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Goodmorning!Ladiesandgentlemen:

TodaywewillgoandvisittheYueyangTower,YueyangTowerliesinthewestofYueyangcity,nearbytheDongtingLake,itislistedasthreefamoustowersinthesouthofYangtzeRiver,togetherwithYellowCraoweratWuhan,HubeiprovinceandTengwangToweratNanchang,Jiangxiprovince.

YueyangTowerwasoriginallybuiltforsoldierstorestonandwatchout.IntheThreekingdomsPeriod,Lusu,GeneralofWuState,trainedhissoldiershereandthenrebuiltitasatowertoreviewhistroops.

Intheforthyear(716A.C)ofKaiyuanofTangDynasty,GeneralZhangshuowasdispatchedtodefendatyuezhouandherebuiltitintoaTowernamedSouthTower,andthenYueyangTower.Intheforthyear(1044A.C)ofQingliofSongDynasty,TengZijingwasstationedatBalingJun,theancientnameofYueyangcity.Inthesecondyear,hehadtheYueyangTowerrepairedandhadpoemsbypreviouspoetsinscribedonthewallsoftheTower.FanZhongyan,agreatartistandpoet,wasinvitedtowritethewell-knownpoemaboutYueyangTower,inhisessaywhichentitled《APanegyricoftheYueyangTower》,thetwosentencesFanwrites:“Bethefirsttoworryaboutthetroublesacrosstheland,thelasttoenjoyuniversalhappiness”haveforthousandsofyearsbeenawell-quoteddictumandmadethetowerevenbetterknownthenbefore.

ThearchitecturalstyleofYueyangTowerisquiteunique.Themaintoweris21.35metershighwith4columns,3stories,flyingeave,helmetroofandwoodconstruction,thehelmet-roofofsuchalargedimensionisararityamongtheancientarchitecturesinChina.

Enteringthetower,you"llpassthefamouscouplet:"Dongtingisthewateroftheworld,Yueyangisthetoweroftheworld."Movingon,thereisaplatform(Dianjiangtai)thatoncefunctionedasthetraininggroundforthenavyofThree-KingdomperiodgeneralLusu.ToitssouthistheHuaifuPavilioninmemoryofDufu(712-770AD),whowasthefamouspoetduringtheTangdynastyandwrotethefamouspoem<>andlaterdiedinthecity.SteppingoutoftheXiaoxiangDoor,theSaintPlumPavilion(Xianmeiting)andtheThreeDrunkardsPavilion(Sanzuiting)canbeseenstandingontwosides.InthegardentothenorthofthetoweristhetombofXiaoqiao,thewifeofZhouyu,anotherfamousThree-Kingdomgeneral.