The Imposing Yellow Crane Tower
Located on the top of Snake Hill, the Yellow Crane Tower stands against Wuchang, faces the vast Yangtze River and the elegant Qingchuan Pavilion. Ascending the tower, you can enjoy the beautiful scenery of Wuhan.
Thanks to its unique geological location, and the poems, proses, couplets and folk stories, the Yellow Crane Tower is reputed as one of the “three famous towers south of the Yangtze River”. It enjoys such titles as “best scenery under heaven” and “the first tower under heaven”.
Eyes of the City - East Lake
East Lake, the eyes of a city, represent the past, present and future of a city, embody everything of a city: culture and economy etc.
The West Lake is the eyes of Hangzhou while the East Lake is the soul of Wuhan. The beauty of the West Lake lies in its exquisiteness and prettiness while the East Lake is like a girl from a noble family: her beauty lies in her temperament and the thousand-year-old cultural deposit.
Culture is the noblest cloth of a landscape, which embody the charm of the landscape just as knowledge adds charm and temperature to a handsome man. A landscape with cultural deposit is a landscape of elegant disposition. The East Lake is a lake boasting a long history and deep-rooted culture.
The East Lake is fresh, dignified, natural, elegant, simple but magnificent, which forms a harmonious artistic space. Here, you can listen to the sound of wind and rain, or sing loudly in the wind or drink to your heart’s content, or talk over past and present with your friends, or chant poems and admire paintings, or taste tea and meditate …
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