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The trip to the Great Wild Goose Pagoda Major：Electronic and Communication Engineering Student ID：1601120512 Name ：AXin Zhang Date：Dec. 12th.2016 Three parts The Great Wild Goose Pagoda The North square of Greater Wild Goose Pagoda The Da Ci’en Temple 1 2 3 The Great Wild Goose Pagoda Brief introduction of the Great Wild Goose Pagoda Great Wild Goose Pagoda Orig-inally built in 652 during the reign of Emp-eror Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty (618-907), it functioned to collect Buddhist materials that were taken from India by the hierarch Xuanza-ng. Origin of the Great Wild Goose Pagoda As for the reason why it is called Big Wild Goose Pagoda, there is a legend. One day, they couldnt find meat to buy. Upon seeing a group of big wild geese flying by, a monk said to himself: Today we have no meat. I hope the merciful Bodhisattva will give us some. At that very moment, the leading wild goose broke its wings and fell to the ground. All the monks were startled and believed that Bodhisattva showed his spirit to order them to be more pious. They established a pagoda where the wild goose fell and stopped eating meat. Hence it got the name ‘Great Wild Goose Pagoda. The Da Ci’en Temple Brief introduction of the Da Ci’en Temple Da Cien Temple is the home of Great Wild Goose Pagoda. In 648, to commemorate the dead virtuous queen, royalty ordered the building of a temple named Cien (Mercy and Kindness), for which the status and scale far exceeded all others. Today, with an area of 32,314 square meters (38,648.5 square yards), one seventh of the original area, it still retains its grandeur. The North square of GreatWild Goose Pagoda Brief introduction of the North square of Great Wild Goose Pagoda Surrounding Great Wild Goose Pagoda, the scenery is also quite charming, especially the square north of the Da Cien Temple. Covering about 110,000 square meters (131563 square yards) plus 20,000 square meters (23920.6 square yards) of water area, it hol