Ruiguang Tower is located in Panmen Scenic Spots in Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province. According to legend, in the fourth year of Chiwu in the Three Kingdoms, Sun Quan built Ruiguang Temple to welcome monks from the Western Regions. In the tenth year of Chiwu, Sun Quan built another

Suzhou Ruiguang Temple Pagoda

Ruiguang Pagoda is located in Panmen Scenic Spots, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province. According to legend, in the fourth year of Chiwu in the Three Kingdoms (241), Sun Quan built Ruiguang Temple (formerly known as Puji Zen Temple) to welcome monks from the Western Regions. In the tenth year of Chiwu, Sun Quan built another thirteen-story relic pagoda in the temple to repay his mother's kindness. During the rebuilding of in the Song Dynasty, the tower was changed to a seventh level during the 4th year of Xuanhe html, and the plaque was given as "Ruiguang Zen Temple". According to legend, five colors of auspicious lights often appear on the tower, so it was renamed "Ruiguang Tower" and has been used to this day.

On the evening of April 12, 1978, after school, three naughty children climbed the precarious Ruiguang Temple Pagoda in order to take out bird eggs regardless of danger.

They climbed to the third floor of Ruiguang Tower and accidentally touched a loose brick in the heart of the tower. They lifted the heavy brick niche and found a dark hole below. Relying on the faint light from the hole in the wall, the three naughty children found that there was a wooden box more than one meter high in the hole.

Because the tower is high, they can't climb down normally, so they threw this batch of cultural relics worth 5 billion directly from the tower. In addition, because it was getting late, the three naughty children lit a volume of the " green paper " carved version of the "Lotus Sutra" of the Song Dynasty for lighting. Fortunately, the other six volumes of the scriptures were not poisoned.

The experts who came here were shocked when they saw this black outer box. Although it has been thousands of years, it is still colorful. According to experts' identification, it is Northern Song Real Pearl Relics Treasure Banner. Thinking that these treasures were thrown away from the third floor by three naughty children, everyone was so shocked that they were sweating profusely.

This pearl relic treasure trove is a container for storing relics connected by pearls and other seven treasures. Later it became one of the treasures of Suzhou Museum.

wooden trunk is made of ginkgo wood and is a five-section square inlaid. The outer mural has a colorful portrait of the Four Heavenly Kings, which is a rare Song Dynasty masterpiece.

Four Heavenly Kings images are even in proportion, their facial expressions are exaggerated, their image is vivid, and their momentum is majestic. The four heavenly king statues are each limited to a narrow and long picture. The author expresses the movement of the king in the quiet through the movement of the character's body, the floating belt, expressive brushstrokes and colors. Rich natural colors make the picture realistic and sporty. The legacy of the Tang Dynasty painting saint Wu Daozi can be seen everywhere in the painting. The brushwork is thick and vigorous, and the willow leaves are drawn, and the lines are vivid and smooth, making the whole painting reach a nearly perfect state.

The words "Diary of April 18, 6th year of Dazhongxiang" and "Duyou Fang Yunsheng's wife, Sun Shiniang" are engraved on the wooden box. "Dazhong" is the reign of Emperor Zhenzong of the Northern Song Dynasty, while "Fu Dian" is actually the official name of the Northern Song Dynasty. This wooden box should be a relic left by a local official named Fang Yunsheng in the Northern Song Dynasty, along with his wife Sun Shiniang.

Four Heavenly Kings (Sanskrit: चतुर्महाराज, Caturmahārājakayikas), also known as Four Heavenly Kings of the World, , is the Dharma protector god of Buddhism, commonly known as " Four Vajra ". The four great heavenly kings are four gods among the twenty heavens, located in the first level of heaven, also known as the Four Heavenly Kings Heaven. According to Buddhist scriptures, there is a mountain on the belly of Mount Sumeru, called Gandhara Mountain. There are four mountain tops. Each one lives in one mountain to protect the whole day (, four major continents, namely, , east-shenzhou , , south-sanbazhou , , west-niuhezhou , , north-guluzhou ), so it is also known as the Four Heavenly Kings of Protection, and is the first of the Six Desire Heavens. Their statues are usually listed on both sides of the first hall of the Pure Land Zen Buddhist Temple, so they are also called the Heavenly King Hall.

Eastern King of Heaven : "Holding the country" means compassion, protecting sentient beings, and protecting the country, so it is called Helding the country . Bai Yinteng, who lives in Mount Sumeru, is white, wears armor, and holds pipa or Ruan Qin in his hand. There are two meanings: 1. The elasticity and tightness of string instrument should be moderate. If it is too tight, it will be easy to break. If it is too loose, it will not sound. It represents the method of performing the middle way; 2. It is the main music god, indicating that he wants to use music to convert sentient beings to Buddhism.He was responsible for protecting the Dongsheng Shenzhou, and used Gandharva , Kinnara , Fudanna, Visheja and others as the tribes of the king of the kingdom. He was the fourth king of the "Twenty Heavens".

Here, the "le" instrument that symbolizes etiquette and education, which is replaced by the weapon "现", a weapon that symbolizes the force of the state, is a "现" that symbolizes etiquette and education, which is homophonic to "现", shows that a country wants to make barbarians bow their heads, and it is not possible to educate them with etiquette and education. It depends on the force of the state.

South Growth Heavenly King : "Growth" means to be able to spread sentient beings, grow good roots, and protect Buddhism, so it is called Growth Heavenly King. Living in Mount Sumeru, the body is blue, piercing armor and holding a sword in his hand, has two meanings: one, the sword symbolizes wisdom, and the wisdom sword cuts down troubles; two, in order to protect Buddhism and not be violated. He was responsible for protecting the Southern Continent, and he used Jiupancha and Satoda as the descendants of the Heavenly Kings, and was the fifth Heavenly King of the "Twenty Heavens".

Western broad-minded king : "Broad-minded king" means to be able to observe the world and protect the people at any time with the pure heavenly eyes, so it is called broad-minded king . Situated in Sumi Mountain, the crystal is red, with armor and a dragon or snake wrapped around his hands. It has two meanings: one, it means changeable in the world, and the other is the leader of the dragon god. Holding a bead in the other hand shows that the meaning of unchanging in his heart. He was responsible for protecting Xiniu Hezhou, and regarded Dragon King and others as the tribes of Guangmu Heavenly King. He was the sixth Heavenly King among the "Twenty Heavens".

North God of Hearing : Also known as Vishaman , "Live" means being quite proficient in Buddhism and hearing all directions with blessings and virtues. Living in Mount Sumeru, the golden treasure is green, wearing armor, lying on the silver rat in his left hand, and holding a treasure umbrella (or a treasure banner) on his right hand, there are two meanings: one: the umbrella cover means protecting one's heart from the external environment; two, it is used to cover the world, avoid harm from demons and gods, and protect people's wealth. Also known as Shi Caitian, it is the God of Wealth in ancient India. He is responsible for protecting Beijuluzhou, and uses Yasha and Raksha as the tribes of Dawen Tianwang . He is the third heavenly king among the "Twenty Heavens".

Muhan and Baozhu

In addition to these, most of the remaining cultural relics are Buddhist scriptures and statues of Bodhisattvas. The oldest one is the hand-written scriptures from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms periods. In addition, there are some -year burial objects made in the Song Dynasty, and their value is estimated to exceed 5 billion yuan.

Just the box is so exquisite and precious, you can imagine how rare the treasure is inside. Sure enough, there was a peerless fine product in the inner letter that was presented to everyone - the Song Dynasty's real pearl relics treasure banner. This is a container for storing relics, a precious Buddhist art made in Song Zhenzong Zhao Hengda Zhongxiang Fu in the sixth year.

The Northern Song Dynasty pearl relic treasure troupe has beautiful shapes, precious materials and exquisite craftsmanship.

Baozhu is 122.6 cm tall and is made of the top golden nanmu . It is divided from bottom to top into three parts: Sumeru mount , Buddha palace, and pagoda . The Sumeru mount is in eight square shapes, symbolizing the eight directions of the sky in Buddhism; it is divided into three layers, including the base, the Sumeru Sea, and Mount Sumeru; the whole body is gold-painted, and eight gold-painted wood-carved auspicious clouds rise around the sea surface. The "Four Heavenly Kings" stand on the clouds, holding various weapons, with extraordinary momentum, while the "Four Heavenly Girls" standing beside them are gentle and beautiful, with colorful aura. In terms of material selection, the creator selected precious crystals, agate, amber, pearls, sandalwood , gold, silver and other materials for decoration based on the "seven treasures" in the world mentioned in Buddhism. There are nearly 40,000 pearls alone, and the top of the tower brake is a crystal bead with a diameter of 3.4 cm. The sides of the bead are made of silver wires, indicating that "the Buddha's light shines everywhere."The building has a small blue gourd bottle with nine relics hidden in it.

First layer: Pagoda

The top of the Buddha Palace is a canopy with gold and silver wire beads embedded in treasures. Above the canopy is the tower shaking, standing on the canopy. The main body is columnar, made of silver rods and gold-covered wooden pillars. The brake wheel is made of white jade, crystal, five-color beads, etc., and is decorated with gold and silver cranes, leaves and silver wire beads. The small silver wire beaded flag cover on the upper part of the brake wheel is composed of extremely thin gilded silver wire, which is composed of various flowers with three-stranded braided silk coils. The small banner cover is hung around eight tassel silver chains, and the bottom is connected to the canopy star anise; the eight beaded dragons woven with silver wire as the ridges, each of which is raised to dive, representing the eight dragon kings. There is a 3.4 cm diameter crystal Mani bead on the top of the tower brake. The sides of the bead are decorated with silver wire to shape a flame light to show that "the auspicious light shines".

More than ten special techniques such as carving, gold and silver wire woven, gold and silver leather carving, sandalwood wood carving, crystal carving, lacquer carving, lacquer carving, gold drawing, beading, ancient painting, etc. The carved seventeen statues of sandalwood carvings are even more skillful. Each Buddha statue is less than 10 cm high, and it is extremely difficult to carve. The majestic expression of the king of heaven, the gracefulness of the heavenly woman, the angry expression of the strong man, and the quiet and solemnity of the Buddha are all carved to the point of being so sophisticated, which is exquisite and peerless.

second layer: The Buddha Palace protected by the Eight Great Dharma Protectors Gods

The middle of the palace is covered with the rosette, and there are royal blue octagonal column-shaped sutras. The eight sides are inscribed with the names of the Seven Buddhas , and the Sanskrit "Namo Maha Prajna Paramita"; the body of the banner is hollow, and a small blue gourd-shaped porcelain bottle is built in, and the bottle is the nine most precious relics. It also has a folded woodblock printing and a mantra of Sanskrit and Chinese "Qiu Dharani of the Great Sui Dynasty".

is a small niche with a tangled pattern made of flower-picking technology. A single piece is painted with gold, with hands made of meditation seals, and a head wrapped in Fengdou . She is wearing a monk and a wooden carving statue of a master who sits in the middle of the body. She is solemn and kind, peaceful and peaceful. Although her body is active and small, she is portrayed in detail. Above the gilded silver niches of the palace pillars and the roof of the tower, the eight-shaped hall roof is round, and the rafters and beam skeletons and inner core are made of whole wood. rafters and are made of 108 hollow fine silver bars. The skeletons and inner cores are covered with plum blossom-shaped wire mesh made of silver wire; cross beams, douches, tiles, dripping water, etc. are all made of thick silver wire as bones, and fine silver wire mesh is knotted with pearls; there are eight images of the guardian gods at the corners of the beam; all douches beams and flying rafters are decorated with dense small pearls; the ends of the eight-shaped corners are hung with treasure flowers and skeletons. There are also wooden niches with piles of lacquer and gold-painted treasure-shaped patterns on the top of the hall, with a few small pearls dotted in the piles of lacquer. The niche contains golden-carved fine-necked treasure vases, and the relief pattern on the surface is themed with Guanyin and playful boys. The picture is divided into four sides, with cloud patterns as the background, with flying sky and phoenixes, a fairy-spirited artistic conception.

niche is placed on the niche of octagonal gold and silver wire. The hard pivot of the canopy is made of gilded thick silver wire. The cover pattern is arranged in eight equal parts. Each surface is composed of two upper and lower braided silk patterns. The surrounding area of ​​the canopy is decorated with various colors of red, blue, and white. The cover surface is roughly decorated with winding pearl decorative patterns; the canopy is also decorated with eight beaded dragons, which radially swept downward along the top of the canopy, making the canopy and the hall roof below as magnificent as eight ridges and double eaves.

The treasure pavilion displays seventeen statues of the Heavenly King, Heavenly Girl, Vajra and Buddha. They have different expressions and unique personalities, with big views in small places and full of vitality. The author has exquisite knife skills, properly handled the undulations of clothes, smooth lines, outstanding dynamic expression of the skin, concise play of the knife, roughly looking round, and looking at it, the blocks can be seen. The statues inherit the Buddhist rituals and are extraordinary in their decorations.It is extremely rare to paint without gold or paint, its own plain colors and the whole body is gold-tight.

Sumeru seat is on a wooden gold-drawing hook. Inside the hook is the Mount Sumeru Sea, the Mount Sumeru Sea is all gold-drawing, and eight gold-drawing wood-carved auspicious clouds rise around the sea surface. The "Four Heavenly Kings" stand on the clouds, holding various weapons, with extraordinary momentum. Standing beside them is the "Four Heavenly Girl", gentle, beautiful, and graceful. A pillar of sea surging is raised in the turbulent waves, and Mount Sumeru is above it. A silver-wire gilded beaded nine-headed dragon coiled around the sea surging pillar. It is said that it is a symbol of the Dragon King and controls the drought and floods in the world.

The third floor: Sumeru mount

Hall is the middle part of the pearl relics treasure pagoda, which is located on the Sumeru treasure mountain. The palace consists of the foundation of the hall, the pillars of the hall, the eight-day guardian of the temple, the eight-edged sutra tower, the gold-plated silver niche on the roof, the roof of the hall, the lacquered wood niches, and the canopy. The eight hall pillars in a week are all made of gilt silver silk inlaid with slim silk technology outside the eight-curved Ruyi columns. The lotus-shaped crystal column base is placed under the hall column, and the gold-shaped octagonal-shaped hall foundation is engraved with clouds and mist. The Buddha statues carved on the outside of the hall column are particularly exquisite. The Sumeru seat at the bottom of

is in a square shape, symbolizing the eight directions of heaven in Buddhism, and is divided into three layers, including the base, the Sumeru Sea and Mount Sumeru. At the corners of each floor of the base, the corners are covered with lacquer strips of flowers. On the steps are eight dancing silver lions, and the inclined surface is decorated with portraits of stacked painted gold and offering different images.

The Sumeru seat of this treasure pavilion is extremely exquisite and complex, and the whole body depicts the treasure face, tangled branches and geometric patterns, as thin as a fine hair.

mounts are octagonal, and at the bottom of each corner, there are dovetail-shaped feet with piles of painted skulls of different shapes at the height of 3 cm. There are double layers of parallel square radials on the eight-ringed pedestal, with a waist in the middle. Each side is equipped with pot doors and three, and the 24 pot door holes are decorated with gold and silver silk Ruyi flower decorations; the slabs are decorated with crabapple-shaped treasure decorations, and the corners are covered with lacquered flower patterns; eight small silver lions are placed on the top, including leaping, looking back, scratching ears, etc., with vivid shapes; there is another layer of square radial on the inside of the silver lion, and the upper part is gradually converging to an eight-ringed inclined arc surface, which folds and closes to a flat step. The octagonal inclined curves are decorated with two people made of stacked paint and gold, and a total of sixteen images of people who offer their own support. On the flat steps, there are three-dimensional carved small wooden lions on each side. The surface of the wooden lion is decorated with stone green , and the part is slightly covered with red color; on the inner side of the flat steps, the Ruyi pot door is carved, and the top is carried with the flat steps surrounded by an octagonal strap.

The eight columns of the railings are decorated with silver-wire beaded lotus, and a crystal ball is placed on each lotus. Within the stairs of the stairs, the sea is carved with waves on the facade and circular plane, and the whole is gold-painted; eight golden auspicious clouds rising upwards are carved around the waves, and eight gods stand at the top; openwork columns are protruding like mushroom clouds in the middle of the sea, and a nine-headed dragon woven with beads of gold-plated silver silk are coiled on the column. The dragon ridge and dragon skin frame are made of thick gilded silk, the dragon's teeth, hair, ears, horns, and dragon scales and claws are made of extremely thin three-stranded braids, and the dragon's claws are chiseled out of silver; the upper end of the column holds up the Sumeru Baoshan composed of sixteen overlapping mountains.

The beautiful shape of the pearl relics treasure pagoda, the precious material selection, and the exquisite craftsmanship are all rare in the world. The Sumeru mount, offeringer, cloud sea, Mount Sumeru, cloud head, heavenly king, heavenly girl, guardian god, lacquer niche, wood carving statues of Buddha, etc., all combine the comprehensive lacquerware techniques such as vermilion lacquer, hidden gold , gold lacquer painting, thick lacquer pile molding and other lacquerware techniques. The Octagonal Sutra Tower uses green land gold books and other technologies, representing the highest lacquerware technology in Suzhou , reflecting the highest level of lacquer art in the Song Dynasty. It integrates the top level of professional skills such as wood carving, lacquer art, jade carving, gold and silver fine arts at that time. It embodies the wisdom and hard work of many skilled craftsmen.It uses the technique of the mutual generation of virtual and real, exerts rich imagination, and designs an extraordinary, solemn and luxurious world of Buddhist countries, which is a rare national treasure-level Buddhist art treasure.