Porter Pagoda

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Nameless lake and water tower (Porter Pagoda)
Porter Pagoda (Boya ta)

The Porter Pagoda (also "Boya Pagoda"; Chinese  博雅塔 , Pinyin Bóyǎ Tǎ ), formerly usually simply called the water tower ( 水塔 , shuǐtǎ ), is a building in Beijing.

The pagoda is located on what is now Peking University in the Haidian district of the Chinese capital on the southeastern bank of the so-called Nameless Lake ( 未名湖 , Wèimíng Hú ) in the campus’s famous landscaped park. The structure is a water tower originally built in 1924 for the former Yanjing University ( Yanjing daxue ), the predecessor of today's Peking University, and is one of its landmarks.

The pagoda-shaped water tower was built mainly through donations from the uncle James W. Porter of the professor of philosophy at the university, Lucius Chapin Porter (1880-1958), and therefore bears the name after the surname Porter.

The octagonal tower is 37 meters high and has a total of thirteen floors, it is a reinforced concrete construction, inside a spiral staircase leads to the top of the tower. It has a shape like pagodas from the Liao (Kitan) and Jin (Jurdschen) times, imitates the Miyan-style Randeng Pagoda in Beijing's Tongzhou district , the lower part is a Sumeru plinth.

monument

The architecture at the Nameless Lake on the campus of Yanjing University ( 未名湖 燕园 建筑 , Wèimíng Hú Yānyuán Jiànzhù ) has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (5-475) since 2001 .

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In the well-known feature song for the 100-day countdown of the 2008 Summer Olympics ( Beijing huanying ni ), singer Han Hong appears at this location.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yàndà wénshǐ zīliào《燕大文 史 資料》, Beijing: Běijīng dàxué chūbǎnshè 北京大学 出版社, 1988; Vol. 8, pp. 124, 225; Lín Jiànhuá: 林建华 (ed.): Hónglóu fēi xuě: Hǎiwài xiàoyǒu qíngyì Běidà, 1947–2008《红楼 飞雪: 海外 校 友情 忆 北大, 1947–2008》. Beijing: Běijīng dàxué chūbǎnshè 北京大学 出版社, 2008; P. 14; Lè Dàiyún 乐 黛云: Sì yuàn shātān Wèimíng Hú: 60 nián Běidà shēngyá , 1948–2008 《四 院 沙滩 未名湖: 60 年 北大 生涯, 1948–2008》. Beijing: Běijīng dàxué chūbǎnshè 北京大学 出版社, 2008; P. 148 and passim; Mèngyíng Wèimíng Hú: Běijīng Dàxué sì dài sì dài xiàoyǒu tiǎozhàn yìngzhàn huáijiù wénjí《梦 萦 未名湖: 北京大学 四 代 校友 挑战 应战 怀旧 文集》. Hong Kong: Xiānggǎng wényì chūbǎnshè 香港 文艺 出版社, 2009 .; Vol. 1, p. 148.
  2. ↑ Chinese Yānjīng Dàxué 燕京 大学
  3. ↑ Chinese name Bo Chenguang 博 晨光, formerly 博雅 氏, American missionary and author of Aids to the Study of Chinese Philosophy (1934); see. bdcconline.net: Lucius Chapin Porter ( Memento of October 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ Chinese Boya 博雅
  5. ↑ Chin. Xūmízuò 须弥座, after the holy mountain Meru or Sumeru.
  6. ↑ cf. bkso.baidu.com: Yanyuan and Weiming Hu Yan yuan jianzhuqun
  7. ↑ youtube.com: Welcome to Beijing 北京 欢迎 你 (from 0:48)

Coordinates: 39 ° 59 ′ 23 ″  N , 116 ° 18 ′ 19 ″  E