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China's most beautiful and the world's tallest colorful glazed pagoda!

This national treasure is a must-see in one's lifetime, an unforgettable image in countless people's memories, the Feihong Pagoda of Guangsheng Temple 🌈One of the Three Wonders, first batch of national treasures 📌Guangsheng Temple has three peerless treasures: the glazed masterpiece Feihong Pagoda, the unique Yuan Dynasty mural of opera scenes, and the surviving sacred scripture 'Zhaocheng Jinzang' 📌The existing Feihong Pagoda was started in the tenth year of the Zhengde era of the Ming Dynasty, named after the high monk Feihong who initiated its construction, and has been included in the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units 🌈One of the four famous pagodas, a journey into the painting 📌This pagoda, along with the Ying County Wooden Pagoda, the Qianxun Pagoda, and the Songyue Temple Pagoda, ranks among China's four famous pagodas. In 1958, stamps of 'China's Four Famous Pagodas' were issued to commemorate them, and it was also the filming location for the 'Sweeping the Pagoda to Discern Strange Injustices' episode in the 1986 CCTV version of 'Journey to the West' 🌈The world's tallest, praised by Liang Sicheng 📌In 2018, this building was recognized as 'the world's tallest colorful glazed pagoda' 📌Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin once came here for an inspection, and Mr. Liang Sicheng praised the Feihong Pagoda in his 'Preliminary Survey of Ancient Architecture in Jin and Fen': 'Its structural method is still relatively new to our country' ✅A masterpiece of glazed art, the colorful Feihong 📌The body of the Feihong Pagoda has eight sides, all inlaid with five-colored glazed tiles. Under the sunlight, the entire pagoda shines in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and purple, more beautiful than a rainbow after the rain, which also confirms the name of the pagoda 'Feihong' Guangsheng Temple
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Posted: May 6, 2024
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