A brief account of the ancient Tiening Temple and Wenfeng Pagoda in Anyang.

On October 2, after breakfast, I went to Tiening Temple at 8 o'clock. Following the navigation instructions, I entered the old city and followed the one-way street. There were many old houses and old buildings on both sides of the road. When I arrived at Tiening Temple, there was a parking lot next to it. Maybe it was early, there were plenty of parking spaces. After changing the ticket at the ticket office, I asked for a tour guide to explain and started the tour of Tiening Temple and Wenfeng Pagoda. Tiening Temple is very small, and it takes half an hour to finish the tour. Tiening Temple was built in the Later Zhou Dynasty and is a folk temple. After the war, only a small part of the building remains. The most eye-catching thing about Tiening Temple is Wenfeng Pagoda, which is a brick and wood structure with 5 layers and 8 corners. It is small at the bottom and large at the top, light at the top and heavy at the bottom, and the design is ingenious. The top of the tower is a Tibetan-style bowl-shaped tower, which looks like a reduced version of the White Tower in Beihai, Beijing, placed on the top of the tower. The brick carvings around it are exquisite, with iron chains and four-clawed dragons. The scenes of the Buddha's birth, practice, preaching, and nirvana are vivid. From March of this year, the tower is no longer allowed to climb, which is regrettable. Although the courtyard is small, the begonias, pomegranates, bamboos and various trees and plants are lush, and the birdsong is clear in the ears, like a pure land in the downtown, which makes people feel pure and longing. There is a two-story small tower in the Dennis parking lot behind, which is also a part of the original Tiening Temple. The tower body is engraved with the Eight Diagrams, and the three religions of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism are combined into one. The aunts next to them are chatting, and the children are playing, which is inexplicably matched.