Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Yellow Crane Tower

This is the famous Yellow Crane Tower (黃鶴樓), as seen from the Yangtze River Bridge in Wuhan (武漢長江大橋). This is of course not the original. It is not even very old, being rebuilt only 10 years or so ago. At least, it was rebuilt in the style of the original, at the original site. That’s unlike what we do in Hong Kong, tearing down anything in the way of development and “progress”.
The tower is now bordered on one side by a major road, and on the other side by the railway visible in the picture, both leading onto the bridge. So the view from the tower is incomparable to the original grandeur described in so many poems. But the history, the stories and the feelings associated with it through the ages are eternal. I am grateful for the efforts in recreating or at least in preserving part of that.
昔人已乘黃鶴去,此地空餘黃鶴樓。黃鶴一去不復返,白雲千載空悠悠。
晴川歷歷漢陽樹,芳草萋萋鸚鵡洲。日暮鄉關何處是?煙波江上使人愁。

5 comments:

YEAH said...

Actually enormous number of ancient architectures in China are destroyed by many factors. Sigh. It is lucky for you to see the tower though it does not keep in its original appearance. But, think about that there a lot of other famous architectures disappear forever due to ignorance of people and weak safeguard of government.

StephenC said...

Agreed, Totally.

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