Yánjīn

Yanjin lies north of the Yellow River on the Henan plain. In the county town stood Dajue Temple, founded under the Tang and rebuilt during the Xuande reign of the Ming. Its Wanshou Pagoda, a six-sided brick tower of seven storeys, was reconstructed over several decades and completed in 1585. Inscriptions within the tower recorded gifts toward the work, while a stele in the temple preserved calligraphy by the Yuan scholar Zhao Mengfu.