The Sanjiang section of Yichang was severely flooded in the past, which had a great impact on people’s lives. In the past, people could only bow to the power of nature. Although there are temples such as Huangling Temple, Zhenjiang Wangge, Yangsi Temple, and Dragon King Temple along the river in Yichang, and the shrines of water gods such as Dayu, Dragon King, and Zhenjiang King are filled with smoke all day long, floods in the Yangtze River still occur one after another. Just from a flood in the 10th year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty (AD 1860), we can see how serious the disaster caused by the flood was. "It was summer and May of that year. It rained heavily all day and night. The river rose suddenly and rushed into the city. The flat ground was six or seven feet deep. Most of them were just government examination institutes. Guozhou, Xiba and It’s useless to see floating residential buildings on the east and west banks of the Linjiang River.” In 1700 AD (the 38th year of Emperor Kangxi’s reign in the Qing Dynasty), the local government built the Yangsi Temple here with the intention of controlling flood disasters and ensuring the safety of the people. The temple was dilapidated after a fire in the 1990s. The Yichang City Government rebuilt the pavilion and recorded the history of Gezhouba's water control in the pavilion, renaming it Zhenjiang Pavilion. It is known as "the fourth floor in the world". Later it was destroyed by war. Today's Zhenjiang Pavilion was rebuilt by the Yichang Municipal Government on the original site in the 1980s, not far from the downstream of Gezhouba.
Zhenjiang Pavilion is located in the current Binjiang Park, facing east from the west, with the Yangtze River at its back and facing the Yangtze River Avenue. It has gone through 296 years of ups and downs. It is a pavilion-style building built in the early Qing Dynasty with a two-story exterior and a three-story mountain top. The pavilion is 15.95 meters high and 6.8 meters wide. A two-column five-story archway is built at the front door of the pavilion, with a surface width of 6.2 meters and a depth of 2.4 meters. It is connected with the wooden square and other components of the front wall of the pavilion. The roof is covered with yellow glazed tiles. It is steep and has four upturned corners. It is decorated with a carved flower ridge. There is a gourd-shaped blue and white porcelain treasure top on the main ridge. Both ends are decorated with kissing animals, and the forked ridges are decorated with immortals and animals. The gable has eaves at the waist, decorated with sculptures of two dragons playing with beads, and hanging lotus pillars at the corners. Instead of brackets, the eaves are made of zigzag panels, with only four corner beams and inverted animal inclined arches. The upside-down lintel under the forehead square on the ground floor in front of the pavilion is composed of three rectangular woodblock boards. On the boards, there are carved images of landscapes, roads, pavilions, various figures, flowers and birds. The carvings are exquisite and vivid in form. There is also an inscription "flowers blooming" in the middle. Yao Island is three thousand years old, and clouds surround the twelfth floor of the Pearl Palace."
The three characters for Zhenjiang Pavilion were compiled from the copybooks of famous calligraphers in my country during the reconstruction. An unexpected coincidence is that one horizontal line is missing from the three horizontal lines for Zhenjiang Pavilion, which has become an interesting story about Zhenjiang Pavilion today. A low-level mistake that seems impossible has its inherent inevitability. The two horizontal lines of the Zhenjiang secretly coincide with the Gezhouba and the Three Gorges Dam to block the Yangtze River.
Zhenjiang Pavilion is an antique building that was rebuilt on site. Its exquisite architecture is no less than the three famous buildings in Jiangnan. In order to restore the historical and cultural landscape of Yichang, the municipal government chose to rebuild Zhenjiang Pavilion at its current location in January 1987, and carried out comprehensive renovations on December 20, 2006. After renovation, Zhenjiang Pavilion in Yichang City, Hubei Province has a new look.
Today's Zhenjiang Pavilion covers an area of ??536 square meters, with a construction area of ??1,336 square meters and a height of 26.29 meters. The pavilion is divided into four floors, with brackets and cornices, gold tiles and silver ridges, and carved beams and painted pillars everywhere. The pavilion is a bluestone carved dragon and xumizuo, with white marble railings. There are 34 coiled dragon columns up and down the whole pavilion. When the river wind blows, the wind chimes on the Zhenjiang attic make a tinkling sound, which is very pleasant to the ears. Looking from the pavilion, you can faintly see the majestic figure of Gezhouba. Looking downstream, you can see the Yiling Yangtze River Bridge spanning the river, which is very spectacular. Climbing the pavilion and leaning on the railing, you can have a panoramic view of the new look of Yichang. The beautiful scenery of Gezhouba and Yichang City is vividly visible, including the majestic dam, the waves of the Yangtze River, and the scenery of Xiling Mountain.