If you want to choose a spot to represent the history and culture of the city of Wuhan, it must be the Yellow Crane Tower. The Yellow Crane Tower, together with the Yueyang Tower in Hunan, the Tengwang Pavilion in Jiangxi, and the Penglai Pavilion in Shandong, are known as the four famous buildings in China, and have the titles of "the first floor of the world" and "the best scenery in the world". As a landmark building in Wuhan, the Yellow Crane Tower has always been a must-visit place for tourists. But for tourists who are not interested in traditional culture, the Yellow Crane Tower may be a little boring.
The Yellow Crane Tower is not only an ancient building, but also an important cultural landscape in Wuhan and even the whole of China. Countless migrants have left their footprints and poems in the Yellow Crane Tower, giving the Yellow Crane Tower a heavy cultural connotation. Because it is a wooden structure, the Yellow Crane Tower frequently encounters fires in history, has been destroyed as many as 7 times, the last time to rebuild the Yellow Crane Tower was in the Qing Dynasty Tongzhi seven years, and then the Guangxu years were destroyed again, until 1985 to rebuild, the Yellow Crane Tower seen now still retains the original appearance of the Tongzhi period, but the body of the building has been changed to a reinforced concrete structure, so that its preservation life is far better than the ancient wooden building.
The Yellow Crane Tower is a large area of about 40.3 hectares, but visitors don't have to visit all of them. The main body of the scenic spot is the Yellow Crane Tower Park, which contains a number of scenic spots, the most important of which is the Yellow Crane Tower. The Yellow Crane Tower has five floors, plus a 5-meter-high gourd-shaped Baoding, standing on top of Snake Mountain, becoming a landmark building in Wuhan. The Yellow Crane Tower we see today was rebuilt in the 80s, and in order to present a retro texture, the building body was also carefully aged. There is a statue of a yellow crane stepping turtle and a snake overlooking the world on the shore stone of the front steps of 50 meters west of the Yellow Crane Tower, and the scenic spot also carefully creates a smoky scene, which has the feeling of a heavenly fairyland. At the same time, it is also an excellent shooting location for taking a full picture of the Yellow Crane Tower.
The ground floor of the Yellow Crane Tower is a tall and spacious hall, and on the front wall is a huge ceramic mural of "White Clouds and Yellow Cranes", showing the majestic atmosphere of the Yellow Crane Tower. On the front wall of the hall on the second floor, there is a marble engraved "Yellow Crane Tower" written by Yan Boli in the Tang Dynasty, which describes the rise and fall of the Yellow Crane Tower and celebrity anecdotes, and tourists who want to know the history of the Yellow Crane Tower may wish to stop and watch. On both sides of the building are two murals, one is "Sun Quan built the city" and the other is "Zhou Yu set up a banquet", both of which reflect the historical allusions related to the Yellow Crane Tower. In addition, the second floor is divided into models of the Yellow Crane Tower of the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and the workmanship is quite exquisite, and visitors who are not very interested in culture and history can find some fun in the Yellow Crane Tower model on the second floor.
The murals in the hall on the third floor are the "embroidered portrait paintings" of celebrities in the Tang and Song dynasties, such as Cui Hao, Li Bai, Bai Juyi, Lu You, etc., and at the same time excerpt the famous sentences of their chanting of the Yellow Crane Tower. Tourists who love poetry can spend more time visiting. The hall on the fourth floor is divided into several small halls with screens, and contemporary celebrity calligraphy and paintings are built-in for visitors to enjoy and buy. It is worth mentioning that in order to increase the experience of tourists, the scenic spot has prepared a "water writing table" calligraphy interactive area on the fourth floor, where tourists can leave their own ink treasures, and send pictures to the official public account of the scenic spot through their mobile phones to participate in the online work selection activities.
The top floor of the Yellow Crane Tower is a very good viewing platform, not only to enjoy the magnificent scenery of the Yangtze River, but also to see the vast cityscape. For thousands of years, countless literati and scholars have also overlooked the distance here by the railing, and left a lot of popular poems. Tourists can have a glimpse of the scenery of the three towns of Wuhan, and can experience the majestic artistic conception of "the lonely sail is far away and the blue sky is exhausted, and only the Yangtze River skyline is seen".
In addition to the Yellow Crane Tower, there are many attractions worth visiting. Poetry lovers can take a walk through the Poetry Tablet Gallery, 210 meters southeast of the Yellow Crane Tower, where you can enjoy the poems and famous poems written by contemporary calligraphers and painters (there are also some contemporary poems) written by celebrities chanting the Yellow Crane Tower. Visitors who love flowers and plants can visit Crape Myrtle Garden and Luomei Xuan, where you can enjoy the most artistic flowers and plants in the Yellow Crane Tower Park.
Ticket price: 70 yuan/person
Opening hours: April 1 - October 31 (8:00-18:40)
November 1 - March 31 (8:00-17:40)
