire and wealthy businessmen to donate money to build an examination shed for Jinshi to take the provincial examination. Finally, there are more than 4700 silver coins left. After discussion, I decided to use these silver coins to build a floating picture with geomantic omen outside the north gate of the county, and encouraged Liang Ping to learn that "Kejia will be re-elected and serve the country, and he will be famous as a Confucian, follow Mr. Qu Tang and be a self-righteous person".
The "floating picture" here originally refers to the stupa in Buddhism, and later refers to the high tower. As can be seen from the historical data, the construction of Wenfeng Pagoda in Liangping is not due to Buddhism, let alone folklore, but to the good hopes and sustenance of the sages of Liangping for the people and future generations.
After more than 100 years of wind and rain erosion, the tower body of Wenfeng Tower has been severely weathered, and the wooden buildings in the tower have been completely destroyed. In May, 2009, with the efforts of liangping county Cultural Relics Department, Wenfeng Tower repaired the wooden buildings of the first to tenth floors, the ground and fences of the tower foundation, and the wind resistance of the tower body was strengthened.
This magnificent, strange and beautiful stone pagoda has stood proudly and stood firm after years of hardships, baptism of war and the threat of earthquake, and has become a wonderful landscape of Liangping mountains and rivers.