·The Shengjin Pagoda is located on the east side of Shengjin Pagoda Street in Xihu District, Nanchang City, outside the Jinxian Gate of the original ancient city. It was first built in the Tianyou period of the Tang Dynasty (904-907 AD). It is said that a different monk was the only one who dug the ground to get iron before the tower was built. There is a letter containing four turns of gold rope, three ancient swords (engraved with the words “driving the wind”, “suppressing the fire” and “dropping the dragon” respectively) and a gold vase containing three hundred relics and gold ropes. Hence the name of the tower.
·The Shengjin Pagoda is a typical pavilion-style tower with brick and wood structure in the south of the Yangtze River. The tower is about 50.86 meters high. The tower has seven floors and eight sides (eight light and dark floors), eight-shaped inside and outside. It has red columns, green tiles, and clear ink corners. The walls and gold-appraisal gourd-shaped roof have strong religious colors, elegant cornices, and hanging copper bells (wind chimes were recast according to the ancient chime-making technology, with seven layers and seven tones). The gourd’s copper roof is golden and translucent, with red balustrades and green tiles all over the body, and ink corners and clear walls. It is simple and unpretentious. Each floor of the tower is equipped with four real door openings and four false door openings. The real and false door openings on each floor are staggered up and down, and the form of the door openings is also different on each floor. The Shengjin Pagoda is simple and beautiful, with the typical artistic style of Jiangnan architecture. It has a history of more than 1,100 years since it was first built in the Tang Dynasty. It is the carrier of historical information and the crystallization of the wisdom of generations of working people. Shengjin Pagoda has always been said to be “a city with both water and fire, and it sits in the center of the river”.
Telephone
0791-86406013
Reference when using
1-3 hours
transportation
You can take bus No. 5, 18, 221, 233 and other buses and get off at Shengjin Tower Station, which is within walking distance.
Tickets
free
Opening hours
08:30-17:00 (January 1st - December 31st, Monday - Sunday)
tips:
·For reference only, please refer to actual opening conditions