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　　Dali has a long history and splendid culture. It is known as the "famousnation of literature". Dali is the settlement of the Bai nationality. More than4000 years ago, the ancestors of the Bai nationality multiplied in Erhai area.After the establishment of a county in the Han Dynasty, they communicated withthe Central Plains and became a transit station for the central dynasty tocommunicate with Myanmar and India. Dali has been the transportation fortress ofYunnan since ancient times. In history, the Southern Silk Road and the ancienttea horse road met here. Tour guide tools

　　During the Tang and Song Dynasties, Nanzhao and Dali established theircapitals here. Dali, as the capital of Nanzhao and Dali, has had frequentcultural exchanges with the Central Plains for 500 years. It has built temples,built pagodas, carved stones and erected steles, and prospered in culture. TheThree Pagodas of Chongsheng temple, Hongsheng temple, Buddha Temple Pagoda,Cangshan temple, Gantong temple and Dehua stele in Dali are still wellpreserved. Today, we are going to visit the Three Pagodas of Chongsheng Templein Dali, a national key cultural relic protection unit, which is famous at homeand abroad.

　　Dear friends, now we are about to arrive at the Three Pagodas of ChongshengTemple in Dali. It is the symbol of Dali and even Yunnan. It enjoys highpopularity at home and abroad and is an important tourist attraction inDali.

　　First of all, I would like to introduce Chongsheng temple, which is locatedat the foot of yingle peak of Cangshan Mountain, about 1.5 kilometers northwestof Dali ancient city. It is generally believed that it was built by the tenthgeneration of Wang quanfengyou of Nanzhao state in the later period of Nanzhao.Chongsheng temple has a large scale. According to the literature, the temple hasa scale of "three pavilions, seven floors, nine halls and one hundredbuildings". In Dali after Nanzhao, Buddhism was more developed, known as"Buddhist kingdom" and "Miaoxiang kingdom", while Chongsheng temple was known as"Buddha capital". Nine Dali kings abdicated and became monks, practicing here.After the completion of Chongsheng temple, it became the center of Buddhistactivities in Nanzhao state and Dali state, and became a famous royal temple inDali state. The holy name of Chongsheng temple is Guanyin, because the worshipof Guanyin was popular in Dali area at that time. The Three Pagodas ofChongsheng temple, Nanzhao Jianji bell, Yutong Guanyin, zhengdaoge tablet andBuddha plaque, and Sansheng gold statue are regarded as the five importantweapons of Chongsheng temple. Unfortunately, Chongsheng temple will encounterthe Dali earthquake during the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty. Fortunately,the three pagodas still exist.

　　The Chongsheng temple we see today is restored and rebuilt on the originalbasis. After the restoration and reconstruction, the overall layout is theprimary and secondary three axes, which is divided into 8 platforms, 9 entrancesand 11 levels. On the main axis, there are sixteen kings, the great kings, thestone carving, the wall, the golden bird, the mountain gate, the heavenly kinghall, the Wang Hai building, etc. the buildings on the two sides of the axis andthe secondary axis are well proportioned: the abbot hall, the guest hall, LuoHantang and the patriarch hall show the essence of the classic architecture. Thewhole complex is full of ups and downs, scattered, resplendent and majestic.

　　The three pagodas are a group of buildings in front of Chongsheng temple,so the three pagodas are also known as the three pagodas temple, which is thethree pagodas Temple written by Xu Xiake, a traveler in Ming Dynasty, in hisdiaries of traveling to Yunnan, and the Tianlong Temple written by Jin Yong, amaster of modern martial arts novels. The three pagodas are recorded in XuXiake's Travels: "the temple is under the tenth peak. It was built in Kaiyuan ofTang Dynasty, and is famous for worshiping saints. In front of the temple, thereare three towers, and the middle tower is the highest, square in shape andtwelve stories in length, so it is now called the three towers. "

　　The Three Pagodas of Chongsheng Temple are composed of one large tower andtwo small ones. The big tower is also called Qianxun tower. The distance betweenQianxun tower and the two small towers in the north and south is 70 meters, andthe distance between the two small towers is 97.5 meters. It is a tripod with aunified layout, harmonious shape and an integral whole.

　　Qianxun tower, 69.13 meters high, is a square hollow brick tower with denseeaves. It belongs to the typical architectural style of Tang Dynasty, and itsshape is similar to Xi'an small wild goose tower. The Qianxun pagoda has 16floors in total, with a bronze bird in each corner of the top. The inner wall ofthe tower runs up and down vertically, with wooden stairs. You can climb the topof the tower and enjoy the panoramic view of Dali ancient city from theobservation hole. Qianxun tower stands on a two-story high platform. On the eastfacing screen wall in front of the tower, you can see the four vigorous andpowerful stone characters "Yongzhen mountains and rivers". Each character is 1.7meters high. It was originally written by Mu Shijie, the grandson of muying, theDuke of Guizhou in the Ming Dynasty. During the 1925 Dali earthquake, except for"Chuan", the other three characters were destroyed. What you can see now is thatthey were carved according to the outline of Mu Shijie. There are two reasonsfor writing these four words: one is that there are many floods and evil dragonsin Dali area in history. Therefore, to control the water, we must first controlthe dragon. But the dragon only respects the pagoda and is afraid of the Mirs.Therefore, as long as the pagoda and the Mirs on the pagoda exist, the dragonwill not dare to do evil. Of course, the flood will be reduced. Another way ofsaying is that in the Ming Dynasty, Dali, which is located in the border area,has become a part of its territory. In order to fully express its adherence tothis territory, it is more appropriate to "inscribe a stele" on the standingtower foundation.

　　The two towers are 42.19 meters in height, each with 10 stories. They are apair of octagonal brick towers with dense eaves. Above the eight stories, theyare solid, below the eight stories, they are hollow. There are three coppergourds on the top of each tower, which are magnificent and solemn. The outlineis like a cone, which is a typical architectural style of Song Dynasty.According to the relevant historical data, the construction of the North-Southpagoda was later than the Qianxun pagoda, which was the period of Duan Zhengyanand Duan Zhengxing in Dali. Now the two towers that we see have deviated fromthe vertical line and are in a worrying tilting state, but don't worry, becausethey have been tilting for more than 400 years.

　　Since its construction, the Three Pagodas of Chongsheng temple have notonly experienced thousands of years of wind, rain and sunshine, but alsoexperienced 30 strong earthquakes. Among them, during the great earthquake inZhengde period of Ming Dynasty, most of the houses in Dali ancient citycollapsed, and Qianxun tower also cracked like a broken bamboo. Ten days later,it was miraculously self compounded. In the 1925 earthquake, 99% of thebuildings in urban and rural areas collapsed. The keqianxun tower only knockeddown the top of the pagoda, which is another miracle for the three towers builtdirectly on the earth without stone foundation. As one of the oldest and mostmagnificent buildings in South China, the Three Pagodas of Chongsheng Temple arethe symbol of Bai culture in Dali and ancient history and culture in Yunnan. Thethree pagodas are an integral whole, magnificent and simple in national style.Over the past thousand years, the three pagodas have gone through manyvicissitudes, gone through the erosion of wind and rain and many strongearthquakes, and still stand tall. It shows the wisdom of the working people inancient China. It has high historical, scientific and artistic value, and is animportant material for the study of ancient architecture and history. In 1961,it was announced by the State Council as one of the first batch of national keycultural relics protection units. In 20__, it was rated as a national 4A touristarea. It is a famous historical and cultural city, a symbol of China's excellenttourist city Dali, and an important cultural landscape of Dali, a nationaltourist scenic spot.

　　Dear friends, we entered the gate of the Three Pagodas of Chongsheng Templein Dali, visited the three towering pagodas of "Yongzhen mountains and rivers",and went on to the bell tower. Nanzhao Jianji clock was cast in the 12th year ofNanzhao Jianji, so it was named Nanzhao Jianji clock. Xu Xiake once wrote in hisdiary of traveling to Yunnan: "the bell is very big, its diameter can be morethan Zhang, and it is as thick as a foot, and its sound can be 80 Li."Therefore, "Zhong Zhen fo Du" has become one of the 16 famous scenic spots inDali. Jianji clock was destroyed in the Tongzhi period of Xianfeng in QingDynasty. We see the recast Jianji clock, which is 3.86 meters high, 2.138 metersin diameter and 16.295 tons in weight. It is the fourth largest clock in Chinaand the first in Yunnan. The clock was rebuilt and installed on the day of HongKong's return to the motherland in 1997. When the "Zhong Zhen Buddha capital"was restored, it was also a warning.

　　Dear friends, after visiting the Jianji bell tower, which has the largestbell in Yunnan, we climbed dozens of steps along the wide passage and enteredthe majestic Yutong Guanyin hall.

　　The rain bronze Guanyin was cast in 9 A.D. in the second year ofZhongxing reign of Nanzhao. It is said that an eminent monk of Chongsheng Templein Dali had vowed to raise money for casting a bronze statue of Guanyin all hislife. When it came to the shoulder of the statue, the prepared copper had beenused up and he was helpless. At this time, the sky was raining with copper andthe ground was full of copper beads, which were used to cast the statue. So itwas named "rain copper Guanyin". The statue of rain bronze Avalokitesvara, 24feet high, together with the three pagodas and Jianji bell, is one of the mostimportant three of the five heavy vessels in Chongsheng temple. Yutong Guanyinwas destroyed in the cultural revolution in the past ten years. Today, theYutong Guanyin hall is expanded and rebuilt on the original site. It is 29.99meters high, covers an area of 8100 square meters, and has a construction areaof 4384 square meters. It is another important scenic spot of the Three Pagodacultural relics scenic spot. It was completed in 1999 and is a high-qualityproject of Yunnan Province to welcome the World Expo. The statue ofAvalokitesvara, which is now recast, is carefully reproduced according to thephotos left at the end of the Qing Dynasty. The statue of Avalokitesvara on theleft and right sides of Yutong and the four Avalokitesvara[shuiyueavalokitesvara, cuoyeavalokitesvara, male Buddhist monk Avalokitesvara,and negative stone Avalokitesvara] are all made vivid and lifelike.

　　When we ascended the second floor of Yutong Guanyin hall, we saw two rarepaintings in front of us, namely the biography of the history of Nanzhao and thepainting of Sanskrit by Zhang Shengwen.

　　The picture biography of Nanzhao history was painted in 9 by Zhang Shunand Wang fengzong, the officials of Nanzhao state. It is dedicated to shunHuazhen, the last king of Nanzhao state. The original painting is paper color,580.2 cm long and 31.5 cm wide. The scroll is divided into three parts: theorigin of Weishan, the sacrificial iron pillar and xibaihe, which are valuablematerials for studying the history, religion and folk custom of Nanzhao.

　　Zhang Shengwen's painting of Buddhist images is also known as the volume ofBuddhist images in Dali. Completed in 1180, the painting was painted by Dalipainter Zhang Shengwen. This painting volume has a very high position in the arthistory of Yunnan. It has been praised as the "pride of the north and the South"for a long time.

　　Dear friends, now we will finish the tour of the Three Pagodas ofChongsheng temple. Due to the time, we are only a part of the tour. If you havetime, you will come to Dali again and I will serve you wholeheartedly. Thankyou~