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Kaiyuansi Tower Square

開元寺塔廣場
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6 Reviews
Squares
Open year round, 24/7
Recommended sightseeing time:1-2 hours
Address:
Zhongshan Middle Rd, Dingzhou Shi, Baoding Shi, Hebei Sheng, ChinaMap
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Dingzhou Kaiyuan Temple Tower Square is located on Zhongshan East Road, Dingzhou City, on the north side of Kaiyuan Temple Tower. The modern wispless building complements the ancient temple tower and has beautiful scenery. The square is large, there is a glass road, there are lights at night, very beautiful. The Kaiyuan Temple Tower was built in Song Zhenxianping four years (1001) and was completed in Song Renzong four years (1052) to worship the Buddhist scriptures that the Kaiyuan Temple monks could retrieve from ancient India. The tower is white bottom, the tower is83.7 meters high, 13 floors, is one of the tallest buildings in Dingzhou in ancient times and the tallest brick tower in China. It enjoys the reputation of "the first tower in China". Dingzhou is located at the border of Song and Liaoning in the Northern Song Dynasty. There is a long bronze sculpture in front of the tower, which contains famous tourist attractions or historical relics in Dingzhou. The center of Kaiyuan Temple Square is the tower temple, and the left and right sides are red and empty modern ancient buildings. The long hollow corridor is very charming, and there is a sense of time and space staggered. Up, down, left, and right, different angles, different compositions, quite beautiful. There is a stone carving every ten meters in the middle of the corridor. The content of this stone carving is an idiom story and some ancient stories. The picture is an idiom story of "Take the thorn for sin". From the promenade to the temple tower, the composition of modern and ancient times, the modern artistic conception and the ancient realm. When night fell, the square was lively. The light Yaosi Tower, the square was very bright, and it was like a needle in the sea, standing in the ancient city of Dingzhou.

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