Weinan City Qianjin Tower | Legendary Feng Shui Building

|Legendary Feng Shui Building. Qianjin Tower, also known as Baiyi Temple Tower, is a national key cultural relic protection unit located in Tianhe Garden, southeast of Heyang County. It was built in the 37th year of the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty (1609 AD) and was built with a donation of 1,000 taels of silver by Kang Shouji, a native of Huaili, the county seat, hence the name "Qianjin Tower." It is an octagonal, 13-story, dense-eave, hollow brick Feng Shui tower. The bottom floor of the tower is 3.3 meters long on each side, with an arched door in the middle of the north side, with the words "Qianjin Tower" on the lintel. Under the eaves of the bottom floor, there are brick carvings of dougong, eaves, and hanging flower columns. The tower is made of blue bricks with eaves, and the bottom has diamond teeth. There are north-south arched windows on the second, sixth, and tenth floors, and east-west arched windows on the fourth and eighth floors. The top is pointed, the tower is gone, and the tower is about 27 meters high. This tower belongs to the Feng Shui tower type building. According to the Qinglong Ben "Heyang County Complete Records": "(County seat) There is a mountain in the southeast, there is a Kuixing Temple on the mountain, there is a Qianjin Tower in the west of the temple, and Wanli Yixi Yimin Kang Shouji donated 1,000 gold to build it." It can be seen that the tower is an auxiliary building of Kuixing Temple, and it is named after Kang Shouji alone donated "Qianjin." The people of the time built this tower with the intention of supplementing the literary context of Heyang. Address: Tianhe Garden, Heyang County, Weinan City, Shaanxi Province Transportation: Take Heyang 102 Road to Yujing Haoting Station, and walk to this historic brick tower