The Phoenix Tower, known in Chinese as Fenghuang Tower, is the third of Chaoyang's trio of ancient pagodas and the least well-documented historically. Dating roughly to the Liao Dynasty period, it stands in the central district and completes a triangle of pagoda architecture that covers over fifteen hundred years of Buddhist construction in a single city.
Taken together, the three Chaoyang pagodas — North, South, and Phoenix — represent one of the most concentrated records of pagoda architecture in China. The North Tower is the oldest and most famous; the South Tower is the quietest; the Phoenix Tower is the most central. If you are spending more than a day in Chaoyang, visiting all three gives a tangible sense of how Buddhist architecture evolved across dynasties — the proportions, the brick patterns, and the decorative elements change substantially between the Northern Wei and Liao periods, and seeing the towers in sequence makes the differences legible.