Historical Story of Hubei

Historical Story of Hubei's Yellow Crane Tower

Once upon a time, there was a man surnamed Xin who sold wine for a living. One day, there came a guest of great stature, but dressed in rags, who asked Xin with a calm demeanor, "May I have a glass of wine to drink?" Xin was not slowed down by the ragged clothes of the other party, and hastily served a large glass of wine.

After half a year of this, Xin was not tired of the guest's inability to pay for his drink, but continued to buy him a drink every day. One day the guest told Xin, "I owe you a lot of money for the wine and have no way to pay you back." So he took orange peels out of his basket and drew a crane on the wall, for orange peels are yellow, and the crane drawn was also yellow.

All the people in the room had to do was to clap their hands and sing, and the crane on the wall would dance and limber up to the beat of the song, and all the guests in the hotel paid to see this marvelous thing.

After more than ten years of this, Xin had accumulated a great deal of wealth. One day the ragged guest came back to the hotel, and Sin thanked him, saying, "I would like to provide for you and fulfill all your needs.

The guest laughed and replied, "That's not why I'm here. Then he took out his flute and played a few tunes, and before long, he saw a white cloud descending from the sky, and the yellow crane on the painting flew with the white cloud to the guest, who straddled the crane's back and flew up to the sky on the white cloud.

The Xin family built a pavilion on Huangguoji with the silver they earned in ten years in order to thank and commemorate the guest. At first it was called "Xin's Tower". Later, it became known as the Yellow Crane Tower.

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The province has five famous Chinese historical and cultural cities, including Wuhan, Jingzhou, Xiangyang, Suizhou and Zhongxiang. Zigui County, where Qu Yuan was born; Zenghouyi bells, known as the "Eighth Wonder of the Orient"; Tonglushan ancient mining and metallurgical ruins and the sword of King Goujian of the Yue Dynasty; and Panlong City of the Shang Dynasty.

Hubei Province, Hubei Province Herb County is the hometown of the great Ming Dynasty medical doctor Li Shizhen, Wudang Mountain Taoist complex and martial arts, Han culture on behalf of the hometown of Wang Zhaojun known for its unique cultural connotations in the world. The province also has the Three Kingdoms culture represented by the ancient city of Jingzhou, the Red Cliffs of Puqi, the ancient Longzhong of Xiangyang, and the Changbanpo of Dangyang.

The Wudang Mountain Ancient Architectural Complex, located in the Wudang Mountain Scenic Area in Shiyan, Hubei Province, was first built in the Tang Dynasty during the Zhenguan period (627-649), and scale construction was carried out during the Song and Yuan dynasties. Zhu Di, the first Ming emperor, set up the Wudang Mountain Taoist temple as a royal family temple, Yongle lasted 12 years, built 8 palaces, 2 guan, 36 nunneries, 72 rock temples and other 33 groups of architectural complexes, with a total floor area of 1.6 million square meters.

Ming Jiajing years and large-scale repair and expansion. Wudangshan ancient architectural complex existing more intact ancient buildings 129, building area of 50,000 square meters, covers an area of more than 1 million square meters, for the national key cultural relics protection units. 1994, Wudangshan ancient architectural complex was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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