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1、黄鹤楼,Yellow Crane Tower,Yellow Crane Tower, located on Snake Hill in Wuchang, is one of the “Three Famous Towers South of Yangtze River (the other two: Yueyang Tower in Hunan and Tengwang Tower in Jiangxi)”. Three Famous Towers South of Yangtze River江南三大名楼,Legend has it that in Wuchang, there used to
2、 be a wine shop opened by a young man named Xin. One day, a Taoist priest, in gratitude for free wine, drew a magic crane on the wall of the shop and instructed it to dance whenever it heard clapping. Thousands of people came to see the spectacle and the wine shop was always full of guests. After 10
3、 years, the Taoist priest revisited the wine shop. He played the flute and then rode on the crane to the sky. In memory of the supernatural encounter and the priest, the Xins built a tower and named it Yellow Crane Tower.,According to records, the tower was first built in 223 A.D during the Three Ki
4、ngdoms period (220-280). After completion, the tower served as a gathering place for celebrities and poets to party and compose poetry. It was estimated that up to the Tongzhi Reign of the Qing dynasty, as many as 300 poems about the tower had been found in historical literature.,Cui Hao, a famous p
5、oet during the Tang dynasty (618-907), made the tower well known throughout China with his poem Yellow Crane Tower.,崔颢,Destroyed many times in successive dynasties, the tower was rebuilt time and again until 100 years ago when it was, for the last time, reduced to ashes. The present tower is a compl
6、ete reconstruction and is the result of four years of work beginning in 1981. Where the old tower was only 15 meters wide, the ground floor of the new structure was increased to 20 meters wide. The tower, 51.4 meters high, is five-storied with yellow tiles and red pillars, overlapping ridges and interlocking eaves, more magnificent than the old one.,The new Yellow Crane Tower is regarded as the symbol of Wuhan city.,upturned eaves 飞檐,Statue of Yue Fei 岳飞像,night scene 夜景,Close-range 近景,aerial perspective俯瞰图,Thanks for your watching. 谢谢观赏,
