About the Leifeng Pagoda, our ancient people's imagination is always very rich, and we will associate the Leifeng Pagoda with the romantic love story of the White Snake and Xu Xian. In order to save Xu Xian, the White Snake flooded the Jinshan Mountain, and was later suppressed by Fahai under the Leifeng Tower. She didn't come out until her son became the top scholar and came to worship at the Leifeng Tower. People sometimes attribute the destruction of Leifeng Tower to the white snake coming out of the tower.
But in fact, this is all man-made reasons. It was destroyed for the first time because of the war in the Northern Song Dynasty, but it was rebuilt in the Southern Song Dynasty. The second time was because the Japanese invaders invaded Hangzhou in the Ming Dynasty and set fire to the Leifeng Tower, which was never rebuilt, because people thought that the thick and beautiful tower had a kind of incomplete beauty at that time; The third Leifeng Pagoda was stolen by superstitious people because its bricks were passed down as exorcism and children, and finally collapsed in the Republic of China.
People have always regretted the collapse of Leifeng Tower and tried to repair it, but they never took action. It was not until 1999 that we decided to rebuild Leifeng Tower and restore its landscape. However, when we excavated its ruins and underground palaces, experts found a lot of cultural relics.
However, some of us are always whimsical. It is said that a white centipede was found at the bottom of the tower. This centipede existed to deal with the snake lady white snake, and later experts took it back to study and disappeared. Others said that a nest of small white snakes was found, which was related to the White Snake. In fact, these findings are all wrong.
What our experts found is the gilded bronze Buddha statue, a national first-class cultural relic. This Buddha statue is 68 cm long, with a dragon on its base and a lotus throne on it, so it has two bases. There is also the national treasure cultural relic Asoka Tower, which is well-made and expensive in materials, and this tower is full of gold coffins? Buddha hair? Relic, each side of its tower has a story related to Buddha, which is the core of Wu Yue Wang's building of the Guifei Tower at the beginning of Qian, and also reflects his respect for Buddha all his life.
We also found the Dalagni Sutra, which was printed on Sichuan cotton paper or bamboo paper. It provided a real object for the study of engraving printing in China, and also witnessed the highly developed engraving printing in ancient China, which occupied an important position in the history of engraving printing in China.
We also found other cultural relics, such as Kaiyuan Bao Tong coins, gold-plated silver boxes and gold-plated silver belts. The discovery of these precious cultural relics has important historical significance and value, which enables us to understand the Buddhist culture and people's belief in Buddhism at that time, understand the advanced technology at that time, and witness the social outlook at that time. Moreover, experts' excavation of the Leifeng Tower site and the underground palace let us know about the construction of the plane octagonal pavilion-style sleeve tower in the Five Dynasties, let us know its formation, and marvel at its proper proportion, grandeur and softness, solemnity and splendor. This is an exquisite work of art in the history of China.