【Guobao】Jingzhou Tower (Kaifu Temple Sheli Tower)

Four treasures in Hebei: Cangzhou Lion, Dingzhou Tower (one said to be Jingzhou Tower), Zhaozhou Ancient Bridge, Big Bodhisattva. Jingzhou Tower is a long-standing, more complete ancient building, located in Hengshui City, Hebei Province, in Jingxian City, the original name "Sakya Wensheli Pagoda", referred to as Sheli Tower, because the current Jingxian County was the seat of Jingzhou, so people are usually called Jingzhou Tower. Jingzhou Tower enjoys a prestigious reputation in China, and was designated by the State Council as the fourth batch of key cultural relics protection units in China on November 20, 1996. The tower is 13 floors high, with an octave cone, a height of 63.85 meters, and a circumference of 50.5 meters on the bottom. It is a dense pagoda made of masonry and stone. The "Jingxian Zhi" revised in 1931 has such records and analysis, saying that there was an iron raft hanging on the ancient tower, and the word "Qi, Xuan Repair" was cast on the glaze. The re-repair was both Qi and Xuan. The creation date should be earlier than this, when it was in the Northern Wei era. Jingzhou Ancient Tower, which has been experienced for thousands of years, Due to the erosion of the wind and rain, the wall was seriously peeled off and rebuilt several times in successive generations. After the third destruction of Buddha in Chinese history in Tang Wuzong's five years (845 AD), Song Shenzong's Yuanfeng was rebuilt in two years (1079 AD), laying the foundation of the existing Jingzhou Tower, and many times in the future. It's all done on that basis.