Seek information about ancient Chinese wooden pagodas

Judging from the historical development of China's towers, most of them think that there are wooden towers first, and then there are brick towers. Later, through research, it was discovered that the two towers were developed almost simultaneously.

So, why hasn't China's wooden pagoda been greatly developed? Because timber buildings, whether towers, houses or pavilions, have a problem, that is, they are not fireproof. Every time there is a fire, it will burn out.

China's historical buildings have suffered from "sky fire", "fire" and "artillery fire". Buildings were damaged, and fires were the main hazards. So the wooden tower is not durable.

The construction of wooden towers is large, such as multi-storey wooden towers, and a lot of timber is used. In the ancient buildings of our country, there are quite a lot of wooden towers in the early days, and they gradually decrease later. For example, in the Northern Wei Dynasty, Luoyang's rock yard Qi Yongning Temple tower is very tall, it is a plane for the square'Wooden tower, 9 floors high, each floor is calculated according to 8 meters, up to 72 meters, plus the tower is more than 70 meters high, the whole tower is more than 140 meters high.

This is a miracle change in the history of architecture. Unfortunately, in the 15th year after the tower was built, it burned down due to the burning of incense candles due to the chanting of the Bikulingchuni.

As for the wooden pagodas in other places, there are also a lot, but they are not as big as the wooden pagodas of the Yongning Temple in Luoyang of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and most of them have been burned down. The wooden tower of the Liao Dynasty of Shakya Temple in Yingxian County, Shanxi Province is still very intact so far, it can be said that it is the crown of the existing wooden tower in our country, and it is also the only wooden structure pavilion tower in our country.

Shakya Pagoda.

Shanxi Yingxian Fogong Temple Shakya Tower, commonly known as Yingxian Wooden Tower, built in the second year of Liao Qingning (AD 1056), Jin Mingchang six years (AD 1195) to complete the repair, the tower is high meters. Although its appearance is five floors, there are four levels of dark layers in the tower, which is actually nine floors.

The whole tower is 3,000 cubic meters of red pine wood, more than 2,600 tons, pure wood structure, no nails and no rivets, and two Sakyamuni Buddha tooth relics are enshrined in the tower. This wooden tower has withstood the test of thousands of years of wind and rain, many times and even war fire, and stands to this day, which can be called a miracle in the history of architecture.

Answer]: Min Di D

Shanxi Yingxian Fogong Temple Shakya Pagoda was built in the second year of Liao Qingning (1056 AD), is the only existing in the country to sell the most ancient and most complete wooden tower.

Wooden tower in Yingxian County, Shanxi.

The wooden pagoda of Yingxian County, Shanxi Province is the oldest and tallest existing wooden pagoda at home and abroad. The tower was built in the second year of Liao Qingning (1056 AD), the bottom layer of the tower is 30 meters in diameter, high meters, five layers and six eaves, the plane is octagonal. The whole wooden pagoda shares 54 different forms of dougong, becoming the most representative pavilion-style pagoda in ancient Chinese architecture.

Due to its solid structure, it has survived more than 900 years and many ** attacks, and it still stands majestically. The characteristics of the pavilion-type pagoda, one is that the tower is tall, the other is that the distance between each floor is larger, and each floor of the tower body has wooden doors, windows, fangs and bucket arches. On the eaves of the tower, there are imitation wood structures such as purlins, rafters and flying heads.

There are stairs in the tower where people can climb up to the floor and look into the distance.