Andersen's fairy tale has a story of the Garden of Heaven, the son of the mother of the wind, Dongfeng, flew to China, danced around the porcelain pagoda for a while, and then there was jingling music, and the tower in the fairy tale was real, that is, the glass pagoda of the Dabao'en Temple in Nanjing.
Dabao'en Temple Glass Pagoda, in many American dramas that have become popular in recent years, an interesting detail has been "pulled out" by netizens: whenever Chinese food takeaway appears, it is accompanied by a red Chinese pagoda image. It is printed on Chinese food delivery boxes that appear in all American dramas, American movies and even cartoons. This detail may surprise many Chinese, and outside the Great Wall and Tiananmen Square, Westerners also regard the tower as a landmark of China. Once upon a time, this glazed pagoda, together with the Colosseum of Rome, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and the Great Wall of China, was known as the Seven Wonders of the Medieval World and was regarded by Westerners as an iconic symbol of China. However, the glass pagoda has disappeared from the sight of Chinese for so long that it is not so well-known in China. The tower was destroyed at the end of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and for many years thereafter, the Chinese people read fragments of its glorious past from the adoration of foreigners.
In addition to the glass pagoda of the Great Bao'en Temple mentioned in Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, there is also a tower in the ancient Babylon kingdom called the Tower of Babel, the Tower of Babel is also known as the Tower of Babel, according to the Bible, ancient humans united to build a tower that can lead to heaven, in order to stop the human plan, God let the human beings speak different languages, so that human beings can not communicate with each other, the plan failed, and human beings have scattered things since then.
It is recorded that several kings of the ancient Babylonian kingdom worked on the Tower of Babel, but foreign conquerors continued to destroy it, and after its destruction, the Tower of Babel was rebuilt. 150 years after the tower of Babel was built, the ancient Greek historian Herodotus visited the city of Babylon, and recorded that the Tower of Babel was built on many huge platforms, which had 8 floors, the higher the smaller, and the upper platform was built with the temple of Marduk. The Tower of Babel was the tallest building in Babylon at the time, and it can be seen anywhere in the country, and people call it the "Tower of Babel". Some people also call it a stepping stone on the way of the gods in heaven to the dwelling place of mortals, and it is the "caravanserai" or "inn" of the heavenly road.
Is it really necessary to build the tower so tall, as the Bible says, to give the scattered people a place to concentrate? Obviously not, it is widely believed that the Tower of Babel is a religious building, and some people think that the Tower of "Babel" is multifunctional. The ground floor of the tower is a temple for sacrifice, and the top of the tower is a outpost for military observation.
In ancient times, there were towers that influenced China and foreign countries, and modern times are certainly not willing to be subordinated. The crown of China's tallest building was successfully taken away by the Shanghai Tower, and although it is not as tall as the Burj Khalifa in the world, it is at the top of the list in China. After the completion of the Shanghai Tower, almost broke through our bold imagination of the vertical city it is the tallest modern skyscraper in Shanghai, but also known as the "Dinghai God" of the city's new landmark, but with the continuous elevation of the domestic urban skyline, it may soon be overtaken, because China's another ultra-high skyscraper, will settle in Chengdu, and with an absolute advantage of 677 meters to seize the top spot, becoming China's first highest, the world's second highest.
Ancient architectural culture, broad and profound, has a long history, it is a valuable wealth in the world's traditional culture. In ancient times, there were towers that condensed the crystallization of human wisdom, and in modern times there are high-rise buildings that reflect the rapid development of the era. The same is culture, but there is a problem of the age of the times, the same culture, but there is a problem of regional differences. In the long river of historical development, ancient architectural culture has an indispensable role in promoting the architectural cause of modern society, the times are developing, and culture is advancing with the times in the trend of the development of the times.