Dasheng Temple Pagoda in Xinfeng, Jiangxi Province.

Dasheng Temple Pagoda was first built during the Chiwu period of the Three Kingdoms (238 AD), rebuilt during the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty (627 AD), destroyed in the late Tang Dynasty, and rebuilt in the first year of the Zhiping period of the Northern Song Dynasty (1064 AD). Dasheng Temple Pagoda is located north of Taojiang River. It is a pavilion-style pagoda of the Song Dynasty, with a brick and wood structure, six sides, nine stories, and eighteen levels, and an equilateral hexagonal plane. The pagoda hall is divided into bright and dark levels, with six doors on each level, three real doors, and three fake doors. The pagoda has a caisson and paintings, with a Buddha niche and a Buddha statue. The pagoda body is made of blue bricks with yellow mud joints. The pagoda body is composed of eaves, flat seats, and pot doors. The flat seats have railings forming a corridor. Visitors can enter the pot door along the corridor and climb to the top floor. Dasheng Temple Pagoda is "the highest in the sky, unparalleled in the province." The pagoda is 66.45 meters high, the highest Song Dynasty pagoda south of the Yangtze River. It was listed as the first batch of cultural relics protection units in Jiangxi Province in 1957 and the sixth batch of national key cultural relics protection units in 2006. Dasheng Temple Pagoda has been repaired in successive dynasties. The first and second floors were repaired in 1955. From 1984 to the end of 1990, it took seven years and more than 800,000 yuan to repair the pagoda, hoist the pagoda, and install lightning protection facilities. Dasheng Temple Pagoda was opened to tourists in 1991. In 2005, Xinfeng Finance allocated more than 700,000 yuan to restore the large eaves corridor according to the construction method of the Song Dynasty, restoring the original appearance of Dasheng Temple Pagoda. From 2016 to 2017, more than 2 million yuan of national key cultural relics protection funds were obtained to comprehensively repair Dasheng Temple Pagoda.