Shanxi is amazing, even the fields can grow national treasures like the Glazed Pagoda.

Shanxi is full of treasures, and I didn't expect that a national treasure could grow in the fields! In September, Linfen, Shanxi, had a bumper harvest of corn 🌽, and even the roads were full of corn kernels. This glazed pagoda from the Jin Dynasty is in the fields next to the cornfield and the chili field! Shuttle through the small roads in the cornfield, looking forward to seeing the pagoda. Sure enough, looking at the position marked on the map, a "little flat head" pagoda popped up, which was a joy. · This glazed pagoda is the only remaining building of Lingguang Temple. It is an octagonal thirteen-story pavilion-style brick pagoda with 7 existing floors and a height of 22.44 meters. According to the records of the Republic of China "Xiangling County Chronicles": "Lingguang Temple is in Beiliang Village, southeast of the county, and was rebuilt during the Jin Dynasty." The pagoda base is now buried underground, and the first floor of the pagoda has a ticket gate on the south side, and the other seven sides have fake doors. On both sides of the door, a square pagoda merit monument is inlaid, and the handwriting is all over. The eaves of each floor of the pagoda are all made of wood-structured brick carvings, inlaid with yellow and green glazed dougong, railings, universal slaps, hanging lotus pillars, rafters, hooks, drips, etc. The glazed douqi is made of five pawns, a single heart, a piano face, and a playful head slanting inward. The third floor of the pagoda is decorated with double-layered lotus flowers, and the fourth floor of the pagoda is a flat seat of a wooden pavilion. There is a spiral staircase inside the pagoda, but unfortunately it cannot be entered. The day before we just went to Guangsheng Temple Feihong Pagoda, we saw similar yellow and green glazed dougong and glazed lotus petals. It seems that Shanxi craftsmen are not stingy in decorating the pagoda. However, compared with Feihong Pagoda, Lingguang Temple Glazed Pagoda lost the upper 6 floors and a large number of decorative components at the bottom after experiencing earthquakes and wars, and there was no well-preserved temple as a companion, but stood alone in the field, like a lonely watcher. · 📍Location: Lingguang Temple Glazed Pagoda, Beiliang Village, Dengzhuang Town, Xiangfen County, Linfen City