Yueyang Tower overlooks Dongting and overlooks Junshan ahead. Since ancient times, it has been known as "Dongting is the world's water and Yueyang is the world's building", and it is also known as "the three famous buildings in the south of the Yangtze River" with the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan, Hubei and Tengwangge in Nanchang, Jiangxi.
The main building of Yueyang Tower is rectangular, with a height of19.42m, a depth of14.54m and a width of17.42m.. It has three floors, four pillars, cornices, helmet tops and pure wood structures. Four nanmu gold pillars in the building go straight to the roof, surrounded by cloisters, squares and eaves. The top is covered with glazed yellow tiles, and the configuration is solemn and generous.
On the first floor of Yueyang Tower, there are carved screens, poetry couplets and sculptures of Yueyang Tower. In the middle of the second floor, there is a mahogany woodcarving screen engraved with Yueyang Tower inscribed by Zhang Zhao, a calligrapher in the Qing Dynasty. On the third floor, there is a carved screen of Mao Zedong's calligraphy Du Fu's "The Story of Climbing Yueyang Tower", and the couplet "Chang Li Geng Bai Shu" is hung on the eaves column, which has certain ornamental value.
Yueyang Tower is the only ancient building that keeps its original appearance among the three famous buildings, and its unique helmet top structure embodies the wisdom of ancient working people and the exquisite design skills of craftsmen.
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Yueyang Tower, as the only ancient building that keeps its original appearance among the three famous buildings, is the only ancient building with helmet-top structure in China. The unique helmet top structure embodies the wisdom of ancient working people and the ingenious design skills of craftsmen.
"Dongting is the world's water and Yueyang is the world's building" is an outstanding representative of Xiangchu culture. Yueyang Tower is not only the temple of Confucian culture, but also the fairy of metaphysical culture. The beauty of Yueyang Tower is the harmonious beauty of human landscape and natural landscape, including Xiaoxiang in Dongting Lake, Wuxia in the north of the Yangtze River, refreshing Baling Mountain and the rock edge in the east of Yuezhou City.
Mountains, water and terraces set each other off into a landscape, which is the only original appearance among the three famous buildings in the south of the Yangtze River. The building is symmetrical, pure wood, cornices and helmets. Xiangyun fills the air up and down, dragons and phoenixes are auspicious, and four beams pass through the top, reflecting the unity of heaven and earth. The "fairy plum" on the left and the "three drunkenness" on the right set each other off, which is a masterpiece of architectural art and a monument to Confucianism and Taoism.