The Shenjin tower is located on the east Lake District, Chinta Street, west of Nanchang City. The original old city virtuous gate reflected outside, the construction began at Tang Tianyou year (904-907) and passed down during construction of the tower. There are four golden rope, three ancient swords (separately engraved with "drives wind", "to put out fire" and "falls flood dragon" inscription), and also 300 Buddhist relics. It acquires its fame because of the Chinta rope. The rope Chinta for the Chiangnan models the post and panel structure of the pavilion tower, the tower height is 50.86 meters, the tower body is octagon with seven levels (seven bright and eight dark). On the exterior is the octagon shape, Zhu fence grey tile, the ink angle wall and the warning gold bottle gourd that has the strong religious color, the elegant upturned eave, and hanging copper bell (according to manufacture ancient times chime craft, casting wind chimes, seven sounds) is plain yet beautiful, with artistic style which Chiangnan was constructed.

The rope Chinta began construction from the Tang Dynasty and has more than 1,100 years of history till now. It was the historical information carrier and the generation working people wisdom crystallization. The rope Chinta is the Chiangnan model post and panel structure pavilion type tower, the tower height is 50.86 meters, tower body octagon and seven levels (seven bright and eight dark), the blue brick masonry and building, the plane outside the octagon. Four sides tower body is each equipped with the real entry, four sides vacation entry, each real and fake entry mutually staggers, each entry form different.


Name:Nanchang Shengjin Tower (Shengjin Ta)
City:Nanchang
Address:Shengjin Road
Admission:CNY10
Hours: 08:00 am -06:00 pm
Tel:0086-791-6411947

This article was posted on 2007-08-22
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