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Wenfeng Pagoda, Zhongxiang 钟祥文风塔Zhōngxiáng Wénfēng Tǎ

National heritage site · Jingmen, Hubei

Wenfeng Pagoda, Zhongxiang (钟祥文风塔)
Photo: 三猎, CC BY-SA 4.0
Time needed
1 hour
Days to budget
Half a day
City
Jingmen
Region
Hubei
Type
Heritage
Listed as
National heritage site

About Wenfeng Pagoda, Zhongxiang

A white-painted Buddhist pagoda of the rare bowl-and-spire (fubo) stupa type, standing in the grounds of Bao'en Temple on Longshan hill in Zhongxiang. A pagoda was first raised here in 880 as a tower of earth, and the present brick-and-mortar tower is a Ming rebuilding of 1389, rising more than 20 metres and topped by a finial of twenty-one stacked rings. It has been a national protected monument since 2006.

How to get to Wenfeng Pagoda, Zhongxiang

In the centre of Zhongxiang, in the grounds of Bao'en Temple on Longshan, about an hour by road from Jingmen.

Nearby

Also within 20 km: Xianling Tomb of the Ming Dynasty 明显陵 (under 10 km), Huiyuan Nonggu Experience Park 汇源农谷体验园 (20 km).

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