Rewake Buddhist Temple Relic Site

Rewak is a group of tower-centered Buddhist temple buildings, consisting of a square courtyard tower and a temple outside the courtyard. The temple tower faces south, with two gate-shaped gaps in the middle and west corner of the southern end, and the courtyard wall is 45 meters long on each side. There is a small temple outside the east wall. Some of the walls remain. The inner wall is painted with plaster. The inner wall of the temple has a dome-shaped niche. The wall is full of dome-shaped patterns that shrink layer by layer. The temple is now completely destroyed. There are remnants of clay Buddha statues on the inner and outer walls of the four-sided courtyard. Most of the statues are on the west and east walls. Some of the statues are buried in the sand dunes, some are exposed, and some are destroyed. The Buddha is about 3 meters high, and there is one every 0.6 meters. There are frescoes on the unweathered walls to support human figures. The Qiuyunqi pattern and pattern are inserted between the Buddha and Yi. The color is monotonous, mainly Chu color. The courtyard is a pagoda. The pagoda was built with adobe and was dug up in many places. The base of the pagoda is basically square, with a height of about 6-7 meters. Inside and outside the temple are scattered red and black palladium and a small number of colored scroll pottery pieces, as well as human bones, clay Buddha statues and five-bead copper coins scattered on the ground, and there are traces of buildings nearby. There is no record about the historical evolution and the rise and fall of Rewak. Scholars infer that it was built in the Southern and Northern Dynasties and Tang Dynasties according to the unearthed cultural relics and Buddha statues, the style of murals, and the architectural pattern with the pagoda as the main body. The ruins of the Rewak Buddhist Temple are key cultural relics protection units.