Liuhe Pagoda, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 杭州六和塔
The Liuhe Pagoda stands on Yuelun Hill on the north bank of the Qiantang River in Hangzhou. It was first founded in the Wuyue kingdom of the Five Dynasties; the surviving brick body dates from the Southern Song rebuilding. Octagonal in plan, it looks thirteen storeys high but has only seven inside, and the wooden eaves outside were added in the Qing. Liang Sicheng described it as originally a graceful brick pagoda imitating timber construction; its present outline is no longer the original, though the arched niches and brick carving inside are still Song work.
