The Great Wild Goose Pagoda lie outside the Hepingmen in the kilometer of kind the intersection of kindness and temples, the Tang Dynasty 3 years such as emblem forever according to legend. Attend to Master of Xuanzang that India learns from else s experience. Please build the tower in the temple and is used for preserving to him to play from the scripture book which India took back. This tower is called passing the tower for the first time. Later people call it the Great Wild Goose Pagoda, this tower is towering and tall and straight, cause the highly praise of common people.
; This the Great Wild Goose Pagoda with a history of more than 1300 years, the sign that has the style alone as Xi an of ancient city. The Great Wild Goose Pagoda is 5 storeys while first building, 60 meters high, imitate the pagoda form in the Western Regions and build. And then the tower is 64 meters high so far through numerous renovation, amounts to 7 storeys, the base is 25 meters long respectively.
The Great Wild Goose Pagoda is the outstanding model of the Chinese pavilion type brick tower. The body of the tower is built of blue brick, there are certificates on four sides on each storey to build the arched door, this kind of pavilion type tower model of brick is succinct, spectacular, there are prominent national characters and era style.
Wild goose s tower is preceded by It is big The word is the descendant, in order to be different from recommending little wild goose s reason in the tower of a temple of the good fortune. There are wooden ladders in the tower, can wheel and step on the tower, lean upon a balustrade to look far into the distance from the certificate door and can enjoy the great scene of area within the Pass.
The intersection of ground floor and the intersection of south gate and both sides of the Great Wild Goose Pagoda, inlay two stone tablet, first Datang 3 hide, teach preface while being holy ,It is Tang Taizong in the loyal view ( 648) in twenty two years . Translated all total preface done by Xuanzang.
Another one Datang hides and teaches the preface theory holily three times It is that Tang GaoZong is Teach the preface holily Disciplines made are gentle, this two tablets study the important historical relic of calligraphy, painting, polychromy of the Tang Dynasty. Especially the line on the west stone goal post of the tower carves the palace picture, study the precious materials of the building of the Tang Dynasty especially.