"Ganzhou County Records" contains: "A city has mountains and lights, half a city has towers and shadows, reeds are contiguous, and ancient temples are everywhere", which is Zhang Ye's unique style; Towers of different sizes and shapes have different postures and are very spectacular. Zhangye is an important town on the Silk Road. Buddhism flourished rapidly after it was introduced into China. There are many Buddhist temples, Buddhists, morning bells and drums, and cigarettes, which attract some devout monks to visit and seek dharma. Among them, many western monks came, and then the form of building towers spread. Buddhism is spreading more and more widely and the number of pagodas is increasing. The tower seen in Zhangye is a fusion of China Tower and Indian Tower. Tower structure can be divided into entity tower and pavilion tower. The solid towers are divided into Ashoka Tower, Miyan Tower, Lama Tower and King Kong Tower. Pavilion tower is divided into dense eaves pavilion, masonry pavilion and brick-wood mixed tower. There are five main building materials: wood, brick, stone, glass and iron. The shapes of the tower are square, hexagon, octagon, dodecagon and circle. This tower has an odd number of floors. There are five famous pagodas, namely, gold, wood, water, fire and earth. There are only wooden towers and earth towers left. The wooden tower is a pavilion tower. Earth pagoda, built in the Great Buddha Temple, is a bowl-covered pagoda, also known as Lama Pagoda. The bowl still retains the shape of the grave. Many of these pagodas were built by Zhang Ye, such as Qifeng Static Pagoda outside the East Gate, Baita Temple Water Tower outside the North Gate, Chongqing Temple Fire Pagoda outside the South Gate, and Anyang Gaosi Auspicious Pagoda, all of which were built for the cremation of the remains of monks, monks and lamas after their death, so people called them monk graves. The special artistic style of this tower is that the hollow tower with dense eaves is completely filled into a solid tower, and people can't climb to the top. A tall Sumi Mountain is added to the lower part of the tower, which is carved with rich images of Buddha, Bodhisattva, geisha and lion. Among the ancient pagodas in Zhangye, only the golden pagoda on the golden pagoda hall of the Great Buddha Temple is a pavilion-style single-storey square pagoda, in which the Buddha statue is placed directly. Because pavilions are magnificent and tall, but they cost a lot. Only emperors and rich people can build them, and the common people can do nothing about it. Therefore, in ancient buildings, the covered-bowl pagodas generally rise, while the pavilion pagodas gradually decline, so many ancient pagodas in Zhangye are covered-bowl lama pagodas.

Zhangye, known as Ganzhou in ancient times, is an important link on the ancient Silk Road and one of the four counties in Hexi. Kyle Poirot stayed here for a year when he visited China. As one of the famous historical and cultural cities in China, Zhangye has rich historical sites, such as Heishui Moon Country Site, Great Wall Beacon Tower, Sui Dynasty Wooden Pagoda, Tang Dynasty Wusongyuan Site, Xixia Buddha Temple, Ming Dynasty Bell Tower and Song Lin Horseshoe Grottoes. In addition to these heavy historical sites, there are many scenic spots in Zhangye, such as Shandan Army Racecourse, which was the royal racecourse of that year, integrating viewing, entertainment and grassland life, with beautiful scenery and natural fun. The unique ethnic customs of Sunan Yugur Autonomous County add a lot of color to this rich "golden Zhangye".