雙語科技百科(工程建築) 第76期:嵩嶽寺塔
Songyue Pagoda
Songyue Pagoda is situated in Songyue Temple in the south of Mount Song and at the foot of Taishi Mountain, where all is nestling among the mountains and in the folds of the forests and mountains , the spring water streams, and the birds twitter, making people there bathed in the scenery of serenity and grace as if in the paradise. Initially built in the year 509 and the Summer Palace of Emperor Xuangwu of Northern Wei, Songyue Temple was later transformed into a buddhist temple At the time, it was very large in size and at its heyday, as could be proved by the fact that Emperor Wu Zetian in the Tang Dynasty once took it as her temporary dwelling place when visiting Mount Song. Songyue Pagoda, built in the first year of Zhengguang of Northern Wei, namely in the year 520, was, among the existing pagodas with the dense-eaves types, the earliest one. The whole pagoda, assuming a graceful parabola shape, is exquisite in design and considered to be the classic of the pagodas with the dense-eaves types. With a height of 39. 8 meters, a circumference of 33.7 meters and a thickness of 2.45 meters, it has i5 tiers equilateral-dodecagoned dense eaves as the body and is the only example of its kind among the various kinds of ancient pagodas extant in our country. The pagoda, composed of the base, the body, the dense eaves and the finial, was built with the bluish bricks, it is hollow inside and e are between the tiers such things as the doors, mullion windows and carved animals, the design of which is ingenious, unique and spectacular. Songyue Pagoda, boasting a height of almost 40 meters and a history of over 1400 years, can be considered one of the extremely fine craftsmanships. The modern scientific principles in geology, geometry, physics and chemistry were applied, and the building materials, namely the small bluish bricks and glutinous rice juice, firmly agglutinated together. Songyue Pagoda, given its unique shape, became a masterpiece in the ancient Chinese architectural history, and is of great research value in the architecture.
嵩嶽寺塔位於嵩山南麓，太室山腳下的嵩嶽寺內，這裏羣山環抱、山林掩局映、泉水淙淙、鳥語和鳴、景色清幽雅緻，一派人間仙景。嵩嶽寺始建於公元509年，原來是宣武帝的離官，後改爲佛教寺院。當時的嵩嶽寺規模宏大，盛極一時，武則天遊嵩山時，曾把這裏作爲行官。嵩嶽寺塔建於北魏正光元年，公元520年，是我國現存年代最早的密檐式磚塔，大塔整個外形呈現出優美的拋物線形，設計絕妙，堪稱密檐式塔的經典之作。大塔高39.8米，周長33.7米，壁厚2.45米，塔身平面爲等邊十二角形15層密檐，是我國現存各類古塔中的孤例，全塔由基臺，塔身，密檐和塔剎四部分組成，用青灰條磚壘砌，塔身中空，呈筒狀。各塔層之間均有壺門，櫺窗，雕獸等，精巧獨特，雄偉壯觀，形制獨特。嵩嶽寺塔高近40米，歷經1400多年，氣勢高危的古塔可謂鬼斧神工，整座大塔運用了地質、幾何、物理、化學等現代科學原理，所用的建築材料系小青磚、糯米汁、粘結牢固，嵩嶽寺塔以它獨有的造型成爲中國古建築史上的千古絕唱，在建築學上有着極高的研究價值。
