Shengshou Pagoda

Shengshou Pagoda is located on Nanshan Mountain (in today's Zhenghe Park) in Changle County-level City, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province. It was built in the third year of Song Shaosheng (1096 AD) and completed on October 23 in the seventh year of Zhenghe (1117 AD). Lin Ang, a native of the city, gave up the money, and the monk Jinghuo of Fajian Temple raised the crowd to build it. In the early Ming Dynasty, Zheng He made seven voyages to the west, and the fleet stayed at Changle Taiping Port every time to wait for the monsoon. The tower is 27.4 meters high, with seven floors and octagons, imitating a wooden pavilion-style granite structure. The vault in the tower is hollow, and there are curved stone steps inside. The first floor opens on one side, the second to sixth floors open on both sides, and the seventh floor opens on four sides. From 1981 to 1984, the state allocated funds for maintenance. The bottom of each floor corridor was enclosed with reinforced concrete, the cracks were grouted with high pressure cement, the defective components were repaired, the fences on each floor were restored, and the pavement was built in the style of the Song Dynasty.