Open hour
8: 00- 18: 00
Ticket
15 yuan (excluding stepping on the tower) ,Step on the fee of 10 yuan for each person of tower, coupon ticket is 25 yuan for each person.
Introduce
Suzhou pay a debt of gratitude the intersection of temple and tower lie the intersection of Jiangsu Province and the intersection of Suzhou and urban to the west to pay a debt of gratitude in the temple north No. 652 Renmin Road) ,Also called the north temple tower. The tower is 9 layers high 76 meters) ,Takes up an area of 0.087 hectares. This tower is known as Zhong Wu ancient to stop . Classified as the historic reservation unit of Jiangsu Province in 1957.
The temple is commonly called as the north temple to pay a debt of gratitude, it is the oldest temple(Buddhist) of Suzhou, that was more than 1700 years ago. Establish in the intersection of three countries and Wu in the period of being red and dark 238 of the Christian era- 251 years) ,It is Wu Tai Mrs., mother of Quan, Sun that give up residence and build according to legend, ancient to claim the put through profound temple. Tang open in the period of the yuan 713 of the Christian era- 741 years) Switch over to, open yuans of temple. Five the north show in the period of the Der week 954 of the Christian era- 959 years) Rebuild, rename as and pay a debt of gratitude the temple.
The temple tower is the Chinese pavilion type pagoda to pay a debt of gratitude, spread and was established in the three countries Wu, the roof beam (A.D. 502- 557) of the Southern Dynasties There are 11 storeyed towers hour, burn in Northern Song Dynasty; Yuan Feng (1078- 1085)In the period of build by 9 layers into again,first build the Southern Song Dynasty by inflammation (1130) four year Reply and destroy in the Song s; Continue, revitalize 23 the Southern Song Dynasty A.D. 1153) Reconstructed into a nine storeyed pagoda of the octahedro, the structural body of the tower of brick in the north temple tower in existence was constructed in the original at that time.
Of timber some of body of the tower rebuild for latter stage of Qing Dynasty, original appearance all yet. This tower has been carved into the Southern Song Dynasty to continue (1229) in four years definitely it is pursue to put down at tablet by river. Tower proper a flat river Namely today Suzhou) The main north and south is to the North of the street, the ones that become the street, to the scene.
What remained for some period of Ming and Qings and rebuilt paid a debt of gratitude in the palace building of the temple around the tower. Lie in the intersection of tower and the east dye hall, Goddess of Mercy of dust, vulgar to breathe out hall, Goddess of Mercy of nanmu, establish in, continue, revitalize 23 years the Southern Song Dynasty, extant hall last, rebuild for bright Wan, the intersection of Suzhou and the most intact Ming Dynasty building. The hall has a rest for the layers of eaves the mountain is made, five wide principal columns of a hall, it is five deep to stock, four inside, the leading eaves corridor, the eaves are 7 meters high, the eaves column, in order to wipe the angle stone pillar, the inner column uses the nanmu all around. Goddess of Mercy the intersection of hall and the south have one long corridor, display the China most loud huge carved lacquerware breeds and pursues in flourishing age at present Claim ,It is 32 meters long, high 2 meters. . There are stone carvings behind the tower The intersection of person and sincere discipline work tablet Zhang . There are halls of the temple of ancient copper, depositary of Buddhist texts in the north of the tower. Ancient the intersection of copper and hall of the temple support casted in bronze third Buddha, single the intersection of eaves and hard mountain build, Goddess of Mercy wraps the gable up, roof beam shelf, spine decorations have architectural style of emblem state. The mountain pavilion type of having a rest for the layers of eaves of depositary of Buddhist texts, the fragrant hall of the original volume Buddhist. There are gardens in the Northeast of the tower, mountain stones are steep, the pond hovers, the shelter bridge of the pavilion has a role to play, called the plum garden. As for wooden memorial archway on the fifth floor between four stone pillars three at the front of the south of tower, three rooms of entrance halls of hard mountaintop and sticking wall of the Eight Character of brick, thing that horse s medicine that walked in front of the shrine in period of the day from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m..
Temple the south to,tower to the north of being at audience hall at central axis,eight mao 9 layer, brick body eaves mixing structures wooden. It is double-deck without being constructed in brick telescopic for body of the tower,inside, outside for cloister between tower wall,there are for tower ventricles square on among intine, lead to the cloister via 2 or 4 corridors, the step is set up in the cloister. The ground of cloister is the upper bed brick of wooden floor, the floor is supported by one pile of astringent bricks stretched out in wall in, outside the lower floor. Pilaster, sets of brackets on top of the columns or sunk panel building imitative timber structure with the brick in the cloister, tower ventricle and corridor. The body of the tower of every storey is divided into 3 with the brick column, take care one sets up the door, under the body of the tower is the flat seat cloister of the timber structure the tower, wind it with the railing, the baluster rises and supports the wooden eaves on one s body of the tower, it is 3 that the column is divided into each one. The eaves of the ground floor are connected and become a pair of steps long during rebuilding. The whole tower is checked together with the tower made of iron altogether about 76 meters high, among them the tower stops and accounts for about 1/5 of overall height, the level diameter of column place of vice steps of ground floor is about 30 meters, the exterior diameter of wall place is 17 meters. Yardstick is enormous, but the proportion is not thick and strong, tilt very high room angle, tall and thin tower to stop, make the whole tower accumulate the graceful bearing including beautiful ease in the magnificence again.
