Located in the east suburbs about 17 kilometers away from Hohhot, Wanbu Huayanjing Pagoda China vacation deals was built in the Liao Dynasty (916-1125). It is a seven-floor octagonal attic-style pagoda made using brick-wood structure with a height of 45.18 meters. Commonly known as the white tower, Wanbu Huayanjing Pagoda is the most beautiful pagoda kept today dating from the Liao Dynasty. Wanbu Huayanjing Pagoda is the crystallization of the ancient people’s wisdom and effort. It is of great importance in the study of the ancient architecture history and was listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit in 1982.

About the Name

It is said that Daming Temple was built in Emperor Shengzong’s reign (983 - 1031) of the Liao Dynasty. About ten thousand volumes of the Buddhist sculpture need to be kept in the pagoda. In order to store these sculptures, Wanbu Huayanjing Pagoda China travel service was built as a part of the temple. As the pagoda is white in surface, it is also called the White Pagoda.

The whole pagoda is divided into three parts: the pedestal, the body and the top. The pagoda is modeled stocky, robust and grand, which reflects the art of the architecture and the sculpture.

Structure

Pedestal

The pedestal has three layers and shaped like a lotus. The three layers are just like three leaves of the lotus. And the layer stretches out layer by layer from the bottom. Petals changes along with the curve shape naturally and smoothly. All of these make the pagoda very impressive.

The Seven Storeys Body

The surface of the body was curved with fine pictures and these vivid sculptures are regarded as the excellent artworks in the Liao Dynasty. Inside the tower, there are ladders for visitors to climb on the top of the tower. The body has seven storeys and each of the storeys has two gates. On the head of the south gate of the first storey, there is a brand inscribed with Wanbu Huayanjing Pagoda Holidays in China in Chinese. Six of the nine steles were preserved in the first floor. The sculptures of Bodhisattvas, Heavenly Kings and other Buddhist figures are embedded on the surface of the walls of the first and the second storeys. Many wind bells are fastened on the corner of each storey, and when the ringing bell increases the charm of the pagoda.

Tablet Inscriptions

There are many scriptures and tablet inscriptions of the Jin (1115-1234), Yuan (1271-1368), Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1912) Dynasties. All of them were written in different languages, including Chinese, Mongolian, Tibetan, Nvzhen, Qidan and language of other ethnic groups. These materials are vital in the study of the history and culture of Inner Mongolia China travel videos.