Yellow crane tower information

The Yellow Crane Tower, also known as the Yellow Crane Tower, is one of the three major buildings in the south of the Yangtze River. It was originally located at the head of a yellow crane in Sheshan, Wuchang, Hubei. According to legend, it was built in the second year of Wu in the Three Kingdoms (AD 223), and it was built and destroyed repeatedly for more than 700 years, and the last time it was destroyed by a fire in the tenth year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1884). During the Three Kingdoms period, the buildings on the top of Linjiang Mountain were originally built for military needs, and later gradually became a tourist attraction for literati to meet, entertain guests, make friends, recite poems and entertain themselves.

Celebrities of past dynasties, such as Cui Hao, Li Bai, Bai Juyi, Jia Dao, Xia Song, Lu You, etc. , are visited here first, poetry writing. Cui Hao, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, boarded the Yellow Crane Tower to enjoy the scenery and wrote a masterpiece handed down from generation to generation: "In ancient times, yellow cranes carried saints to heaven, but today there is no Yellow Crane Tower. In "The Yellow Crane Never Comes Again", the white clouds are empty for thousands of years. Every tree in Hanyang becomes clear in the water, and the grass is closely related to Nautilus Island. But I looked home, the twilight was getting thicker, and the mist of sadness was filled on the river waves. " Li Bai came to the Yellow Crane Tower and looked at Chutian with an open mind, full of poetry. When he was about to start writing poetry, Cui Hao's poems were so ashamed that he had to say, "There is a scene in front of him, and Cui Hao's poems are on it." Ho Choi and Li Bai stopped writing and became famous.

When Wuchang approach bridge of Yangtze River Bridge 1957 was built, the former site of Yellow Crane Tower was occupied, and now the reconstructed Yellow Crane Tower is located at Sheshanfengling, which is about 1 km away from the former site. * * * Five floors, 50.4 meters high, pyramid-shaped roof, layers of cornices, shaped like a whole. 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: a cool piece, clouds sweeping the world; A river gone forever, the waves washed away the troubles of the past and present. On the front wall of the hall on the second floor, the marble of Yellow Crane Tower written by Yan in Tang Dynasty is engraved, describing 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 celebrity activities from the Three Kingdoms to the Yellow Crane Tower. The murals in the lobby on the third floor are "Xiu Xiang paintings" by Cui Hao, Li Bai, Bai Juyi and other famous people in Tang and Song Dynasties, and there are 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.

Interviewee: Ziying-Assistant Level 3 9- 18 23:06

Yellow Crane Tower

The Yellow Crane Tower, one of the three famous buildings in the history of China, was destroyed by fire a hundred years ago. 1985, it stood on the bank of the Yangtze River again. In the past, the Yellow Crane Tower was hailed as "the best scenery in the world", but today, it is even more magnificent. According to historical records, the Yellow Crane Tower was built in the Three Kingdoms period. In the past 1700 years, it has been repeatedly built and destroyed. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties alone, it was destroyed seven times and rebuilt and maintained 10 times. There is a saying that "the prosperity of the country is the prosperity of the building".

Ancient masterpiece Yellow Crane Tower

The Yellow Crane Tower is close to the Yangtze River and stands on the top of Snake Mountain. It is tall, straight, brilliant and magnificent, and naturally becomes a world-famous tourist attraction. Celebrities of past dynasties, such as Li Bai, Bai Juyi, Jia Dao, Lu You, Yang Shen and Zhang. Come here to play and write poems. Cui Hao's poem The Yellow Crane Tower has always been regarded as a masterpiece, and many people can memorize 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 natural. There are many touching legends about the Yellow Crane Tower. One of them said that a man named Wei Fei cultivated immortals in the Yellow Crane Mountain and then ascended to heaven by the Yellow Crane. Later, in memory of Wei Fei, people built a Yellow Crane Tower on the Yellow Crane Mountain. Cui Hao's poem is related to this, which reads: "In the past, the yellow crane carried saints to heaven, but now only the yellow crane tower is left. The yellow crane does not return to the world, and the white clouds are long. Every tree in Hanyang has become clear due to sunlight, and Nautilus Island is covered with sweet grass. But I looked home, the twilight was getting thicker, and the river waves were filled with sad mist. " The ancient Yellow Crane Tower "has three floors, with a height of 9 feet 2 feet and a copper roof of 7 feet, * * * becomes the number of 99." The new building is much more magnificent. The five-meter-high gourd-shaped treasure top is 5 1.4 meters high, nearly 20 meters higher than that of Gu Lou. The ground floor of Gu Lou is "15m wide" and the ground floor of the new building is 30m 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 standards.

Architectural characteristics of Yellow Crane Tower

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". Around the space, there are important articles about the Yellow Crane Tower, printed versions of famous poems, and replicas of paintings of the Yellow Crane Tower in previous 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 monument gallery with many stones engraved with the works of famous poets of past dynasties, and the ancient scenic spots around Sheshan will be restored one after another. The Yellow Crane Tower will become the symbol of Wuhan, the central city in central China.