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The Kaiyuan Temple Pagoda
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229 reviews
4.7
Based on 9 reviews
1.3 km from downtown
Phone 0312-2391217
Address: Zhongshan Middle Rd, Dingzhou Shi, Baoding Shi, Hebei Sheng, China, 073000
Recommended sightseeing time: 1-2 hours
Highlights:
A paragon of Northern Song pavilion-style brick pagodas
The magnificent, eleven-story building towers into the sky
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The Kaiyuan Temple Pagoda, a relic of the Northern Song Dynasty, is ancient and majestic. Climbing is possible if you make a reservation in advance. Kaiyuan Temple is long gone, and while one side of the pagoda has been restored, it's still in good condition overall, with a small courtyard that's worth a visit. It's located next to the Dingzhou Museum, just across a small path, but the nearest gate is closed, so you have to walk around the wall and enter through the main gate.
🏯 [Zhengding Kaiyuan Temple Sumi Tower] A forgotten Tang Feng lonely shadow: In the crack of time, I heard the breathing of wooden structures 📍 Hebei Zhengding | Kaiyuan Temple Sumi Tower In the comet map of the four towers and eight temples on the ninth floor of Zhengding, the Sumi Tower is the most silent and least publicized. But the building that struck my heart the most. It is not as magnificent as the Grand Pavilion of Longxing Temple, nor as strange as the Huata of Guanghui Temple, nor as the Zen-like of the Chengling Tower of Linji Temple. It is just standing quietly in Kaiyuan Temple, four squares, layered, like a closed ancient scripture, the cover mottled, but the word thousand. 1. "Humble" shape: Tang Feng's skeleton, Liao Dynasty's skin and flesh Sumi tower was built in the Tang Dynasty Zhenguan ten years (636), the existing tower body is the Jin Dynasty rebuilt, but its overall shape, still faithfully continued the Tang Tower's majestic skeleton - four square pavilion, masonry structure, thirteen-level dense, the height of about 42 meters. It has no delicate moths of the towers after the Song Dynasty, nor the complicated decorations of the Ming and Qing towers. Its beauty, not carved, but in proportion and rhythm: each floor of the mouth spacing is equal, the harvest is extremely slow, from the bottom up like a ladder, showing a nearly mathematical stately order. This is the essence of Tang Feng architecture - not dazzling skills, not clever, to "bad" to "big", to "Jane" to "heavy". Mr. Liang Sicheng once said: "Tang Dynasty architecture, like a gentleman, do not anger themselves." Sumitomo is the most silent footnote of this sentence. Second, the wooden structure of the "ghost": China's only Tang Dynasty wooden structure clock tower of the world-thrilling dialogue if the Sumitomo is "the epic of masonry", then the Kaiyuan Temple clock tower standing alongside it is "the ghost of the wooden structure". This bell tower is the only wooden structure bell tower in China in the Tang Dynasty (the upper floor is the Tang structure, the lower floor is repaired by the later generations), its bucket arch, pillar, beam frame, all retain the typical characteristics of the Middle and Tang Dynasty: Xiong Dashulang, curling natural, and far-reaching like wings. And the most shocking is its confrontation with the space of the Sumitomo Tower - brick, wood, a quiet movement, a soil, a wood, a shadow of the tower, a moth want to lift. They stand side by side, like a dialogue that spans thousands of years: the brick tower says, "I fight against time with immortality." The wooden tower answers: "I witness the years with breath." This is not only the juxtaposition of architecture, but also the coexistence of two civilizations: the heavyness of the north and the lightness of the south, Eternal pursuit and present existence. Third, the national treasure that is "undervalued": silent watch in the traffic era is fixed today, tourists are like weaving, but they go to Longxing Temple. In front of the Sumi Pagoda, there is often only the wind passing the bell, and the pigeon shadows are swept away. It is not like the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, nor does it carry the love legend like the Leifeng Pagoda. It has no poetic binding of "Night Bo Fengqiao", nor the visual spectacle of "Leifeng Xizhao". It only exists. This "forgotten" is precisely what it is. Here, you can't see the punch-in shooting, you can't hear the clamor. You can only look up and see the sky cut out by the layers of densely cut, and listen to the wind as it passes through the tower gap, such as
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