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The Yellow Crane Tower has five floors with a height of 51.4m. ..

The Yellow Crane Tower was built in the Three Kingdoms Period in the second year of Wu (AD 223). Legend has it that it was built for military purposes. Sun Quan built a city to defend himself and looked forward to "ruling the country by force" (hence the name of Wuchang).

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 frames imitate wood structures.

The Yellow Crane Tower has five cornices, a pointed roof and a golden glazed tile roof, with a height of 5 1.4m, a bottom side width of 30m and a top side 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 and porch pavilion set off the main building more magnificently.

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Five-story landscape of Yellow Crane Tower;

1, first floor: The front wall of the lobby on the first floor is a huge ceramic mural with the theme of "Baiyun 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.

2. The second floor: On the front wall of the lobby on the second floor, the Yellow Crane Tower written by Yan Boli in Tang Dynasty is engraved with marble, which describes the rise and fall of the Yellow Crane Tower and anecdotes of celebrities.

3. The third floor: The murals in the lobby on the third floor are "Xiu Xiang paintings" by celebrities in the Tang and Song Dynasties, such as Cui Hao, Li Bai, Bai Juyi and Lu You, and they also extract famous sentences chanting the Yellow Crane Tower.

4. The fourth floor: 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.

5. The fifth floor: As the top floor of the Yellow Crane Tower, the fifth floor has a collection of some famous paintings of past dynasties, all of which have a long history and are the essence of ancient culture and art in China.

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