[2024 Xinfeng Attraction] Travel Guide for Dasheng Pagoda (Updated Nov)
Ancient Pagodas
Address:
Dasheng Temple Tower, Shengta Square, Xinfeng County, Ganzhou City (East of Yangming Middle Road)
Recommended sightseeing time:
0.5-2 hours
Dasheng Temple Pagoda in Xinfeng, Jiangxi Province.
Dasheng Temple Pagoda was first built during the Chiwu period of the Three Kingdoms (238 AD), rebuilt during the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty (627 AD), destroyed in the late Tang Dynasty, and rebuilt in the first year of the Zhiping period of the Northern Song Dynasty (1064 AD). Dasheng Temple Pagoda is located north of Taojiang River. It is a pavilion-style pagoda of the Song Dynasty, with a brick and wood structure, six sides, nine stories, and eighteen levels, and an equilateral hexagonal plane. The pagoda hall is divided into bright and dark levels, with six doors on each level, three real doors, and three fake doors. The pagoda has a caisson and paintings, with a Buddha niche and a Buddha statue. The pagoda body is made of blue bricks with yellow mud joints. The pagoda body is composed of eaves, flat seats, and pot doors. The flat seats have railings forming a corridor. Visitors can enter the pot door along the corridor and climb to the top floor. Dasheng Temple Pagoda is "the highest in the sky, unparalleled in the province." The pagoda is 66.45 meters high, the highest Song Dynasty pagoda south of the Yangtze River. It was listed as the first batch of cultural relics protection units in Jiangxi Province in 1957 and the sixth batch of national key cultural relics protection units in 2006. Dasheng Temple Pagoda has been repaired in successive dynasties. The first and second floors were repaired in 1955. From 1984 to the end of 1990, it took seven years and more than 800,000 yuan to repair the pagoda, hoist the pagoda, and install lightning protection facilities. Dasheng Temple Pagoda was opened to tourists in 1991. In 2005, Xinfeng Finance allocated more than 700,000 yuan to restore the large eaves corridor according to the construction method of the Song Dynasty, restoring the original appearance of Dasheng Temple Pagoda. From 2016 to 2017, more than 2 million yuan of national key cultural relics protection funds were obtained to comprehensively repair Dasheng Temple Pagoda.
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Xinfeng County, under the jurisdiction of Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, is located in the middle part of Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, on the middle reaches of the Taojiang River, a tributary of the Gongshui River, covering an area of 2,878 square kilometers.
Xinfeng County was established in the first year of Yongchun of the Tang Dynasty (AD 682), with its name meaning 'people are trustworthy and things are abundant because of trustworthiness'. Xinfeng County has mineral resources such as coal, limestone, maifan stone, rare earth, and tungsten; it has 470,000 mu of arable land, including 388,000 mu of paddy fields; mountainous land of 3.02 million mu, mainly producing grains, tobacco, fruits, mushrooms, melons, vegetables, sweet corn, tea, and livestock such as pigs, cattle, and poultry. It is a national commodity grain base county, has been listed as more than 10 national-level agricultural bases, and is known as the 'Hometown of China's Navel Oranges' and 'Hometown of China's Straw Mushrooms'. Xinfeng County is a famous historical and cultural city in Jiangxi, one of the 21 all-red counties of the original Central Soviet Area, the location where the Red Army broke through the first blockade line during the Long March, and the core area of the three-year guerrilla warfare in the south; it has the national key cultural relics protection unit 'The First Song Dynasty Pagoda in South of the Yangtze River'—the Dasheng Temple Pagoda. In March 2019, it was listed in the first batch of revolutionary cultural relics protection and utilization areas.