There is a bronze sculpture in front of the Yellow Crane Tower, which is a turtle, a snake and a crane. It is said that Dayu controlled water and moved heaven. God sent two generals of tortoise and snake to help control water, and two yellow cranes to observe people's feelings. Finally, the tortoise and snake turned into two mountains to lock the Yangtze River. These two mountains are Guishan and Sheshan respectively, and cranes turn into Yellow Crane Tower to support the Yangtze River. This is a legend about the origin of the Yellow Crane Tower.
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Landscape introduction of Yellow Crane Tower:
1, first floor
The front wall of the lobby on the first floor 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.
Walking out of the outer corridor of the fifth floor hall, you can look around and have a wide view. Nearly 90 meters away from the river, the scenery on both sides of the strait is vivid. The snake mountain area where the Yellow Crane Tower is located has been turned into the Yellow Crane Tower Park. Many flowers and trees have been planted, and some buildings such as archways, pavilions, corridors and so on. There is a stone tablet gallery with many stones engraved with the works of famous poets of past dynasties. The ancient scenic spots around Sheshan Mountain will be restored one after another and become the symbol of Wuhan.
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.
2. Second floor
On the front wall of the lobby on the second floor, the marble of Yellow Crane Tower written by Yan Boli in Tang Dynasty is engraved, which describes 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 activities and festivals of celebrities from the Three Kingdoms to the Yellow Crane Tower.
3. The third floor
The murals in the lobby on the third floor are "Xiu Xiang paintings" by famous people in the Tang and Song Dynasties, such as Cui Hao, Li Bai, Bai Juyi and Lu You. , but 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 the calligraphy and painting of contemporary celebrities are built in for tourists to enjoy and choose. There are long scrolls and murals such as the Map of the Yangtze River in the top hall. 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.
Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia-Legend of Yellow Crane Tower