Yongshou Temple Pagoda

The gazetteer record

三十四年丙午，正月二夜，县西北隅有赤光一道，直抵东南。知县徐良彦即其地建浮图以镇之。详《永寿寺记》。

Translated: In the thirty-fourth year, bingwu, on the second night of the first month, a single streak of red light appeared over the north-western corner of the county, reaching straight to the south-east. The magistrate Xu Liangyan built a pagoda on that spot to quell it. See the Record of Yongshou Temple for detail.

The gazetteer's own note refers the reader to the Record of Yongshou Temple, which shows that the pagoda belonged to Yongshou Temple. The gazetteer sets a record of an anomaly — the red light — and the building of the pagoda in one entry; whether such a light appeared cannot be verified. This entry repeats the original wording and does not treat the omen as established proof of the cause of the building.

The listing

The Jiangsu provincial list of protected sites records the Yongshou Temple Pagoda as Ming, in Baota Park, Yongyang Subdistrict, Lishui District. The period agrees with the gazetteer's pagoda of 1606, and the place lies in the north-western part of the county. The gazette notice for the provincial batch has not been traced, so this entry records the batch as unverified rather than guessing it.

Repairs in 1992

The Nanjing culture and tourism information platform states that in 1992, with the pagoda weathered and badly cracked, the Lishui district government organised emergency repairs. Before the work the finial had fallen from the top, the floors and stairs inside were destroyed, and cracks ran through the structure. The same page states that during heavy rain in 2024 a survey confirmed the base to be of brick and stone, with no present risk of collapse.

That page is a local tourism introduction rather than official cultural-relics documentation, and this entry says so when citing it. It gives neither the number of storeys nor the height of the pagoda; this entry does not use such figures and adds nothing about finds from the base or from repairs.

To be added

The number of storeys and faces and the height of the pagoda, the time taken to build it, the dates and content of later repairs, and the batch number and year of the provincial listing. The weak source cited here should be replaced once official documentation is found.