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Tanghe Wenbi Peak Tower

Wenbi Peak Tower, located in Gaogang, about 1km southeast of Tanghe County, is a cultural relic protection unit in Henan Province.

The date of the tower's establishment is unknown, but it is inferred from Wenbifeng, which was rebuilt in the 10th year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty (167 1) that the tower may have been built in the Ming Dynasty and rebuilt three times in the 16th year of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty (1659), 10th year of Kangxi and 3rd year of Qianlong (1738).

Regarding the reasons for the establishment of Wenbifeng Pagoda, Li Xingyun, a magistrate of a county in the 16th year of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty, said in Preface to Tiwenchang Pavilion, Kuilou and Wenfeng: "There is no better way to establish Wenbifeng Pagoda in a mountainous and mountainous area", which contains China's rich traditional geomantic thoughts. During the reign of Emperor Kangxi (1662- 1722), Lin Xiang, a magistrate of a county, said in Rebuilding Wenfeng that "it was built here because it was connected with Taiyi, but it was based on the concept of geomantic omen, but more importantly, it reflected the value orientation of local people and people under the imperial examination system and prospered the local area. Combined with tanghe county's reconstruction of Wenbi Peak Tower in Shunzhi, Kangxi and Qianlong Dynasties, the intention of building the tower is more obvious.

Wenbi Peak Tower is octagonal, with a side length of 2. 15m, nine floors and a height of 30m. It is a hollow pavilion-like brick tower. The height of each floor of the tower decreases from bottom to top, showing a parabolic shape. The outer wall is made of blue bricks, with a tall and beautiful shape, echoing the Sizhou Tower in the Northern Song Dynasty in the county.

Wenbifeng Tower was built on the rammed earth abutment, with the stone foundation exposed to the ground by 0.23m, built with irregular stone strips or slabs staggered, and bonded with plaster. This tower is made of rectangular gray bricks and white ash. The bottom of the tower is solid, the second to ninth floors are hollow, and the second, fourth, fifth, sixth and eighth floors are staggered arched doors and windows, in which the inner walls of the second to fifth floors are round and the upper six floors are square. The four corners of the outer wall of the tower are built with diagonal columns, generous and square images. Under a layer of eaves, eaves rafters are made of bricks to support the anti-overlapping roof, and the upper layer carries a single arch. Under the eaves of the second to eighth floors, flat bricks are used to build the image of leaning columns, foreheads, buckets, tops and flat seats. The ninth floor tower has only eaves and no flat seats, and the upper part is octagonal top. The iron gate seat in the center of the top of the tower is covered on the eight ridges on the top of the temple, and bronze vases, phase wheels and orbs are worn on it.

On the second floor of Wenbi Peak Tower, a two-connected, two-volt coupon door is opened in the north-south direction. The door is inlaid with white marble niches, with "Lianguang" and "Taiyi" in the east and southeast respectively, and "Tianzhong" and "Jiaxiu" in the west and southwest respectively. On the south and southwest of the third floor, there are steles of Rebuilding the Front of the Pen and Rebuilding the Record of the Front of the Pen, and there are stone carvings of Phoenix Asahi Map in the southeast.

The site selection of Wenbi Peak Tower and the geomantic imagery of stone carvings provide valuable material for the study of China's traditional surveying theory.

Panorama (provided by Jia Fujun)

Tower gate on the second floor (provided by Jia Fujun)