Introduction of Yellow Crane Tower Scenic Spot in Wuhan

The Yellow Crane Tower is located in Wuhan, Hubei Province. One of the three famous buildings in Jiangnan and one of the 40 major tourist attractions in China. Known as "the first floor in the world." The mighty Yangtze River meets its longest tributary, Hanshui, in the hinterland of Sanchu, creating a magnificent Wuhan with two rivers separated and three towns interacting. It is located at the eastern edge of Jianghan Plain, and the hills in southeastern Hubei fluctuate between lakes and swamps in Ye Ping. Tortoise and snake are sandwiched between two mountains, and a series of boats on the river are woven in Sri Lanka. The Yellow Crane Tower is located in Jiutou, Yellow Crane, Sheshan, Wuhan, facing Nautilus Island. It is also called "the first floor in the world" with Yueyang Tower in Hunan, Wangtengting Pavilion in Jiangxi and Penglai Pavilion in Shandong. According to legend, it was built in the Three Kingdoms period, and it was destroyed and built repeatedly in previous dynasties. The existing building 198 1 was rebuilt, and the prototype design was Tongzhi Building in Qing Dynasty. The building is still on the top of the snake mountain. The main building is 49 meters high, with five floors, pyramid-shaped roof and cornices, which looks seamless. The eaves column on the ground floor is 30 meters in diameter, and a large relief is set on the front wall of the central hall to show the myths and legends about the Yellow Crane Tower in the past dynasties. There is a mezzanine corridor on the third floor to display poetry, calligraphy and painting; There are four corridors outside the second, third and fourth floors for tourists to overlook; The fifth floor is the viewing hall, which can enjoy the scenery of the great river; Ancillary buildings include Xianzao Pavilion, Zhaoshi Pavilion, and Xiaojing of Yellow Crane Return. The Yellow Crane Tower is a famous scenic spot at home and abroad. It stands on the bank of the Yangtze River, at the top of the Snake Mountain, backed by Wuchang City with thousands of families, facing the surging Yangtze River, relatively quaint and handsome, and just at the intersection of the Yangtze River and the Beijing-Guangzhou line, that is, the intersection of the east-west waterway and the north-south land. The beautiful scenery of the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan is vivid, and the splendid mountains and rivers in the vast China are also panoramic. Due to this unique geographical location and the poems, essays, couplets, plaques, stone carvings and folk stories handed down by predecessors, the Yellow Crane Tower has become a famous cultural building with mountains and rivers and human landscapes, and has always enjoyed the reputation of "the first scene in the world" and "the first building in the world". The Yellow Crane Tower is located at the top of the snake at an altitude of 6 1.7 meters. The building is five stories high, with a total height of 5 1.4m and a building area of 32 19m 2. 72 columns rise from the ground, vigorous and steady; 60 upturned horns stretched out in the air, just like a yellow crane taking off. The roof of the building is covered with more than 654.38 million yellow glazed tiles. Against the blue sky and white clouds, the Yellow Crane Tower is colorful and magnificent. The Yellow Crane Tower, which stands on the Snake Mountain in Wuchang, enjoys the reputation of "the best scenery in the world", and is also called "the three famous buildings in the south of the Yangtze River" with Yueyang Tower in Hunan and Wangtengting Pavilion in Jiangxi. The Yellow Crane Tower was built in the Three Kingdoms Period in the second year of Wu (AD 223). It is said that it was built for military purposes. Sun Quan built the earliest Yellow Crane Tower in the history of Xiakou City, which is the southwest of Wuchang City, in order to realize "ruling the country by force and prospering the world" (hence the name of Wuchang). The Yellow Crane Tower was just a "military building" in the corner of Xiakou City during the Three Kingdoms period, which was disputed by many heroes. After the rulers destroyed Wu Dong, the three countries were unified. At the same time, the building lost its military value and gradually evolved into an ornamental building with the development of Jiangxia city. By the Tang Dynasty, its military nature had gradually evolved into a famous scenic spot, which was visited by literati of all dynasties, leaving many well-known poems. Cui Hao, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote: "In ancient times, yellow cranes carried saints to heaven, but today there is no yellow crane tower. The yellow crane will never come, and the white clouds will never have him. Every tree in Hanyang has become crystal clear, and Nautilus Island is a nest of sweet grass. But I looked home, the twilight was getting thicker, and the river waves were filled with sad mist. " Becoming a swan song throughout the ages has also made the Yellow Crane Tower famous. And Li Bai's "Listening to the Yellow Crane Tower on the Flute with the Shilang Zhongqin" "One is to move to Changsha, and the other is to look at Chang' an in the west. Yu Di blows in the Yellow Crane Tower and plum blossoms fall in May in Jiangcheng, which has established the reputation of "Jiangcheng" in Wuhan. By the first year of Yongtai in the Tang Dynasty (AD 765), the Yellow Crane Tower had reached a certain scale, which made many Jiangxia celebrities "feast". However, wars and fires occur frequently, and the Yellow Crane Tower is repeatedly built and abandoned. The last "Lou Qing" was built in the seventh year of Tongzhi (A.D. 1868) and destroyed in the tenth year of Guangxu (A.D. 1884), and has not been rebuilt for nearly a hundred years. Since its establishment, the Yellow Crane Tower has been shaped in different dynasties, but it is majestic and full of personality. Compared with Yueyang Tower and Wangtengting Pavilion, the plane design of the Yellow Crane Tower is an octagon with four sides, which is called "all directions". These figures reveal the symbolic and ethical ideographic functions of numbers in ancient architectural culture. From the vertical direction of the building, the eaves of each floor are directly related to the name of the building, which looks like a yellow crane and is ready to go. The whole building is magnificent and exquisite, full of changing charm and beauty. When the Wuchang approach bridge of Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge 1957 was built, it occupied the former site of Yellow Crane Tower, and now the reconstructed Yellow Crane Tower is located at Sheshanfengling, which is about 1 km away from the former site. In June 198 1, the Yellow Crane Tower reconstruction project broke ground and was completed in June 1985. The main building is based on Tongzhi Building in Qing Dynasty, but it is bigger and more magnificent. Using modern building technology, reinforced concrete frame imitates wood structure. There are five cornices, a pointed roof and a golden glazed tile roof, with a height of 5 1.4m, a bottom width of 30m and a top width of 18m. Large murals, couplets and cultural relics are arranged on all floors of the building. Outside the building, a number of ancillary buildings such as bronze yellow crane modeling, statue pagoda, memorial archway, porch and pavilion make the main building more magnificent. When you climb up this building, you can see the scenery of the Yangtze River rolling forward and the three towns, which is very spectacular. There are two views on the name of the Yellow Crane Tower: "because of the mountain" and "because of the fairy". "Because of the immortal" said that there were immortals driving cranes through here, hence the name. It is said that a Taoist once painted a dancing yellow crane on the wall of Xin's Hotel here, and the business in the store was very prosperous. Ten years later, the Taoist priest came back, used his flute to attract the yellow crane and flew there by crane, so the Xin family invested in building the building. These myths and legends are very interesting and moving, but they are not the real origin of the name of Yellow Crane Tower. According to historical research, the Yellow Crane Tower was named after it was built on Huanggu Mountain. In ancient times, the words "mandarin fish" and "crane" changed from one sound to another, which were common to each other, hence the name "Yellow Crane Tower". The saying that the Yellow Crane Tower is named after a mountain has laid a geographical foundation, but the saying that it is named after a fairy gives the watchmen wings of imagination and satisfies people's desire for beauty and spiritual transcendence. Both versions have their own functions. It used to go hand in hand and complement each other. They will shine on each other in the future, and * * * will last forever. Layers of cornices are integrated. 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. 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 up to 7 meters long are hung on the columns on both sides: cool and refreshing, clouds and clouds are comfortable; A river gone forever, the waves washed away the troubles of the past and present. On the front wall of the lobby on the second floor, the marble of Yellow Crane Tower written by Yan Boli in Tang Dynasty is engraved, which describes 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 activities and festivals of celebrities from the Three Kingdoms to the Yellow Crane Tower. The murals in the lobby on the third floor are "Xiu Xiang paintings" by famous people in the Tang and Song Dynasties, such as Cui Hao, Li Bai, Bai Juyi and Lu You. , but 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. Since its establishment, the Yellow Crane Tower has been shaped in different dynasties, but it is majestic and full of personality. Compared with Yueyang Tower and Wangtengting Pavilion, the plane design of the Yellow Crane Tower is an octagon with four sides, which is called "all directions". These figures reveal the symbolic and ethical ideographic functions of numbers in ancient architectural culture. From the vertical direction of the building, the eaves of each floor are directly related to the name of the building, which looks like a yellow crane and is ready to go. The whole building is magnificent and exquisite, full of changing charm and beauty. Therefore, the address of the Yellow Crane Tower, the original site of Huangliu Chicken Head in Sheshan, Wuchang, is said to have been built in 223 AD. The Yellow Crane Tower has been built and destroyed repeatedly in history, and the last one was 1884. When the Yangtze River Bridge Wuchang Approach Bridge 1957 was built, it occupied the former site of Yellow Crane Tower. 198 1 When the Yellow Crane Tower was rebuilt, it was located at Sheshanfengling, about 1000 meters away from the former site. Wuhan is a city with hundreds of lakes. If the Yangtze River, Hanshui River, East Lake, South Lake and dotted lakes are regarded as continuous waters, then the urban land is a floating island dotted on the water, and Wuhan is a city floating on the water. On this magnificent water, there is a ridge in the middle that stands out. From west to east, it is Meishan, Guishan, Sheshan, Hongshan, Luojiashan, Moshan and Yujiashan. This series of ridges is like a dragon lying in the waves. Yujiashan, the first peak in Wuhan, is the leader, and Yuehu Womeizi Mountain is the dragon tail. This is the geographical Long Mai of Wuhan. The Yellow Crane Tower is right on the dragon's waist. Riding Long Zaitian, taking this opportunity, the position of the Yellow Crane Tower seems to reveal some mysteries. Hehe, 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. 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. The halls from the 2nd floor to the 5th floor have different themes, with their own characteristics in layout, decoration and display. 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 stele gallery with many stones engraved with the works of famous poets of past dynasties. The ancient scenic spots around Snake Mountain will be restored one after another, which is the symbol of Wuhan.