Longmen Pagoda (including the Tomb of Yu Sishan)

Longmen Pagoda (including the Tomb of Yu Sishan)

Longmen Pagoda (including the Tomb of Yu Sishan) is a Zhejiang Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Unit.

Longmen Pagoda (including the Tomb of Yu Sishan) (Provincial-level Cultural Relics Protection Unit)

Era: Ming Dynasty

Announcement Date: March 16, 2005

A hexagonal seven-story, pavilion-style brick pagoda with white lime rendering. It has a granite base. The body of the pagoda is plain without decoration, with arched doorways built into each face of every level, some of which are false doors. The waist eaves are constructed with alternating dentil courses and flat bricks, and the eave corners are slightly upturned. The top is finished with tile-strip bricks. The pagoda top is relatively flat, and the finial has been destroyed. Inside the pagoda, there is a staircase in the so-called “internal wall winding upward” style, allowing visitors to ascend by following the brick steps that turn at intervals. According to records, the pagoda was built during the Ming Dynasty by Yu Sishan.

The Tomb of Yu Sishan features a blue stone surface mimicking wooden architecture, with three bays, double eaves, two wing walls, including columns, lintels, brackets, tiled eaves, and lattice doors, all realistically replicated. In front of the tomb are stone statues such as horses, tigers, and sheep. Yu was a Jinshi (advanced scholar) of the Longqing era in the Ming Dynasty and served as an imperial censor of Henan Circuit.

Both structures have their own distinctive features and are currently well preserved.

Source: Zhejiang Cultural Relics Website

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Further Reading:

· Fifth Batch of Zhejiang Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Units