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Legend tomorrow morning the intersection of Yongle and Emperor Zhu Di) Build for commemorating its princess of breeder mother that died tragically; Another say to commemorate, build the intersection of King Wen and bright red, permit, in whom 1412 year build during 1431 year being in large scale in this group, splendid buildings like palace.
Loud to pay a debt of gratitude the temple constructs and investigates extremely, totally build according to the standard of the imperial palace. There are more than 20 palaces in the temple, the gallery, pass 38 rooms. It lasts 19 years, consume 2,500,000 Liang of silver, requisition more than 100,000 people of worker s battle. Lie behind the audience hall large to pay a debt of gratitude glazed pagoda of the temple build to the tenth year of Yongle 1412 years) ,Declare 3 years such as Der 1428 years) Complete, nine layers of octahedro, up to 78.2 meters, can also see to even count on the Changjiang River outside 5 kilometers. The white porcelain of body of the tower sticks to the surface, the coloured glaze door certificate of arched door. The door frame is decorated with five color glazed bricks of subject matter of Buddhism such as lions, white elephant, the sheep fliesing. Stop and carry and inlay the jewel of gold and silver. Horn hang 152 of aeolian bell under the roof beam, bang day and night, smell several li.
Light 140 lights of tower kept burning day and night from the day of building up and consume 32 kilograms of oil every day, splendid, well-illuminated day and night. Inboard walls of tower are covered with niches for a statue of Buddha. This tower is one of the 48 scenes Nanjing. In the Ming and Qing times, some businessman, visitors and the missionary of Europe state came to Nanjing, call it the intersection of Nanjing and the intersection of porcelain and tower , compare favourably it and field, the intersection of Alexander and underground mausoleum, leaning tower of Pisa, gladiatoral of Rome, call their one of seven major wonders the world of the middle ancient times, it is the symbol in Nanjing too.
In 1856, the civil strike takes place to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, afraid Shi Dakai army occupies the commanding point to fire in the city, temple order, demolish the intersection of the north and Wei Changhui Wang, deposit one bronzed tower stop (behind the 1930 time missing) only With the stone tablet 8 meters high. Once a type fired three copies of coloured glaze component when building this tower according to legend, one was used for building the tower, two parts imbed the underground and is used for replacing. Shop s mark with black book much on large quantities of coloured glaze components excavated in the fragrant temple of eyes, mountain of the lotus, area of hillock village of cave in 1958. The component is divided into hiding in National Museum, Nanjing museum and Nanjing museum of China now. The intersection of Nanjing and municipal government begin, prepare, rebuild matters after the 2004, 2007, the runis park of the temple started construction formally.