How many floors were the highest buildings in ancient China?

People live in houses of up to two floors, but high platforms, tower-like buildings can be built very high, the highest building in ancient times is the Yongning Temple Pagoda.

The Yongning Temple Tower is a pagoda in the Yongning Temple, a royal temple in the city of Luoyang in the Northern Wei Dynasty. According to Yang Xianzhi's "Luoyang Galaxy Records", the Yongning Temple Tower is a wooden structure, nine storeys and one hundred zhang in height, and it can be seen for a hundred miles.

The Yongning Temple Pagoda was built in the first year of Emperor Xiaoming's Xiping (516 A.D.), under the auspices of Empress Dowager Hu, who was a firm believer in Buddhism, and the scale of the pagoda was as grand as that of the thousands of temples in Luoyang. The Yongning Temple Pagoda was built as a Buddhist temple centered on a pagoda, a place dedicated to the Emperor and Empress Dowager to pay homage to Buddha.

Expanded Information:

Yongningsi Pagoda was the high point of Luoyang at that time, and under the gaze of this pagoda After Emperor Xiaowen moved the capital to Luoyang, the large-scale construction of Buddhist temples, so that the number of Buddhist temples in Luoyang increased dramatically, at that time, the city of Luoyang "Zhuti pectin (zhì) than, pagodas parallel (pián) Luo", brilliant and magnificent, unparalleled.

Yongxi three years (534 AD) Yongning Temple Tower was destroyed by fire. Yongning Temple Tower existing site is located in the Han Wei Loyang Imperial City, so far the remains of the tower base, for the tall platform, commonly known as the local wooden Ning Temple or Wooden Tower Temple, the Qing Dynasty mistakenly designated as a mausoleum mound, the tree, "the Han Dynasty Emperor Jingling" monument, monument still exists. Site in 1963 by the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Archaeology survey, 1979 ~ 1981 excavation.

Source:Baidu Encyclopedia--Traditional Folk Houses of China