Introduction to Yueyang Tower Scenic Area
Yueyang Tower is one of the three famous buildings in the south of the Yangtze River, which is also called the Yellow Crane Tower and Tengwang Pavilion. It is the only ancient building in the three famous buildings that keeps its original site and original appearance, and has great historical value.
Yueyang Tower Scenic Area has a small area and few scenic spots, but it has a long history. You can feel its vicissitudes here.
There are four scenic spots in Yueyang Tower: Sanzui Pavilion, Xianmei Pavilion, Huaifu Pavilion and Xiaoqiao Tomb. Sanzui Pavilion is named after the legendary Lv Dongbin Sanzui Yueyang Tower. This pavilion is made of pure wooden structure with exquisite carvings on it. Visitors can also see Yin Benchong's portrait of Lv Dongbin lying on the floor screen on the first floor.
Xianmeiting, located in the south of Yueyang Tower, is one of the auxiliary pavilions of Yueyang Tower. Xiaoqiao's Tomb, also known as Er Qiao's Tomb, is located in the north of Yueyang Tower. This scenic spot was set up to commemorate Xiaoqiao. In 1962, in order to commemorate the birth of Du Fu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, Huaifu Pavilion was built in memory of Du Fu, which was located on the lower side of Yueyang Tower near Hunan.
When you come to Yueyang, you can not only go to Yueyang Tower Scenic Area, but also taste the following delicious food.
Braised eel slices:
Braised eel slices are a famous traditional dish in Hunan Province, which is fresh, tender, mellow and soft, delicious and rich in nutrition.
vinegar-soaked tofu:
vinegar-soaked tofu is a famous traditional dish in Yueyang, Hunan Province. It is made of vinegar as coagulant. Its texture is tender and elastic, so it is worth tasting.
introduction of Yueyang tourist attractions
1. Yueyang Tower: Yueyang Tower is located on the wall of Dongting Lake in Hunan Province and the west gate of Yueyang City. Yueyang Tower is as famous as the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuchang and Tengwang Pavilion in Nanchang, and is also known as the "Three Famous Buildings" in the Yangtze River Valley of China. Climbing upstairs overlooking Dongting Lake, the water surface is vast and misty, and the water and sky are the same, which is known as "Dongting is the world's water and Yueyang is the world's building". The legend of Yueyang Tower is the parade platform where Lu Su, a famous general of Wu State, trained the navy during the Three Kingdoms period. In the fourth year of Kaiyuan in Tang Dynasty (716), Zhang Shuling, the secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, called a pavilion in Yuezhou, which was officially named "Yueyang Tower". Du Fu, a contemporary poet, wrote a poem "Climbing Yueyang Tower": "I had always heard of Lake Dongting, and now at last I have climbed to this tower. Southeast Wu Chu, I can see heaven and earth endlessly floating. There is no news from my friends and relatives. I am old and ill and drift in a boat. North of this wall there are wars and mountains, and here by the rail how can I help crying?. " . In the fifth year of Song Qingli (145), Tengzi rebuilt Yueyang Tower when he was staying in Baling County in Beijing, and asked Fan Zhongyan to write the masterpiece Yueyang Tower. In his article, Fan not only describes the surrounding scenery, sunny and rainy days in the morning and evening, but also expresses the author's noble feelings of worrying about the country and the people, making it popular at home and abroad, and Yueyang Tower is famous for it. The existing Yueyang Tower was renovated in the sixth year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1867), covering an area of 24 square meters, with three rooms in depth and width, three floors and three eaves, and a height of 19.72 meters, with wooden structure. The roof looks like an ancient general's helmet, with yellow glazed tiles and high cornices. The roof is decorated with various animals, and a colorful glazed phoenix stands at each corner of the building.
2. Junshan, known as Dongting Mountain and Xiangshan Mountain in ancient times, is a small island in the 8-mile Dongting Lake, far away from Yueyang Tower, a historic building, with a total area of O.96 square kilometers. It consists of 72 peaks, which is listed as the 11th blessed place in the world by Taoist Book. Now it is a national key scenic spot and a national 4A-level tourist area. Junshan has many places of interest and profound cultural heritage. According to legend, Junshan Island has 5 wells, 4 stations, 36 pavilions and 48 temples. Literati and literati in the past dynasties revolved around the strangeness, smallness, cleverness, seclusion and antiquity of Junshan, or wrote poems or inscribed books and carved stones. Here are the earliest cliff stone carvings, "nebula map" and Neolithic sites discovered by China, earth-shattering and weeping love witness-Banzhu, the tomb of the second concubine, Liu Yijing, the mountain seal of Qin Shihuang, the shooting platform of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, the flying bell of the peasant uprising in Song Dynasty, Yang Yaozhai and so on. Every monument is a heavy history, and every story is a distant memory. Especially since the Tang Dynasty, Li Bai, Du Fu, Huang Tingjian, Xin Qiji, Zhang Zhidong and other poets have all visited Junshan to express their feelings, leaving countless eternal songs. Li Bai's "Sweeping the Ming Lake to open a jade mirror, Danqing painted Junshan" and Liu Yuxi's "Looking at the Dongting Lake from afar, a green snail in a silver plate" have made Junshan famous. There are more than 2 kinds of famous bamboos on the island, and the magical and affectionate bamboos grow around the second concubine's tomb. Junshan tea is a beautiful landscape. Layers of tea gardens surround the hills like green jade belts, and Junshan Silver Needle, one of the top ten famous teas in China, is produced here.
introduction to Yueyang tourist attractions
1. Yueyang Tower
Yueyang Tower is located at the head of Ximen Town, Yueyang City, close to Dongting Lake, and is called the three famous buildings in the south of the Yangtze River together with Tengwang Pavilion in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province and Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan, Hubei Province.
"Worry about the world first, and then enjoy the world". The famous work Yueyang Tower written by Fan Zhongyan in the Northern Song Dynasty has made this famous building on the Dongting Lake a household name.
The roof form of Yueyang Tower is very unique. It adopts the helmet-like top structure of ancient generals, and the whole building does not use a nail and a beam, which is also unique in the history of ancient Chinese architecture.
Climbing to the top of a three-story building, overlooking the railing, I can see the misty 8-mile Dongting Lake in front of me, and my ears can't help echoing those ancient sayings.
2. Shiniuzhai National Geopark
Shiniuzhai National Geopark is 523 meters above sea level, and there is a huge stone in the west, shaped like a ox, so it is named Shi Niu. Shi Niu Zhai is called "Little Huashan Mountain" because of its steep terrain, towering walls and narrow diameter.
There are many scenic spots in the village, which can be summarized as "one cow, two turtles, three customs, four bridges, five villages, six lines of sky, seven strange stones and eight temples, and boundless cliff scenery". The scenic spots are famous for their strange dangers, especially the well-preserved 2-meter ancient city wall, which enjoys the reputation of "the first village in the world".
3. Dongting Lake Tourist Resort in Yueyang, Hunan
"Smile before you get to the south of the Yangtze River, and the Yueyang Tower faces Junshan". Junshan is a small island in Dongting Lake, located in the southwest of Yueyang city, with a water distance of 12 kilometers. With a total area of .98 square kilometers, it faces Yueyang Tower, a historic building, across the lake. It is a small island with an oval mountain with high sides and low middle. There are 72 peaks on the mountain.
junshan is in Dongting lake, 15 kilometers southwest of Yueyang city. It is a small island with an area of less than 1 hectares. Formerly known as Dongfushan, it takes the meaning of the immortal "the court of Dongfu".
It is said that this "Dongting Mountain floats on the water, and there are hundreds of golden halls under it, where jade girls live, and the sound of gold, stone, silk and bamboo is heard all the time, which is built on the top of the mountain". This romantic myth and legend is not credible. Later, because Shun Di's two concubines, E Huang and Nv Ying, were buried here, Qu Yuan called it Xiang Jun and Mrs Xiang in Nine Songs, so later generations renamed this mountain Junshan.
4. Baling Square
Near Baling Square are Yueyang Food Street, Bianhe Street and Yueyang Tower Park, which are one of the most lively places in Yueyang. The whole square is magnificent, and the central square is surrounded by sparse forests and grasslands. Standing on the steps of the lakeside landscape area, you can enjoy the beautiful scenery of Dongting Lake. Beside the square, there are towers such as Zhanyue Gate and Museum, which can give you a panoramic view of the square and Dongting Lake.
5. Miluo River
The Miluo River originated in xiushui county, Jiangxi Province, with a total length of 253 kilometers, which is divided into north and south branches, with the south as the backwater and the north as the Luoshui, which is the largest tributary of Xiangjiang River in northern Hunan. The pink-walled cottages on both sides of the strait are pink and green, with simple folk customs and beautiful water plants, which have a typical style of Jiangnan water town.
The Miluo River is famous mainly because of Qu Yuan. At that time, because Ying (now jiangling county, Hubei), the capital of Chu, was attacked by Qin Jun, Qu Yuan felt hopeless to save the country and died in Miluo River.
It is said that after Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, people along the coast rowed boats to rescue him, which later evolved into the custom of holding a dragon boat race on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. People used this way to commemorate Qu Yuan, a great patriot.