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Nanchong White Tower Park is a comprehensive park, and it is the provincial key cultural relic’s protection units. The White tower was commonly known as "the white tower" in the song dynasty, formerly known as "the boundless pagoda". It was built in the Northern Song dynasty (AD 960), and has lasted more than one thousand years.

location
The White Tower Park, located in Nanchong Gaoping district, is connected to the city center on the other side of the river by an impressive large bridge. Jialing River, as one of most important tributaries of the Yangtze Rive, flows onder the brige - here the river is very wide, very quiet and very deep.

Decoration
The White Tower is 39.56 meters tall, with thirteen layer imitation wood of square tower. And it has very high value of art and history, for many people went to study the exquisite workmanships and sculptures in the woods since the ancient times. White Tower Park is brick tower with stone as the stylobate, and it carves the pictures of dragons around the patterns. The body of the towers is 13 floors. We can enter it by the arch in the first floor. Besides,ten of the thirteen floors have niches and every niche embeds with Buddha. Totally, there are ninety-three small niches. Meanwhile, the tower has ten doors and nine windows. The towers are all pasted plaster, and the column, fang and stones are all dyed in yellow color, particularly bright in the sunshine.

Architect
The tower was built by Luban, who was a brilliant inventor in ancient China and regarded as the Father by the civil craftsmen. At that time, Luban had a bet with his disciple ---a white and a black tower were built by each one, the one who completed the tower firstly is the winner. At last, the white tower, builted by Luban, was the firstly finished and it has been kept till today.

Origin
In White Pagoda park, the Ancient Well and the Wangping tomb are also characteristic. The Ancient Well was digged in the Northern Song dynasty period, and the water was quite sweet. Surprisingly, it is pretty cool in the hot summer, and warm in winter. Another pool is also close to the Ancient Well. According to a legend, there are one thousand longevity turtle and one hundred Kam lithium in the pool. And many people come to have a visit.

Extension
From 2009, the White Tower has extended the area to twice in the square, and the road infrastructure construction in the park has been basically completed.These buildings are completed at the end of December.and it can be open to the public before the Spring Festival. The white tower has been firstly finished in 2011, which covers an area of 210 acres of park. After 2014, The white tower park has completed the second expansion, which increasingly covers an area of 500 acres  and it has became the biggest leisure park in Nanchong.

Praise
The old people in Nanchong say that the white tower park's environment is elegant, calm,and good for people to relax and exercise. In the morning, the White Tower is ringing in a melodious voices, and also gives people a good mood at the first moment. On the day of gentle breeze and bright sun, standing on the park, one can see the hazy outline of Nanchong City in the distance, with the feeling that the world is delittled.