Where is the location of Ruijin Dragon Ball Tower?

Ruijin Dragon Pearl Tower is a cultural relic protection unit in Jiangxi Province.

Ruijin Dragon Ball Tower, commonly known as Baita, is located on the Mianjiang River about 3000 meters southwest of Ruijin City. Because of the tower and the temple, there are place names, and the historical place name "Taxia Temple" is still in use today. In recent years, the construction of Ruijin city has developed rapidly, and the Dragon Ball Tower and its adjacent Ruijin Martyrs Memorial Hall, Chinese Soviet National History Memorial Hall and Baixianlin have become important urban landscapes and tourist attractions in our city. Dragon Ball Tower is a typical Shuikou Tower of Ruijin and an important symbol of Ruijin city.

The Dragon Ball Tower was built in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty (1602), rebuilt in Xiguan in the 18th year of Qing Daoguang (1838) with donations from Yang, and renovated again in 1934, centering on the tower. The tower is nine levels and six sides, and the wall is folded up to reach the top of the tower along the steps; The tower is 34 meters high, the ground floor is -39.4 meters, the inner diameter is 2.85 meters and the wall thickness is 4.38 meters. The top wall thickness is 2.73m, and the inner diameter is1.75m.: For masonry structures, the interior and exterior are painted with lime; The hexagonal corner of tower foundation adopts small corner rubbing column foundation; There are three doors on the first floor that can enter the tower. Starting from the second floor, all floors in the inner layer are paved with floor beams and floors, with doors and niches. Each outer layer has doors and windows, which can be used for viewing; Climbing the ancient pagoda, overlooking the vast Bijia Mountain and the surging Mianjiang River, the scenery is infinite and panoramic, and visitors to the pagoda are endless. After vicissitudes of life, the ancient pagoda has been eroded by wind and rain for a hundred years, and still stands tall by the Mianjiang River. The whole tower is basically intact, except that grass and shrubs grow on the eaves of the shell, the rotating steps on the eaves of the tower fall off and are partially damaged, the stone tablets placed in the tower, the beams and floors of each floor are removed, and the top of the pagoda gourd is missing. Dragon Ball Pagoda is exquisitely carved, durable and has a long-standing reputation. 1980 was exhibited in the "National Ancient Pagoda" photo exhibition of Shanxi Provincial Museum.

As an important Shuikou Tower of Ruijin, Dragon Ball Tower contains very rich cultural connotations and accumulates the humanistic mentality of Ruijin people from generation to generation. In the history of thousands of years, Mianjiang River is an important waterway of Ruijin, and Longzhu Tower is an important navigation mark of Mianjiang River and an important symbol of entering Ruijin, which plays an important role in creating a typical spatial environment of Ruijin Basin. In the traditional geomantic theory, Shuikou Tower has the function of still water, and the accumulation of water leads to the accumulation of wealth, which implies the protection of the wealth of Ruijin people. At the same time, the Dragon Ball Pagoda is the "first stroke" in Ruijin folklore, which also symbolizes the prosperity of Ruijin civilization.

Longzhu Temple in Ganzhou City

Address: Ruijin, Ganzhou, Jiangxi