What about Tiger Hill in Suzhou?

Tiger Hill generally refers to Suzhou Yunyan Temple Tower. Suzhou Yunyan Temple Pagoda, after five generations, was founded in the sixth year of Zhou Xiande (959) and completed in the second year of Northern Song Dynasty (96 1).

During the period from Song Jianyan (1127-130) to the tenth year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty (1860), the Yunyan Temple Tower in Suzhou experienced seven fires, and the external wooden structures such as tower eaves and wooden barrels were burned down, which affected the brick tower body.

In the 11th year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty (1638), the seventh floor of Suzhou Yunyan Temple Tower was demolished and rebuilt, and the position of this floor moved slightly in the opposite direction to change the center of gravity and correct the deviation. Its appearance is different from the other six layers.

During the period of 1977, the cultural authorities of Jiangsu Province and Suzhou City found that the northeast corner of Suzhou Yunyan Temple Tower was inclined to the northeast by 2.54 meters due to the increase of inclination.

1978, Suzhou established the renovation project headquarters, and put forward a plan to strengthen the Yunyan Temple Tower in Suzhou. 198 1 started construction and reinforced the tower foundation. The maintenance works at 1986 were all completed, which fundamentally eliminated the danger of tower settlement and inclination.

architectural feature

Suzhou Yunyan Temple Pagoda is an octagonal attic-style brick wooden eaves pagoda with 7 floors and a height of 48.2 meters. The tower body consists of three parts: external wall, back porch and tower core. Due to the age, the wooden eaves and iron gates at the top of the tower have been destroyed, and the existing parts are mainly bricks.

Suzhou Yunyan Temple Tower, Flat Seats, etc. They are all made of bricks, and the eaves are of brick-wood mixed structure. The corner of each floor of the external wall is cylindrical, and each side is divided into three rooms by eaves columns, one of which is a tower door, and the left and right two are brick straight windows.

At the top of the column stands a banner with buckets on it to support the eaves of the tower at the waist. There is a bucket and a railing on it. There is a walkway from the outer wall tower door to the cloister; Inside the gallery is the tower heart, octagonal, extending in all directions; From the tower door to the center of the tower through the walkway, the plane of the small room is square except for the second and seventh octagons.

At the top of each floor in the tower, how to make Suzhou Yunyan Temple Tower no longer tilt? Different arches and bricks on the columns, eaves, columns and walkways of the outer wall of the cloister are stacked to form rectangular, square and octagonal caissons.