The only one in the country｜Zoroastrianism Zoroastrianism Tower

The building is named after the temple. The Demon God Building is a component of the Jiexiu Zoroastrian Temple. It is a Zoroastrian pavilion-style building that combines a gate tower, a music tower and a crossing tower. The Zoroastrian Tower is made of wood and stone, and its clothes are made of colored glaze. It is ingeniously designed, magnificent and gorgeous, and has a varied shape. It is a masterpiece of Qing Dynasty pavilion architecture and a "living fossil" for studying Chinese Zoroastrian culture. The Zoroastrian Tower faces south and covers an area of ​​575 square meters. Its plan is in the shape of a "convex" character, and the protruding part looks like a pair of strong and powerful "arms" stretched out towards the hustle and bustle of the city. This is a protruding over-street building, three rooms wide and three rooms deep, with passages on the east, west and south sides, two stories high, a flat platform in the middle, and double eaves on top. The wider part of the building has a mountain gate on the lower level and a music building on the upper level. The lower gate is five bays wide and four bays deep, with a corridor around it, creating a spacious space. The flat platform at the waist of the gate is connected to the flat platform of the overpass, and the floor is laid underneath, forming a music building for offering sacrifices to the gods and performing plays in the temple. The Music Tower is located at the upper part of the mountain gate, with eight-character screen walls on both sides of the building. The upper part of the building has double eaves, and with the flat balcony at the waist, it is actually four stories high. Four through columns in the building directly support the upper beams. The mountain gate and music tower are stacked up and down. The roof is a cross-shaped hip roof, all covered with glazed ridge tiles. The second-floor shrine houses statues of Emperor Wenchang, Kuixing and his attendants. Back in the Northern Song Dynasty, Wen Yanbo, a well-known politician, designed the prototype of the Zoroastrian Tower with his enthusiasm and extraordinary ingenuity. At that time, it might have been just a place to place people’s faith and gather people. With the initial bricks and stones and the new wooden beams, no one could have expected that this tower would become a "cultural messenger" throughout history and be preserved to this day. Zoroastrianism, a mysterious religious sect that came from the ancient Persian country with exotic customs, has unique doctrines and beautiful rituals. After settling in the Central Plains, it collided and blended with local culture. After years of vicissitudes, many traces of Zoroastrianism have faded in the evolution of history, but the Zoroastrian Temple has become a powerful evidence of the existence of Zoroastrianism on the Chinese land. Today, the beast-like gods on the ridge of the Zoroastrian temple, the glazed statues of people in Hu clothing riding auspicious beasts, and the glazed ornaments with 莨苕gen sáo patterns all exude a strong West Asian Persian style. The Zoroastrian Temple was built in the 50th year of Emperor Qianlong's reign (1785). Although it has been repaired or rebuilt many times, the original building structure has never been damaged. Today we can still find relics of Zoroastrianism and Zoroastrian temple culture from the carved patterns on purlins, beams, rafters, columns, door inserts, and brackets. Looking up from below, the huge eaves look like a roc spreading its wings, ready to fly. The winter sun shines on the glass, making it colorful and sparkling. Zoroastrianism