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Yingxian Wooden Pagoda

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Yingxian Wooden Pagoda is located inside Fogong Temple, Ying County, Shanxi province. It is a wooden Chinese pagoda built in 1056, during the Khitan-led Liao Dynasty. The pagoda was initially built by Emperor Daozong of Liao Dynasty to honor his grandmother. The pagoda features fifty-four different kinds of bracket arms in its construction; the greatest amount for any Liao Dynasty structure between each outer story of the pagoda is a mezzanine layer where the bracket arms are located on the exterior. It is kept well going through almost one thousand year’s flood and wind erosion. The tooth relic stored in the pagoda is a Buddhist halidom. There are always some swallow flying around it day and night.

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