Yellow Crane Tower is located in Wuchang on top of Snake Mountain, since ancient times and Hunan Yueyang Tower, Jiangxi Tengwang Pavilion and known as the "three famous buildings in Jiangnan". Yellow Crane Tower was built in the Three Kingdoms Wu Huangwu two years (A.D. 223), so far there have been more than 1700 years of history, Tang Yongtai first year (A.D. 765) Yellow Crane Tower has a scale. However, frequent fires, the Yellow Crane Tower has been built and abandoned. The last "Qinglou" was built in the seventh year of the Tongzhi reign (1868 AD) and destroyed in the 10th year of the Guangxu reign (1884 AD), and has not been rebuilt in the past hundred years.
The original site of the Yellow Crane Tower was at the head of the Yellow Crane Rocky Mountains in Wuchang, Hubei Province. Because of its long history, the folk myths and legends about the origin of its name have given it a layer of mysterious color, among which the story recorded in the Ming Dynasty's "Record of Repayment of Gratitude" has been the most widely circulated, which roughly describes the original Xin's hotel at the head of the Yellow Crane Rocky Mountains in the Snake Mountain, and the Taoist priests who often begged for wine to drink in gratitude for the kindness of a thousand cups of wine, painted on the wall before leaving, and then drew a picture on the wall of the hotel. In order to thank him for a thousand cups, he drew a crane on the wall before his departure and told Xin that he could come down and dance to cheer him up. From then on, the restaurant was full of guests and business was booming. After ten years, the Taoist priest came back to take the flute to play, the Taoist priest across the crane straight up to the clouds. Xin's to commemorate this immortal to help him get rich, it will be in its place building, named "Yellow Crane Tower", according to legend, this Taoist priest is one of the Eight Immortals "Lv Dongbin".
After the founding of New China, in the early eighties, in order to return the original color of the Yellow Crane Tower, in October 1981, the Yellow Crane Tower was rebuilt and restored, the project lasted four years, and in June 1985 it was completed and opened to Chinese and foreign tourists.
The main building of the Yellow Crane Tower is modeled after the Tongzhi Building of the Qing Dynasty, and constructed with modern building technology. It is a reinforced concrete frame with wood-like structure, five-story flying eaves, pointed roof, and golden glazed tiles, with a height of 51.4 meters, and a side width of 30 meters at the bottom, and 18 meters at the top. The whole building is arranged on all levels with large murals, couplets, cultural relics, etc., outside the building cast brass yellow crane modeling, victory like pagoda, pagoda, Xuan Lang, pavilions and a number of auxiliary buildings, will be the main building to accentuate the more magnificent.
The appearance of the Yellow Crane Tower is a five-story building, and the inside is actually nine stories. In ancient China, an odd number is considered a yang number and an even number a yin number. 9" for the first of the Yang number, and the Chinese character "long" of "long" "long" homophonic, has the meaning of the sky and the earth, the so-called "nine five supreme
White Crane Tower is the first of its kind in the Chinese character "久", which has the same sound as the Chinese character "久".
The five-story structure of the main building of the Yellow Crane Tower is in order: the first floor for the hall, there is the famous "white clouds and yellow cranes", the picture has the immortal on the yellow cranes away from the floating scene; the second floor is mainly introduced to the history of the Yellow Crane Tower, there are inscribed in the wall of the Yellow Crane Tower record; the third floor of the hall is a group of ceramic plate porcelain paintings, titled "Literati Gathering," reproduced through the ages of literati to the Yellow Crane Tower poetry and fugue, the most famous is Cui Hao's "Yellow Crane Tower," which is a collection of porcelain paintings, entitled "Literati Gathering," reproduced through the ages of literati to the Yellow Crane Tower, the most famous The most famous is Cui Hao's "Yellow Crane Tower"; the fourth floor is a place for cultural activities, specializing in displaying the improvisational work of contemporary painters and calligraphers visiting the Yellow Crane Tower; the fifth floor hall is a group of paintings titled "Vastness of the River and Sky", covering an area of 99 square meters, consisting of ten murals and heavy color paintings. Climbing to the top of the fifth floor, the three towns of Wuhan are in full view, the vastness and beauty of the Yangtze River, the Yangtze River Bridge connecting Wuchang and Hanyang, the Turtle Hill TV Tower standing on Turtle Hill on the opposite bank, and the entire city's tall buildings and landscapes are all on display.
White Cloud Pavilion, and its mirror, is located in the serpentine mountain, *** 4 floors, 29.7 meters high. The front and back of the pavilion constitute the "White Cloud and Yellow Crane", which has become the symbol of Wuhan.
HuangHeLou Park Ticket Price: 50 yuan / person Open to the public: 8:00 - 18:00
☆HuangHeLou South Tower: the old Baiyun Lou, AnYuan Lou, CuiYueLou, ChuGuanLou, it is called with the yellow crane tower, the head of the temple, the north of the pavilion, and is known as the ancient serpentine "four big platforms". The current building was rebuilt in 1985, is located in the southern part of the park 185 meters southeast of the Yellow Crane Tower. South building back south, face 5, 16.5 meters long, 3 deep, 7.5 meters wide, 9.5 meters high, up and down 2 layers, reinforced concrete imitation brick and wood structure, hermetic roof, heavy eaves flying angle, green tile Zhu carpet, the front plus hold back, 6 columns, spacious and clean. In front of the building, there is a hundred-year-old tree, adding the color of simplicity to the south building.
☆White Cloud Pavilion: Located at the top of Snake Mountain Gao Guanshan, about 274 meters east of the Yellow Crane Tower, 75.5 meters above sea level, the Pavilion is 41.7 meters high, it is an excellent spot to view the Yellow Crane Tower, Snake Mountain and the Yangtze River. The White Cloud Pavilion was historically known as the South Tower, the name of the Pavilion originated from the Tang Dynasty poet Cui Hao "yellow cranes never return, the white clouds a thousand years of empty yo-yo." Completed in January 1992, the White Cloud Pavilion, the appearance of the tower type, "T" type, sitting north to south, covers an area of 695 square meters, the name of the Pavilion by the historian Zhou Gucheng writing.
☆Mao Zedong Pavilion: in the southeast of the South Tower, 206 meters southeast of the Yellow Crane Tower, 90 meters southwest of the White Cloud Pavilion. Word Pavilion was completed in 1992, sitting north to south, length and width of 6.6 meters, 9.5 meters high, for the four corners of the tip of the heavy eaves Shuyi, the pavilion stands in the center of a 3.2 meters high, 1.8 meters wide, a large stone monument, the north and south were engraved with Mao Zedong in 1927 when he climbed the Snake Mountain in the spring filled in the "Bodhisattva barbarians. Yellow Crane Tower" and "Song of Water" filled out in June 1956 after swimming in the Yangtze River. Swimming".
☆The Brush Pavilion: 132 meters east of the Yellow Crane Tower, the reinforced concrete imitation wood structure was rebuilt in 1991. The name of the pavilion is taken from the story of "Cui Hao wrote a poem and Li Bai put down his brush".
Millennium Auspicious Bell: body weight of 20 tons, Pujin 1 ton, take the 20th century and the 21st century connection of the meaning of the bell material for the copper alloy, containing 2.1 kilograms of gold, silver 8.4 kilograms, which is the Ming Dynasty Yongle bell after the casting of China's largest copper bell. The shape of the big bell for the skirt round bell, mouth diameter of 3 meters, about 5 meters high.
"Goose" Pavilion: 245 meters east of the Yellow Crane Tower, there is the Qing Dynasty handed down in the Wuchang Snake Mountain Huangguo Iso a grass into the "goose" word engraved stone a side, the legend of the book saint Wang Xizhi in the Yellow Crane Tower under a flock of geese, once couldn't help but write this word. 1986, the scenic area will be based on the topography of the re-produced geese word monument stood in the Shaped like a curved moon at the eastern end of the goose pool, in the north side of the monument to build a stone arch bridge, and the monument as a pavilion wall, built hexagonal pavilion, pavilion to the name of the monument.
Poetry Gallery: 210 meters southeast of the Yellow Crane Tower, around the scenic goose pool around the content of the monument for the contemporary domestic painting and calligraphy celebrities writing poems by celebrities of all times chanting the Yellow Crane Tower of the famous lines (there are also part of the contemporary poetry). Monument wall **** embedded with 124 stone tablets, according to the authentic tracing engraving.
Yellow Crane Return Bronze Sculpture: Located 50 meters west of the Yellow Crane Tower in front of the front steps on the exposed shore stone, by the turtle, snake, crane three auspicious animals. Turtle, snake carrying the two cranes upward, the yellow crane hat feet on the turtle, snake overlooking the earth. The copper sculpture is 5.1 meters high, weighing 3.8 tons, the Department of pure brass casting.
The nine-nine-percent return to the crane figure relief: 240 meters southeast of the Yellow Crane Tower, located in the scenic area of the White Dragon Pond, is the largest outdoor granite relief. The whole sculpture is red in color, 99 cranes show different dancing postures. Relief according to the Snake Mountain mountain terrain was unequally spaced Z-shaped, the total length of 38.4 meters, 4.8 meters high, the clouds, the sun and the moon shine together, the river flows unceasingly, full of vitality. 99 cranes with different dynamics, harmoniously distributed in the pines, bamboos, the sea, ganoderma lucidum, running water, rocks, clouds and haze.
Yellow Crane Tower Culture:
The Yellow Crane Tower by Roy Cui of Tang
The people of the past have already taken the yellow crane to go, and the Yellow Crane Tower remains empty here.
The yellow crane never returns, and the white clouds are empty for thousands of years.
The sunny river is full of Hanyang trees, and the grass is full of Parrot Island.
Where is the countryside at dusk, the smoky river makes people sad.
Li Bai's With Shi Langzhong Qin Listening to the Flute Playing on the Yellow Crane Tower
One of my travelers went to Changsha, and I could not see my home when I looked at Chang'an from the west.
Blowing the jade flute in the Yellow Crane Tower, the plum blossoms fall in May in Jiangcheng.
Li Bai's "Sending Meng Haoran to Guangling"
The old man left the Yellow Crane Tower in the west, and went down to Yangzhou in March.
Lonely Sail and Far Shadow in the Blue Sky, Only the Yangtze River Flows Between the Heavens.
Mao Zedong's "Song of Water". Swimming
It is only when I drink the water of Changsha that I eat the fish of Wuchang. I have crossed the Yangtze River for ten thousand miles, and I can see Chutian Shu. Regardless of the winds and waves, it is better than walking leisurely, and today I have a wide margin. The son on the Sichuan said: the dead are like the sifu!
The mast is moving, the tortoise and the snake are quiet, and a grand plan. A bridge over the north and south, the moat into the road. More Xijiang stone wall, cut off the Wushan clouds and rain, high gorges out of the Pinghu Lake, the goddess should be unhurt, when shocked by the world difference.
2, Guiyuan Zen Temple
Guiyuan Zen Temple is a Buddhist Zen temple, for the Qing Shunzhi 15 years (1658) by the White Light Master in the Qing Dynasty Hanyang Temple people Wang's Kwai Yuan on the old site, take "the nature of the return to the original is not the same, the convenience of having more than one door" of the Buddha's verse and the name, so far, has a history of more than three hundred years. It and Baotong Temple, Lianxi Temple, Zhengjue Temple, known as the four major jungles in Wuhan.
The temple is located at the west end of Cuiwei Road, Hanyang District, Hanyang Zhongjia Village, Wuhan, covering an area of 46,900 square meters, more than 200 halls, building area of 200,000 square meters. Temple buildings, Buddhist classics, full-body statues of the flawless Jade Buddha, through the "Cultural Revolution" catastrophe and survived intact, in particular, the Lohan Hall enshrined 500 golden Lohan for the temple's focus on one of the characteristics.
The founder of Guiyuan Temple was Baiguang, the main peak of the two lay siblings, originating from Zhejiang. They traveled to Hanyang Xingguo Temple to study the Tibetan scriptures, while practicing medicine and doing good deeds for three years. Hanyang rich merchants Sun Yaoguang, Dai Tiancheng and other people were y moved, so this folk money to build Guiyuan Zen Temple. The word "Guiyuan" comes from the Buddhist scripture "Lanyan Sutra": "There are no two ways to Guiyuan, and there are many doors for convenience", which means that all laws come together as one, and there are many doors for people's convenience. "Zen" means "thinking", "meditation", "abandonment of evil", etc. Zen is one of the sects of Buddhism that combines Mahayana Buddhism with Confucianism. Zen is one of the schools of Buddhism that combines Mahayana Buddhism with Confucianism.
The temple is surrounded by lush forests and trees, which harmonize with the lofty temple buildings. Divided into five courtyards, east, south, west, north and center, the existing halls and pavilions twenty-eight, overlooking the layout of the plane is the "robe" shape. Inside the gate is the courtyard (i.e., the main courtyard), only to see the left and right towering bells and drums two buildings, the main door has a red government plaque, inscribed with the "Guiyuan ancient temple" four gold characters. On both sides of the door there is a couplet: Dabei Linjiang service, Jiangcheng lotus sun dynasty. Door on both sides of the flower beds planted with sea trees, oleander and other green leaves and red plants, and pink walls, bright colors. In front of the door there is a stone fence surrounded by a rectangular pool, for the fish pond. Pool neutral rockery, green leaves and red lotus, goldfish interspersed. North of the fish pond, through the Cuiwei Wonderland round door, is the north courtyard. In the courtyard, plum blossoms, magnolia, yew, osmanthus pallidum flowers, cypresses and palms and other flowers and trees, red and green, colorful. There are Cuiwei Mountain, Cuiwei Spring, Cuiwei Ancient Pond and Cuiwei Pavilion I, II and III. With the north courtyard to form a counterpoint is the south courtyard, the south courtyard cave door inscription Dharma solemn although not as extensive as the north courtyard site, but is also a fascinating courtyard.
The temple is famous for promoting Buddhism, with perfect architecture, sculpture, rich collection and reputation of the Buddha, has been a Buddhist believers for hundreds of years in pilgrimage to the shrine, but also Chinese and foreign tourists to play the famous attractions. Hong Kong and Macao compatriots, overseas compatriots and many countries and regions of the tourists and heads of state, King Sihanouk of Cambodia, the U.S. Secretary of State Key and other dignitaries, Singapore's former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, Japan's Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and other successive to come to this ornamental tour, to its praise.
Guiyuan Zen Temple Ticket Price: 50 yuan / person Open to the public: 8:00 - 17:00
Time required to visit: 1-2 hours Tel: 027-84844756
The temple attractions:
☆Daxiongbao Hall: the hall was first built in the Qing Dynasty Shunzhi eighteen years (1661), after many repairs. Afterwards, it was repaired many times. The present Daxiongbao Hall is the Qing Guangxu thirty-four years (1908) rebuilt, after recent years of maintenance, magnificent. The main hall is enshrined Shakyamuni seated statue, flanked by his disciples Ananda and Jaya, are Tosha sculpture. Shakyamuni "favoring the right shoulder, sitting cross-legged", very solemn and quiet, dignified. Buddha after the backlight is carved from camphor wood "five dragons holding the holy" pattern. Buddha before the pack, Maitreya, the Earth Tibetan statue, Buddha is a group of island Guanyin statue, only to see the island Guanyin stood barefoot in the head of the ao, the left and right standing dragon lady and children, behind a clay cliff up to eight feet high, under the feet of the blue waves, the raging waves. The whole statue tilted forward. People look up, only to see the Guanyin sleeves seem to be floating, is the raging waves on the face to you floating, increasing the infectious force of religious art.
☆Weishan Hall: located in front of the Maharishi Temple, enshrined a wooden statue of Weishan, wearing armor, holding a pestle and mortar, standing up, with the image of China's ancient generals to express the image of ancient Indian mythology, "four heavenly kings and thirty-two generals," the head of the protector of the image of God. This wood carving system with a whole piece of camphor wood carving, line knife are Tang carving style, is the art of Guiyuan Temple treasures, but also China's carving works of art in a valuable heritage.
☆Hidden Scripture Pavilion: built in 1920 to 1922, is a two-story five open ask the pavilion-style building, about 25 meters high, the top of the big ridge for the animal head, the fish corner to move claws, arches and flying eaves, simple and exquisite, in the face of the four columns through the sky, the two phoenixes in the morning sun, the five dragons play beads. The whole building, doors and windows, painted Zhu painted color, carving carving, exquisite and spectacular, brilliant, is the only one in Wuhan City, brick and wood structure of ancient buildings. Here there are many Buddhist cultural relics, in addition to the "Tibetan scriptures", there are also Buddha's image, law objects, stone carvings, wood carvings, calligraphy, painting, calligraphy and foreign language texts.
☆Luohan Hall: built in the Qing Dynasty during the Daoguang period, Xianfeng two years (1852), destroyed in the conflagration, Guangxu twenty-one years (1895) rebuilt in 1902, completed, so far, there are two hundred years of history. Lohan Hall is laid out in a "Tian" architectural pattern, with four small patios at the four mouths of the "Tian", providing good ventilation and lighting conditions for the huge and deep hall. Lohan in accordance with the "Tian" word arrangement, the hall, despite the placement of more than 500 statues, but no sense of crowding, this architectural pattern is both ingenious and reasonable.
Luohan Hall in the five hundred Luohan is Hubei Huangpi County Wang's father and son with nine years of plastic, is based on the Nanyue Hengshan Zhu Sheng Temple of the five hundred Luohan stone carving of the topography, processing and refining, created. Crafted using "off the lacquer molding", also known as "gold body to sand statue". First molded into a model with clay tires, and then dipped layer by layer with raw lacquer sticking sets of plastic, known as lacquer cloth empty plastic, and finally decorated with gold dust. It is characterized by resistance to humidity, insect moths, and long-lasting. During the past two hundred years, Lohan Hall has been flooded several times, Lohan full of floating, but after the water receded Lohan is still intact, visible sculpture craftsmanship is superb.
"Counting the Lohan" is a fun thing for people to do in Lohan Hall. Legend has it that people arbitrarily start from a luohan, the order of counting down their existing age, the identity of the last luohan, expression and action, can indicate the fate of the number of people. This activity adds a lot of fun to the visit to Lohan Hall.
☆Dizang Hall: Lohan Hall, outside of Dizang Hall, enshrined in the Dizang statue, the hall of the wood carving shrine is even better, the arch of the arch flying eaves, fish horns to move the claw, the double phoenix sunrise, the flying dragon roller columns, relief carving pendant bar, flowers and plants, are extremely delicate Ling Cheng, for the domestic rare art treasures.
Chang Ming master (1917-): Hubei zhijiang county people, 19 years old in zhijiang county mida temple shaved, 20 years old by the full precepts. Subsequently to Hubei Yuquan Temple, Qingxi Temple, Xinhua Temple, Hunan Luohan Temple, etc. In 1943 to participate in the "Nanyue Buddhist Way of Salvation Association" anti-Japanese monastic rescue team, went to the front line of the anti-Japanese rescue of the wounded and wounded, in 1950 as abbot of the Temple in the Maitou Temple. 1958 a year in 1960 in the Chinese Academy of Buddhism, back to return to the Temple in the year 1965 as the supervisor of the Temple in the Maitou Temple. In 1965, he became the supervisor of Guiyuan Temple. Ten years during the civil unrest, wrote to Premier Zhou, reflecting the chaos of Guiyuan Temple, after the relevant departments received Premier Zhou's instructions, take measures to protect the temple. 1979, honorably appointed as the 48th abbot of Guiyuan Temple to the present.
Since 1980, Venerable Chang Ming has been the executive director of the China Buddhist Association. He has been a member of the Standing Committee of the Wuhan Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), a deputy to the Hubei Provincial People's Congress (HUPCC), the President of the Hubei Buddhist Association, the President of the Wuhan Buddhist Association, a member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress (SPC), and an Honorary Director of the Hubei Disabled Persons' Welfare Foundation.
3, Guqin Terrace
Guqin Terrace, also known as Boya Terrace, is located in Hanyang at the western foot of Turtle Mountain, east of the Moon Lake, is to commemorate the Yu Boya playing the qin and met his soulmate, Zhong Ziqi, and the construction of monumental buildings. According to legend, Yu Boya played the qin here to express his feelings, and Zhong Ziqi, a woodcutter, realized that his ambition was in high mountains and flowing water, and they became close friends. Later, when Zhong Ziqi fell ill and died, Yu Bo Ya was so grief-stricken that he smashed his zither in front of his friend's grave and never played the zither again. This is where the allusion to "soulmates" comes from. The Ancient Qin Terrace was built by the descendants to commemorate this pair of dear friends.
Guqintai was built in the Northern Song Dynasty, and has been repeatedly destroyed and built. Now the Guqintai complex covers an area of 15 acres, small scale, exquisite layout, the main building to the courtyard, forest garden, flower beds, tea rooms, layered. Corridor in the yard according to the situation and folding, real and virtual open and close, step by step, each other. The builders make full use of the terrain terrain, but also fully utilized the Chinese garden design in the tricky "borrowed scenery" approach, the turtle mountain moon lake landscape skillfully borrowed, constituting a broad and far-reaching realm of art.
To the Guqintai excursion, into the gate, through the small courtyard, out of the tea house right door, meet the door is placed in the yellow tile red columns within the Qing Daoguang Emperor's Royal "seal heart stone house" according to the wall. The east side of the wall there is a small door, the door "qintai" two words, according to legend from the famous calligrapher Mi Fu's hand in the Northern Song Dynasty. After entering the door for the curved corridor, the corridor wall with generations of stone carvings and restoration of the qintai monument. Further ahead is the Hall of Qin, also known as the Hall of Friendship, and the square stone platform made of white jade in the courtyard in front of the hall is the qin platform that symbolizes Bo Ya's playing of the qin.
☆Yinxinshiyou: The wall of the stone house is inscribed by Emperor Daoguang of the Qing Dynasty as "Yinxinshiyou".
☆Beoya Terrace: The white jade stone platform in the middle of the garden is engraved with the words "Qin Terrace" and the picture of "Beoya playing the qin". Figure around the stone fence, carved with "Boya dropped the qin to thank the soulmate" relief figure, a relic of the Qing Dynasty.
☆Sculpture of the soulmate: a large sculpture located in the open space on the side of the Qin Terrace, Yu Boya arched his hand in greeting to Zhong Ziqi, showing that he met his soulmate's joy. The background of the statue is the sparkling Moon Lake, which is surrounded by lush forests, making it the best spot for tourists to take photos.
Guqintai ticket price: 10 yuan / person Open to the public: 8:00 - 17:00
Time required to visit: within 1 hour Tel: 027-84834187
4, East Lake
Donghu Lake is located in the eastern suburbs of Wuchang, taking the direction of its named East Lake Scenic Spot, is a key national Scenic Spot, by Guo Zheng Lake, Fruit Lake, Yu Jia Lake, Tang Lake, Niu Chao Lake five lakes, a total area of 88 square kilometers, of which 33 square kilometers of the lake, is six times the West Lake in Hangzhou. East Lake is a vast, sparkling blue water, waterfowl, boat weaving, the lakeshore twists and turns, port and fork intertwined, known as the ninety-nine bays.
The East Lake Scenic Area consists of six scenic spots: Hearing Wave, Mill Hill, Falling Geese, White Horse, Luhong, Blowing Descents, in which the Hearing Wave area is more concentrated. After more than 30 years of construction, the East Lake is now surrounded by pavilions, platforms, buildings, pavilions and a variety of architectural facilities in more than 70 places, planting a variety of trees more than 2 million. There are many varieties of flowers and trees in the East Lake, which are open all year round, especially spring orchids, summer lotus, autumn laurel and winter plums are the most famous ones, and the city tree of Wuhan, Metasequoia, is also distributed in various places in the East Lake. Landscapes embellished in the scenic area are Zexianxinglin, Bitan Guanyu, water and sky, curved embankment wave, lake floating pavilion, ZhuBei shrugged Cui, snow sea, CuiChuYunYi, perennial flowers, etc., has been built in the beach bathing beach, will enable you to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the southern beaches.
☆Listening to the Tao Scenic Area
Donghu Lake Listening to the Tao Scenic Area is located on the northwestern shore of East Lake, is the first to be built and opened in the East Lake Scenic Area. The scenic area is built to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan as the main group of attractions, as well as the new beach bath, is a good place for people to cool off in the summer night, play in the water and rest. The main scenic spots in the scenic area are Xingyin Pavilion, Changtian Building, Nine Women's Pier Monument, Huguang Pavilion, Fable Sculpture Garden, and Bitang Fish Viewing.
☆Xingyin Pavilion: located in the middle of the northwestern shore of the East Lake on the island, built in 1955, it is surrounded by water, by the Lotus Wind, fall feather two bridges connected to the land. The name of the pavilion comes from "Chu Rhetoric. Fisherman's father": "Qu Yuan both released, swim in the river pool, bamboo Yin Ze". Pavilion Department of reinforced concrete imitation wood structure, 22.5 meters high, the plane is square, three layers of four corners save the pointed roof, ancient color. Xingyin pavilion robust and playful, quite rich in national charm. The pavilion in front of the full-body statue of Qu Yuan, like 3.6 meters high, the base is 3.2 meters high, the modeling of dignified and dignified, Qu Yuan cocked his head to the sky, and want to step.
(Qu Yuan Ping (340 BC-278 years ago), during the warring states period zigui people, is an outstanding politician, great patriotic poet. At first, he assisted King Huai of Chu, and was a daofu of Sanlu. He put forward a series of correct policies to King Huai of Chu, the internal implementation of the progressive policy of "raise the virtuous and teach the capable", the external implementation of the strategic proposition of "unite Qi against Qin", so that the state of Chu is located in the south, once strong, and then by the villainous slanders, King Huai of Chu estranged Qu Yuan, and banished him to the north of Han Dynasty. After that, King Huai of Chu alienated Qu Yuan and banished him to the north of Han. After King Xiang of Chu succeeded to the throne, he became even more mediocre and banished Qu Yuan to the far south of the Yangtze River, where he was never allowed to interfere with the government. In 278 B.C.E., the state of Qin broke through the capital of Chu, and Qu Yuan, who had been living a wandering life in Jiangnan for twenty years, was already sixty-two years old. Witnessing the destruction of his country and the death of his family, he was filled with grief and indignation, and threw himself into the Buro River on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, and died.)
☆Changtian Building: a palace-style building with national characteristics, built in 1956, for the brick-wood-cement structure, cui tiles flying eaves, divided into the upper and lower two floors, the face of the seven rooms, two rooms deep. The whole building can accommodate 1,000 people at the same time dining and tea, visitors with the window view, the blue waves of ten thousand hectares, there is a "sunset sunset and the unruly fly together, the autumn water *** long sky a color" feeling.
☆Chu Feng Garden: located 150 meters north of Liyuan Square, covers an area of 3.16 hectares, built "51 beast screen", mandarin ducks beans, begging for rain and other Chu cultural sculptures, planting lotus, orange, mulberry, Wei and other native plants in Hubei.
☆ Nine female pier: located in the northwest of the East Lake on the hill, Chu Feng Yuan northeast of 200 meters, is to commemorate the nine heroines of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Qing army in the fierce battle of the martyrdom of the East Lake and built the monument is 8 meters high, granite masonry, the top of the hanging six copper Ling, front, side of Dong Biwu, Song Qingling, Guo Moruo, etc. written the inscription. 1956, Hubei Province will be designated as a provincial-level cultural relics protection units.
Huguang Pavilion: Built on a small island in the center of the lake, connected to the land by a ten-mile long embankment, the original name "Zhongzheng Pavilion" was built in 1931 to commemorate the fiftieth birthday of Chiang Kai-shek, and was renamed "Huguang Pavilion". The pavilion is a three-story, six-sided, flying eaves and green tiles, climbing the pavilion, looking around, the cruise ship lightly moving, the scene of thousands of things. Misty day, the water and sky, the lake and the high pavilion, like Penglai fairyland, is desirable.
☆ Bitang Guanyu: adjacent to the lakeside gallery, is a group of natural lakes through the curved bridges and pavilions of the garden building. More than 80 varieties of goldfish are bred here, and visitors walk along the corridor to watch the fish. Ripples around the blue water, full of lotus leaves, shine face into the blue.
Fable Sculpture Garden: The garden is the first fable sculpture garden in China with 23 groups of sculptures such as "Blind Man Feeling the Elephant" and "Fool's Duke Removes the Mountain" based on ancient fables.
☆Beach Bath: adjacent to the Huguang Pavilion which is pressed against the Xingyin Pavilion, the area is about 70,000 square meters. The lake is equipped with sea reefs, European-style classical sailboats, lovers island and garden ornamental vignettes and other attractions, with beach volleyball, beach motorcycles and other amusement projects, European-style service area for tourists to provide a comfortable supporting services.
Listening to the Tao Scenic Area Ticket price: 30 yuan / person Open to the public: 7:00 - 19:00 (extended in summer)
Maoshan Scenic Area
Maoshan Scenic Area is located in the East Lake Scenic Area covers an area of about 5 square kilometers. Chu culture as the theme, built attractions are: Chu City, Chu City, Chu Tiantai, Chu Talent Garden, Li Sao monument, Zhu Rong stargazing, layout has a coherent, everywhere permeated with the ancient Chu cultural atmosphere. Chu City is famous for its unique Chu culture at home and abroad, the opening ceremony of the city every morning and afternoon is spectacular, Chu Tiantai, Chute Square, chimes, music and dance performances, will take you into the fascinating ancient times. Mashan also has Hubei's largest bonsai garden, azalea garden, one of the four major plum gardens in China, the East Lake Plum Garden, as well as rose gardens, aquatic flower gardens, cherry blossom gardens, osmanthus gardens, and other botanical ornamental gardens. There are also recreational programs such as Chushan cableway and slide.
☆Chutian Terrace: It is a landmark building in the East Lake Mashan Chu Culture Excursion Area, comparable to the three famous buildings in Jiangnan. Standing on the second peak of the Mill Hill, built in the shape of the ancient Zhanghuatai system, 35.26 meters high, the top of the building placed 1.2-meter-high copper phoenix, the front wall inlaid with more than 600 pieces of natural marble spelled out "Chutian Fairyland, Danfeng Chaoyang" pattern for the Chutian one of the best. The whole building covers an area of 2260 square meters, outside the five inside six floors, every day regular performance of chimes music and dance, exhibiting a large number of cultural relics unearthed in Chu replicas. Standing on the high Chutian platform, you can have a bird's eye view of the panoramic East Lake.
☆Chu City: a place of cultural exchange and commodity exchange for the Chu people. 200 meters long, the market is strewn with yellow walls and black tiles, red-painted doorposts, green stone paths and footstools, a style of Chu. There are 30 stores in the market, selling handicrafts such as bells, lacquer ware, stones, embroidery and other handicrafts with special characteristics.
☆Chu City Songs and Dances: Chu songs and dances are regularly presented for tourists in the Chu Culture Excursion Area every day. At 9:30 a.m. and 20:00 p.m., the King of Chu opens the city to welcome the guests with unique Chu charm, singing and dancing "Pan Drums", "Dangfeng Chaoyang", "Zhaojun Biexiang", chimes and music and dance. The "Night of the Spring River and Moonflower" and so on let you enjoy the artistic style of the Chu land 800 years ago.
Maoshan Scenic Area Ticket Price: 30 yuan / person Open to the public: 8:00 - 17:30 (extended in summer)
Time required for the tour: 1-2 hours Tel: 027-87510179
5, Hubei Provincial Museum
Hubei Provincial Museum is located in the beautiful scenery of the East Lake Wuchang shore, covers an area of 9100 Square meters, built in 1953, March 1963 for the current name, is the main collection of cultural relics and specimens of Hubei Province, publicity and research institutions. The existing building area of 9600 square meters, display area of 2400 square meters. Collection of more than 200,000 pieces of historical relics, unearthed in 1978 in Hubei Suixian (now Suizhou City) ZengHouYi chimes, as well as a large number of exquisite bronze ceremonial objects from the same tomb, weapons, car and horse, gold, jade, lacquer and wood, etc., more than 2,400 years ago, enjoys a very high reputation both at home and abroad. 25 January 1999, the newly completed "chimes museum" officially opened to the public, ZengHouYi chimes (original) and a variety of fine cultural relics of various textures *****. Texture of cultural relics more than 400 pieces of fine *** display, and ancient music hall for live performances, attracting countless Chinese and foreign tourists to come to see.
In the nearly 200,000 pieces of collectibles, many are the world's rare treasures and important scientific information. Such as the Neolithic era jingshan huojialing culture of eggshell color pottery spinning wheel; Tianmen shijiahe culture of jade man, jade eagle; Panlongcheng Shang dynasty ruins and tombs unearthed large jade go and copper tripod, copper battle-axe; Suixian warring states zenghouyi tomb unearthed chimes bronze group and 16 sections of translucent carving of dragons and phoenixes jade pendant, 28 hosts astronomical images of the suitcase; yunmeng sleep tiger land unearthed in the qin dynasty legal documents bamboo slips, etc., are very high and very important historical, scientific and Artistic value.
In the Hubei Provincial Museum, there are more than 400 pieces of first-class cultural relics, mainly including:
The sword of Yuewang Hook of the Warring States period, which was unearthed in Tomb No. 1 of Wangshan in Jiangling in 1965, and is regarded as the first of Yuewang's bronze swords.
The Zenghouyi Chimes of the Warring States period, unearthed in 1978 in the tomb of Zenghouyi in Suixian County, the chimes*** 65 pieces, weighing a total of more than 2,500 kilograms.
The Zeng Houyi Chimes of the Warring States Period, unearthed in 1978 from Zeng Houyi's Tomb in Suixian County, ****32 pieces, inscribed with musical characters.
Bronze Zunpan of the Warring States period, unearthed in 1978 from Zeng Houyi's tomb in Suixian County, a wine vessel, with openwork appendages along the mouth of the Zunpan made by the fusion-mold casting process.
An antlered standing crane, a bronze vessel from the Warring States period, unearthed from the tomb of Zeng Houyi in Suizhou County in 1978, which is an imagined good-luck charm.
Large Jade Go, a jade ceremonial weapon of the pre-Shang Dynasty, unearthed in Tomb No. 3 of Li Jiazui, Panlong City, Huangpi, in 1974.
Bronze drum, a percussion instrument of the Shang Dynasty, unearthed in 1977 in Bai Ni, Chongyang, is the earliest leather drum-shaped bronze drum ever found in China.
The other first-class cultural relics housed in the museum are: ceramic chickens and large round tripods from the Shang Dynasty, tiger-seated bird-framed drums, sixteen-section dragon and phoenix pendants and gold marigolds from the Warring States Period, celadon lotus flower zuns from the North and South Dynasties, music figurines from the Tang Dynasty and gold phoenix crowns from the Ming Dynasty.
Hubei Provincial Museum admission price: 30 yuan per person Open to the public: 8:30-11:30, 13:30-16:30
Time required for the tour: 1-2 hours Tel: 027-86771715
6 Wuhan Botanical Garden
Located on the shore of East Lake in Wuchang, at the southern foot of Mount Mill. Garden area of about 70 hectares, under the Chinese Academy of Sciences Wuhan Institute of Botany. The whole garden *** built rare plants, ornamental plants, aquatic plants, medicinal plants, kiwifruit garden, pine and cypress garden, tree garden, bamboo garden and more than ten special parks and garden scenic spots, *** introduction of all kinds of plants nearly 4,000 kinds of plants, is China's largest collection of plant resources in central China and China's northern subtropical plant research and protection base. For leisure excursions in the four seasons provides an ideal piece of plant kingdom.
Botanical Garden ticket price: 20 yuan / person Open to the public: 8:00-17:00
Time required to visit: 1-2 hours Tel: 027-87510815
7, Turtle Mountain Scenic Area
Turtle Mountain, the ancient name of the wing of the mountains, is also known as the Dabie Mountain, Lushan, one of the three mountains in Wuhan with more scenic spots and monuments. Located in wuhan hanyang city north, east of the Yangtze river, north of the hanshui, west back of the moon lake, south of lotus lake, the mighty coiled, and wuchang snake mountain river confrontation, the situation is very steep. At the east end of Turtle Mountain, there are Yugong Rocky, Yuwang Temple, cliff stone carvings and other monuments; Harukawa Pavilion ruins in Yugong Rocky, and Snake Mountain Rocky head of the Yellow Crane Tower across the river.
The Turtle Mountain Scenic Area is a famous sightseeing spot in history. From the eastern foot of the mountain, you can admire the bronze statue of Huang Xing, one of the leaders of the Xinhai Revolution. More than a hundred steps along the ridge line into the Wangjiang Pavilion, which is the best place to view the Yangtze River. Now stands on the mountain of China's first modern tourist TV tower - Hubei Radio and Television Tower, standing on the tower, visitors can get a bird's-eye view of the panoramic view of the river city, sitting in a revolving restaurant can be seen around the three towns in full view.
☆Turtle Mountain Three Kingdoms City
Located in the north of Hanyang District, east of the Yangtze River, north of the Han River, and the south of the Snake Mountain across the river, for the Three Kingdoms military fortress and a famous tourist attractions. Now available for veneration of the east side of the Three Kingdoms Lu Su tomb, Ding Yuan, one of the leaders of the Xinhai Revolution, Huang Xing bronze statue and the western side of the mountain to the police to the tomb of the martyrs and the Red Warriors Cemetery and so on. At the top of the mountain stands China's first television tower with modern tourism function ------ Hubei Radio and Television Tower, elevation 311. 4 meters, once known as the "Asian mast". In the 900-meter-long Turtle Hill Ridge Road, there are 120 statues of the Three Kingdoms, the "Three Kingdoms Hall of Strategy" and the newly added panoramic painting of the Red Cliff War, reproducing the history of the picture scroll more than 1800 years ago. The panoramic painting is 18 meters high and 35 meters long, which is a masterpiece in today's art world. The 888-meter-long high-altitude tourist sightseeing ropeway across the Han River, the thrilling high-altitude bungee jumping and the flying zip line and other entertainment projects have added a new landscape to the Three Kingdoms City.
Ticket price of Turtle Mountain Scenic Area: 5 yuan per person Open to the public: 8:30-17:30
Time required for tour: 1-2 hours Tel: 027-84713530
The Three Kingdoms Panorama Painting Museum
The Three Kingdoms Panorama Painting Museum is located in Wuhan on the ridge of Turtle Mountain by the Yangtze River. Turtle Peak ridge, is a double-ring-shaped Temple of Heaven-style building, a total height of 25.8 meters, the inner diameter of 45 meters, the appearance of simple and elegant, spectacular, brilliant momentum. Climbed the painting hall far away, overlooking the grandeur of the three towns, overlooking the eastward flow of the Yangtze River, poetic and picturesque as far as the eye can see.
Pavilion large panoramic oil painting "Battle of Red Cliff", set of modern technology and superb art skills in one furnace. The use of realism art techniques and sound and light technology, reproduced 1800 years ago in the Jingchu land world-famous Red Cliff battle of the historical picture. Tourists in the ancient battlefield, the scene, hear their voices, see their people, smoke rolling, killing sound of the sky, sword shadow, drums and horns loud and clear. Panoramic painting 18 meters high, 135 meters long, is now the world's first, known as the art world's masterpiece.
The completion of the Three Kingdoms Panorama Painting Museum, undoubtedly to the tourism province of Hubei, adding a bright humanistic landscape. In the turtle mountain this former Ying scolded the home of the wind and clouds. Recreate the ancient battlefield that shook the sky and hearty, undoubtedly can make people in the art of looking back at the history of enjoyment and thinking, cultivate the sentiment of nationalism, inspire the enthusiasm of modern civilization. Panoramic painting museum will warmly welcome and sincerely receive every Chinese and foreign tourists.
Ticket price of Panoramic Painting Museum of Three Kingdoms: 30 yuan/person Open to the public: 9:00-16:00
Time required to visit: 30 minutes