Introduce
Lie in about 12 kilometers in the Northeast of ancient city. Five generation Yue State Wu despatch general ShiZhong Mei and Li cut into a mountain, lead troops, defend, watch over herein according to legend, choose two its family name but name. The beginning is the town among a bumper harvest year of Northern Song Dynasty. Since the Southern Song Dynasty, go through it for one of the distributing centres of Chinese trade and business of Changshu, there is 18 garrison post in the east township, the first town of plum Lee Saying.
Gather the sand tower: Tower this build on Song in the period of being clear to revitalize. Plum town Li still the intersection of place and bank of rivers and sea at that time, often strike by the spring tide flood, threatened the security of people s lives and properties. Then the local soil gentry s Israel Give up and construct But it is rich to accumulate Name,it is last tower with lasting the flow of water not to last whip-round. The masses of people respond to actively, take care of the pence,and the pounds will take care of themselves, many a little makes a mickle, thus come the name of gather one hundred rich pagodas of sand .
Carry on renovation in Emperor Chongzhen Year of Ming Dynasty, change the top of the tower and cover the earthen bowl. Once two big repairs, maintain the former state in the period of the the intersection of Qing and Kang Xi, Qianlong. But this long and in bad repair in the year after next, until body of the tower Milan let to slope by the Northeast already after the liberation, the intersection of top of the tower and slump, seventh keep incomplete wall only, tower ground floor sink already, imbed more than one meters in the soil, have already become the empty wall in the tower. Through determining incomplete and 22.58 meters high, level stratum of the tower is right to pass 4.12 meters, every side is 1.68 meters. It is square in the tower, there are verandahs in the ground floor, open up the pot -shaped door, the resting on type of semicircle in Song Dynasty of the corner type on four sides, the intersection of pavilion and the intersection of volume and square-column among the column, it is wooden to join eaves while being flat for square-column to put on the shelf, for build law typical Song Dynasty. Among them construct under the flat seat Ink make the column ,It is rare Song that makes relics. The sets of brackets on top of the columns where the brick is made, half a cylinder, break son straight arris window dose, build by prefabricating the special-shaped brick, appear in Song Dynasty and make the technological achievement of brick.
1997, gather sand tower by large to repair original, until tower open up, gather the sand park week. Have in the garden The Communist Party of China county Party committee, the people in Changshu in Changshu resist against Japan in the arms and was born and remember reading the tablet ,Add new beauty spot, become the intersection of plum and cultural recreation center of town Li already now.