Introduce
The auspicious mere temple tower is commonly called as the auspicious mere tower, lay in a door of southwest of the city, was classified as the historic reservation unit of Jiangsu Province in 1956, classified as the Chinese Key Cultural Relic Unit under State Protection in 1988. The auspicious mere temple tower is seven grades and eight face brick timber structure pavilion types, build the body of the tower and is formed by exterior wall, the cloister and three parts of tower heart with brick, choose the peace flat of waist eaves of timber with the wooden sets of brackets on top of the columns of brick in the exterior wall.
Each divide three into with column, internal and external corner build, offer round to take whom roll stop rest on column, pave China and join three to sew in the exterior wall corner. Enter the tower door, through one namely cloister, two walls of cloister construct the wooden frame to link, lay the floor. One circle of steps of ground floor week of body of the tower, set up 24 columns of corridor, make and bear the octagonal base platform, the perimeter must fill one for green stone, 23 meters of opposite side, engrave lion s beast, personage, satisfactory, flow cloud, terse and smooth, vivid naturally, can be rated as the fine piece of writing of stone carving of Song Dynasty. Have horizontal the intersection of rectangle and railway platform stretch out in the east of the the intersection of base and platform, positive to build, step on dish. This tower of bricks build the body of the tower to construct originally in Song Dynasty, the sixth, although floors and wooden frameworks of top of the tower of 0.35 kilograms are rebuilt for the offspring, the frame structure of its group of columns is actually rare in the ancient tower in existence.
It is secret to find and hide the dark cave of the precious historical relic in 1978 Heavenly Palace Also in the heart of this floor of tower. The heart of tower of ground floor one Yongding column Way of doing things is rare still in extant ancient building, for study Song it is French to build Have offered the material object basis. The auspicious mere temple tower is built exquisitely, the model is graceful, the materials stress, the treasure is abundant, it is the wood of southern brick in Song Dynasty that mix the structural riper masterpiece of pavilion type simulated wood tower, study ancient tower this kind of, develop development and important embodiment of building technology.
