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The Three Pagodas of Chongsheng Temple is located 1.5 kilometers northwest of the ancient city of Dali, west of the Cang Mountain Yingle Peak and east of the Er Sea, about 1,500 meters from the foot of the mountain. There is Peach Creek flowing to the east at 336 meters south. North 76 meters there is the Plum Creek, east of the Yunnan-Tibet Highway. The three pagodas are composed of a large and two small pagodas. The big pagoda is also known as Thousand Seeking Pagoda, the local people call it "Wenpen Pagoda", 69.13 meters high, the bottom 9.9 meters, where 16 levels, for the Dali area typical of the dense eaves hollow four square brick tower. North and south of the small tower are ten levels, 42.17 meters high, for the octagonal dense eaves hollow brick tower. On March 4, 1961, it was announced by the State Council as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units.
The three pagodas of Chongsheng Temple were built in the period of Nanzhao King advised Feng You (824-859 AD), first built the big tower "Qianxun Pagoda", 69.13 meters high, is a square dense eaves brick tower, a total of 16 layers. Later, the south and north pagodas were built, both 42.19 meters high, a pair of octagonal brick pagodas, both with 10 levels. The three pagodas were built, in addition to the Buddhist preaching of Buddhahood, there is also an important reason, is that Dali is an ancient "watery country". The ancient book "Jin Shi Zuizhi" in the record: "the world said that the dragon nature respect tower and fear of peng, Dali old for the dragon, so this town." According to legend, in ancient times the construction of three towers, using a layer of soil to repair a layer of the tower method, the tower repaired, before the soil layer by layer to dig away, so that the tower appears, so there are "pile of soil to build the tower" and "digging now tower" said. The bridge built when the tower, as high as a hill, more than 10 miles long. When repairing the tower, the lack of transport, but also with goats to pack bricks, now the Dali silver bridge village, ancient times known as "tower bridge village". The ancient records to repair the three towers, "service craftsmen 7.7 million, cost more than 40,000 gold, took eight years to build. After the construction of the three towers, and built a large scale Chongsheng Temple.
In 1977, during the maintenance process, more than 600 pieces of cultural relics such as Buddha statues and scriptures from the Nanzhao and Dali periods were cleared from the top and base of the tower. This is the richest and most important batch of cultural relics from the Nanzhao and Dali periods. One of them is a gold statue, weighing 1135 grams and 0.24 meters high. There are also engraved bronze tablets, Buddhist scriptures, various bronze mirrors, and various medicines such as vermilion, sinker, sandalwood, deer antler, coral, mica, etc. These objects provide valuable information for the study of the history, religion and culture of Nanzhao and Dali periods.