Travel Guide - Yingying Pagoda

Yingying Pagoda is situated in Pujiu Temple China tour deals, 17 kilometers southwest of Yongji City and about 60 kilometers west from Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province. It is famed for a beautiful love story Romance of the Western Chamber in Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) happened here. It is reputed as “World’s Wonderful Pagoda” also because it’s unique architecture structure and special echo effect.

Architecture Style

Yingying Pagoda, originally called as Sarira Stupa, sits in west of Pujiu Temple. It was ruined of earthquake in 1522, and the pagoda remained now was reconstructed in 1563 of Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 A.D.). But the pagoda China shopping has style of Tang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.), which is square-shaped and the eaves is concave lightly in curved shape. Yingying Pagoda is brick-structured with the height of 39.50 meters. It has 13 layers, and each layer linked by corridors with steps winding to the ninth floor except the sixth floor. There are 14 inscribed stone tablets embedded between outside walls in the ground and second floors, which are precious historical relics to witness the history of Pujiu Temple.

Special Echo Effect

Yingying Pagoda is one of ancient echo buildings remained in China, and other three are Echo Wall in Temple of Heaven of Beijing, Baolun Pagoda in Sanmenxia City of Henan Province and Stone Zither in Tongnan County of Sichuan Province China Sichuan Tours.

Yingying Pagoda has functions with combination of radio, tapping device and amplifier. If click the stone aside the pagoda, you would hear the echo resembling frog’s squawk. There is a terrace in the west of Yingying Pagoda, which is the best place to click, and the pavilion on the hillside nearby is the best place to hear echo. You can hear kinds of echoes from town of 2.5 kilometers away under the pagoda, sounds like siren, people’s laughing and bark and so on.

Romantic Love Story

With story Romance of the Western Chamber coming out, Sarira Stupa in Pujiu Temple was changed the name as Yingying Pagoda. Romance of the Western Chamber describes the love story of Zhang Sheng and Cui Yingying. One day, Zhang Sheng was going in for examination, but it was raining suddenly on the way, and he took shelter from rain in Pujiu Temple. When he met Cui Yingying in Pujiu Temple, they fell in love at first sight.

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