What is the tower for, and what is the tower for

A pagoda is a type of traditional oriental architecture that is common in Asia and has a specific form and style. It is a kind of towering point building that enshrines or collects Buddha relics (Buddha bones), Buddha statues, Buddhist scriptures, monk remains, etc., also known as "pagoda" and "pagoda".

The role of the ancient tower:

1. As a tombstone: as a tombstone or as a tomb is the most primitive function of the tower, India's stumbling slope itself is a form of architecture that appears as a tomb, after the east, although there have been great changes in the technology and appearance of the building, but this basic function has been retained, many monasteries in China have built Tallinn.

2, as a worship object: the most extensive use of the tower is as a worship object and exists, the temples before the Song Dynasty have the tower as the core of the entire building group, in the tower to worship the Buddha relics or Buddhist statues, its status and role is equivalent to the later generations of the Daxiong Treasure Hall, but after the Song Dynasty, although the core position of the tower in the temple is shaken by the main hall, but still occupies an important position, there is the so-called "there must be a temple tower" said.

3. Storage of treasures: There is a dungeon in the tower, as a Buddhist building, the dungeon of the tower is a place to place Buddhist holy relics, so it often plays the role of storing treasures, the most famous of which is the underground palace of Famen Temple in Shaanxi.

4. As a landscape: the tower is tall and very eye-catching, so it is easy to form a landscape, many towers are built naturally after the landscape effect, and another part of the tower is specially built as a landscape, the most famous example is one of the eight views of Hangzhou, "Leifeng Sunset".

5. Complete Feng Shui: Due to the prominent position of the tower in the religious world, the first step of the tower to the secular will play the role of completing Feng Shui, and the role of building a tower in the part lacking in Feng Shui can be worth a mountain.

Clause. First, the tower is a kind of feng shui architecture.

2. The pagoda is a building where Buddhist believers store their ashes (i.e., relics).

Historically, the tower served two purposes:

Clause. 1. The tower is a kind of feng shui architecture.

In the traditional Chinese concept of feng shui architecture, when encountering an environment that is not conducive to human habitation, it is necessary to use some kind of building to transform the terrain. Through this transformation, the environment becomes habitable for human beings.

Towers are one of the buildings that can be used to modify the terrain. For example, the Yuquan Mountain Pagoda in Beijing and the pagoda in Yan'an are all built on some special terrain.

Clause. 2. The pagoda is a building where Buddhist believers store their ashes (i.e., relics).

The architectural form of the tower originated in ancient India, called the slope, which was originally a kind of Buddhist building that buried the relics left by the Buddha Shakyamuni after cremation.

At first, it was in the shape of a small hill and resembled a covered bowl, and later became the burial bone building of Buddhist monks. With the spread of Buddhism in the East, the architectural form of the slope has also spread widely in the East, and the traditional architectural form of the tower with oriental characteristics has been developed.

The Chinese tower is generally composed of an underground palace, a tower base, a tower body, a tower top and a tower stop.

The underground palace contains relics, located below the ground in the middle of the tower base. The base of the tower includes an abutment and a pedestal. The tower is on top of the tower and is usually composed of a Sumeru seat, a lotus lotus, a covered bowl, a phase wheel and a jewel; There are also tasha with treasure covers, round lights, moon and orbs on top of the phase wheel.

These formations evolved from the Blockage Wave.

In the third and fourth centuries AD, there were three layers of towers, followed by five, seven, nine, thirteen, fifteen, seventeen, and even thirty-seven layers of heavy structures.