Commonly known as the east tower, tower of temple of the pure land, located in the southeast in gaoyou city, jiangsu road, west of butterfly garden to historic area.Now the cultural relics protection unit in jiangsu province.
The tower was built by the god of years of wanli (1606), chapter in gaoyou year longing when built.This tower is a castle in the brick imitation type, tower, seven was octagonal, Lao 47.46 meters, upward from the second floor, the door on both sides of the lamp and niche, lumbar eaves, each floor brick pile tower floor and original escalator for climbing, after gradually destroyed.Tower with majestic, tall and straight at the show.Road east tower and the canal in the west tower, is relatively and a grand a dignified, gaoyou folk have been circulated male female things pagoda get together every night beautiful amazing stories.In 1963, gaoyou guang-rong zhu climbed on the top, middle school students from several cultural relics, including the generous guangfo huayan sutra in the Ming dynasty, vajra prajna polo waited for more than 40 volumes, after hand in nanjing museum.The tower was 34 years of the republic of China (1945) in gaoyou liberation for the first time, damaged by fire the southeast corner, repaired the next year.
To restore the original ancient pagoda style, the tower overhaul in 2005.Stair handrail repair tower, tower outside the miscellaneous tree, the towers are damaged part for repair, rehabilitation of pool.Maintenance in the process of shell three to eliminate legacy in the tower body, and when he found a tower for brick, to fix for the tower.
By horse factory north, successively has two exhibition room, "history of Chinese ancient YouYi" area with a lot of photos, physical and charts show that our country is the world's first country to establish organized information transmission, has developed YouYi civilization.While "gaoyou said mail" exhibition since the spring and autumn period and the warring states period prince eluu Han open communication, to build towers built postal kiosk, qin to han dynasties later generation YouYi road, high postal kiosk has been in the red line, the beiyang government officially announced the cut through 1912 stations, is really "a song of mail, from ancient to present".Jar city yi, it is found that the country so far the best-preserved and largest ancient post and it is worthy of "national security" unit.
