Dongxi Temple

1946 - 1948, Kunming, known as the "bastion of democracy", recently covered on the floor, walls Chiang Kai-shek's anti-imperialist poetry, essays, known as "Democracy Wall." In 1950, the PLA Second Field four corps into Kunming Cheng through the floor recently. Street, both sides of the wooden structure built with the old traditional style of buildings in Kunming, tea and some open, some business handicrafts, native products. Standing in the street, looking east, the East Temple potential if dyke; west, West Temple towering tall and straight. East Temple, Walking Street, West Temple synthesis of an old cultural characteristics of the area of ??Kunming.

Yuan, Kunming poet Wang Sheng put the "Twin Towers quite dyke trend" as one of the famous Kunming. Kunming, the early Ming history like scenery of the poem describing the "south of the Twin Towers high-towering, thousand hills north of the city such as the Bay waves." Guo's poem also "Lake Towers floating potential desire to go to Yamagata, such as China owns five." Qing Dynasty, Daguanlou long beard joint author of the Sun "Daguanlou" poem "to listen to a small bamboo sing chants, double floating tower shadow suddenly look drunk. "money in South Park," Auntie Temple "poem" West Temple night wind, frost air constantly ringing. "Ming dynasty, the literature said the East, West Temple of the Twin Towers. Yunnan travel East Temple and West Temple is the oldest pagoda in Yunnan to create one of the people who built the tower, literature, is "Building Jiedushi Nanzhao Wang lofty summit get built, Da Jiang Yuchi Gong Tao made." But construction of the tower, there's several different record: the "rehabilitation of the East Temple Changle Temple mind" set: "Five things the two towers south of China, high into the sky, Chi-year period that the Tang Dynasty (627 ~ 649 years) to create . "" re-writing the East Temple Square, the tower-cum-loyalty by three Inscription "contains:" Building the tower get built in Nanzhao Wang lofty summit Jiedushi hand, Zong reign of three years (827 years to 839 years). "Ni slough "Yunnan cloud passed over the years," set "Tang Wenzong Wo first year (827 years), Feng Yu Shan Temple illustrates construction of the East, one hundred fifty feet high; West Temple eighty feet high." Ming Dynasty "Annals of Yunnan" is that is the beginning of Tang Zhen Yuan (785 ~ 805 years) to build. Wearing a Jiong Sun "Kunming County" that is the Tang Yuan and three years (808 years) to build. Ruan Yuan sound "Nanzhao unofficial" set: "Emperor Xu¨¡nzong Awake eight large and medium (854 years) to build the East Temple, Yunnan tour one hundred fifty feet high, eighty feet high, West Temple, Da Jiang Yuchi Gong Tao made. Arrogant and three years (829 years) Tai in thirteen years (859 years) successfully completed "; Republic of China for 13 years," Kunming "contains:" East, West Second Temple from the Tang Wenzong Wo ... ... three years (829 years) started three decades before Li Chun. " Wang lofty summit of the tower is Nanzhao Quan Chen, Ren Dong Jiedushi get when Emperor Xian Zong Yuan and the first year (806 years). 829 years, the king lofty summit Rukou Sichuan, swept tens of thousands of children, hundreds of hands go south, "Da Jiang Yuchi Gong Tao," and other craftsmen is time to Yunnan. 859 years, the king lofty summit of Death. 1983 to 1984 West Temple service, the tower puzzle of "Apocalypse decade (849) the first month, 25 Yi-made bricks at the title the book" Don bricks for building a tower to provide a reliable age of evidence. Can be seen, the record, when the sound of Ruan Yuan "Nanzhao unofficial", the Republic of 13 years, "Kunming Zhi" contained in the tower's as is.