During this time, three county two Guta - North Tower, East Tower, the ongoing reconstruction and repair work.
It is reported that the age-old, East Tower has been partial damage to a few years ago, some parts of the fissures. "5.12" earthquake hit the ancient tower hit, six-story tower above the crashing collapse. Now, in the Fujiang shore in East Hills, East Tower was a lot of nylon net over, from Beijing's ancient buildings have been assigned to professional maintenance company. Construction workers told the author, the ancient tower of the maintenance will be in strict accordance with the principle of repairing the old old, due to a large earthquake is expected to take nearly a year.
Management department, according to three research paper, this ancient tower built in the Ming Dynasty thirty year (1603), and now has gone through 407 years. "In the current stored within the ancient tower of Mianyang, the three East Tower is the oldest construction of a time." Three COUNTY MANAGEMENT Kai left a researcher said that it is not only a great local landscape, but also has the ancient busy Fujiang shipping offers prominent geographical coordinates, or vice versa under the guidance of the ship in its bypass rapids upstream.
East tower 24 meters high, the hexagonal pavilion-style brick tower nine, nine each ventricle, shrines, doors and windows, along the bottom and on the spiral stone staircase to reach the top, the panoramic view of three four-county East and West and the other side of the Qing Dynasty with the Fu River, North Tower, nine distant sea pavilion-style.
Bottom layers of the East tower body contraction, like a sword directly at the blue sky. West gate tower, the tower has a pair of stone doors on both sides couplet: "nine Budo, proudly Lingyun Xiao above; three bus pillar, pottery between the situation in the landscape." Couplet inscribed below the prefect of the Ming Chen Nan Tongchuan the question of gold. Engraved in the top Division Zhang Wanli Tongchuan officials are learning disabled sentence of seven Poems "green end off on the island, thousands of miles between the River City for a look."
According to historical records, the Ming Dynasty Wanli Wu Zi year (1588) fall, when the state of Gu Yunfeng observed Tongchuan know the terrain and found three counties, three are surrounded by mountains, but the lower southeast corner, from feng shui point of view is not perfect, so he Germination continued construction in the county Dongshan the idea of a nine-story tower. Gu Yunfeng has donated about 1000 taels of silver to build the tower repair. Scholars of the three later became the Sun, Zhang fundraising and construction are learning organizations. After the start, Zhang is responsible for construction are based on the study design uses bluestone foundations near the cliff, the upper with a blue brick tower. But attended to the second layer, the funds run out, sometimes they can not raise, had to stop working. 3 years later, Gu Yunfeng three outgoing leave when the tower has not yet completed, Chang is an official school also went to the capital.
Reform Movement in Ming Dynasty (1598), Zhang are learning to resign back Tongchuan House. Have left home for several years, Zhang was still learning to see it unfinished tower ruins in the mountains alone, feeling lost, then took out his money earned in the field, convened to resume construction of the old raised, but the amendment to the fourth layer, construction funds ran out again. At this time, Tongchuan city a silk merchant named Wang generous sponsorship money of 800 taels. Amendments to the sixth layer, in their appeal, the local gentry Zhu Liming, Zhou Ruyu, Dai Li Township, Lee and Fu have sponsor, this nine hexagonal pavilion-style pagodas was completed. Source: Sichuan Daily
