The origin of Baochu Pagoda is as follows: Baochu (chù) Pagoda, also known as: Baoshu (shū) Pagoda, Baoshi Pagoda, Baosuo Pagoda, Baosuo Pagoda, is located on Baoshi Mountain, Baoshiqianshan Road, Beishan Road, Xihu District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province

, facing the West Lake in the south.

The Baochu Pagoda is a traditional ancient building built during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. In the 22nd year of the Republic of China (1933), the Baochu Pagoda was renovated and its appearance remains today.

Baochu Pagoda is a solid brick pavilion-style tower with eight sides and seven floors. It is composed of a tower base, a tower body and a tower brake, with a total height of 45.3 meters.

The base of the tower is octagonal, with vertical belts and treads on the east and west sides.

The tower body is made of plain bricks, divided into eight layers and seven layers. The layers are divided upwards layer by layer, and the height of the layers decreases accordingly. It turns into a round body on the seventh floor.

Baochu Pagoda is an important physical historical material for the study of ancient pagodas in the south of the Yangtze River.

The Baochu Pagoda is a landmark building in the scenic West Lake. It is of great value to the study of the changes of the West Lake, the formation of the cultural landscape and the spread of Buddhist culture in the Wuyue Kingdom.

Architectural layout: Baochu Pagoda is a solid brick tower with eight sides and seven floors imitating wood structure, pavilion style, consisting of tower base, tower body and tower brake, with a total height of 45.3 meters.

The base of the tower is octagonal, with a total height of 1.98 meters.

The platform base is 0.98 meters high, made of stone, and 6.65 meters wide on each side.

There are vertical belt steps with a width of 3.2 meters on each side of the east and west sides.

The tower body is made of plain bricks, divided into eight layers and seven floors. The bottom side is 3.26 meters long.

It is divided upwards layer by layer, and the height of each layer decreases accordingly, until it turns into a round body on the seventh layer.

There are solid lattice fan windows on each side, and round leaning columns are built at the corners.

The wooden eaves of each floor have been destroyed, and the existing overhangs, flat seats, flat seats, and corner seats have one bucket of three liters of buttresses and one stack of flat seats on each side.

There is an iron cast tower brake on the top of the tower, which is 10 meters high. It is composed of covering bowl, Yang bowl, phase wheel, canopy, orb, flame bead and other components.

The bowl is fastened to the top of the brick tower, and the orb and Yangbowl are placed on it. These three iron-cast components are old items from the seventh year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1579).

At the northwest corner of the pier, three steps are carved into the rock leading to the top of the pier.