Was the East West Tower of Kaiyuan Temple burned?
It's burnt According to the personal library, the East West Tower was blackened by the war during the Anti-Japanese War. After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, people spontaneously blacked the East West Tower with "indigenous methods" and kept scrubbing the tower with vegetable heads (white radishes), with surprisingly good results. So the East West Tower of Kaiyuan Temple was burned. Quanzhou Dongxi Pagoda, Zhenguo Pagoda and Renshou Pagoda, collectively known as the tallest pair of stone pagodas in China, are located in Kaiyuan Temple in Quanzhou, the west street of Quanzhou. Kaiyuan Temple was built in the Tang Dynasty with a long history of 1300 years. This temple is huge, covering an area of more than 78,000 square meters.