Introduction to Yueyang Tower (English)

Yueyang Tower is located in the west wall of Yueyang Ancient City, Hunan Province, overlooking Dongting and Junshan. Since ancient times, it has been known as "Dongting is the world's water and Yueyang is the world's building", and it is also known as "the three famous buildings in the south of the Yangtze River" with the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan, Hubei and the Wangtengting Pavilion in Nanchang, Jiangxi. 1988 1 has been designated as a national key cultural relics protection unit by the State Council.

Yueyang Tower is located on the wall of the west gate of the ancient city of Yueyang City, Hunan Province, overlooking Dongting and overlooking Junshan. Since ancient times, it has been known as "Dongting Tianshui and Yueyang Tianlou". ?

It, the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan, Hubei, and the Wang Teng Tower in chauncey, Jiangxi are called "Three Major Buildings in the South of the Yangtze River". 1988 1 month was designated as a key cultural relics protection unit in the State Council.

The main building of Yueyang Tower is19.42m high,14.54m deep and17.42m wide. It has three floors, four pillars, cornices, helmet tops and pure wood structures. Four nanmu gold pillars in the building go straight to the top of the building, surrounded by corridors, rafters and purlins, which are mutually tenoned and integrated.

The main building of Yueyang Tower is19.42m high,14.54m deep and17.42m wide. It has three floors, four pillars, eaves, helmets and pure wood structure. ?

Four nanmu gold pillars in the middle of the building directly run through the roof. Surrounded by corridors, rafters, rafters and purlins, they are connected into a whole.

Yueyang Tower, as the only ancient building that keeps its original appearance among the three famous buildings, has a unique helmet-top structure that embodies the wisdom of ancient working people and the exquisite design and skills of craftsmen. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Fan Zhongyan's well-known "Yueyang Tower" made Yueyang Tower famous all over the world.

Yueyang Tower is the only ancient building that keeps its original appearance among the three famous buildings. Its unique helmet structure reflects the wisdom of ancient working people and the ingenious design and skills of skilled craftsmen. ?

Fan Zhongyan's "Yueyang Tower" in the Northern Song Dynasty made Yueyang Tower famous all over the world.

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architectural feature

Yueyang Tower faces east and west, with a simple and unique structure. The abutment of Yueyang Tower is granite, with a width of17.24m, a depth of14.54m and a height of 0.65m ... and a height of19m. In terms of architectural style, predecessors summarized it as wood, three floors, four columns, cornices, bucket arches and helmet tops. Yueyang Tower is a pure structure. The whole building is not nailed and riveted, but only connected by wooden components.

"Four pillars" refers to the basic framework of Yueyang Tower. First of all, the main load-bearing pillars are four nanmu, called "Tian Tong Zhu", which extends from the first floor to the third floor. All pillars except four are multiples of four. There are 12 colonnade; There are 32 eaves columns. These wooden columns are mutually inclusive and form a whole, which not only increases the aesthetic feeling of the building, but also makes the whole building stronger.

Bucket arch is a unique structure in China architecture. Because the eaves of ancient buildings in China are very long, the basic function of the bucket arch is to support the eaves. This kind of square is called "bucket" and the stick holding the bucket is called "arch", both of which are collectively called bucket arch. The bucket arch of Yueyang Tower is complex in structure and exquisite in workmanship, which is beyond human power. According to local legend, Luban made it himself.

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