Where is the wooden pagoda scenic spot in Yingxian County, Shanxi Province?

The wooden pagoda scenic spot in Yingxian County, Shanxi Province belongs to the famous scenic spot of Shuozhou cultural landscape.

Yingxian Wooden Pagoda is the Sakyamuni Pagoda of the Buddhist Temple, which was built in the second year of Qing Ning in Liao Dynasty (1056). It is the oldest, tallest and largest existing wooden tower building at home and abroad, and it is also the only wooden pavilion tower.

The plane of the tower is octagonal, with five outer layers and four dark layers, which is actually nine layers. The total height is 67. 13m, and the bottom layer is 30m in diameter. Built on a 4-meter-high two-story stone platform with two grooves inside and outside, it forms a double-layer sleeve structure. When the tower was built more than 300 years ago, it survived a 7-day earthquake and still stood.

There are statues on the Ming floor of the tower, and the Buddha statue on the first floor is tall and solemn. There are six Tathagata portraits on the wall of the inner groove, which are brightly colored. There is a main Buddha, two bodhisattvas and two threats on the second floor. Three-layer plastic square Buddha, facing all directions. Five layers of plastic Buddha sitting in the middle, eight bodhisattvas sitting in eight directions. In recent years, in the process of repairing the statue, a number of precious cultural relics, such as writing scriptures, engraving scriptures, wooden plates and Buddhist paintings, have been discovered, which is of great significance for further study of the Liao Dynasty.

Yingxian wooden tower is made of wood except for the masonry tower foundation and the iron tower brake. Without nails, thousands of parts are fixed together through mortises and tenons. The wooden tower has stood for nearly a thousand years, so structural stability is necessary.