Introduction to the Jiexiao Monument: The Jiexiao Monument is a bluestone stele tower more than two feet high. The roof of the building is suspended from a mountain and has slopes on both sides. The eaves are covered with tiles and grooves, and there are five ridges and six animals. The ridge is openworked, and there is a round sculpture in the middle of the horizontal ridge. It is a two-story attic 1 meter high and ventilated from all sides. The structure under the eaves is made of wood-like brick carvings, with stacked brackets supporting purlins, and square rafters on the purlins. Under the brackets is a banner "Women's Fang", and the forehead frame is composed of openwork carvings of dragons, unicorns, incense burners and other patterns. The carvings under the forehead are particularly exquisite. In the overall shape of the railing, there is a picture between every two columns, a total of four pictures. From east to west, the first one is carved with "magpie plum blossoms", which means "happy on the plum blossoms"; the second one is "Crane Standing in the Stream", which means "Crane Lives for Thousands of Years"; the third one is "Running Deer" "Picture", "deer" is homophonic to "lu", and "running deer" means seeking salary; the fourth picture is "duck playing with lotus pods", there are many lotus seeds growing in the lotus pods, which expresses the hope that future generations will prosper.

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