In Shanxi, there is a wooden tower that has stood for thousands of years: the magnificent roof resembling the Forbidden City

In Shanxi, there is a wooden tower that has stood for thousands of years: the magnificent roof resembling the Forbidden City, the bracket sets are strong and powerful, and the eaves are soaring like a roc spreading its wings... It is called the Yingxian Wooden Tower, which was built in the Liao Dynasty 966 years ago, and is 66 meters high, equivalent to more than 20 modern buildings. "Twenty miles away from Ying County, I saw the tower, and saw it shimmering in the reflection of the setting sun, and watched it until it became a silhouette, which was my greeting to this tower." - On the way to the Ying County Wooden Tower, the actor Xuan Lu sighed repeatedly. As the tallest and oldest existing wooden tower-style building in the world, the Ying County Wooden Tower is composed of more than 2,600 tons of wooden components, without a single nail. For a thousand years, it has not sunk in water or fallen in earthquakes. When Xuan Lu came to Ying County, she wanted to explore the secret of the wooden tower's thousand-year stability. It is reported that the Ying County Wooden Tower has a total of 54 types of bracket sets. In addition to the basic load-bearing, construction and aesthetic functions, the numerous bracket sets are also crucial to the earthquake resistance of the wooden tower. After being subjected to earthquakes and bombardments, they will become a kind of damping device, consuming the huge energy from the outside, thus making the entire tower safe and sound for thousands of years. In addition to the Ying County Wooden Tower, as the ancient capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the accompanying capital of the Liao and Jin Dynasties, and the important town of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Datong has many cultural relics and a profound cultural heritage. It has both the simplicity of the Central Plains and the style of nomadic life outside the Great Wall.