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Wuying Pagoda 无影塔Wúyǐng Tǎ
National heritage site · Wuhan, Hubei
- Time needed
- About 30 minutes
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Wuhan
- Region
- Hubei
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Wuying Pagoda
A seven-storey, eight-sided stone pagoda dated to 1270, in the last years of the Southern Song, and built to imitate a timber pagoda; it is often described as the oldest surviving structure in Wuhan. Carved figures of Buddhas, bodhisattvas, arhats and guardians decorate its base and body. After it began to tilt badly it was moved in 1963 from the site of the lost Xingfu Temple to its present spot at the foot of Hongshan, and its name ('Shadowless') comes from a legend that it casts no shadow at noon on the summer solstice.
How to get to Wuying Pagoda
In Hongshan Park on the west side of Hongshan in Wuchang, beside Wuluo Road and about 2.5 km east of Yellow Crane Tower; a taxi or city bus is the easiest way to reach it.
Nearby
- Yellow Crane Tower 黄鹤楼 under 10 km
A tower rebuilt many times over, made immortal by a single Tang poem - Hubei Provincial Museum 湖北省博物馆 under 10 km
Marquis Yi's ancient bronze bells, played live, and the sword of King Goujian
Also within 20 km: Uprising Gate 起义门 (under 10 km), Early Buildings of Wuhan University 武汉大学早期建筑 (under 10 km), Xinhai Revolution Museum (Wuchang Uprising Memorial) 辛亥革命博物院 (under 10 km), Wuhan Peasant Movement Institute 武汉农民运动讲习所旧址 (under 10 km), Site of the 5th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party 中共五大会址 (under 10 km), Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge 武汉长江大桥 (under 10 km).
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