This famous building is full of legends, which makes it even more magical. According to Lu, the Yellow Crane Tower was originally a hotel opened by the Xin family. Before leaving, a Taoist drew a crane on the wall, thanking her for her kindness and telling her that she could come down and dance for fun. From then on, the guests were full and the business was booming. 10 years later, the Taoist priest came back, Qu Di appeared, and the Taoist climbed the Yellow Crane and soared into the sky. In memory of the fairy who helped her get rich, Xin's family built a building in her place and named it "Yellow Crane Tower". The above are of course myths and legends. 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 enjoy the scenery. Celebrities of past dynasties, such as Cui Hao, Li Bai, Bai Juyi, Jia Dao, Xia Song, Lu You, etc. , has been here, poetry as fu. 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. The yellow crane never revisited earth, there have been no long white clouds 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. " Later, Li Bai also boarded the Yellow Crane Tower and looked at Chutian. He is open-minded and poetic. When he was about to start writing poems, he saw Cui Hao's poems. He was ashamed and had to say, "There is a beautiful scenery ahead, and Cui Hao's poems are on it." Cui Hao wrote poems, while Li Bai put pen to paper. Since then, he has gained great fame.
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: cool and refreshing, clouds and clouds are comfortable; 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 two contemporary calligraphy and paintings 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.