What's the difference between Yellow Crane Tower and Yueyang Tower?
The Yellow Crane Tower is a gathering place of literati and scholars in history, leaving many immortal masterpieces. The Yellow Crane Tower by Cui Hao, a poet in the Tang Dynasty: "In the past, the yellow crane carried saints to heaven, but now there is only the yellow crane platform, and the yellow crane will never return to the world, and the white clouds will never fly. Hanyang has a tree and a clear water, and parrot Island has a nest of fragrant grass. Where is the sunset? With a faint wave of worry on the river, the geography, environment, legend and majestic posture of the Yellow Crane Tower are vividly described, so that after Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, came here, he wanted to write poems praising the Yellow Crane Tower. Because he saw Cui Hao's masterpiece, he had to sigh that "there is no scenery in front of him, and Cui Hao wrote poems on it". Many people in the past dynasties went to the tower to write poems. There were Cui Hao, Li Bai, Wang Wei, Meng Haoran, Gu Kuang, Han Yu, Liu Yuxi, Bai Juyi and Du Mu in the Tang Dynasty alone. For example, Li Bai wrote "Yellow Crane Tower Farewell to Meng Haoran on the way to Yangzhou": "An old friend said goodbye to the West Yellow Crane Tower, and fireworks went down to Yangzhou in March. Sailing alone, only the Yangtze River flows in the sky. "The whole poem is magnificent and full of scenes, which has been praised by people through the ages. During the Three Kingdoms period (AD 2 15), Lu Su, a general of Soochow, built a parade platform to fight Guan Yu, a general of Shu who was stationed in Jingzhou. At that time, it was called Yuejunlou. According to records, this is the earliest prototype of Yueyang Tower and the earliest pavilion built by three famous buildings in the south of the Yangtze River. In the fourth year of Kaiyuan in the Tang Dynasty (AD 7 16), Zhang Shuling was demoted. Zhang said that he rebuilt a pavilion on the former site of Yuejun Building in Lusu, and officially named it Yueyang Building. In the fourth year of Northern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1044), Minister Teng was relegated to Yuezhou and rebuilt Yueyang Tower. After the completion, Teng asked Fan Zhongyan, a famous minister and great writer at that time, to write a well-known "Yueyang Tower", which became a household name together with Fan Zhongyan's "Yueyang Tower". Speaking of this story, there is another story. Now there is a record of Yueyang Tower carved with rosewood on the first and second floors of Yueyang Tower. But why put two inscriptions of the same article in one building? It is said that Yueyang Tower was written by Zhang Zhao, a great calligrapher during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. Its calligraphy and sculpture, together with excellent wood, are the best in the world. Later, a local county magistrate who was good at calligraphy wanted to make a name for himself by this article of Yueyang Tower and Fan Zhongyan, so he copied Zhang Zhao's handwriting and a story of Yueyang Tower, which was also carved on the same board. Even the font size and shape are exactly the same as Zhang Zhao's Yueyang Tower. However, the sculptor was dissatisfied with the behavior of the county official stealing the column, but he didn't dare to disobey, so he specially engraved the apostrophe "Home to the people" on the word "Home" to distinguish it from the normal use of words. The ambitious county magistrate released Zhang Zhao's Yueyang Tower. Unexpectedly, when the boat arrived at Dongting Lake, the wind and waves were too strong, and the boat capsized in the lake. Both the county magistrate and Zhang Zhao's Yueyang Tower fell into the water, and the ambitious county magistrate drowned. In the dredging of Dongting Lake, people salvaged Zhang Zhao's Yueyang Tower, because it was carved on fine wood, and Zhang Zhao's calligraphy was not damaged too much by blisters. Because there are two Yueyang towers written by the county magistrate and Zhang Zhao, the true and false inscriptions of Yueyang tower are hung on the first and second floors of Yueyang tower at the same time. The Yueyang Tower we see now is the only wooden structure among the three famous buildings in the south of the Yangtze River. After the reconstruction of the Qing Dynasty, it has not been destroyed after more than a hundred years and decades of war. Although the height of the building is only19.72m, which is much smaller than that of the Wang Teng Pavilion and the Yellow Crane Tower, this one.