Reading 'on Feilai Hill stands a towering pagoda', you can picture how tall that pagoda was.
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The opening line of 王安石's 登飞来峰. One 寻 was eight 尺, so 千寻 'a thousand xun' simply means towering. The hill is placed either outside Shaoxing or at the better-known Feilai Peak in Hangzhou.
