The Yellow Crane Tower was destroyed by fire in the Qing Dynasty. After experts restored it, is it still the same as before?

Li Bai's poem "Farewell to Meng Haoran in Guangling" makes the Yellow Crane Tower, one of the three famous buildings in Jiangnan, give people a sense of the splendor of fireworks in March. This unique and famous building has been praised by all generations. But his fate was ill-fated and he was repeatedly attacked by war. During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, after a fire, only a copper roof was left in the Yellow Crane Tower. After liberation, experts restored it, but found that it was still very different from its original appearance. What happened?

The Yellow Crane Tower, located on the south bank of the Yangtze River in Wuhan, Hubei Province, has enjoyed the reputation of "the best building in the world" and "the most beautiful scenery in the world" since ancient times. It was built in the second year of Huangwu (AD 223) of the State of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period. The building had a certain military purpose at that time, and its use was somewhat similar to that of a watchtower and beacon tower. Later, the Jin Dynasty destroyed Dongwu and unified the three kingdoms. Although the Yellow Crane Tower lost its military value, with the development of the city where it was located, it gradually evolved into a "must visit" and "must visit for banquets" viewing tower for officials and merchants. Ancient literati wrote countless poems about the Yellow Crane Tower here, making the Yellow Crane Tower even more famous.

Since then, the Yellow Crane Tower has been built and expanded in successive dynasties, becoming more and more large-scale. However, due to repeated military fires, it was repeatedly built and destroyed. In the Ming and Qing dynasties alone, it was destroyed 7 times. A fire in the 10th year of Guangxu's reign (AD 1884) caused the Yellow Crane Tower to be completely destroyed. The Shanghai "Declaration" at that time recorded the fire in more detail: After the fire burned for more than an hour, the building (Yellow Crane Tower) fell to the south, and about 1,000 workshops, shops, and residences along the river were destroyed. Go to about two hundred houses..."

In the Yellow Crane Tower that was hit by the fire, only a copper roof remained, and the rest were all reduced to ashes, which makes people sigh. "Continued Hankou Congtan" has The poem laments this: The carved beams of the painting building were all gone overnight, the magnificent buildings reflected the golden green, the resort turned into a rubble field, and the tourists swept away the smoke.

The copper casting building that survived the fire. The roof was abandoned in place until 1958, during the "National Steel Campaign", when the top of the copper-casting roof was taken away again to be used for refining metal. Although it was recovered in time by the relevant departments, the copper-casting roof was not recovered. The roof was destroyed beyond recognition. Later, the copper roof was transported back to the original site of the Yellow Crane Tower, and its upper structure was also damaged, and its true appearance was gradually forgotten by the world.

In 1985. , staff of the Wuhan Mechanical Technology Research Institute, with the cooperation of relevant departments, repaired the roof of the copper-cast Yellow Crane Tower. However, the restored copper-cast roof was found to be similar to the one taken by a tourist. The original was "very different"

According to the tourist's recollection: In October 1977, he and six technical school classmates interned at a unit on Shouyi Road, Wuchang. The intern was a photography enthusiast and bought a camera. Seagull 135 single-lens camera. One day at noon, the master took them to take pictures in the Sheshan Shouyi Park. At that time, they saw an incomplete copper dome standing in the small square on the west side of Baobingtang, and a guide sign next to it told the story. The Tongbaoding is the only thing left of the Yellow Crane Tower after the fire during the Guangxu period. So, he and his friends stood on the lotus leaf seat on the Tongbaoding, holding on to the Tongbaoding, and each took a beautiful photo. "Photo.

Now more than 40 years have passed. The tourist said that he was still young at the time and did not have enough understanding of the preciousness of historical relics. Now it seems that this way of taking photos is uncivilized behavior. He feels sorry for himself However, he found that the bronze dome in this old photo was different from the restored one: there were only two copper balls on it, between the lotus leaf base and the first large copper ball. , there is a metal transition structure in the shape of an inverted basin. However, the current copper treasure top has three copper balls stacked and welded together. There is no metal transition structure between the lotus leaf seat below and the first large copper ball... …

The tourist’s revelations tell us this: history is serious. If you want to restore cultural relics, you must make them exactly the same as ancient cultural relics. If you want to reconstruct them, you must use your imagination and strive to make them The copper roof of the Yellow Crane Tower has become more majestic, more modern, and closer to modern people's lives.

In 1985, the Yellow Crane Tower was rebuilt again. The newly completed Yellow Crane Tower is larger than the old building. . Since ancient times, the Yellow Crane Tower has been said to be "the prosperity of the country and the prosperity of the building". Now it is even more grand and majestic. If you have time to visit the Yellow Crane Tower, be sure to see the restored copper roof. It is now displayed between the Yellow Crane Tower and the Millennium Clock. I believe you will have an unusual feeling.