Status: The Wild Goose Pagoda, also known as the Great Ci 'en Temple Pagoda, is located in Dajiju, the southern suburb of Xi 'an, Shaanxi Province, China. Because it is located in the west courtyard of Jean Temple, the Wild Goose Pagoda was originally called the West Courtyard Pagoda of Jean Temple. It is a masterpiece of Buddhist architecture in China in the Tang Dynasty. The Wild Goose Pagoda was built in 652 AD (the third year of Yonghui in Tang Gaozong). Master Xuanzang built a five-story brick tower in the West Tower of Jionji, dedicated to the Buddha statues, Buddhist relics and Sanskrit classics brought back from India. Reconstruction of Wu Zetian in Chang 'an period. Later, it was trimmed many times. The Wild Goose Pagoda is a famous tourist attraction in the Tang Dynasty, so there are a large number of inscriptions by literati, including more than 200 inscriptions in the Ming and Qing Dynasties alone. The Wild Goose Pagoda is a pavilion-style brick pagoda with a height of 64.5 meters. The tower has seven floors, square cone, wood-like structure, and the proportion decreases from bottom to top. There is a wooden ladder in the tower to climb up. There is an arched ticket gate on both sides of each floor, which can be overlooked through the railing. The whole building is magnificent, simple and steady in shape, moderate in proportion, solemn and simple in style, and it is a well-preserved pavilion tower. This tower is equipped with stairs for people to climb and overlook the ancient city Xi 'an. The Big Wild Goose Pagoda is a landmark and famous historic site of Xi, and also a symbol of the ancient city of Xi. Therefore, this famous ancient pagoda was painted in the center of the emblem of Xi.

History: The Ji 'en Temple, where the Wild Goose Pagoda is located, is a place where Xuanzang, a monk in the Tang Dynasty, specializes in translating and collecting scriptures. Master Xuanzang retrieved Buddhist scriptures from Tianzhu, and once presided over the temple affairs in Ji 'en Temple, in order to "prevent people from changing them frequently, lose the scriptures, and prevent the Big Wild Goose Pagoda from catching fire."

Difficult "and properly arrange Buddhist relics, it is planned to build a stone pagoda outside the main entrance of Jionji, so it was played on the attached drawing in March of the third year of Tang Yonghui (AD 652). Because Xuanzang's floating pictures are always 30 feet high, Tang Gaozong approved the court to build a five-story brick tower in the west courtyard of the temple on the grounds that the project was huge and difficult to realize, and he didn't want the mage to work hard. This pagoda is called Big Wild Goose Pagoda, because a smaller one was built in Jianfu Temple in Chang 'an. Jionji Pagoda is called Big Wild Goose Pagoda, and Jianfu Temple Pagoda is called Little Wild Goose Pagoda, which has been passed down to this day. The Big Wild Goose Pagoda is modeled after the Western Regions, with brick surface and soil core, which is unattainable, and there are relics on each floor. Master Xuanzang personally presided over the construction of this tower, which took two years to complete. After more than 50 years, the tower gradually collapsed due to the change of topsoil core and wind and rain erosion. During the reign of Wu Zetian in Chang 'an (70 1-704), Empress Wu Zetian and nobles rebuilt it on the original site and built a seven-story blue brick tower (on the other hand, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda was rebuilt in 704, and the tower was as high as 10 floor. In 93 1 year, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda was rebuilt in the Five Dynasties and the later Tang Dynasty, and it was reduced to seven floors. After the end of the Tang Dynasty, Jionji was repeatedly attacked by soldiers, and the temple was burned down, leaving only the Big Wild Goose Pagoda alone. In 93 1 year (the second year of Changxing in the Tang Dynasty after the Five Dynasties), the Big Wild Goose Pagoda was restored again. Later, several major earthquakes occurred in Xi 'an, and the top of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda fell and the tower was broken. In A.D. 1604 (23rd year of Wanli reign of Ming Dynasty), the basic shape of the Tang Dynasty Tower was maintained, and a 60 cm thick coating was built outside it, making its shape wider than before, which is the shape of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda seen today. After the establishment of People's Republic of China (PRC), the Wild Goose Pagoda was announced by the State Council as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units in 196 1. After a renovation by 1964, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda basically maintained its original features.

Small Wild Goose Pagoda

Present situation and history: Little Wild Goose Pagoda is located in Jianfu Temple on the south side of the eastern section of Youyi West Road outside Xi 'an Annan Gate. It is a typical dense-eaves pagoda, facing the Big Wild Goose Pagoda from east to west. Because it is smaller than the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, it is called Little Wild Goose Pagoda, which is one of the two important symbols preserved so far in Chang 'an, the ancient capital of the Tang Dynasty. "Yanta Morning Bell" is also one of the eight scenic spots in Guanzhong in Qing Dynasty. Although the Little Wild Goose Pagoda is not as big as the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, the environment here is quiet and beautiful, with the unique charm of the ancient city.

Jianfu Temple was built in the Tang Dynasty. It was originally named Xianfu Temple. It was built in the first year of Tang Civilization (AD 684) to pray for Zong Rui Emperor Li Dan after the death of his father Gaozong. In the first year (AD 690) given by Wu Zetian, it was renamed Jianfu Hall. There are Buddhist temples, stupas, golden statues and murals in the temple. There is also a huge iron clock in the temple, weighing more than 10,000 Jin, which was cast in the third year of Ming Chang in the Jin Dynasty (A.D. 1 192). Every morning, bells will ring regularly in the temple. The bells are crisp and can be heard dozens of miles away.

The famous Little Wild Goose Pagoda was built from the Year of the Loong to Tang Dynasty (707 ~7 10). At that time, the pagoda was not in the temple but opposite the temple gate, but it was still a part of Jianfu Temple. Jianfu Temple flourished in Ji 'an Temple under the protection of the royal family. Tang Wuzong Huichang destroyed the Buddha, and Jianfu Temple was ordered to retain 20 monks to maintain the incense, which turned from prosperity to decline. During the war in the late Tang Dynasty, Jianfu Temple was repeatedly destroyed, and the temple was destroyed, only the Little Wild Goose Pagoda was kept. According to the written records of Yuan You years in northern Song Zhezong, Jianfu Temple has moved into the tower yard and become an integral part with Little Wild Goose Pagoda.

In the Ming Dynasty, Jianfu Temple began to revive and was repaired five times on a large scale, basically maintaining the pattern of advanced preservation. In the first year of Xuande in the Ming Dynasty (1426), a monk from Wei Hongjue Temple in Xining, Shaanxi, took a spoon to live in Jianfu Temple, and recommended that the temple be deserted, although he vowed to rebuild it. After the overhaul of Orthodox Church in the 14th year (1449), Shao Siji asked the court for the name of the temple. Today's "Hall of Blessing" is written by Yingzong.

Jianfu Temple was renovated many times in the Qing Dynasty, and the biggest one was in the thirty-first year of Kangxi. The Tibetan Scripture Building and South Gate were built in the late Qing Dynasty. After the Revolution of 1911, Jianfu Temple declined with the war and was destroyed by the war. 1926 ~ 1949 Jianfu Temple was occupied by Kuomintang troops for a long time in May. Meanwhile, the British Catholic Church once opened the Children's Home to take in war orphans. However, after 1938, it became a military camp, and Little Wild Goose Pagoda also became a high-level military command. After the evacuation of Hu Zongnan, five branches of the Central Party School were stationed. From 1949 to 1957, the temples in the temple were occupied by party schools, people's courts, procuratorates, public security police stations, agricultural technology extension stations, film projection teams and other organs. 1958, the cultural relics department took over Jianfu Temple and began to repair Jianfu Temple and Little Wild Goose Pagoda. From 1964 to 1965, many temples and pagodas have been strengthened and restored, and the original appearance of antiquities has been basically maintained. During the Cultural Revolution, the east and west courtyards of Jianfu Temple were occupied by primary schools and troops, and were not cleared until after 1989.

Jianfu Temple is one of the important translation places of Buddhist scriptures in Tang Dynasty. Yijing, a monk in the Tang Dynasty, set out from Chang 'an and went to India by sea via Guangzhou. He traveled to more than 30 countries in 25 years and brought back more than 400 Buddhist scriptures. He returned to Luoyang in the first year of Wuze Tiansheng (AD 695), and entered Jianfu Temple in the second year of Tang Zhongzong Shenlong (AD 706) to translate scriptures. The Little Wild Goose Pagoda, with the floor of 15, was built in the Futu Courtyard of Anrenfang in the Year of the Loong, Tang Zhongzong (707 ~ 709 AD), south of Hua Kai Square where Jianfu Temple is located. Little Wild Goose Pagoda was always called Jianfu Temple Pagoda in the Tang and Song Dynasties. As for the name of Little Wild Goose Pagoda, it is related to the name of Big Wild Goose Pagoda. Therefore, the tower is smaller than the Big Wild Goose Pagoda in Ci 'en Temple, with a height of 43.3m, a bottom length of11.38m and a height-bottom ratio of 100 to 26, all of which are smaller than the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, so it is called Little Wild Goose Pagoda.

Small Wild Goose Pagoda is characterized by its exquisite and beautiful tower shape, brick structure and dense eaves. There is no column in the tower wall, and each layer of bricks has eaves, with overlapping bricks at the eaves and water chestnut teeth between them. The width of the tower gradually decreases from bottom to top, and the higher it goes, the whole outline presents a charming and comfortable cone, with beautiful shape and even proportion. The original 15 is about 45 meters high, and the existing 13 is about 43.3 meters high. The plane of the tower is square, and there are semicircular arches on the north and south sides of each floor. There is a wooden ladder in the tower, from which visitors can enjoy the scenery of Xi 'an.

The divine union of Little Wild Goose Pagoda: In the long years, Little Wild Goose Pagoda has a history of "divine union"! In A.D. 1487, an earthquake with a magnitude of 6 occurred in Shaanxi, and the middle of Little Wild Goose Pagoda cracked a seam more than one foot wide from top to bottom. However, after a lapse of 34 years, in another major earthquake in 152 1, the cracks closed again overnight. People are puzzled, so they call the closure of Little Wild Goose Pagoda "divine union". In September 1555, a small Beijing official named Wang He stayed at Little Wild Goose Pagoda on his way home. Monk Kang Guang, who witnessed this "heavenly alliance", was amazed after listening to this wonderful story he told, and engraved this historical material on the north lintel of Little Wild Goose Pagoda. When the Little Wild Goose Pagoda was restored after the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was discovered that it was not a "divine alliance" but a "human alliance". Originally, according to the geological conditions in Xi 'an, ancient craftsmen specially built the tower foundation into a semi-circular sphere with rammed earth. After the earthquake, the pressure was evenly dispersed, making the Little Wild Goose Pagoda stand tall like a "tumbler" after more than 70 earthquakes, which can't help but make people admire the superb architectural skills of China ancient craftsmen.

Excuse me, did your sister graduate from Jiaotong University? This is when he wrote his thesis this year. Go to the Big Wild Goose Pagoda and the Small Wild Goose Pagoda to buy tickets and copy them inside. My sister used it. I hope you can use it, too