A solid hexagonal granite tower on the southern slope of Panshan (南磐山) below the old Kinmen city walls in Jincheng, which were built in 1387 under the Ming dynasty general Zhou Dexing (周德興). It was one of three pagodas erected on Kinmen at the time and is the only one to survive. The five-storey structure is built of stone tapering to a pointed cap, with the inscription Kuixing Songzhao (奎星聳照). It survived the August 23rd Artillery Battle of 1958 unscathed and was lightly restored by military engineers in 1967.
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Heritage Status
- National Monument (國定古蹟)
Links
- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Cultural Assets Bureau (文化部文化資產局)
Connections
- Xujiang Xiaowo Stone Inscriptions (虛江嘯臥石刻群)
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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.