The Summer Palace Editorial Photo

The tower is a magnificent tower religious buildings, as the center of the architectural layout of the Summer Palace. Buddhist two words of praise from Buddhism to buddha. When the Qing emperor Qian Long (1736-1795) built a nine layer to eighth layer Yanshou tower, I stopped to repair, reconstruction of. Xianfeng ten years (in 1860) was destroyed by British and French troops, Guangxu (1875 - 1908) in the following reconstruction, to worship the buddha. The Ge imitation Hangzhou pagoda building, built in the 20 meters of stone on the platform, eight three layer four eaves. Tower 41 meters high, with eight root lignumvitae pillars, straight through the top, there are 20 meter Shitai base. Ge upper Bang said type extension of the wind to teach, middle Bang said meteorological Zhao back, lower Bang said cloud hill, tower pavilion. For the Buddha Jieyin, Wang Shuo Ci Xi on monthly, burn incense to buddha.