When Wuchang approach bridge of Yangtze River Bridge 1957 was built, the former site of Yellow Crane Tower was occupied, and now the reconstructed Yellow Crane Tower is located at Sheshanfengling, which is about 1 km away from the former site. The ancient Yellow Crane Tower "has three floors, with a height of 9 feet 2 feet and a copper roof of 7 feet, * * * becomes the number of 99." The new building is more magnificent, with a 5-meter-high gourd-shaped treasure top. The building has five floors and is 50.4 meters high, nearly 20 meters higher than the Drum Tower. The pyramid-shaped roof, with layers of cornices, looks like one. There are other buildings around the main building, such as victory tower, stele gallery and mountain gate. 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 characteristics of Gu Lou, but it is more designed according to the current needs and the changes of people's aesthetic standards. The new Yellow Crane Tower is more spectacular than the old one. This is because the Yangtze River Bridge, which flies across the river, is in front of us, opposite the 24-story Qingchuan Hotel. 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 in the middle. 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;
A river gone forever, the waves washed away the troubles of the past and present.
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 crane wings spread their wings. Crane painting is the main part inside and outside the building, with moire, flowers, dragons and phoenixes as the foil.
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 marble of Yellow Crane Tower written by Yan in Tang Dynasty is engraved, describing the rise and fall of the Yellow Crane Tower and anecdotes of celebrities. There are two murals on both sides of Lou Ji, one is "Sun Quan built a city", which vividly illustrates the birth history of the Yellow Crane Tower and Wuchang City; The other is Zhou Yu's Banquet, which reflects the celebrity activities from the Three Kingdoms to the Yellow Crane Tower.
The murals in the lobby on the third floor are "Xiu Xiang paintings" by Cui Hao, Li Bai, Bai Juyi and other famous people in Tang and Song Dynasties, and there are 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, and contemporary celebrity calligraphy and painting are built in for tourists to enjoy and buy. There are long scrolls and murals such as the Map of the Yangtze River in the top hall.
Walking out of the outer corridor of the fifth floor hall, you can look around and 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 area where the Yellow Crane Tower is located has been turned into the Yellow Crane Tower Park. Many flowers and trees have been planted, and some buildings such as archways, pavilions, corridors and so on. There is a poem tablet gallery, which contains many stones engraved with the works of famous poets in past dynasties. The ancient scenic spots around Sheshan will be restored one after another.
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 head of Ximen City, an ancient city born of water. Yueyang has mountains, water, buildings, picturesque scenery and many places of interest. The beauty of Yueyang scenery is concentrated in Dongting Lake, and the bell is on the first floor of Yueyang. Baling Scenic Area, centered on Yueyang Tower and Junshan Mountain, is well known. Known as "Dongting is the world's water and Yueyang is the world's building", it deserves to be called "Dongting is the world's water and Yueyang is the world's building". Yueyang Tower, Wuchang Yellow Crane Tower and Nanchang Knee King Pavilion are collectively called "Three Famous Buildings in the South of the Yangtze River". Yueyang Tower stands on the east bank of Dongting Lake, on the wall of the west gate of Yueyang City, with the vast Dongting Lake in the west and the Yangtze River rolling eastward in the north. Shui Ying set each other off, known as "Dongting is the world's water and Yueyang is the world's building", and it is one of the famous tourist attractions in China.
Yueyang Tower was built around 220 AD with a history of 1700 years. Its predecessor is said to be the Yuejun Tower of Lu Su, a general of Dongwu in the Three Kingdoms period, the Baling Tower in the Western Jin Dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the South Tower in the early Tang Dynasty, and the Yueyang Tower only after Li Bai wrote poems in the middle Tang Dynasty. Yueyang Tower is 2 1.5m high, with three floors, cornices and pure wood structure. The roof is covered with yellow glazed tiles, which is dreamy in shape. The plaque of Yueyang Tower was written by Guo Moruo. Poets in history, such as Du Fu, Han Yu, Liu Yuxi, Bai Juyi and Li Shangyin. , to visit the site, leaving many masterpieces, making Yueyang Tower famous all over the world. In a.d. 1045, Teng rebuilt Yueyang Tower in the spring of four years, and invited Fan Zhongyan, a good friend and writer, to write The Story of Yueyang Tower. Since then, Yueyang Tower has become more famous. The furnishings in Yueyang Tower are unique. Each floor is hung with couplets written by famous artists of all ages. There is a carved screen of Yueyang Tower on the first floor and the second floor, and the carved screen on the first floor is a replica of the 9th century A.D./KLOC-0. The carved screen embedded in the second floor was written by Zhang Zhao, a great calligrapher in18th century. It is a first-class treasure handed down from generation to generation with its square font, vigorous brushwork and changeable techniques. The carved screen on the third floor is Mao Zedong Du Fu's poem "Climbing Yueyang Tower", with bold brushwork and both form and spirit. The carved screen is dazzling with golden light. 1988 Yueyang Tower was announced by the State Council as a national key cultural relics protection unit.
Yueyang Tower has experienced many vicissitudes, and it has been destroyed and repaired repeatedly. The Yueyang Tower we see now was rebuilt in the sixth year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (A.D. 1867). 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, with a height of15m. It is supported by four big nanmu trees in the middle, surrounded by 12 columns, and surrounded by 30 wooden columns. The whole building is integrated, without a nail or a giant beam. 12 high-toothed cornice (like a bird's beak 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, called the helmet top. The wishful bucket arch under the helmet is as delicate as a honeycomb. According to ancient records, Yueyang Tower is an ancient building with a "pure wood structure and a helmet roof", which fully demonstrates the unique style and brilliant achievements of ancient architectural art in China.
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, with a rich collection of humanities in past dynasties. Therefore, there are many legends and stories about Yueyang Tower circulating in Yueyang and Dongting Lake, which have various social values. Among them, there are famous craftsmen and immortals such as Lu Ban, Zhang, etc. who built Yueyang Tower; 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. It can be seen that there are so many legends and stories about Yueyang Tower, and the style displayed is so beautiful.
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. Yueyang Tower is said to be the parade platform when Lu Su was training sailors in Dongting Lake. In the fourth year of Tang Kaiyuan (AD 7 16), Zhang Shuling was stationed in Yuezhou, where the building was overhauled and named "Yueyang Tower". Since then, poets and poets have gone upstairs to write poems, and sometimes they have a swan song. It is said that Li Bai wrote a couplet for Yueyang Tower: "Water and sky are the same color; The wind and the moon are boundless. " In the fourth year of Song Dynasty (A.D. 1044), Teng, the county magistrate, rebuilt Yueyang Tower and asked Fan Zhongyan to write the famous book "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;
Yesterday, I heard that today, Du Shaoling can talk in 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 recite poems to the gods.