Dashan Pagoda, Chinese pagoda

Dashan Pagoda is a hexagonal, seven-storey brick-and-timber pagoda 40.5 metres tall, with a base side of 3.8 metres, at the junction of Guangming Road and Jiefang North Road in Yuecheng District, Shaoxing. Its outer eaves are gone, leaving only the brick core; each face of the ground floor has a false door, and the upper storeys alternate false doors with wall niches. The interior is hollow, its wooden stairs destroyed.

The pagoda was built during the Liang Dynasty around 504 AD, making it over 1500 years old. Over centuries it was damaged and rebuilt multiple times, with its current form dating from the Qing Dynasty, and major restoration work completed in 1957.

The name Dashan comes from the Dashan Temple, founded in 504, in whose grounds the pagoda stood. The temple and tower burned together in 1197 and were rebuilt in 1228; bricks stamped "Shaoding wuzi xiuzhu" (rebuilt in the wuzi year of Shaoding) record that work. The temple is gone, so the pagoda now stands alone at a street crossing.

The pagoda stands at the northwest corner of the Guangming Road and Jiefang North Road intersection in Yuecheng District. Its outer eaves and the wooden stairs inside are gone, so the interior is hollow and cannot be climbed; visitors see the brick body from outside. The brickwork carries a stamp reading "rebuilt in the Wuzi year of Shaoding" (1228).

The pagoda's name comes from Dashan Temple, founded in 504, the same year as the original pagoda. Bricks from the 1228 reconstruction still bear the inscription "Shaoding wuzi chongxiu" (rebuilt in the wuzi year of Shaoding). The wooden stairs inside are gone, so the tower is now hollow.