When Wuchang approach bridge of Yangtze River Bridge 1957 was built, the former site of Yellow Crane Tower was occupied. The reconstructed Yellow Crane Tower is located in Sheshanfengling, about 1 km away from the former site. The ancient Yellow Crane Tower has three floors, with a height of 9 feet and a copper roof of 7 feet, which is * * * 99. The new building is much more magnificent, with a 5-meter-high gourd-shaped treasure top. It is nearly 20 meters higher than Gu Lou. The pyramid-shaped roof is surrounded by cornices. Around the main building are the Victory Tower, Monument Gallery, Shanmen and other buildings. The whole building has a unique national style. The ground floor of Gu Lou is "15m wide" and the ground floor of the new building is 30m wide. Therefore, the Yellow Crane Tower is not a restoration, but a reconstruction. It retains some features of Gu Lou. But it is more designed according to the current needs and the changes in people's aesthetic standards. The new Yellow Crane Tower is more spectacular than the old one. This is because the Yangtze River Bridge flying across the river is in front of us, and the 24-story Qingchuan Hotel is opposite. This group of buildings complement each other and add a lot of color to Jiangcheng Wuhan.
Inside the Yellow Crane Tower, layers of styles are different. The ground floor is a large and spacious hall with caissons as high as 10 meters. On the front wall is a huge ceramic mural of "White Clouds and Yellow Crane", and couplets as long as 7 meters are hung on the columns on both sides:
The west is cool, and the clouds sweep the world;
Rivers that are gone forever, waves wash away past and present troubles.
The architectural feature of the Yellow Crane Tower is that the roofs of each floor are staggered and overlapped, and the corners are tilted, as if the wings of a crane are flying. Cranes are the mainstay inside and outside the building, with moire, flowers and dragons and phoenixes as the backdrop.
The front wall of the lobby on the first floor is a huge ceramic mural with the theme of "White Clouds and Yellow Crane". The surrounding space shows important documents about the Yellow Crane Tower in past dynasties, landscape prints of famous poems and replicas of paintings of the Yellow Crane Tower in past dynasties.
On the front wall of the hall on the second floor, the Yellow Crane Tower written by Yan in the Tang Dynasty is engraved, and the marble describes the rise and fall of the Yellow Crane Tower and the anecdotes of celebrities. There are two murals on both sides of the building, one is "Sun Quan built a city", which vividly illustrates the birth history of the Yellow Crane Tower and Wuchang City. The other is a banquet hosted by Zhou Yu, which reflects the celebrity activities from the Three Kingdoms to the Yellow Crane Tower.
The murals in the hall on the third floor are "Xiu Xiang paintings" by famous people in Tang and Song Dynasties, such as Cui Hao, Li Bai and Bai Juyi. , but also excerpts from their famous sentences chanting the Yellow Crane Tower.
The hall on the fourth floor is divided into several small halls with screens, which are filled with contemporary celebrity calligraphy and painting for tourists to enjoy and choose. There are long scrolls and murals in the top hall, such as the map of the Yangtze River.
Walking out of the outer corridor of the five-story hall, you can have a wide view. Nearly 90 meters above the river, the scenery on both sides of the strait is vivid and refreshing. The Snake Mountain where the Yellow Crane Tower is located has been turned into the Yellow Crane Tower Park. Many flowers and trees have been planted, as well as some arched buildings, pavilions, cloisters and other buildings. There is a poem tablet gallery, and many stones are engraved with the works of famous poets in past dynasties, as well as the area around Snake Mountain.
Yueyang Tower is located in Yueyang, an ancient cultural city with a long history, and was called "Baling" in ancient times. It is located in the north of Hunan Province, where the vast Dongting Lake and the Wanli Yangtze River meet. Yueyang Tower, the first of the three famous buildings in the south of the Yangtze River, is located at the west gate of an ancient city born of water. Yueyang has picturesque scenery and many places of interest. Concentrated in Dongting Lake, the bell is on the first floor of Yueyang. Baling Scenic Area with Yueyang Tower and Junshan as the center is well known. Known as "Dongting is the world's water, Yueyang is the world's building." Yueyang Tower in Yueyang, Yellow Crane Tower in Wuchang and Knee King Pavilion in Nanchang are collectively called "Three Famous Buildings in the South of the Yangtze River". Yueyang Tower stands tall.
Yueyang Tower was built around 220 AD with a history of 1700 years. Its predecessor is said to be the "Yue Jun Lou" of Wu Dong General Lu Su in the Three Kingdoms Period, and it was called "Baling Lou" in the Western Jin Dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties. In the early Tang Dynasty, it was called "South Tower", and in the middle Tang Dynasty, it was called "Yueyang Tower" after Li Bai wrote poems. Yueyang Tower is 2 1 high. The plaque of Yueyang Tower was written by Guo Moruo. Poets in history, such as Du Fu, Han Yu, Liu Yuxi, Bai Juyi, Li Shangyin, etc., have all visited here, leaving many excellent works, making Yueyang Tower famous all over the world. 1045, in the spring of the fourth year of Qing Dynasty, Teng rebuilt Yueyang Tower, and asked his friend and writer Fan Zhongyan to inscribe Screen Engraving on the Second Floor, which was written by Zhang Zhao, a great calligrapher in18th century. The font is square, the brushwork is vigorous, the technique is changeable and unique, and it is a masterpiece handed down from generation to generation. The carved screen on the third floor is Mao Zedong Du Fu's poem "Climbing Yueyang Tower", with heroic brushwork and both form and spirit. The carved screen is dazzling and shining. Yueyang Tower was declared as a national key cultural relic protection unit by the State Council on 1988+0988.
Yueyang Tower was destroyed and repaired for many years. The Yueyang Tower we see now was rebuilt in the sixth year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (A.D. 1867). The building of the whole building can be summarized in eight words: pure wood with four columns and three floors. The main building of Yueyang Tower is three stories high, reaching 15 meters, supported by four big nanmu trees in the middle. There are no giant beams, but 12 high-toothed cornices (like birds pecking at high altitude). The roof is yellow glazed tile, resplendent and magnificent. The curve is smooth, steep and upturned, just like the helmet of an ancient warrior. It's called the top of the helmet. The wishful bucket arch under the helmet is exquisite and shaped like a beehive. According to ancient records, Yueyang Tower is a "pure wood structure with a helmet top".
Let's talk about folk stories again. Due to its long history and important position, Yueyang Tower's architecture (as well as many times of destruction and repair) is exquisite, and there are many people in the past dynasties. Therefore, there are many legends about Yueyang Tower circulating in Yueyang and Dongting Lake, which have various social values. Among them are famous craftsmen and immortals such as Lu Ban, Zhang. About the origin of Yueyang Tower, there are Lu Su military parade platform and Yueyang Tower. Regarding the carved screen of Yueyang Tower, there are "Zhang Zhao Title Screen" and "True and False Carved Screen"; Regarding the amorous feelings of Yueyang Tower, the most famous ones are Lv Dongbin Sanzui Yueyang Tower and Langyin Pavilion. If the legends about the scenery near Yueyang Tower are included, then there are Meixi Bridge, Jinque Mountain, Liu Yijing, Seventy-two Fairy Snails as Junshan, Second Concubine Tomb, Junshan Mountain and Secretariat History.
Yueyang Loulian
There is a couplet on Yueyang Tower:
First floor, He Qi! Du Shaoling's five-character swan song, Fan's two words care about love, Teng's everything is in full swing, and Lv Chunyang is drunk after three customs. Is it poetic? Ruye? Official? Ye Xian? Where were those lost times before me? , made me cry;
Gentlemen, try it: Xiaoxiang in the south pole of Dongting Lake, Wuxia in the north of the Yangtze River, the breath coming from Baling Mountain in the west, and the rock boundary in the east of Yuezhou. Where is the real meaning, who can understand it?
This couplet describes the geography and history of Yueyang Tower.
Throughout the ages, Yueyang Tower has attracted many tourists!
According to historical records, in the twentieth year of Jian 'an (AD 2 15), Liu Bei and Sun Quan competed for Jingzhou, and Lu Su led ten thousand troops to station in Baqiu to build Baqiu City. Baqiu is the original name of Yueyang, and Yueyang Tower is said to be the parade platform when Lu Su trained sailors in Dongting Lake. In the fourth year of Kaiyuan in Tang Dynasty (AD 7 16), Zhang, the secretary, said that he was stationed in Yuezhou, and this building was overhauled and named "Yueyang Tower". In the fourth year of Song Dynasty (A.D. 1044), Teng, the county magistrate, rebuilt Yueyang Tower and asked Fan Zhongyan to write The Story of Yueyang Tower.
There are many famous articles about Yueyang Tower. Here are some more:
Fan knows how to be happy before worrying;
From what I heard in the past to what I heard today, Du Shaoling can speak poetry.
Dongting is 800 miles west;
The first floor of Huaihai Nanlai.
Surrounded by rivers and mountains;
There is a skeleton in the cupboard.
If you can't let go of Gan Kun in front of you, why don't you climb the stairs and put the wine on it?
Only by swallowing the clouds and dreams in your chest can you become immortal.