Yueyang Tower

Yueyang tower is located on the ancient city wall of yueyang city, Hunan province.

 It is one of the three famous towers in the south of the Yangtze River. The other

two are Tengwang Pavilion in Nanchang of Jiangxi Province and Yellow Crane Tower

in Wuhan of Hubei Province. Since ancient times, Yueyang Tower has been enjoying

the title of "the best tower on this planet”.

Originally, Yueyang Tower was mainly for military use. The construction of the tower was

commissioned by General Lu Su of the Kingdom of Wu during the Three Kingdoms Period.

It was designed as a tower for training, directing marine troops and for military reviews. 

Since the Tang Dynasty, Yueyang Tower had gradually become a popular tourist destination

as well as a favored site for romantic scholars, who would frequent the place for chanting and

writing poems. It’s the great writer Fan Zhongyan.His article made Yueyang Tower a well-known

scenic spot in South China.   

Yueyang Tower is a complete wood structure in the construction, simple and unique. In the

middle of the tower, four pillars run all the way to the roof, with twelve round-timber pillars

propping up the second storey and another twelve pillars supporting the upturned eaves,

thus ingeniously forming a whole. The pinnacle of the tower is like a helmet worn by an

ancient general. The structure of the tower is unique in the architectural history of ancient

China, holding unparalleled artistic values. 

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