Línchéng

Lincheng's Buddhist landscape included Puli Temple and its distinctive square brick pagoda. The tower originated in the Northern Song period, providing an older religious landmark within the county town. Its closely spaced eaves and brick imitation of timber construction preserved an architectural form that later generations continued to maintain.

Local heritage accounts record repairs in 1538, 1545 and 1576. These repeated Ming works show that the tower remained an object of attention centuries after its construction. The monument joined religious practice to the labour and materials required to preserve a large brick structure. Lincheng's history therefore includes the continuing care of an inherited sacred building, whose successive repairs carried a Song foundation through the sixteenth century and into the architectural landscape of later imperial China.