Introduction to Zhiyun Pagoda: Zhiyun Pagoda is located between Yuantong Palace and the Great Temple. It is a pavilion-style brick and wood structure. The tower body is 34.98 meters high, with four floors and five levels. It has vermilion lacquer railings and gold tiles with raised corners. beautiful. The Xumizuo in the Ksitigarbha Hall on the first floor of the pagoda is actually the entire pagoda base. A dual-use building shape is rare in the country. From the second floor and above, a door is opened on each of the three sides to the central square room. A Buddhist niche is placed on the doorless side of the room. The inner ring is made of wooden ladders; the top of the tower is covered with a bowl, a wheel, a treasure cover, a round light, etc., forming a pagoda brake.
Zhiyun Pagoda was built by monk Zhihuan and his monks during the Taiping and Xingguo years of the Song Dynasty. It has been repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt over thousands of years, and it still maintains the style of the Song pagoda. In the old days, the spire of the Zhiyun Tower, the south gate of the old Nantong City, and the Qiao Tower in the center of the city formed the Feng Shui portal of Nantong. When the Zhiyun Pagoda was rebuilt in 1984, bronze statues, money, silver coins, various jades, pendants and ornaments made of jade, agate, amber, and coral were found in the pagoda, as well as seven or eight silver medals recording the history of the pagoda's construction. Bronze medals and other cultural relics were put back into the town tower after repairs.