Why are there such similar poems? There is a much-told story!
According to legend, a long time ago, there was a man named Wen Fei who later became a fairy. He often took a yellow crane to rest in an upstairs building in Wuchang, Hubei, so people called this building the Yellow Crane Tower.
The Yellow Crane Tower attracts many literati because it is known as the fairy who lives there. One day, Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, also came here. He climbed the Yellow Crane Tower and looked at the artistic conception of the Yangtze River and its surroundings. He suddenly relaxed, full of thoughts. He really wants to use this scene to write poems and express his feelings. Suddenly I saw a poem by Cui Hao on the wall, entitled "Yellow Crane Tower".
A long time ago, a yellow crane carried a saint to heaven.
Now only the Yellow Crane Tower is left.
The yellow crane never returned to the earth,
Baiyun will always fly without him.
Every tree in Hanyang becomes clear in the water.
Parrot Island is a nest of sweet grass.
But I looked home, and the twilight was getting thicker.
The river is shrouded in mist, which brings people deep melancholy.
After reading Cui Hao's Yellow Crane Tower, Li Bai couldn't help admiring it. He wanted to write a poem at that time, but he felt that his conception and conception were not as good as Cui Hao's, so he gave up the idea of writing a poem and said with a sigh, "There is a scene in front of him, and Cui Hao wrote a poem on it."
Nevertheless, Li Bai has always remembered this regret and always wanted to have the opportunity to write a poem comparable to Cui Hao. Later, when Li Bai visited the Phoenix Terrace in Jinling, he wrote a seven-character poem "Nanjing boarded the Phoenix Terrace" with the original rhyme of the Yellow Crane Tower.
Phoenix once performed here, so this place is named after them.
Now abandon it in this desolate river.
The path of Wu Palace was twisted and twisted by weeds.
Gold's clothes are ancient dust.
Three and a half mountains fall out of the sky,
Just like this, Egret Island divides rivers.
A cloud rose between the light of heaven and me,
Hide his city from my melancholy heart.
In this way, Cui Hao's "Yellow Crane Tower" and Li Bai's "Climbing Nanjing to the Phoenix Terrace" remained in the poetry circle. These two poems are quite skillful, which set each other off and become interesting, and they have become famous works through the ages.
Yellow Crane Tower