Jingzhou Pagoda, [object Object]

Jingzhouta Tower, Jingxian County, Hengshui, Hebei Province, China

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Introduction

The Jingzhou Pagoda is a well-preserved ancient building located in Jingxian Chengguan Town. It has a long history and was originally named "Shijia Wensheli Pagoda", also known as the relic pagoda. Due to Jingxian's previous location as Jingzhou, it is also called Jingzhou Pagoda. The tower is 13 stories high, has an eight-sided conical shape, is 63.85 meters high, and has a circumference of 50.5 meters on the ground floor. It is a brick and stone structure with a tightly eaved tower-like structure. The tower base is made of enormous clear stones and contains a real underground palace for storing Buddhist scriptures, Buddha statues, gold, silver, jewels, and Buddha bones. The tower body is made of blue bricks and has several hundred spiral staircases from bottom to top, allowing visitors to climb to the top of the tower. There are gateways in all four directions inside the tower, as well as arched corridors. Walking along the corridors, visitors can look out on all sides from the gateways. The top of the tower is like a gourd, made of bronze and 2.05 meters high with a 3.3-meter-high iron wire netting below it. When the wind blows, the wire netting and gateways sway together, creating a grand sound, so it is called the "ancient tower wind wave".

Address

Jingzhouta Tower, Jingxian County, Hengshui, Hebei Province, China