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Jiaxiu Tower in Guiyang
www.chinanews.cn 2005-07-26 16:39:35
Jiaxiu Tower is the landmark of Guizhou's capital Guiyang and also the
symbol of Guiyang culture. Before Jiaxiu Tower was built, Ma Yanxi,
disciple of Wang Yangming, a philosopher and educator of the Ming Dynasty
(1368-1644), built Qiyun Pavilion on the site to give lectures. Zhang
Sanfeng, a well-known Taoist, once paid a tour there and predicted that
the location would be a fair place with outstanding talents myriad and
beautiful scenes. In 1598, the 26th year of the Wanli Reign (1573-1620)
of the Ming Dynasty, Jiang Dongzhi, governor of Guizhou, built the Jiaxiu
Tower with an implied meaning of good performance in the imperial civil
examinations. As expected, three Guizhou candidates were titled Number
One Scholar in the highest imperial examination and two of them once
lived near the Nanming River which flowed under the Jiaxiu Tower.
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