Fahua Tower

A small white tower, located in the Fahua Temple next to the east gate of Datong Ancient City, this is a pagoda built in the Ming Dynasty, with a strong Tianzhu style, beautiful shape, after 500 years of wind and rain, still intact.

The Fahua Temple in the ancient city of Datong City, Shanxi Province, has a Fahua Tower of Shanxi Province key cultural relics protection unit, also known as the "white tower", is the only overlaid lama tower in Datong City. The tower was built in the Qing Dynasty and was rebuilt later. Under the tower is a three-meter-high hexagonal tower, with flower walls on the side. The door is a brick coupon-style coupon door, with a scale, engraved with the words "small hole big". [View] The majestic Fahua Tower. [Interesting] Learn about Buddhist architecture. [Cost-effective] Free.

Tickets are free and you can change your ID card to enter. The entire monastery is quiet and tidy, with lush green trees and fruitful hawthorn trees. Especially worthy of praise is the bathroom of the monastery, which is decorated in a traditional Chinese way, which is very novel.

There are not many people in the tower, and the palace is surrounded by small bronze Buddhas, with Sherizi in the middle, like pearls. Climbing up the tower to see a lot of broken houses around, and seeing Huayan Temple is not bad. Several teak Buddha statues inside have not been painted yet.

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