Buddhist architecture includes Buddhist temples, pagodas and grottoes. The early Buddhist architecture in China was influenced by Indian. In pagoda temple, pagoda is the center, and temples and monasteries are built around it. The tower, which enshrines relics and Buddha statues, is the central building of the temple. After the Jin and Tang Dynasties, monasteries gradually became the main buildings, and pagodas moved outside the temple, and more pagodas were built in front of the temple, behind the temple or in another courtyard, forming a Buddhist temple structure centered on Daxiong Hall.

Stupa, Buddhist architecture. It was originally a place where Buddhist relics were buried. Inherent seven treasures decoration, so it is called pagoda, and later it has the reputation of tower. Hokkin. See the pagoda: "There are seven pagodas in front of the Second Buddha, which are 500 high and 250 in vertical and horizontal directions, living in the air." There are 5,000 pillars, tens of millions of niches, and countless banners with jewels and trillions of bells hanging on them.

Pagoda-Nine Mirror Pagoda

Jiujing Pagoda is an ancient pagoda on Yangshan Mountain in Gupi Town, Suining City, Jiangsu Province. Because there are nine gold plates (bronze mirrors) on the tower, the top is facing the sky, so it is named Jiujing Tower, and Futu Temple is renamed Jiujing Zen Temple. Built in the Eastern Han Dynasty, it is the earliest recorded stupa in history. Has been destroyed by the war.

According to the Records of the Later Han Dynasty and Pizhou, in A.D. 193, when Danyang people were appointed as Xiapi Township in the Eastern Han Dynasty, a pagoda temple was built on Yangshan Mountain, two miles southwest of Xiapi City. Baota Temple has a golden plate at the top and a heavy building at the bottom, which can accommodate more than 3,000 people. There is a pagoda in Baota Temple. There are nine gold plates (nine bronze mirrors) on the pagoda: four sides and eight sides, and one side in the middle, hence the name Nine Mirror Pagoda. The nine-mirror tower built of masonry is octagonal and nine-level, with cornices and upturned corners on each floor. There are 480 Buddha statues inside and outside the tower, decorated with golden clothes. The tower, with 148 steps, spirals to the top of the tower and is the earliest pagoda in China.

In 494 AD, Tuoba of the Northern Wei Dynasty entered the Central Plains, and Xiapi was changed to East Xuzhou. Foreign rulers accepted Chinese culture, promoted Buddhism and Confucianism, ordered local officials to build temple pagodas, and Jiujing Temple was expanded. During the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, Jiujing Temple was renamed Sakyamuni, which was the predecessor of Yangshan Shan Zong Temple. During the Southern Song Dynasty, Xiapi was still an important military town. During the Song and Jin Wars, Jiujing Pagoda was unfortunately destroyed by the war, and the site was located under Futu Temple in Jiujing Lake, Suining.