The pagoda’s deformation cannot be reduced to one direction or one number. Published conservation research distinguishes broad, patterned deformation from local differential change, with the seriously inclined second open storey remaining a principal monitoring area.
Conservation is not a simple attempt to straighten the monument. The established approach gives priority to monitoring and research, followed by limited emergency support and protection of seriously inclined or damaged members. Official sources rejected a 2026 rumour that the entire pagoda would be dismantled.
Assessment combines displacement at column heads and feet, compression, damaged beams and ties, inter-storey torsion, climate, wind and earthquake response. Historical images, measured surveys, monitoring and structural analysis answer different but complementary questions.
