Dali, for the past two decades, has been a city whose historical and cultural brilliance has been obscured by the brilliance of beautiful scenery. It is a city that has been "underestimated" by people!

After getting to know Dali in depth, you will find that its profound history and culture are more charming than its natural scenery.

Among the well-known tourist cities in Yunnan, Dali is not without cities with equal status. However, in the history of Yunnan's historical and cultural development, no city can replace its status.

These bright and profound historical cultures, with the precipitation of time, have charm like old wine, exuding a biting and intoxicating fragrance. A period of history, regardless of its rise and fall, can always make us sigh, sigh and be proud.

Some people lament its rise and fall, and some people lament its strength. Even after thousands of years, its majestic, solemn and majestic momentum still exists today.

Starting from 738 AD and ending in 902 AD, the Nanzhao Culture of the Tang Dynasty, and the Dali Culture of the Song Dynasty from 937 AD to 1253 AD. After more than 500 years, the cultures created in these two eras have become the core of modern Dali culture.

Along the historical context, enter Dali's most abundant historical and cultural heritageChongsheng Temple Santa Cultural Tourism AreaFeel the charm of Dali's thousand-year culture from the cultural relics, architecture, legends, natural scenery and overall layout of the three pagodas of Chongsheng Temple.

From the early days of Nanzhao State in the Tang Dynasty, when Chongsheng Temple was first built, to today, in the Three Pagoda Cultural Tourism Area of Chongsheng Temple in Dali, the Chihiro Pagoda, which has stood for thousands of years, has witnessed Dali's development and the change of times.

It can be said that Dali outside Yincang Yuer is the wind, frost, rain and dew that the three towers have experienced.

Modern times are already in a gentle period in the development history of Chongsheng Temple. Although the weather-beaten three towers of Chongsheng Temple are covered with scars, and only three of the three towers of Chongsheng Temple are still intact, fortunately, a large number of cultural materials and cultural relics have been protected, destroyed buildings have been rebuilt, and ancient buildings have been repaired.

The three towers of Chongsheng Temple, which were rebuilt in 2002 and took about three years to complete, have gradually become a well-known tourist attraction in Dali over the past 10 years. It is one of the places with the most profound and complete ancient history and culture in Dali.

Nowadays, when you walk into the rebuilt Three Towers of Chongsheng Temple, it is already a veritable Dali cultural landmark. Architectural culture, historical culture, religious culture, and folk culture are all gathered in the Three Towers of Chongsheng Temple, reflected through the buildings and cultural relics inside.

The temples, pavilions, wood carvings, Buddha statues, cultural relics, and even a brick and tile in Chongsheng Temple are all restoring the appearance of Chongsheng Temple in its heyday.

Therefore, when you go to the Three Towers Cultural Tourism Area of Chongsheng Temple, you can feel its profound culture without saying anything. Just by observing some small details.

Although most of the physical cultural relics of the three towers of Chongsheng Temple have disappeared with the passage of time, the cultural spirit it represents has long become the "soul" of the three towers of Chongsheng Temple. It is rooted in Chongsheng Temple and can no longer be passed by history. The torrent swept away.

In one sentence, it is: Time can take away a dilapidated body, but it cannot take away a full soul!

The Dali Kingdom period of the Song Dynasty was the heyday in the development history of the entire three towers of Chongsheng Temple. They were continuously expanded, with a large scale, reputation and far-reaching influence. Today, most of the landmark buildings of the three towers of Chongsheng Temple appeared during this period, initially forming the three towers of Chongsheng Temple we see today.

In the three pagodas cultural tourist area of Chongsheng Temple seen today, two small pagodas were built in the Song Dynasty, and Chongsheng Temple had long become a famous ancient temple during this period.

In its heyday, Chongsheng Temple had a base of seven miles, three pavilions, seven floors and nine halls, 891 rooms, 11,400 Buddhas, 4,550 bushels of copper, three pavilions, seven floors, nine halls, and hundreds of buildings ". It is the largest ancient temple in Dali.

Chongsheng Temple during the Dali State of the Song Dynasty was well-known and had a very high status and popularity in Southeast Asia.

According to the cultural relics unearthed in the three pagodas of modern Chongsheng Temple, the three pagodas of Chongsheng Temple in their heyday had the largest number and types of cultural relics, and they were exquisite in shape and superb carving craftsmanship.

There are more than 680 cultural relics, most of which are mainly Buddha statues. The materials are mainly copper, gold and copper, silver, iron, wood, jade, crystal, and porcelain. The wide range of materials and the large number are actually rare.

If the word "Tang Dynasty" is not added,"Nanzhao", a word representing Dali's historical era, is little known, and we don't even know what it means. We can only hear this word occasionally from film and television works.

"Nanzhao" is an era in Dali's history when culture is concentrated!

The Nanzhao period of the Tang Dynasty was an explosion period in the development history of the three pagodas of Chongsheng Temple. During this period, buildings, pagodas, paintings, music and dance appeared like bamboo shoots after rain.

One of the three pagodas, Chihiro Tower, was the largest tower. Before the destruction of Chongsheng Temple, the Jianji Bell, the Rain Copper Guanyin statue, and the Bell Tower and Drum Tower were all built in the Nanzhao period of the Tang Dynasty. The "Zhang Shengwen Scroll" collected by the Palace Museum in Taipei, China was also painted during this period.

The Nanzhao period of the Tang Dynasty can be said to be the explosion period of Dali folk art, carving craftsmanship, architectural technology, and painting art. Various cultures and skills collided and integrated with each other, creating a rich and three-dimensional Dali.

Although the Chongsheng Temple, the Jianzhong Bell, the Bell Tower, and the Rain Copper Guanyin statue built in the early Nanzhao period of the Tang Dynasty have been destroyed, and what we see today are all restored based on historical records in modern times, we can still imagine what it looked like before it was destroyed.

Chihiro Tower, one of the three towers in the Chongsheng Temple Three Pagoda Cultural Tourism Zone, was built 1100 years ago. It has survived thousands of years of wind and rain erosion and earthquake tests, which also makes it one of the "Four Famous Towers in China".

Chongsheng Temple was first built in the early days of Nanzhao in the Tang Dynasty, destroyed in the Qing Dynasty, and rebuilt in 2002. Only the large pagoda, one of the three pagodas, is a thousand-year-old antique, but it has no influence. Various cultures gather here.

Nowadays, the restoration of buildings, repairs of temples, and Buddha statues in the Chongsheng Temple Three Pagoda Cultural Tourism Zone are based on historical materials. What is recorded in these historical materials can be collectively referred to as "Dali Culture", and the Three Pagoda of Chongsheng Temple has also become Dali A veritable cultural holy land!

[Editor] Reading Yunnan Yijing

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