The Big Wild Goose Pagoda (The Dayan Tower) has been used for the safekeeping of the scriptures and Buddha's statues brought back by Monk Xuanzang of the Tang Dynasty from India. It was built in the Great Gi'en Monastery of the Tang Dynasty in 652 A.D., composed of 7 storeys 64 meters in height. It is of high architectural art. Above the stone doors at the bottom of the tower, there remain the exquisite line - etched pictures from the Tang Dynasty. One can spiral up the tower and look around the whole view of city. It is the symbol of Xi'an.
