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Yicihui Stone Pillar 义慈惠石柱Yìcíhuì Shízhù
National heritage site · Baoding, Hebei
- Time needed
- 30 minutes
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Baoding
- Region
- Hebei
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Yicihui Stone Pillar
The Yicihui Stone Pillar is a 7 m limestone pillar of the Northern Qi dynasty on a small mound in Shizhu village, set up as a memorial to the defeat of the Ge Rong uprising against the Northern Wei, at a mass grave of rebels where an earlier wooden post had stood. An octagonal shaft carries more than 4,000 characters of inscription explaining why it was raised, topped by a small three-bay stone house with carved eaves and Buddha figures, and a protective pavilion has stood over it since not long after 1956.
How to get to Yicihui Stone Pillar
In Shizhu village, about 12 km west-north-west of Dingxing county town and reached by road.
Nearby
- Zhoukoudian Peking Man Site 周口店北京人遗址 50 km
Limestone caves on Dragon Bone Hill where the fossils of Peking Man were found
Also within 20 km: Xigang Pagoda 西岗塔 (10 km), Ciyun Pavilion 慈云阁 (10 km), Huangfu Temple Pagoda 皇甫寺塔 (10 km), Daodejing Pillar at Longxing Daoist Temple 龙兴观道德经幢 (20 km), Shengtayuan Pagoda 圣塔院塔 (20 km), Longyan Temple Pagoda, Laishui 涞水龙严寺塔 (20 km).
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