Tourist attraction
Longhua Pagoda
2853 Long Hua Lu, Xu Hui Qu, 200232
Octagonal Song-dynasty brick pagoda of seven storeys, saved from demolition by locals during the Cultural Revolution.
This guide to Longhua Pagoda in Shanghai opens in 1966, with a tractor and a taut rope at the base of the tower and Red Guards set on pulling the seven-story pagoda down. It traces the pagoda back through a 1954 restoration that stripped away later additions, its 977 rebuilding by a lord of the Wuyue kingdom, and a legend of an even older shrine raised by the warlord Sun Quan. Look up at the swastika-shaped railings and the small bells swinging on the eaves, forty meters above you.
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