" Tang Dynasty Weird Stories " In the last case, "The Tower of the Sky", at the beginning, I believe that everyone should be as shocked by the magnificent appearance of the tower as I am. This was Tang Dynasty more than 1,000 years ago , there are skyscrapers up to 33 floors, which was unique in the world at that time.
The Tower of the Sky
The Tower of the Sky was first built in the first year of Emperor Gaozong's reign, in 674 AD, the year Wu Zetianplus the number of Tianhou, and Tang Gaozong also known as the "two saints", a distance from the current Tang RuizongJingyun years , About 40 years later, the tower was finally built. And after the completion, the emperor also burned the construction drawings, just to ensure the uniqueness of this tall building in the world.
The towering tower top floor
So does the 33-story majestic towering tower really exist in history?
The towering top floor
is of course fictional. However, the idea of the towering tower came from many huge and magnificent buildings built in Luoyang and other places after Wu Zetian became emperor. At that time, the Tang Dynasty was powerful and had the ability to build these magnificent buildings, which is even more powerful in the Tang Dynasty. The dynasty is shrouded in a fantasy color.
in "Di Renjie's Tongtian Empire" Wu Zetian once built a huge Buddha statue, which is also amazing. Although it is also fictional, it is also the source of the giant engineering projects in the era of , Wu Zhou, and .
Buddha statues in the sky
So what monstrous gigantic structures were built in the Wu and Zhou eras, and how magnificent are they?
1. Mingtang
"Return to see the emperor, the emperor sits in the Mingtang" - "Mulan Ci", Mingtang is the place where the emperor upholds the will of God and promulgated the holy religion in the Confucian classics. It is a very sacred building, but due to the loss of materials, to the Tang Dynasty At that time, people didn't know what Mingtang was like. In order to create public opinion for himself to be an emperor and to replace Li Tang's world, Wu Zetian asked his male favorite Xue Huaiyi to supervise the construction of Mingtang, and Xue Huaiyi really lived up to Wu Zetian's heavy trust. The Mingtang was built. Of course, no one knows whether it is the same as the ancient Mingtang. Anyway, the queen is satisfied, and the subjects feel solemn and sacred.
This building began to be built in the first year of the vertical arch before Wu Zetian ascended the throne. It is 294 feet (about 90 meters) high and 300 feet (about 92 meters) from east, west, north and south. It is not only the largest building built since the rule of the Tang Dynasty. , the most ever. It can definitely be described as a colossus. It is about 20 stories tall now. It was definitely a very tall building in the Tang Dynasty more than 1,000 years ago.
Ming Tang
2. Paradise
Paradise requisitioned over 10,000 craftsmen and people around the first year of Yongchang (AD 689) before Wu Zetian's ascension to the throne, costing hundreds of millions of people, and it took six years to complete the construction until Wu Zetian became the queen. The queen also deliberately changed the yuan to "zhengsheng". The previously built Mingtang is 294 feet high (about 90 meters), which is nothing compared to heaven. Heaven has five floors. Standing on the third floor, you can overlook the Mingtang. Standing on the top floor, you can overlook the entire Luoyang City. It is completely built with good wood harvested in Lingnan. It is towering and majestic. The largest building since , it really is the "Tongtian Buddha". The Jiahu Buddha statue enshrined in the hall is even more than the Lusena Buddha in the Yique Grottoes, and even a little finger can accommodate dozens of people.
Paradise Project
Paradise is still the queen's favorite male favorite Xue Huaiyi supervised the creation of
. Later, Xue Huaiyi fell out of favor. He set fire to the Mingtang and the recently built Paradise during the Shangyuan Festival. It's a pity that this great building that cost countless money just disappeared. .
Later, Wu Zetian ordered people to rebuild Mingtang and Heaven, and Mingtang was rebuilt, while Paradise was not built because the cost was too great, and it was only a short-lived after all.
