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The Historical Story of Yellow Crane Tower

The Yellow Crane Tower, known as one of the three famous buildings in the south of the Yangtze River, was originally located in Jitou, Yellow Crane, Sheshan, Wuchang, Hubei Province. It was originally a hotel run by Xin's family. Before leaving, a Taoist priest drew a crane on the wall, telling it that it could come down and dance for fun. From then on, the guests were full and the business was booming. After ten years, the Taoist priest came back, took the flute and played, and the Taoist priest stepped onto the yellow crane and went straight to the sky. In memory of the fairy who helped her get rich, Xin's family built a building in her land and named it "Yellow Crane Tower".

The Yellow Crane Tower, one of the three famous buildings in the history of China, was burned down by fire a hundred years ago. In 1985, it stood on the bank of the Yangtze River again. In the past, the Yellow Crane Tower was known as "the best scenery in the world", but today it is more majestic and magnificent. According to historical records, the Yellow Crane Tower was founded in the Three Kingdoms. Over the past 17 years, it has been built and destroyed repeatedly. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties alone, it was destroyed seven times, rebuilt and repaired ten times. There is a saying that "the prosperity of the country is the prosperity of the building".

Yellow Crane Tower

The Yellow Crane Tower is close to the Yangtze River, and stands on the top of the Snake Mountain. It stands out tall and straight, brilliant and magnificent, and naturally becomes a famous tourist attraction all over the world. Celebrities of all ages, such as Cui Hao, Li Bai, Bai Juyi, Jia Dao, Lu You, Yang Shen, Zhang Juzheng, etc., have all come here to play and compose poems. Cui Hao's poem "The Yellow Crane Tower" has always been regarded as a masterpiece, and many people can recite it. Because of this poem, many people have nostalgia for the Yellow Crane Tower. When the new Yellow Crane Tower is completed, its richness is exciting and it is natural. There are many touching legends about the Yellow Crane Tower. One of the legends is that a man named Fei Wei cultivated immortality in the Yellow Crane Mountain and then ascended to heaven by the Yellow Crane. Later, in memory of Fei Wei, people built a Yellow Crane Tower on this Yellow Crane Mountain. Cui Hao's poem is related to this, and the poem goes: "where long ago a yellow crane bore a sage to heaven, nothing is left now but the Yellow Crane Terrace. The yellow crane never revisited earth, the white clouds are long. Every tree in Hanyang becomes clear by sunlit water, and Parrot Island is covered by the sweet grass. But I look toward home, and twilight grows dark, with a mist of grief on the river waves. The "Ancient Yellow Crane Tower" has three floors, with a height of 9 feet and 2 feet, and a copper roof of 7 feet, * * * becomes the number of 99. " The new building is much more magnificent, with five floors and a 5-meter-high gourd-shaped treasure top. The height of * * * is 51.4 meters, nearly 2 meters higher than that of Gu Lou. The ground floor of Gu Lou is "15m wide", while the ground floor of the new building is 3m wide. Therefore, the Yellow Crane Tower is not a restoration, but a reconstruction. It retains some characteristics of Gu Lou, but it is more designed according to the current needs and the changes of people's aesthetic views.

Architectural features of Yellow Crane Tower

The new Yellow Crane Tower is more spectacular than the old one. This is because the Yangtze River Bridge flying across the river is right in front of it, and across the river is the 24-story Qing Chuan Hotel. This group of buildings complement each other and greatly add color to Jiangcheng Wuhan. The architectural feature of the Yellow Crane Tower is that the roofs of all floors are staggered and overlapped, and the corners are lifted, as if they were crane wings spreading their wings. Inside and outside the floor, cranes are painted as the main body, with moire, flowers and plants and dragons and phoenixes as the foil. The front wall of the first floor hall is a huge ceramic mural with the theme of "White Clouds and Yellow Crane". The surrounding space displays important documents about the Yellow Crane Tower in past dynasties, scenic prints of famous poems, and replicas of paintings of the Yellow Crane Tower in past dynasties. The halls on the 2nd to 5th floors all have different themes, and have their own characteristics in layout, decoration and display. Walking out of the outer corridor of the five-story hall, you can look around and have a wide field of vision. It is nearly 9 meters above the river, and the scenery on both sides of the river 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, as well as some buildings such as archways, pavilions, corridors and so on. There is a poem stele gallery with many stone carvings engraved with the works of famous poets in past dynasties, and the ancient scenic spots around Sheshan will be restored one after another. The Yellow Crane Tower will become a symbol of Wuhan, the central city in the heart of our country.