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Tiger Hill Tower is a well-known ancient tower building located at No. 8 in the hill gate of Huqiu Mountain, Shantang Street, Qimen, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, 5 kilometers from the city center. According to legend, Wu Wangfu had buried his father () here, and on the 3rd after the burial, there was a white tiger on it, hence the name Huqiushan, referred to as Tiger Hill. It was built in the sixth generation of Zhou Xiande (959) after the Five Dynasties and was completed in the second year of Jianlong in the Northern Song Dynasty (961). The tower has seven levels and eight sides. The inner and outer two-story pillars and half arches and brick rafts are the masterpieces of the 10th century Yangtze River basin. Since the Song Dynasty and the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were many fires, so the top raft was destroyed. The tower is 47.7 meters tall. In 1956, a large number of cultural relics were found in the tower, including rare traditional art treasures such as Yue Kiln and Lotus Stone Turtle. The Tiger Hill Tower is a leaning tower. Tiger Hill Tower is an imitation pavilion type brick and wood sleeve structure. The tower is 47.7 meters high and the tower is full of bricks and weighs more than 6,000 tons. Tower flat octagon
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