Baoguang Pagoda, commonly known as Powder Pagoda, is located on the Jianjiang River in the southwest of Gaozhou City, Maoming City. Provincial key cultural relics protection units.
Baoguang Pagoda was built in the fourth year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty (1576). It is an octagonal nine-story pavilion-style brick tower with a height of 65.8 meters, a height of 62.68 meters and a bottom length of 5.72 meters. This tower is made of blue bricks. There are three granite relief patterns embedded in the waist of Sumitomo Tower in the tower foundation. Each relief is1.45m long and 0.55m high. The contents of the relief include auspicious wealth, double phoenix rising in the morning, Pengcheng Wan Li, Fish Leaping Longmen, and a unique banana map of Gaozhou. Between the two reliefs, there is a bamboo-like stone relief embedded. The slub relief is 0.55 meters wide and 0.28 meters wide. Every corner of the pedestal is inlaid with a Totalix relief, which is 0.55 meters high and 0.38 meters wide.
The tower door is decorated with brick carving patterns, and the tower is named "Baoguang Tower" in the brick carving inscription above the threshold. There are two lines of vertical calligraphy at the top right of the tower name, which are "Respecting Lingxi Daozheng Zhu Dongguang" and "Participating in politics"; The name of the tower is engraved with the words "Wanli Bingzi Zhong Chunjian" at the lower left.
There are spiral brick steps in the pagoda, which are folded in the wall and can climb to the top step by step. There are four real doors and four fake doors on each floor, facing each other. In the past, there were several Buddha statues on each floor of the tower, among which the bottom was the big Buddha statue protecting the tower; Other layers are small Buddha statues with different shapes.
According to Gaozhou County Records, it cost132,000 platinum to build this pagoda. The fund for building this tower was shared by six county governments, and Li Kai of Zhong Yi County donated 80,000 yuan.
Because the Baoguang Tower is built on the bank of Jianjiang River, the tower foundation is piled with quicksand, and it will be attacked by floods and lightning several times every year, which seriously threatens the safety of the tower. In the ninth year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty (1859), the tower foundation was trimmed, reinforced, and aquatic plants were cultivated to slow down the hydraulic impact. 1964 autumn reinforcement tower ladder. 1spring of 993, Baoguang Tower was overhauled: flood dike was built, tower foundation was reinforced, tower body was repaired, tower gate was recast, lightning rod was installed, hidden danger of natural damage was eliminated, and the safety of tower body and tourists was protected. At the same time, Baoguang Park will also be open. Throughout the ages, tourists have left many poems. Zhang Xiao, a magistrate of a county in the Ming Dynasty, wrote in the poem "Autumn Pagoda": "I am tired of taking off my clothes on a whim. A thousand miles of wind blows short sleeves, and four mountains are high in autumn rain. The stars are half-empty from the eyes, and the clouds are low and far away. Looking back at the world of tobacco trees, I hesitate to walk with birds. "
Baoguang Tower is the tallest pavilion tower in Guangdong Province.
From 65438 to 0989, Maoming Gaozhou Baoguang Pagoda was listed as a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit in Guangdong.
Maoming Gaozhou Baoguang Tower
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