Hua Pagoda of Baoqing Temple

The Hua Pagoda of Baoqing Temple was built in the reign of Emperor Wenzong Taihe of Tang Dynasty (827-840 AD) and was built with five-color bricks. The original Yibaoqing Temple was built during the Renshou period of Emperor Wen of Sui Dynasty. During the Five Dynasties, the temple was destroyed by the fire of war, and only this pagoda has survived. In the second year of Jingtai in the Ming Dynasty (1451), the pagoda was moved to build a temple at this site. During the Wanli period (1573-1620), Feng Congwu gave lectures in it, and in the first year of the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty (1723), the monk Wentian rebuilt the temple and pavilion. The tower is a hexagonal seven-story dense eaves brick tower with a total height of 23 meters and a hexagonal plane. On the east side of the tower, the existing stone tablet was rebuilt in the second year of Jingtai in Ming Dynasty (1451). Under the eaves of the tower on the first floor are decorated with brick carving patterns such as two dragons playing beads, phoenix play peony, Ruihe Xiangyun, tangled peony and other brick carvings and one bucket three liter bucket arch; under the second floor tower eaves are decorated with a bucket three liter bucket arch, Ruyi cloud head and unicorn brick. Sculptures; 13 stone carvings from the Northern Wei, Sui and Tang dynasties are inlaid in the six faces of the second and third floors of the tower and the Buddhist niches on the sixth floor. The ancient pagoda faces south and is divided into three parts: platform base, pagoda body and pagoda. The pagoda faces south with a pagoda gate that resembles a flame. The front forehead is engraved with the four characters of "Ancient Pagoda Reviving", and the four characters of "Amitabha" are engraved on the east and west sides. There are couplets engraved on both sides of the pagoda gate of Baoqing Temple.