The tower of China is in the straight original wide favor temple of Ding County of Hebei. The depletion of already collapsing of temple building, only store the tower of China and stand erect above the hillock of mound. The tower was established in the period of Zhengguan (785 for Tang- 805 years) ,(1161 one 1789 year) in the period of the large to make gold Rebuilt, all there was renovation in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
The extant tower of China is the building in Jin Dynasty. The tower is 40.5 meters high, model is unique, the structure is full of variety. The tower is a pavilion type, all built by laying bricks or stones by the brick. Four storeys of basic score of the tower. Level is shown in octagonal on under three storeys, the fourth layer is cone, this is quintessence of an appearance of the pagoda.
The first layer adds the one-layer rooms of the pavilion of flat hexagon in four pieces of front of it again originally, commonly called as small tower . Have round arch hole doors outside the all front of body of the tower and a room, fight bigly and dispose strangely. Unless it is in second right for octagon, unless surface three roomses every, play seats flat,on is there sets of brackets on top of the columns verge tile, it is the door that each takes care of one, false check window lattice and rectangular pointed brick build the niche for a statue of Buddha among the tips, totally 24.
The third layer of flat seats is very big, but the body of the tower is sudden and small, it is the square door, oblique Ling false window on four sides. The more than third layers take the form of taper, mould in accordance with walls such as perpendicular is relief tiger, leopard, lioned, likesing, the dragon and statue of Buddha with octagonal octahedro,etc.
on it, three is arranged by mistake, no the swelling is not dredged, get the body ten times. There is colored drawing or pattern that has already peeled off now originally. Mould from wall, if you can t eaveses octagonal, carry again to some,at stop to tower,getting more damaged already. Tower wide to favour building in the temple originally, the intersection of Qianlong and the Supreme Being go to the temple to burn joss sticks religiously many times, face the tower and appreciate the scenery, and question volume is called and only performed and taught wonderfully .
The appearance of the whole tower, there were decorative paintings originally, while first building that year, colorful, dazzlingly beautiful, the government is maintaining it at present, the tower of China after rebuilting will be worthy of the name more.
Ancient towers of China spread all over the north and south of great river, at the Great Wall, various in style, the style is unique. The tower of China has one kind of the style alone among them. But wide to favour the intersection of temple and the intersection of China and tower, spend tower model most peculiar in the type, ornamental and most magnificent, plane figure most special, building times early one spend tower relatively.
Always visitors have been without cease. After 1949, this tower was protected properly, as one of the famous historic sites in Hebei, it was the Chinese Key Cultural Relic Unit under State Protection that the State Council of China announced in 1961.