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Yongyou Temple Pagoda

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Introduction: Yongyou Temple Pagoda, also known as the Six Harmonies Pagoda, is located northeast of the Wan Shu Yuan (Ten Thousand Trees Garden) in the Chengde Mountain Resort. In the 16th year of the Qianlong Emperor’s reign during the Qing Dynasty (1751), the emperor made a southern tour and was struck by the elegant and towering beauty of Hangzhou’s Six Harmonies Pagoda and Nanjing’s Bao'en Temple. To honor his mother, he had two similar pagodas built in the capital. The following year, he constructed Yongyou Temple in the resort, and in the 19th year of his reign, he had this pagoda erected here. Later, one of the two pagodas in the capital was destroyed by fire, and the other collapsed. While investigating the causes, the Qianlong Emperor also took them as a cautionary lesson, reinforcing the Yongyou Temple Pagoda in the resort. The reinforcement work was not completed until the 29th year of his reign, taking a full ten years. Today, most of the Yongyou Temple structures have been lost, with only a few stone stelae remaining. Among them, the stele from the 29th year of Qianlong’s reign features inscriptions on both sides: one side bears the “Imperial Inscription on the Yongyou Temple Pagoda,” and the other the “Imperial Hundred-Verse Poem on the Chengde Mountain Resort with Preface,” which serve as important historical materials for the study of the resort’s construction. The Yongyou Temple Pagoda is an octagonal, nine-story, dense-eave structure, standing 66 meters tall atop a high platform. The first level of the pagoda has surrounding verandas. The inner walls of the pagoda feature stone carvings and Esoteric Buddhist murals. The bracket sets and beams of each story are made of glazed tiles. The spire is gilded bronze, weighing approximately 400 kilograms. This pagoda rises prominently above the flat expanse of Wan Shu Yuan and stands as one of the scenic highlights of the Chengde Mountain Resort.

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Introduction

Yongyou Temple Pagoda, also known as the Six Harmonies Pagoda, is located northeast of the Wan Shu Yuan (Ten Thousand Trees Garden) in the Chengde Mountain Resort. In the 16th year of the Qianlong Emperor’s reign during the Qing Dynasty (1751), the emperor made a southern tour and was struck by the elegant and towering beauty of Hangzhou’s Six Harmonies Pagoda and Nanjing’s Bao'en Temple. To honor his mother, he had two similar pagodas built in the capital. The following year, he constructed Yongyou Temple in the resort, and in the 19th year of his reign, he had this pagoda erected here. Later, one of the two pagodas in the capital was destroyed by fire, and the other collapsed. While investigating the causes, the Qianlong Emperor also took them as a cautionary lesson, reinforcing the Yongyou Temple Pagoda in the resort. The reinforcement work was not completed until the 29th year of his reign, taking a full ten years. Today, most of the Yongyou Temple structures have been lost, with only a few stone stelae remaining. Among them, the stele from the 29th year of Qianlong’s reign features inscriptions on both sides: one side bears the “Imperial Inscription on the Yongyou Temple Pagoda,” and the other the “Imperial Hundred-Verse Poem on the Chengde Mountain Resort with Preface,” which serve as important historical materials for the study of the resort’s construction. The Yongyou Temple Pagoda is an octagonal, nine-story, dense-eave structure, standing 66 meters tall atop a high platform. The first level of the pagoda has surrounding verandas. The inner walls of the pagoda feature stone carvings and Esoteric Buddhist murals. The bracket sets and beams of each story are made of glazed tiles. The spire is gilded bronze, weighing approximately 400 kilograms. This pagoda rises prominently above the flat expanse of Wan Shu Yuan and stands as one of the scenic highlights of the Chengde Mountain Resort.

Chengde City, Hebei Province