Hong Fei Tower is located in Guangsheng Temple, which is located at15km northeast of Hongtong County. This tower is all made of stained glass, which is very beautiful. And it cost a lot of money, manpower and material resources when it was built. The tower is well protected and has not been damaged so far. Looking at the colorful at close range, the project is very vast and meticulous.
The second glass tower is in Yangcheng, Shanxi Province. Only part of this tower is covered with glass, unlike the Hong Fei Tower, the whole wall is covered with glass.
The third tower is the Youguo Temple Tower in Kaifeng, Henan. This tower is made of brown glass, which looks like an iron tower from a distance, but it is actually a glass tower. This tower was built in the Song Dynasty. It was a tower in Tokyo during the Northern Song Dynasty. When the Jin people invaded Tokyo, they fired at the tower, but it was never damaged, so it has been preserved to this day.
The fourth is the stupa on the lion's nest beam in Wutai Mountain, Shanxi Province, which is also partially covered with colored glass. This pagoda is a brick tower with stained glass, which is built on the beams of five lion nests and located on the tuyere of an upwind hill. The strong wind from Saibei blows this pagoda every year, but the pagoda still stands intact, which shows that its structure is very strong and the stained glass on its surface is getting newer and brighter. Other glass towers include the glass tower in the back hill of the Summer Palace in Beijing, the octagonal glass tower in Jing Zong Temple in Xiangshan, Beijing and the glass tower in chengde mountain resort. These pagodas are all colored and very valuable.
The ancient glass pagodas in China are resplendent and magnificent, and people regard them as exquisite works of art.. Building a glazed tower is very expensive. There are processes of forming, carving, coloring, firing, heating and installation of glazed tiles, which are difficult for ordinary people to do. Only monasteries and temples presided over by royalty and eminent monks can afford it.