Xingtai Tallinn in Tallinn

Tallinn in Xingtai is located in the southwest corner of the old city of Xingtai City, Hebei Province, south of Lisan Shenjiazhuang Village. Because the towers are scattered like forests, they are called Tallinn. Tallinn is also called Tafen. It is the cemetery of monks in Kaiyuan Temple and Tianning Temple. The original site area (1950s) is about 40 mu, with a total area of about 26,000 square meters. From the Tang Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties. According to legend, there are nearly a thousand original pagodas in Tallinn, Xingtai. The data of this legend may be inaccurate, so there is no need to speculate now. By the 1950s, with historical changes and man-made destruction, there were more than 20 tomb pagodas in the north and south of Tallinn. An old man said that until the 1980s, there were nearly 90 tomb towers in Tallinn, Xingtai.

There are many kinds of tombs in Tallinn, Xingtai. 1935, Mr. Liu Dunzhen, a famous architect, went to Xingtai to inspect ancient buildings, took a lot of photos, and wrote the article "Investigation of Ancient Buildings in Hebei", which was later included in the third collection of Collected Works of Liu Dunzhen and published by China Architecture Publishing House on 1978. As can be seen from the photos, there are many kinds of tomb towers in Tallinn, Xingtai, including stone towers and brick towers. From the shape point of view, there are single-story single-eave tower, multi-story dense-eave tower, Lama tower and so on. Shapes are square, rectangular, hexagonal, octagonal and round vertebral bodies. These tombs have various forms, different styles, simple shapes, tall and handsome. It is recalled: "What is even more amazing is that there is a' wind tower', which seems to be in jeopardy. When it was blown by the wind, it tilted with the wind and collapsed, but it did not collapse for hundreds of years. " Ring the Lingta ",the wind blows, whines, whimpers, whines, complains, complains, moves like a spring, and sings like a sheng. "Bell and Drum Tower", with the palm of your hand, the hole is audible and buzzing. There is also a "chanting tower". If you listen carefully, it will buzz and make a sound. It is said that sometimes you can hear the intermittent sound of wooden fish and chanting ... ".

Because Tallinn in Xingtai was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution, it is impossible to conduct physical analysis and research. Only from the photos left, the large-scale tomb tower in Tallinn, Xingtai is dominated by dense eaves, and the level of the tower is generally one to seven, with three, five and seven floors, followed by stone tombs, and the stone towers are mostly square, hexagonal, octagonal or round. Most stone pagodas are based on an inclined lotus throne, on which there is a stone carving with a waist wrapped around Sumeru, and the tower body is placed on Sumeru. As a stone pillar, the tower has an inscription on the front, engraved with the name, place of origin, main achievements before his death, the person who erected the monument and the time when the tower was built. There are stone eaves on the tower body, and simple brick buckets are carved on the eaves. The eaves of the tower are covered with stones to make a tile roof. The eaves of the stone pagoda are divided into single, three, five and seven floors, and the top is a small stone treasure ball as the tower gate.

The large brick-carved tomb tower is mainly made of imitation wood structure, with a pedestal at the lower part and an octagonal waist at the upper part. Some of them have double doors with patterns carved on them and doorframes installed around them. The tower eaves are used as parapets, popper eaves, buckets are used on the eaves, and one bucket is used at each corner. In the building structure, doors and windows, rafters, bucket arches, brick carvings, etc. Most civil buildings in southern Hebei adopt this method, trying to coordinate with the surrounding environment.