It would rather temple reach the clouds tower is would rather be in the temple on original day in the north of grand west masses street to revitalize temple definitely, gain the name because it is towering and high and high. Because bodies of the tower are mostly timber structure again, so commonly called as the wooden tower.
Record Qing Guang Xu make by county annals ,it would rather temple and reach the clouds there aren t tower . The temple was large-scale, splendid at that time, main buildings such as memorial archway, heavy door, king s hall, front hall, back hall, reaching the clouds in the tower,etc. but arranged from the south sequentially in the north.
The evening drum and the morning bell, burning incense s great prosperity. In the early years of the Republic of China, the temple repeatly meets with the disaster, the palace is destroyed one by one, the main building stores and reaches the clouds in the tower alone.
The tower is the nine storeyed pavilion type tower of a brick timber structure to reach the clouds, the level is shown in octagonal, it is 41 meters high, stand above the octagonal base. The body of the tower one was rebuilt on the Tang remained site of the tower in Song Dynasty to the fourth Floor, the whole brick structure, every layer was rebuilt in Jin Dynasty on it, brick timber structure.
Each open up the arch hole door or straight sledge window in per layer of front. Four, to the ninth Floor, sets of brackets on top of the columns, it flies to in the eaves to be all wooden. Begin from the fifth floor, per layer of height chases layer and decreases progressively, the external outline is also chased layer and shrunk, give somebody the slim and graceful and tall and graceful sense.
The greatest characteristic of reaching the clouds in the tower, erect a wooden exceedingly high column to go to top of the tower directly on the position of the fourth floor of centres of body of the tower, and stew roof beam and outside to keep out and link by eight of radiatiform in accordance with one layer of location. Such a structural China only stores this one now, extremely valuable. The structure of this tower is different from the general wooden tower, is different from the timber structure tower of general brick too.
The tower is repeatly damaged in the great changes of over thousands of years to reach the clouds, stopped and destroyed the iron hollow date tower at the time of the earthquake on March 22, 1866, because hereafter, exposed to wind and rain again, eight, nine layers of the body of the tower collapsed in succession.
Rest on building history of ancient times in the ancient tower which occupies the important position in order to protect this, the people s government organizes strength to reconnoitre in an all-round way, and on the premise of making every effort to keep the original appearance, left the shelf to rebuild in 1981.