Snake Mountain is also called Huang Hu Mountain and Yellow Crane Mountain. The Yellow Crane Tower is one of the three famous buildings in the south of China, and is known as "the best scenery in the world". The Yellow Crane Tower was built in the Three Kingdoms period, and it was destroyed and built repeatedly in later generations. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties alone, it was destroyed seven times and rebuilt 10 times, because there is a saying that "the country is rich and strong, and the building is rich and prosperous". In the tenth year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1884), the Yellow Crane Tower was destroyed by a fire. At 1985, the newly-built Yellow Crane Tower stands on the bank of the Yangtze River again.
Climbing up the stairs, the vision is wide, and the distant mountains and waters are unobstructed. The yellow crane never revisited earth, there have been no long white clouds for thousands of years. Every tree in Hanyang has become clear due to sunlight, and Nautilus Island is covered with sweet grass. The artistic conception in the poem is profound, meaningful and intriguing.
Architectural style of Yellow Crane Tower
On the front wall of the lobby on the first floor of the Yellow Crane Tower is a huge ceramic mural with the theme of "White Clouds and Yellow Crane". The surrounding space shows important documents about the Yellow Crane Tower in past dynasties, landscape prints of famous poems, and replicas of paintings of the Yellow Crane Tower in past dynasties. The halls from the 2nd floor to the 5th floor have different themes, with their own characteristics in layout, decoration and display.
Since its establishment, the Yellow Crane Tower has been shaped in different dynasties, but it is majestic and full of personality. Compared with Yueyang Tower and Wangtengting Pavilion, the plane design of the Yellow Crane Tower is an octagon with four sides, which is called "all directions". These figures reveal the symbolic and ethical ideographic functions of numbers in ancient architectural culture. From the vertical direction of the building, the eaves of each floor are directly related to the name of the building, which looks like a yellow crane and is ready to go. The whole building is magnificent and exquisite, full of changing charm and beauty.
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