The tower is 54 meters high and 48 meters around the bottom. It is an octagonal 13-story brick tower. The tower is divided into two parts. The bottom seven floors are wide and heavy, and the top six floors suddenly decrease. There is a heart-piercing tower ladder in the tower, which can climb the platform above the seventh floor. The upper six floors are hollow, separated by wooden boards, and there are wooden ladders to climb. It's damaged now. The exterior decoration of the tower is relatively simple, with only low eaves. The pagoda has double eaves on the first floor and single eaves on each floor above. The tower is open on all sides, and round windows or fake windows are opened on the other four sides.
According to records, xinglong tower was built in the Sui Dynasty and has been repaired many times in the past dynasties. In the earthquake of June 17, the seventh year of Kangxi (1July 25, 668), the ancient pagoda was seriously damaged. After decades of maintenance, it was completed in the last year of Kangxi. Most of the ancient pagodas we see now are relics of the Qing Dynasty.
There are a lot of ancient stone carvings around the ancient pagoda, one of which was written by Heitaro Kimura, the general of the Japanese invaders, and was discovered in July of the 14th year of Showa (1939). Heitaro Kimura was one of the seven Japanese Class-A war criminals hanged by the International Military Tribunal of the Far East in 1948. He served as the second minister of the army province in the guards' cabinet and Tojo's cabinet, and as the commander-in-chief of the Japanese dispatch army in Myanmar. 1939 in March, Heitaro Kimura was promoted to lieutenant general, served as the 32nd division commander, and was incorporated into the 12 army. In April of the same year, troops stationed in Yanzhou began to sweep the anti-Japanese base areas in southern Shandong. This stone carving should have been written when he was in Yanzhou, and now it has become a witness of Japan's invasion of China.