Baochu Pagoda

Baochu Pagoda is a pagoda in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China. Known as one of the landmarks of the West Lake, it is located just north of the lake on top of Precious Stone Hil. Its small base helps seven memories and gives it a distinctively slim and fashionable look. The call Baochu, translated at once, manner "protect Chu", who, legend has it, refers to Qian Chu, the remaining king of Wuyue. As the story goes, considered one of King Chu's ministers had the temple constructed for prayers to be stated for his secure return from a journey he had taken to Kaifeng, in crucial China.

He had been summoned there by the Emperor and were gone many days with out a information of his go back. It became in the beginning constructed in 963 and stood nine storeys tall. Its most latest reconstruction, in 1933, left it barely shorter, seven storeys, and it has maximum lately had its lantern changed on its top, even though its previous one is on show near the pagoda. It is built of brick and stone and includes no internal staircase. The tower lies subsequent to a course that runs the length of West Lake's northern mountain variety and is obtainable by using both dust paths and cement stairs from nearly every aspect of the mountain.