[2025 Yi County Attraction] Travel Guide for Guangsheng Temple Pagoda (Updated Jan)

On the first day in Yixian, I didn't have time to see Guangsheng Temple Pagoda before dark. The next day, I planned to go to Beizhen. The bus was at 9:10 am, so I planned to visit Guangsheng Temple Pagoda at 8:00 am. The ticket for Guangsheng Temple Pagoda is CNY 10, but it was not open at 8:00 am. The brick pagoda is 49.9 meters high, and the base is 3 meters high. You can see most of it from outside the courtyard. 🎁🎁🎁 The standard type of Liaoning Liao Pagoda: octagonal dense-eaves solid brick pagoda, very similar in shape, with the layout of "one main deity, two attendants, three canopies, two flying deities, and the main deity sitting in the niche" on each side of the first floor of the pagoda. ✍🏻️ Guangsheng Temple Pagoda was built over a thousand years ago. It is a national key cultural relic protection unit of the seventh batch. It was originally called Jiafu Temple Pagoda. On May 1, 1980, a sutra pillar was excavated outside the south terrace of the pagoda, with the inscription: Daliao State Yizhou Guangsheng Temple, former monk, Keju, pillar record. Door resources, Huai Zhi, built. Wei Qiantong seven years Wuxun first month February 29. Therefore, it was renamed Guangsheng Temple Pagoda. ✍🏻️ Guangsheng Temple Pagoda is a Liao Dynasty brick pagoda. There is controversy about the construction date. One theory is that it was built during the Liao Kaitai period (1020 AD), and another theory is that it was built in the seventh year of Liao Qiantong (1107 AD). ✍🏻️ After a thousand years of vicissitudes, the upper part of the brick pagoda is severely damaged, and the pagoda finial is no longer there. In 2012, Guangsheng Temple Pagoda was repaired, with the pagoda body and finial repaired and lightning protection devices installed. The original height of the pagoda was 42.5 meters, and it is now 49.9 meters. Guangsheng Temple Pagoda is an octagonal dense-eaves solid brick pagoda with thirteen floors, about 49.9 meters high. The pagoda platform is a regular octagon, with each side 6 meters long and 2.9 meters high. Guangsheng Temple Pagoda is not far from Fengguo Temple and can be seen from the road. Guangsheng Temple Pagoda is full of fireworks, with old houses on both sides of the alley, crisscrossing wires like a staff 🎼, arc-top bungalows, and locals like jumping notes 🎶, endlessly. ✔️ No tips, if you want to go inside, buy a ticket for CNY 10. If you don't want to go inside, it's almost the same outside. If you are taking photos with a camera, remember to bring a telephoto lens and a wide-angle lens.

Fireworks every year Morning and evening Peace every year Guangsheng Temple has three unique features: One tower, one scripture, one mural The wonders of left and right Xuan Bo Tang One tower: Feihong Glazed Pagoda was built in the Ming Dynasty; One Classic: "Zhaocheng Golden Collection" Tripitaka, the first woodcut edition of the Song Dynasty, originally stored in the National Library; A mural: Located in the Water Temple under the Guangsheng Temple, it is the only mural not with a Buddhist theme; One wonder: Planted during the Dezong period of the Tang Dynasty, the left and right spiral cypress trees, the main trunk of the cypress tree on the left rotates to the left and grows upward, and the one on the right also rotates to the right and grows upward, standing like two guardians for 1,200 years.

The Sculpture of Time--The 900-Year-Old Liao and Jin Dynasty Brick Pagoda Guangsheng Temple Pagoda is located in Yixian County, Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province, about one kilometer southwest of the Fengguo Temple. After visiting Fengguo Temple, you can come here to take a look. Guangsheng Temple Pagoda is an octagonal thirteen-story dense-eave style brick pagoda, which was built at the end of the Liao Dynasty. Construction was halted at the fourth floor due to the war between the Liao and Jin dynasties, and it was continued during the Jin Dynasty, completing the fifth to thirteenth floors. The entire construction of the pagoda spanned two dynasties, and it is speculated that the pagoda was initially built around the seventh year of the Tianqing era of the Liao Dynasty (around 1117), with the fourth to thirteenth floors being completed after the third year of the Tiande era of the Jin Dynasty. It is most likely built for Fengguo Temple, and it is most appropriate to call it the Fengguo Temple Relic Pagoda. The Guangsheng Temple Pagoda has blue brick reliefs on each side of the pagoda body, with sculptures of seated Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, attendants, flying apsaras, treasure covers, warriors, and auspicious beasts. Despite being weathered over time, what we see is full of the traces of time.

how many people know It turns out that the Khitan people also believe in Guanyin... I thought that we people in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai believed in Guanyin, but it turned out that the nomadic Khitans also believed in Guanyin and respected her as their family god. What is even more exaggerated is that the queen of Daozong of the Liao Dynasty was named Xiao Guanyin. The Liao Pagoda of Guangsheng Temple in Yixian County, Liaoning, It was she who financed the new construction. I have to admit that the Khitan people were very accomplished in building Liao pagodas. Among the remaining remains of the Liao Dynasty, apart from the eight major Liao structures, they are the Liao pagoda. The Liao pagoda of Guangsheng Temple is the best among them. One of the three treasures of this small town in Yixian 🏯About Guangsheng Temple Liao Pagoda Built in the Liao Dynasty, it is an octagonal solid brick tower with dense eaves. Especially the height under the dense eaves ranks first among many ancient brick towers in Liaoning. The relief carving skills on the tower body are outstanding. 📸What to watch ✅Pagoda base: Each side is embossed with a lion beast, and there are also Jilotian and Lux. ✅Pagoda body: There are reliefs on all eight sides, and the middle niche is dedicated to Guanyin + Feitian. ✅Tower eaves: I didn’t see the angle clearly. The tower is really high... Guangsheng Temple Liao Pagoda Why add high walls and big iron gates? Local people: "The pagoda and the underground palace are still there, but I'm afraid thieves will miss them." By the way, we don’t have this skill either…