Yongtai Temple of Zhengzhou in the romantic season

Located at the west foot of Taishi Mountain, Yongtai Temple is about 11 kilometers northwest of Dengfeng, Zhengzhou of Henan Province.

Facing west, the temple is opposite to the Shaolin Temple and next to the Zijin Peak to the north, Shaoshi Mountain and the rippling green waves of the Shaolin reservoir to the south.

Yongtai Temple is the first female monk temple built after the introduction of Zen Buddhism into the Central Plains, and the earliest Buddhist temple built in China.

The pagoda of Yongtai Temple was built during the glorious age of Tang Dynasty, so it’s also called Tang Pagoda. It is a one-story brick tower with dense eaves, which made of black brick and yellow mud and coated with a thin layer of white ash of outer walls.

The base side of the tower is 5.05 meters long, and the body is 24 meters high, with a 1.6 meters thick wall.

On the south side of the tower, there is a door 2.6 meters high and 1.74 meters wide, which leads to the inner chamber of the tower that is square and empty. The tower has 11 layers of dense eaves, the interior of the tower for the empty cylinder, the tower door arch, south.

Yongtai Temple Pagoda, with its exquisite shape has become the outstanding one among the existing Tang pagodas.