Tower is a common oriental traditional building, which has a specific form and style in Asia. It is a towering point-like building dedicated to or collecting Buddhist relics (Buddha bones), Buddha statues, Buddhist scriptures, monks' remains, etc. Also known as "stupa" and "pagoda". There are many pagodas in Suzhou ancient city, which has been called "the city of pagodas" since ancient times. According to the southern song dynasty inscription "Pingjiang map", there are more than 30 towers. The number of ancient pagodas preserved so far is still considerable, including more than 20 pagodas, such as Baoen Pagoda, Huqiu Yunyan Pagoda, Luohanyuan Twin Towers, Ruiguang Pagoda, Lengcan Pagoda, Duobao Pagoda, Wanfo Pagoda, Fangta, Jusha Pagoda, Guangfu Pagoda, Qin Feng Pagoda, Ciyun Pagoda, etc., including pavilion-style Song Pagoda 14. Suzhou has the largest number of pavilions and song pagodas in China. As the essence of ancient architecture and Buddhist culture, these pagodas have had a great influence on the style of Suzhou ancient city. Suzhou's viewing tower is second to none in the country. In the first year of Renshou in Sui Dynasty, a tower was built on Huqiu Mountain, which was rebuilt in six years after the Five Dynasties. From the Southern Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, Xianfeng burned it seven times. After years of hard work, we finally forged the quaint and magical charm of Yunyan Temple Pagoda in Huqiu. Today, it is not only a symbol of Suzhou, but also a symbol of China people's indomitable spirit. In the Three Kingdoms period, Sun Quan built the Ruiguang Pagoda to meet the health of monks in the Western Regions. The Northern Song Dynasty was rebuilt in Tiansheng eight years. The pagoda is exquisite and soft, and the base is vividly carved. This is a masterpiece of the pagoda in the Song Dynasty. Baoen Temple Pagoda, commonly known as Beisi Pagoda, was built in the Southern Liang Dynasty and rebuilt in Yuanfeng in the Northern Song Dynasty. Su Shi once gave up a bronze horn to hide cultural relics. At the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Nomads went south and were destroyed. It was rebuilt in Shaoxing in 23 years. This pagoda has eight sides and nine floors, double eaves, majestic and beautiful. It combines simplicity and exquisiteness, and its volume is the largest in Wuzhong Pagoda. In the seventh year of the Northern Song Dynasty, Wang Brothers founded two brick towers, which have been repaired several times. The twin towers are light in waist and thin in eaves, exquisite and beautiful, which are rare elsewhere. The multi-pagodas of Lingyanshan Temple were first built in Tian Liang Prison, rebuilt in the Northern Song Dynasty, and rebuilt in the seventeenth year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty. The eaves of this pagoda were destroyed by lightning in the Ming Dynasty. 1989, the abbot Xue Ming spent millions of yuan to rebuild it, and this beautiful pagoda stood on the top of Lingyan Mountain again. Fang's Recitation Temple Tower was built in the Sui Dynasty and rebuilt in Song Taiping for three years. The brick tower is like a pavilion, tall and beautiful, reflecting the landscape of Shihu Lake, making it a scene in the south of the Yangtze River, perfectly combining ancient architectural art with modern science and technology, and embodying the profoundness of Chinese civilization. Suzhou Baoen Temple Tower is located in the middle section of Hongji (No.652 Renmin Road) on the west side of the north of Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, also known as North Temple Tower. The tower is 9 stories (76 meters) high and covers an area of 1.3 mu. The tower is known as "the first ancient temple in Wuzhong". 1957 is listed as a cultural relic protection unit in Jiangsu province.

Hongji Temple, commonly known as North Temple, is the oldest Buddhist temple in Suzhou, with a history of 1700 years. It was built in the Wu Chiwu period of the Three Kingdoms (AD 238-25 1). According to legend, it was built by Mrs. Wu Taifu, the mother of Sun Quan, and was called Xuan Tong Temple in ancient times. In the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty (AD 7 13-74 1), it was changed to Kaiyuan Temple. It was rebuilt in the Xiande period of the Northern Zhou Dynasty (954-959 AD) and renamed Hongzhi.

Baoen Temple Pagoda is a pavilion pagoda in China. It was originally built in Wu during the Three Kingdoms period. There was a 1 1 storey pagoda in Nanliang (502-557 AD), which was burned down in the Northern Song Dynasty. Yuanfeng (1078 ~ 1085) was rebuilt as 9 floors, which was rebuilt in the Song and Jin Wars in the fourth year of Jianyan in the early Southern Song Dynasty (1 130). In the 23rd year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1 153), it was transformed into a nine-story pagoda with eight sides. The existing brick structure of the North Temple pagoda was the original building at that time. The wooden structure of the tower was rebuilt in the late Qing dynasty, not all of it was the original appearance. This tower was carved into the monument of Pingjiang Map in the fourth year of Shaoding in the Southern Song Dynasty (1229). The tower is just at the northern end of the north-south main street in Pingjiang (today's Suzhou) and becomes the opposite side of the street.

South of the temple, the tower is on the central axis north of the main hall, with 9 floors of octagon and a mixed structure of brick and wood eaves. The brick double-sleeve tower body has a cloister between the inner and outer tower walls, and a square tower room on the inner wall, which leads to the cloister through two or four aisles, and steps are arranged in the cloister. The cloister floor is paved with wooden floors, which are supported by stacked bricks protruding from the inner and outer walls of the lower floor. Cloisters, towers, rooms and aisles are all brick pilasters, bucket arches or caissons that imitate wood structures. Outside the tower, each floor of the tower body is divided into three rooms with brick columns, and the door is located in the careful room. Below the tower, there is a wooden cloister with a flat seat and railings around it. The railing column rises to support the wooden eaves on the tower body, and each side of the column is divided into three rooms. In the process of reconstruction, the eaves on the ground floor were extended into two steps. The height of the whole tower and the tower gate is about 76m, in which the tower gate accounts for about 1/5 of the total height, the plane diameter of the secondary column at the bottom is about 30m, and the outer wall diameter is 17m. The scale is huge, but the proportion is not strong. The high corner and slender tower brake make the whole tower contain elegance in grandeur. Baoen Temple Tower is a nine-story, eight-faced brick wooden pavilion with a flat waist eaves on each floor. The bottom floor is opposite 18.8m, the abutment is opposite 34.3m, and the tower top and sluice account for about 1/5. The tower is 76 meters high and covered with double eaves, surrounded by bamboo columns and towering gold plates. It is the tallest tower in Wuzhong, overlooking Suzhou.

The tower structure consists of outer wall, cloister, inner wall and tower room. The outer wall of each floor is divided into three rooms with brick octagonal columns, and the door is opened between the heart doors. Brick columns, foreheads and bucket arches are hidden on the outer walls, octagonal cloisters and square room walls in the center of the tower, and wooden arches and arches are selected from the bucket arches. At the corner of the cloister, wooden beams and moon beams should be used to connect the two walls, and then the stacked bricks should be picked out relatively, and the floor and floor tiles should be laid in the middle. This corridor is made of wooden steps. The top of the ninth corridor is selected with folded bricks and meets at the midpoint. Eighth, the vertical brake lever in the center of the square room of the nine-story tower passes through the supporting brake wheel at the top of the tower, and the lower end is supported by the east-west shovel. The tower foundation is divided into abutment and pedestal, both of which are octagonal stone carvings. The abutment is1.34m high, and the bottom is covered with carved moire patterns. The apron outside the platform is 0.73m lower than the present ground, the base is1.42m high, and the edge is 0.78m away from the bottom tower wall. There are three statues of Lux in shining armor on each side of the waist, and grass is carved on the corner. According to textual research, the brick parts of the outer wall and core of the tower, as well as the stone pedestal and abutment, are basically left over from the Song Dynasty, and the wooden parts are mostly rebuilt by later generations. Wood-like decoration, such as brick bucket and eight algae wells on the tower central square room on each floor, has complex structure and gorgeous techniques, especially the algae wells on the third floor of the tower door corridor. Brick beams in the tower, bucket arches, bucket caissons, central brake lever at the top of the tower, five inner eaves paved with double or single copy of the bucket arches, stigma paved with circular bucket arches, fake gladiators to fill houses, concave buckets in inner corners, and Sumitomo stone carvings in the tower foundation are all precious objects for studying architecture in the Song Dynasty.

The inside of the Baoen Temple Tower is a double-layer sleeve, each floor of the octagonal tower center has a square tower room, and the wooden ladder is arranged in the cloister between the double-layer sleeves; Each floor has a railing with a flat seat, and there are two steps at the bottom (a corridor around the tower). These are similar to the Sakyamuni Pagoda in Shanxi (i.e. Yingxian Wooden Pagoda). However, the eaves of the second step and the tower on the first floor are inclined downward without double eaves. Unlike Sakyamuni. Each side of the brick tower is divided into three rooms with a door in the middle. The wooden structure was rebuilt in Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty, with towering eaves and many eaves columns added to the platform, which has partially changed the original state. There is a wall between the secondary columns, with a plane diameter of 30 meters, similar to Sagata; The tower is 76 meters high, nearly 9 meters higher than Sagata. Although the scale of the whole tower is huge, the number of floors is four more than that of Sagata, and the proportion is also higher and thinner than that of Sagata. In addition, the eaves are held high, which also contains elegant charm in the grandeur and still embodies the architectural art style of Jiangnan.

Ruiguang Pagoda is an ancient pagoda in Song Dynasty, located in Panmen, Suzhou. Founded in 247 (the tenth year of Sun Quan's Dongwu Chiwu), it has 13 floors. In the Song Dynasty, it was rebuilt in the period of1008-1kloc-0/6, and changed to 7 floors and 8 faces. It is about 43 meters high.

Ruiguang Temple Tower, commonly known as Ruiguang Tower, is located in Panmen, southwest of the city. 1956 is listed as a cultural relic protection unit in Jiangsu province, and 1988 is listed as a national key cultural relic protection unit.

Ruiguang Temple was originally named Fusaiji. According to records, it was built by Sun Quan in the fourth year of Wu Chiwu in the Three Kingdoms (24 1) to welcome the healthy life of monks in the western regions. In ten years, Sun Quan built thirteen more pagodas in the temple to repay his mother's kindness. According to the chronological characters of treasures, Buddhist scriptures, stone buddhas, stone foundations, tower bricks and other cultural relics found in the tower, as well as the plane, structure and appearance of the tower, this tower was built from the first year of Jingdezhen in the Northern Song Dynasty (1004) to the eighth year of Tiansheng (1030), when the Buddhist temple was named Ruiguang Temple. Temples were destroyed and restored. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Xi Chun, Hongwu, Yongle, Tianshun and Jiajing Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, and Kangxi, Qianlong and Daoguang built pagodas in the Qing Dynasty. In the tenth year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty (1860), temples were destroyed and towers were preserved. Eleven years of Tongzhi (1872) restoration.

Ruiguang Temple Tower is a seven-story and eight-faced brick and wood pavilion. The brick tower body consists of three parts: the outer wall, the cloister and the tower center. The external wall is a brick-wood bucket arch with wooden waist eaves and seats. Divide each side into three rooms with pillars, and pay attention to opening the pot door or hiding the straight window. There are doors on all sides of the ground floor, doors on all sides of the second and third floors, and doors staggered up and down on all sides of the fourth and seventh floors. Circular inclined columns with rolling brakes are built at the inner and outer corners, and the stigma is supported by a bucket arch. There are three arches at the corner of the external wall, and two flowers are laid on each side of the gap below three floors, and more than four floors are reduced to one flower. There are more than 380 wooden brick arches in the whole tower, including waist eaves, flat seats, secondary steps, inner walls, tower core columns, algae wells, doorways and shrines. After the repair, the height of the tunnel is about 53.6m, and the bottom external wall faces11.2m.. The height of the floor decreases step by step, the surface area converges accordingly, and the outer contour is slightly curved, which looks delicate and soft. When entering the tower gate, the corridor crosses the road. The two walls of the corridor are connected by wooden beams and the floor is laid. The corners of the second and fourth floors are paved with inclined columns, the moon beam connects the inside and the outside, and the wooden ladder for climbing the tower is built in the corridor. The first to fifth floors of the cloister are octagonal tower core brick columns, and the bottom floor is Sumitomo style. The sixth and seventh floors are replaced by a group column frame wood structure composed of columns, foreheads and inclined beams on the ground. The roof truss and brake body at the top of the tower are supported by vertical brake rods at the center of the inclined beams and on the big stiles. There are 24 columns at the bottom of the tower, bearing octagonal abutment, surrounded by bluestone Xumi Mountain, facing 23 meters, carved with lions, beasts, figures, ruyi, walking clouds, etc., which are concise, smooth, vivid and natural, and can be called the masterpiece of stone carving in Song Dynasty. On the east side of the abutment, there is a horizontal rectangular platform protruding, and the front is paved with pedals.

The brick tower body of this tower is basically the original structure of the Song Dynasty. Although the wooden frames on the sixth floor, the seventh floor and the top of the tower were rebuilt by later generations, the frame structure with columns is rare in existing ancient pagodas. The third floor is the core of the whole tower, with a beam-shaped tower foundation. At the four corners, there are plastic remnants of the red and white pastel walls of the Song Dynasty, such as "seven plants and eight hundred flowers" and "broken branches", and melon-shaped pillars, foreheads, niches and kettle doors. 1978, the hidden cave "Tiangong" where precious cultural relics were found was also in the heart of the tower. The practice of "Yongding column" in the center of the bottom tower is rare in existing ancient buildings, which provides a physical basis for studying the "architectural style" in Song Dynasty. Ruiguang Temple Tower is a mature representative of the pavilion-like wooden tower with brick and wood structure in the Southern Song Dynasty, and it is an important example to study the evolution and construction technology of this kind of ancient tower.

Ruiguang Tower is located in Panmen, southwest of Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province.

Ruiguang Tower is also called Ruiguang Temple Tower or Ruiguang Academy Tower. Ruiguang Temple, formerly known as "Fusaiji", according to the chronicle, in the fourth year of the Three Kingdoms (24 1), a well-off monk came to Suzhou, and Sun Quan, the owner of Wu, founded this Buddhist temple for him, which is one of the famous Buddhist temples in Suzhou. In the tenth year of Chiwu (247), Sun Quan built thirteen pagodas in this temple to repay his mother. After the Five Dynasties, Tianfu was rebuilt in the second year of the Jin Dynasty (937), and the top of the tower was given a bronze medal. During the reign of Song Xuanhe (1119-125), it was rebuilt to seven grades and was named "Ruiguang Temple". According to legend, five colors of auspicious light are often put on the tower, hence the name "Ruiguang Tower". After many renovations in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, today's temple has long been abandoned, only this tower has been preserved, and it is planned to be one of the "Panmen Three Scenes" in southern Suzhou.

The Ruiguang Tower is a pavilion-style building with mixed bricks and wood, with an octagonal plane and seven floors in total. The tower body is made of bricks, which consists of three parts: the outer wall, the cloister and the tower center. The base of the tower is a stone Sumi Mountain base, and the waist around the base is engraved with lions, beasts, flowers, moiré and other patterns. Each floor of the tower is surrounded by wooden eaves and flat seats, and each side is divided into three rooms by columns, with pot doors or straight windows in the middle. There are four doors in the north, south, east and west of the basement, eight doors in the second and third floors, and one staggered door above and below the fourth floor. There is a circular leaning column at the corner of the tower, which is connected with the forehead, and it is covered with five shops to make a double-copy bucket arch. The existing tower is still 42.44 meters high, the height of each floor decreases in turn, and the plane diameter of each floor also converges in turn, which makes the outline slightly arc-shaped, simple, delicate and soft, delicate and straight, and retains the architectural style of the ancient pagoda in Tang and Song Dynasties.

Tiger Hill is a pagoda in Yunyan Temple, also known as Yunyan Temple Pagoda. Tiger Hill was founded in AD 60 1 year (Emperor Wendi Renshou was nine years old). The wooden tower was built at first, but it was later destroyed. The existing Tiger Hill was built in 959-96 1 year (from the sixth year of Xiande in the later Zhou Dynasty to the second year of Jianlong in the Northern Song Dynasty) and is a brick tower. After several renovations in Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the seventh floor was built around 1638 (the eleventh year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty). 196 1 is listed as one of the national key cultural relics protection units. Huqiu is located in the northwest suburb of Suzhou, 5 kilometers away from the city center. The world-famous Tiger Hill stands on the top of the Tiger Hill with beautiful scenery. It is the oldest existing stupa in Suzhou, a symbol of the ancient city of Suzhou, and is known as "the first scene in Wuzhong". Tiger Hill is a pavilion-style brick tower with imitation of wood structure, which was built in the 6th year of Xiande in the Zhou Dynasty, that is, the 13th year of Qian Hongchu in wuyue, 96 1 year (the 2nd year of Jianlong in the Northern Song Dynasty). According to records, Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty once built a tower here, but it was a wooden tower. Now Tiger Hill built a tower on the original site of the tower. Seven stories high, the plane of the tower is octagonal, and it is a pavilion pagoda with brick and wooden eaves. Due to many fires from the Song Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty, the roof and wooden eaves were destroyed, and the original height was unknown. According to the investigation of relevant experts, Tiger Hill was found to be obviously inclined when rebuilding the seventh floor at 1638 (the eleventh year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty). At that time, this posture was slightly corrected in the opposite direction to change the center of gravity and correct the tilt, which also played a certain role. However, in the past 300 years, the inclination of the tower has continued to develop, which may be caused by uneven settlement of the foundation. The Tiger Hill we see now is a leaning tower. According to preliminary measurement, the vertical line from the center of the tower top to the center of the tower has reached 2.34 meters, with an inclination of 2.48 degrees.

1957 During the reinforcement of Tiger Hill, many cultural relics from the Five Dynasties to the Northern Song Dynasty were found between the second and third compartments, including jade celadon lotus bowls, exquisite sandalwood niches, sandalwood prayer boxes, painted golden pagodas, bronze Buddha statues, bronze mirrors and splendid scriptures. Some of these cultural relics have inscriptions on the age, which not only have high historical and artistic value, but also can confirm the age of the tower.

Suzhou Tiger Hill was tilted in the Ming Dynasty, but it was later reinforced. Now the tower foundation has been fixed, and the tilt will not develop any more. This is the most inclined ancient pagoda in China. 1956, Suzhou municipal government invited experts of ancient architecture to reinforce and repair the ancient pagoda by using the method of iron hoop grouting, and finally saved the ancient pagoda. It will stand and become a miracle. The world-famous Leaning Tower of Pisa is later than this tower 100 years. Tiger Mountain is slightly lower than the Leaning Tower of Pisa. If the original tower of Tiger Hill is not destroyed, the two towers are similar in height and almost the same in inclination. Therefore, Tiger Hill is also called "the Leaning Tower of Pisa in the East". Tiger Hill, similar to the Big Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi, is a large multi-storey wooden pavilion-like brick pagoda. It's all seven stories, and the Big Wild Goose Pagoda is now 64 meters high. If Tiger Hill is restored to its original state (including the original pagoda), it should be about 60 meters; Bricks and yellow mud are the main building materials, which are the main buildings of famous Buddhist temples. The columns, squares and chessboards that constitute the wood-like part of the architectural features are all made of bricks, especially the eaves between the outer layers of the tower walls are all made of bricks, which are not far apart and have similar practices. This is the similarity between Tiger Hill and Big Wild Goose Pagoda. However, with the development of productive forces, Tiger Hill surpassed the Big Wild Goose Pagoda built in the early Tang Dynasty in many aspects.

First of all, the plane shape of the tower has changed from square to octagon, which is a breakthrough in architectural technology. Square buildings, such as palaces, government offices and residential buildings, are square in traditional architectural form and then changed to octagon. The construction technology is much more complicated, but the resistance to external forces is also greatly enhanced. Although Tiger Hill is not the first octagonal tower, it is undoubtedly the first large octagonal tower in high-rise buildings. Since then, octagonal pagoda has become the main form of China pagoda.

Tiger Hill is a sleeve structure, and there are two towers in the tower, as if a small tower is covered with a big tower. The connection between floors is made of stacked brick masonry, up and down, left and right. This structure has excellent performance. The inclination of Tiger Hill for thousands of years is inseparable from its excellent structure. The plane of the tower body consists of outer pier, cloister, inner pier and tower room. The whole tower is supported by 8 external piers and 4 internal piers. There is a cross passage between the inner pier and the cloister, and there are eight pot doors between the outer pier and the flat seat (that is, the outer cloister). Since Tiger Hill, large high-rise pagodas have also adopted sleeve structure. High-rise buildings in the contemporary world also adopt sleeve structure, which shows the wisdom and skills of ancient architects in China.

The bricks and stones and decorations of Tiger Hill are more exquisite and gorgeous, such as chess, columns and squares, which are different from the simple symbolic techniques of Big Wild Goose Pagoda, but are made according to the real size of wood structure. Fighting chess has jumped twice, and its shape is rough and magnificent; The height ratio of chess columns is large; Other scales such as doors, windows, beams and squares reproduce the charm and characteristics of the late Tang Dynasty.

In terms of architectural function, a flat railing appeared outside the tower wall outside Tiger Hill, which enabled the climbers to walk out of the tower freely and broaden their horizons, thus changing the small perspective that the Big Wild Goose Pagoda can only look out from the tower door. In the brick tower before Tiger Hill, there is no precedent of a flat railing outside the tower.

The interior and exterior decoration of Tiger Hill is bright and strong, which makes the wood-like atmosphere more real. Inside and outside the tower wall 100, there are more than one peony and Goulan Lake stone carvings, which are lifelike, lifelike. Located in the southeast corner of Suzhou City, Dinghuisi Lane is the two most distinctive brick towers in Suzhou, which were built by Wang and his brothers in the Tang Dynasty. One is called stupa, and the other is called Gongde Pagoda. The architectural form is exactly the same, so it is also called "Brother Tower". Suzhou people also call the Twin Towers "Gusao Tower". People who have been to Suzhou will never forget the classical gardens and small bridges in Suzhou. In fact, Suzhou is still a city of pagodas. According to relevant historical records, there are about 100 pagodas in Suzhou history, and dozens of them have been preserved, including more than 20 pavilions. Among these ancient pagodas, the Twin Towers stand out. It is said that the Twin Towers are unique not only in Suzhou, but also in the whole country, and the mystery of the towers and gates of the Twin Towers makes it even more mysterious. The "appearance" of the two towers is almost the same, which is divided into seven floors. The East Tower is 33.3 meters high and the West Tower is slightly higher, 33.7 meters. The Twin Towers, built during the Taiping and Xingguo periods in the Northern Song Dynasty, are a pair of pagodas, only 20 meters apart. According to the tour guide, the twin towers that are close together like this are unique in the whole country, because building two towers at such a close distance requires quite high foundation requirements. Despite thousands of years of wind and rain, the Twin Towers still stand tall, which has attracted great attention of Chinese and foreign architects. Many architects come here every year, and some architecture professors even bring their students here for on-site teaching. Of course, architects are not only concerned about these, but also about the tower gates as high as 10 meters on the tower crown. It is understood that these two pagodas are made of pig iron, each weighing 5 tons. How did people "move" this giant? Architects have different opinions about this. Some speculate that the tower is surrounded by earth first, and then the heavy tower gate is "pulled" along the soil slope. But the question is, since the temple already existed at that time, how can such a large soil slope be piled up? Some people speculate that it is not difficult to climb to the top of the tower after setting up a stone ladder. It is still a mystery how the tower gates of the twin towers were transported to an altitude of more than 20 meters. It is this wonderful mystery that attracts more than 50,000 tourists every year. Lengga Temple Tower, commonly known as Shangta, is located at the top of Shihu Lake. 1963 is listed as a cultural relic protection unit in Suzhou.

Lengga Temple was abandoned long ago and rebuilt as Wu Tong Temple after the Ming Dynasty. The existing temples are relics of the late Qing Dynasty. There is a stone carving of "Rebuilding the Monument on the Tower" in the 13th year of Chongzhen (1640).

According to Suzhou Records of Tongzhi of Qing Dynasty, Lengga Temple Tower was built by Li Xian, the magistrate of Wu in the fourth year of Sui Dynasty (608). The inscription on the pagoda inscribed by Yan Desheng, the secretary, said, "There are nine relics built in, but the gold bottle is heavy outside. Leave the Buddha to rot, don't burn in case of fire; Holding on to everything is not easy to grab water. " Although the Sui Tower was rebuilt in the ninth year of Tang Xiantong (868), it was still inevitably destroyed. The existing tower was rebuilt in 978, the third year of Taiping and Xingguo in the Northern Song Dynasty. Although it is not recorded in local chronicles, there are structural features of the Song Pagoda on the tower wall and inscriptions on the tower brick such as "Five Years of Peaceful Prosperity", "Rebuilding in Yin Dynasty" and "Lengga Pagoda".

The tower of Lengga Temple is a brick structure, which looks like a pavilion-like wooden tower with eight sides and seven floors. Now it is about 23 meters high, the story height decreases in turn, the plane size also converges accordingly, the proportion is still called fit, and the appearance is quite exquisite.

The bottom of the tower is 2.4 meters long, and the original secondary winding has long been damaged, leaving only the stone foundation and abutment with a width of about 2 meters. There is no eaves on the second floor, and there are waist eaves and seats on the third floor. On each tower wall, there is a pot door on all sides, and only the shape of the pot door is hidden on the other four sides. There are columns on both sides of the pot door, the entrance is an aisle, and the top is made of bricks to form a caisson. Within the corridor, there is a tower room, the first and second floors are small octagons, and the third floor is square. There are no towers, no floors, no escalators, but there are beams on the fourth floor. A circular inclined column is built at the outer corner of each tower wall, and the upper bearing hole and the upper bearing hole have no popper square. There is no bucket arch on the first and second floors, and a corner of "one bucket and three liters" is hidden on the third floor or above, and a patch is laid on each side to make a bucket. The eaves are hung on the bucket arch, supported by inclined eaves, and then hung alternately with three layers of water chestnut teeth and slab eaves bricks. The corners are slightly upside down, with a tile ridge hanging down, and the eaves are in harmony with each other, and the roof ridge is upturned, showing the architectural style of Jiangnan. The flat seats on each floor are also picked out by stacking bricks. The tower gate has been incomplete, and it was mixed with gourd-shaped treasure roof in modern reconstruction.

The wall of the tower chamber converges to the center layer by layer in an overlapping way, the plane orientation of each layer of the tower chamber is staggered at 45 degrees, and the position of the boiler door alternates with the tower chamber layer by layer. This "staggered angle structure" is similar to the twin towers of Luohan Garden built in Taiping and Xingguo seven years ago. This is a unique structural way of the Song Pagoda in the south of the Yangtze River.

Although this tower was rebuilt in Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty from 10 to 13 years, it was also repaired in the Republic of China. A low tower was added in front of the East Main Gate on the basement floor, and its appearance changed slightly. However, the main structure is still a relic of the Song Dynasty, and the present situation is still complete. It is an example of studying the evolution of brick towers between Tang and Song Dynasties. 1962 investigated the present situation of the tower. 1963 carried out minor repairs, strengthened the iron tower and installed lightning rods. 1993 Tower foundation platform is laid, and brick walls are added to protect the tower body.

Lengga Temple Tower stands at the top of the mountain, facing Shihu Lake. Linglong Tower Shadow and the beautiful scenery of Mingshan Mountain set each other off as an interest, making the finishing touch. Yuan Hongdao, a writer in the Ming Dynasty, called Fang Shangshan "like a Taoist in brown, full of gods and unusually beautiful". Gong Zizhen, a thinker in the Qing Dynasty, also wrote a poem in Poems on the Sea, praising the seven wonders on the side. "I plan to avoid traveling alone and overlook the clear autumn upstairs; Taihu Lake shines on the mountain at night, and I would like to let Tiger Hill. "Suzhou used to have seven small brick towers, most of which were built in the Song Dynasty. Two of them were destroyed early, two were destroyed by Qingganlong, the White Pagoda was demolished when Linton Road was widened at 1928, and one in Fang Lianxi was demolished when the road was widened in the 1950s. So this is the only one of the seven. " Wumen Biaoyin said that this tower is the second of the "Seven Towers in the City" and "East of Mengzitang", which is now Chenjiaxiang. Chenjiaxiang brick tower is a small and exquisite five-story pavilion-style ancient tower with a height of only 6.28 meters. The plane of the tower is octagonal, with a waist eaves protruding from each floor. The doors and windows are staggered, and the whole body is made of blue bricks, without an inch of earth and stone or pastel. Simple and exquisite shape. As early as the end of the Qing Dynasty, the tower was lost in the folk houses, and the house was built around the tower, just like "it was conceived in an inner room, and no one knew her". The brick tower in Chenjiaxiang is mistakenly called "building" because of its small size. The old custom of "smoking a building" in Suzhou-on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, people gather around the tower, burn incense and light candles, and set up a fast to make a confession, which is very lively.