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Yellow Crane Tower
EDIGARVON | Wuhan | 10/22/2004 10:59:38 PM

Yellow Crane Tower, located on Snake Hill in Wuchang, is one of the "Three Famous Towers South of Yangtze River (the other two: Yueyang Tower in Hunan and Tengwang Tower in Jiangxi).
According to records, the tower was first built in 223 A.D during the Three Kingdoms period (220-280). After completion, the tower served as a gathering place for celebrities and poets to party and compose poetry. It was estimated that up to the Tongzhi Reign of the Qing dynasty, as many as 300 poems about the tower had been found in historical literature. Cui Hao, a famous poet during the Tang dynasty (618-907), made the tower well known throughout China with his poem "Yellow Crane Tower".


Heptachord Terrace
EDIGARVON | Wuhan | 10/22/2004 10:52:58 PM

Heptachord Terrace, also named Boya Terrace(Yu Boya,770 - 476 B.C a famous musician in Chu kingdom during the Spring and Autumn Period) , is located on the bank of Moon Lake, western foot of Tortoise Hill in Hanyang district.
The original terrace was built in the Northern Song dynasty (960-1127), experiencing several destroys and rebuilds.
Heptachord Terrace now is a notable scenic spot in Wuhan.

Guiyuan Buddhist Temple (Temple of Original Purity)
EDIGARVON | Wuhan | 10/22/2004 10:47:37 PM

Guiyuan Temple, situated on Cuiwei Street, is one of the four largest Buddhist meditation temples in Hubei as well as an important Buddhist temple in China.
The temple was first built in the early Qing dynasty (1644-1911) by two monks named Baiguang and Zhufeng on the base of Sunflower Garden which was owned by a poet.
Sutra Collection Pavilion was built as part of the temple in 1696AD during the reign of Emperor Kangxi in the Qing dynasty to house Buddhist scriptures and art treasure.

Yangtze River Bridge
EDIGARVON | Wuhan | 10/22/2004 10:42:24 PM

Wuchang and Hanyang are linked by this great bridge - it's more than 1100m long and 80m high. The completion of the bridge in 1957 marked one of Communist China's first great engineering achievements, because until then all road and rail traffic had to be laboriously ferried across the river. A second Trans-Yangtze bridge in northern Wuhan was completed in mid-1995.

East Lake
EDIGARVON | Wuhan | 10/22/2004 10:40:54 PM

It is the biggest lake within a city in China.
Six scenic areas were established on the lake area, namely Tingtao (Listening to Surging Waves), Moshan (millstone-shaped Hill), Luoyan (Diving Wild Goose), Baima (White Horse), Chuidi (Playing the Flute), and Luohong Hills, adding additional beauty to the lake.

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