The stupa is just a building made of earth and wood, why should it be respected

Once upon a time, we longed for the high-rise buildings, highways, and modern life of the West. Desperate to bid farewell to the old way of life, he regarded the ancient buildings and ancient houses as a sign of poverty and backwardness in a region, and did not hesitate to rebuild or demolish them.

Now, the ever-changing achievements of urban and rural construction have also allowed us to enjoy the convenient, fast and comfortable modern life brought by high technology. And suddenly, life has changed, it has become less refined, no longer poetic.

The ancient houses where I once lived are gone, the stone roads and stone arch bridges I once walked on are gone, the ancient pagoda halfway up the mountain is gone, and the academy where my great-grandfather studied when he was a child ......is goneIn front of you, you can see residential areas full of parked cars, asphalt roads, concrete overpasses, and telecommunications towers, ......Wanderers who have left home to study and do business for a few years and return to their homeland will not be able to find a home!

The ancient buildings of the city are hidden in the reinforced concrete thickets of high-rise buildings, and they are lonely and lonely. Some of them have been preserved, and some of them are still regarded as "urban villages" and are facing the fate of demolition.

Most of the ancient buildings in the town and village have disappeared ......

People are starting to feel nostalgic for the old days.

People began to look for their past lives.

As a result, tourists from all over the country began to flock to the ancient water towns, ancient villages in Anhui, and cottage ...... in Guizhou, YunnanThe tourist attraction is overcrowded, and tourists use their cameras to capture the old decorations in the old halls, the wisteria flowers blooming in the patio, the vendors picking up candy on the stone road, the fishermen rowing boats in the alleys, and the girls in blue calico ...... poking their heads out of the old windowsThis kind of capture and snooping by tourists often makes the residents of the old house seem cramped and uneasy, and a little embarrassed.

A French friend, the painter Dominique Antony, once told me with his French humor that the ancestors of the French 300 years ago could still find their way home when they returned to Paris!

In fact, the ancient buildings of Paris are indeed relatively well preserved, including the protection of the surrounding environment of the ancient buildings. In France, we can not only feel the greatness of its history and culture in front of the Arc de Triomphe, Notre Dame Cathedral and Versailles, but also the ancient buildings that can be seen everywhere in the city also bring us the French cultural atmosphere and amazement again and again.

Ancient buildings carry a lot of information about history, art, science, religion, spirituality and other aspects, and it is a symbol of civilization. The ancient architecture of a region can be said to be the most intuitive carrier of local culture.

Only by protecting ancient buildings can we be worthy of our ancestors and future generations.

Because it is not only a belief of the ancients, but also the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancients.

Historically, yes.

The tower is a common oriental traditional building. This is the Buddhist monks used to bury the bones, after Buddhism was introduced to East Asia, the tower and the local traditional building heavy building integration, and extended to other uses, not limited to the monks to bury the bones, and then gradually evolved into the pavilion tower, the dense eaves tower, the pavilion tower, the bowl tower, the King Kong throne tower, the treasure seal tower, the five-wheel tower, the multi-treasure pagoda, the seamless tower and other forms of the tower, the building plane gradually evolved from the early square to the hexagon, octagonal and even circular, during which the building technology of the tower also continued to improve and the structure became more and more reasonable, The materials used have also expanded from traditional rammed earth and wood to masonry, ceramics, glass, metal and other materials. At the level of architecture, the tower is tall and the materials are diverse, the geological conditions are different in different regions, and the technology of building the tower is also different, and the architectural research of the tower involves many aspects such as material mechanics, structural mechanics, soil science, geology, etc.

In Eastern cultures, the significance of the tower is not limited to the architectural level. The tower carries many cultural elements such as oriental history, religion, aesthetics, philosophy, etc., and is an important medium for exploring and understanding oriental civilization.

Buddhist architecture is architecture associated with Buddhist activities. Such as Buddhist temples, pagodas, prayer buildings and cave temples. Buddhism was introduced to China during the Han Dynasty, and its architectural development reached its peak in the four or five hundred years from the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the Sui and Tang dynasties.

The Song, Liao, and Jin dynasties declined. After the Yuan Dynasty, especially in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the cave temples and towers have been built less, and the temples are mainly Lamaist temple buildings.

The stupa, also known as the floating Buddha (a transliteration of the Sanskrit word "Buddha"), is called "Quden" in Tibetan. The stupa was originally used to enshrine relics, scriptures, or relics.

Buddhism began to enter China in the first century A.D., and the Han Buddhism was formed through sinicization, and the style of the pagoda was also transformed from the bowl tower to the pavilion tower, the pavilion tower, and the pavilion tower was derived from the dense eaves tower. Traditional Chinese pagodas can be divided into wooden pagodas, stone pagodas, and brick pagodas according to their building materials.

Yes. The pagoda is a feature with Buddhist characteristics.

Saving a life is better than building a seven-level floating tu, and the floating tutu is a pagoda.

The stupa is definitely a Buddhist building.