天津独乐寺导游词

　　temple of solitary joy is located at inside west city gate of ji county, tianjin city. it is known for its refined architecture skill in channel's ancient buildings and has got the reputation of six best. these are: the earliest dingshan gate (gate of withstanding hill) of the ground hall preserved now; the earliest chiwei object on the hill gate preserved now; the earliest plane distribution which took pavilion as the center on the architecture plane; the biggest clay sculptured statue of avalokiteavara inside a pavilion in china;

　　the avalokiteavara is also the most ancient high storeyed one; the more precious fact is that the temple of solitary joy has stood unscathed after thousand years of rain, snow, wind and frost and 28 big attacks, hence the most durable ancient monastery of thousand years. crossing the gate, one comes to the core building - avalokitesvara pavilion, 23 m in height. form outside appearance, it is two storeyed, but inside there is a hidden storey, thus three storeyed in fact. on the eaves corners, pottery unicorns are sculptured, on which little buddha statues ride. copper bells are hung under eaves corners, swaying with the wind, a specially refined scene. the most attractive thing is the structure of dougong (sets of brackets on top of the columns supporting the beams within and roof eaves without——each set consisting of tiers of outstretching arms called gong, cushioned with trapezoidal blocks called dou).

　　it is made of overlapping dougong shaped wood blocks and bow shaped horizontal wood bars by adopting 24 forms with each layer stretching out as bracket, big in upper part and small in lower part, thinly scattered, steady and sturdy. it makes eaves of the pavilion look like flying, far and deep in the sky, a beautiful and magnificent view.