Reflection Tower Introduction
The Reflection Tower is located behind the Yanping Junwang Chess Playing Place at Shipaoding. The tower has seven levels, is octagonal, and stands 5.76 meters high, featuring a gourd-shaped design. It is one of the three towers (Mao Mountain Tower, Wentai Ancient Tower, and Reflection Tower) built by Zhou Dexing in the early Ming Dynasty in Kinmen. The tower toppled due to an earthquake in 1920. Before the Reflection Tower, which had just been completed in 1937, was occupied by the Japanese in Kinmen, it was quickly demolished for military reasons. It was rebuilt in 2004, with the words "Wenfeng Songxiu" engraved on the top. The original stones with the characters "Feng," "Xiu," and "Song" are scattered around the site. The name "Reflection" comes from a legend that due to the tall mountain and long tower, the sunset often casts a long shadow of the tower reflected on the sea, attracting schools of fish to swim around the tower's shadow. A line written by the Qing Dynasty literati Lin Shumei describes the feeling of the Reflection Tower at the top of Taiwu Mountain: "The tower's shadow presses on the surging waves, reflecting on the rocks and trees; it's not a divine power that causes the inversion, but rather the realization of the tranquil."
