The four buildings are Yueyang Tower in Hunan, Tengwang Pavilion in Nanchang, Jiangxi, Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan, Hubei and Stork Tower in Yuncheng, Shanxi.
1. Yueyang Tower
The main building of Yueyang Tower is rectangular, with a height of 19.42 meters, a depth of 14.54 meters and a width of 17.42 meters. It has three floors, four columns, cornices, helmet tops and pure wood structures. Four nanmu gold columns in the building go straight through the roof and are surrounded by corridors, rafters and rafters. The top is covered with glazed yellow tiles, and the configuration is solemn and generous.
2. Tengwang Pavilion
The main building of Tengwang Pavilion is 57.5 meters high with a construction area of 13, square meters; Its lower part is a 12-meter-high pedestal symbolizing the ancient city wall, which is divided into two levels; The main pavilion above the pedestal adopts the format of "three bright floors and seven dark floors", which is a three-story building with corridors. There are seven floors inside, which are divided into three bright floors, three dark floors and an attic. Zhengji Kiss is specially made to imitate the Song Dynasty, with a height of 3.5 meters.
3. Yellow Crane Tower
The main building of Yellow Crane Tower is an octagonal structure with reinforced concrete frame, with a total height of 51.4m, a bottom floor width of 3m and a top floor width of 18m. It has five cornices, a pointed roof covered with golden glazed tiles and supported by 72 columns, and 6 upturned corners extend outwards. Outside the building, there are buildings such as bronze yellow crane modeling, victory pagoda, memorial archway, porch and pavilion, etc. The whole building is shaped like a yellow crane, spreading its wings and flying, with plaques hanging on all sides under the eaves, and a gold plaque inscribed "Yellow Crane Tower" by calligrapher Shu Tong hanging on the front.
4. The stork building
The stork building is a pavilion on the top of a high-rise platform with three floors and four eaves, with nine floors of use space inside, and elevators and stairs are arranged to organize vertical traffic. The whole pavilion is divided into two parts, the pedestal and the building body, with a total height of 73.9 meters. It is the tallest of the four famous buildings and the most exquisite imitation building in China.
The whole paint and color painting of the stork tower is a lost art of color painting in the Tang Dynasty in China. After many investigations and rescues by experts in National Cultural Heritage Administration, the stork tower was re-created, so it is the only building in the Tang Dynasty that was restored by the art of color painting in the Tang Dynasty.
The famous pavilion in China:
The pavilion is a place for people to rest and an important landscape building in the garden. Lanting is located at the foot of Lanzhu Mountain in Lanting Town, Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, and it is a sacred place in the history of calligraphy in China. The existing Lanting was rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty with pleasant scenery. Lanting is surrounded by mountains, bamboo trees and shallow streams, quiet and elegant. The layout is centered on meandering water, surrounded by Goose Pond, Goose Pond Pavilion, Liushang Pavilion, Xiaolan Pavilion, Yubei Pavilion, Mohua Pavilion and Youjun Temple, which are exquisite and quaint, and are rare garden masterpieces.
Zuiweng Pavilion is located next to Langya Mountain in the southwest of Chuzhou City, Anhui Province. It was founded in the seventh year of the Qing Dynasty in the Northern Song Dynasty. It was named by Ouyang Xiu, one of the eight famous poets in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and is famous for writing Zuiweng Pavilion. A well-known saying: the meaning of drunkenness lies not in wine, but in caring about the mountains and rivers. Among them, Ouyang Xiu's hand planting Mei is one of the four major longevity stars in China, and Zuiweng Pavilion is known as the first pavilion in the world.
above content reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Yueyang Tower