Introduce
There are two towering and lofty and steep ancient towers originally in Wugang, one presents color of black pigment, the end is right to stand on the side of water of the money, that is the east tower; One plain, stand at the intersection of cloud and the intersection of platform and mountain range while being oblique slightly, this to spend tower. Two tower stand about 500 apart, can should to should, give the ancient city of roof beam add a lot of good looks while being near. The colored tower of Wugang can enjoy equal fame with famous Italian leaning tower of Pisa. The colored tower is 30.5 meters high, gradient is 6.22 degrees. The legend built colored tower and east tower, it was the brother and sister originally, so two towers called brother and sister tower jointly . What the elder brother built is the east tower, what the younger sister built is to spend the tower.
Two towers confront each other, compete in beauty and match in excellence or beauty, has his strong points. But the color of the east tower is not so beautiful as the colored tower, the posture is not so beautiful as the colored tower. Building the elder brother in the east tower produces baffled jealousy from this, then come on cloud a mountain range, hate, kick a kick against colored tower, spend tower slope from then on, different the intersection of material and these a kick, make the colored tower increase even more gracefully instead, have and rest on the oblique son even more beautifully. Certainly, this is a legend. In fact, it is much earlier than the east tower to take the birth year of the tower. annals of Wugang state state: Have the intersection of Si and the intersection of continent and tower, one east tower, outside east gate, the abundant the first year of an era (1078) Build. Here The tower of Si state , east tower Colored tower but east Tamerlan (reach the clouds Tamerlan) Build up (1829) among cleaning the street light-year . The colored tower was unexpectedly earlier by more than 750 years than the east tower! The colored tower, have precise and strange building skill and consummate mural painting art. The colored tower amounts to seven storeys, ruler goes out of the short eaves, wing angle to stick up high on every storey, the configural pattern of eaves mouth, seven layers are different. Tower have octahedro, every paint, overflow with white mud, magnificent colorful mural painting paint decorations at the their.
annals of Wugang state call it the end of calligraphy and painting is good, exquisite beyond compare . The intersection of flying bird and beast, the intersection of tower and pavilion, the intersection of grass and trees and flowers, the intersection of Bodhisattva and beauty, curl up auspicious cloud, all vivid, look far into the distance, is like entangling seven rotten colored ribbons of color spot foolishly. The laudatory title of the colored tower, perhaps is obtained like this.
