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Does the Ruiguang Pagoda really have auspicious light?

There is a Ruiguang Pagoda in Suzhou, which is said to have been built by Sun Quan, the ruler of the Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period, to repay his mother's kindness. He constructed a 13-story stupa. After the pagoda was completed, Sun Quan personally went to worship, which made this pagoda extraordinary. Not only did a person of high authority visit to worship, but the pagoda often emitted five-colored auspicious light, hence it was named Ruiguang Pagoda. ⛰【Travel Tips】 📍Detailed address: Inside Panmen in the southwest corner of Suzhou city district 🚗Transportation tips: Board at the Guangfu Town Government Station, take (Bus 63) to Taihu Xiangshan Station, transfer to to Nanmen Station, and walk 836 meters to reach; From Suzhou Railway Station (Exit 4), take to Nanmen Station (exit), and walk 935 meters to reach. 🕙Opening hours: 09:00-16:30 💰Ticket price: Free admission 🌟Highlights: 1. The Ruiguang Pagoda is a typical example of a brick and wood structured tower pavilion. It uses a high proportion of wooden structures, not only the protruding dougong and waist eaves are all wooden, but there are also many wooden structural materials inside the brick tower, such as bricks with wooden pegs, inner dougong, moon beams, corridor beams, and beams above the pot gate, etc. 2. The dougong on the outer wall of the Ruiguang Pagoda: Divided into waist eaves dougong and flat seat brackets, the waist eaves dougong has two types of supplementary paving and corner paving, the supplementary paving is a five-paving single dougong with a heart scroll head, among which the supporting wall dougong is brick carved, one layer of supporting wall dougong is carved as heavy dougong, that is, mud road dougong, slow dougong. The corner paving uses round bricks for dougong, with three seams of splendid dougong on top, the front and side seams are the same as the supplementary paving, plus one seam of corner splendid dougong. On top of the second jump corner splendid dougong, a yu'ang and a treasure vase are applied to support the corner beam. The secondary step dougong is a four-paving scroll head structure. 3. Most of the colored paintings inside the Ruiguang Pagoda are from later restorations, only on the wooden railings are there remnants of seven red and eight white colored paintings, the white square parts are slightly recessed, and the number of squares varies, with six blocks on the long railings, and four or two blocks on the short railings.
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Posted: Apr 22, 2024
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