Travel, Study, and Fun in China - Thunder peak evening glow

Leifeng Pagoda, is located in front of Jingci Temple, for the south Pingshan -odd arteries which extends to the north, is close to the lake to be excitedly grand, the forest onion is strongly fragrant. Although its volume small and exquisite, the fame is actually ranks among the best in the lake, because the summit of a mountain once had time Wu and Yue kingdoms constructed Leifeng Pagoda, was in the Xihu multitudinous ancient towers is sightest also a loosest tower, what a pity before 70 remaining years of life fell over, tower but actually mountain empty, Lianshan also changed into the evening glow mountain.
Xihu Nanan this three faces the water to assume the peninsula shape the famous mountains, in the past once for Southern Song Dynasty Emperor's garden hold. After 1949, on the mountain kind of ornamental trees and so on clay massive fragrant camphor trees, Chinese sweet gum, Siberian elm, the evening glow sound of the wind in the trees, the scenery has been still splendid. It is a pity the ancient tower does not have the trace, the thunder peak evening glow becomes [defaulter] in the Xihu ten scenery. Leifeng Pagoda has the too many misery experience. West his old name calls Guan Zhuanta, also called Huang Feita, the beginning constructs in the Northern Song Dynasty plays an ace for eight years. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the tower suffers the thunderstroke, after at the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty repairs subtracts two levels compared to the original tower to become five levels of buddhist monk. This is an eight face brick wood construction pavilion type tower, the tower core brickwork, the tower eave, the even place veranda, the parapet and so on is the wooden construction. The tower endophragm each inlays "Hua Yanjing" to carve, under the tower wards off the mausoleum chamber, consecrates the golden hole arhat. After Southern Song Dynasty, the Leifeng Pagoda wooden construction eave porch destroys repeatedly repairs repeatedly, at that time painter Chen Qingbo and so on had "Thunder Peak Evening glow" vividly the chart, under the tower also has the imperial garden by the fragrant garden. The setting sun glow at sunset, the tower gets up the golden wheel, in the lake in the dusk evening scenery has nothing endures with it, in Xihu ten scenery natural must have good small space. Who would imagine, Ming Xijing the year, the Japanese pirate pirate invades Hangzhou, suspected in Leifeng Pagoda has the ambusher, set on fire unexpectedly has swallowed the wooden construction eave porch, only remained the brick body tower body, the tower goes against also destroys has been remnant, the veteran danced, some people inscribed a poem sigh for [Lei Fengcan in tower purple smoke, was disappointed slanting afterglow of the setting sun to resemble drunkard] only to remain the tower core Leifeng Pagoda, still flew high stands upright, has towered 400 remaining years of life by the incomplete beautiful special graceful bearing. End of the Ming dynasty Hangzhou's famous litterateur Wen Qixiang once guaranteed him with the lake opposite shore the Shu tower to gather in the same place comments on: [In lake two buddhist monk, Lei Fengru old buddhist monk, gem like beautiful woman.]As soon as this said is born the person is. The clear Yong Zheng year the book in circulation "the Xihu Will" praises a thunder peak evening glow scenery like this: [The orphaned tower stands alone, brick all red, wisteria hauling, green lovable, the sunlight sunset, the pavilion Taiwan gold and greens, produce an inverted image with the mountain scenery, if Jin Jing inaugurates, the fire bead will attach. Although the Chicheng rosy cloud is not in vain also].
On September 25, 1924 in the afternoon o'clock 40 minutes little, a Xihu Nanan bang. [Old buddhist monk] [servant but actually], for a while the dust shades suddenly the day, the crow que startled flies, summit of broken brick the thunder peak is countless, under the great amount, in Hangzhoucheng the everybody turning out does not catch up with watches the fun, many people also took advantage of randomly [washes valuably] in the tower pile of bricks, also has unexpectedly makes the unexpected fortune. Originally, tower but actually before, already for digs the tower brick damage to raise the human bone human bone to be possible the danger, because the folk was rumored that, the Leifeng Pagoda brick has wards off the calamity town evilly [supernatural power], therefore robber digging endures repeatedly, finally breeds not certainly the catastrophe. The romantic poet Xu will motorcycle in September, 1918 in 29 diaries left behind [old buddhist monk] in him for us just before the end front the dangerous situation thing to write: [On the road we strolled the Leifeng Pagoda - Tarry surface four big brick columns to open the inversion conoid, looked at the danger extremely.
More than 70 years have passed by, because the historical culture integrates the lake and mountain scenery complementing each other, will breed and develops the Xihu ten scenery, the Xihu ten scenery historically, the article has rested and the lake and mountain scenery complementing each other inevitably relies on one another saves. The thunder peak evening glow [absence] the end still complemented by the thunder peak evening glow.