Tengwang Pavilion

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The Tengwang Pavilion (Chinese: 滕王阁; pinyin: Téngwáng Gé) is a towering pavilion located in Nanchang, Jiangxi, China. It was built in the early Tang Dynasty (653 AD), by Li Yuanying, the brother of the Emperor Taizong. It is now a famous tourist site.

In 675 AD, the twenty-five-year-old Wang Bo (王勃) wrote the classic “Tengwang Ge Xu”. The building as well as the city became celebrated for Wang’s introduction article.

Nonetheless, the building experienced 28 cycles of destructions and reconstructions. In 1926, it was burned down for the last time. In 1989, Tengwang Ge was resurrected to a new height of 57 m, presumably according to the design of Song Dynasty.