Yueyang Tower is known as the first building in the world, who designed this building?

Everyone knows about Yueyang Tower because Fan Zhongyan's "The Records of Yueyang Tower" is famous for introducing the landscape of Yueyang Tower. Do you know when Yueyang Tower was built? It was built in 220 AD. Yueyang Tower was not originally built for sightseeing, but as a "military parade building" for Wu general Lu Su during the Three Kingdoms period. In the Tang Dynasty, Li Bai, composed poems here, and then renamed it "Yueyang Tower", the name has continued to the present, even the city is also renamed Yueyang City, until now Yueyang Tower is Yueyang City, a major signboard of tourism and culture.

Yueyang Tower roof for the stacking of contrasting "Ruyi arch" held up and into the helmet top type, this arch and back to warped ancient generals helmet type of top structure in the history of ancient China's architecture is unique. This top is the most prominent feature of the Yueyang Tower - helmet top structure. According to evidence, Yueyang Tower is the only remaining helmet roof structure of ancient architecture in China.

Yueyanglou adopts pure wood structure, its modeling due to Luming's wooden beams and pillars, components, decoration with beautiful lines of expressive power, showing Chinese ancient architecture unique national style. Yueyang building building is also very artistic, the whole Yueyang building did not use a rivet, the overall shape is also very special, looks like an ancient general's helmet, and even the building doors and windows are particularly exquisite, Yueyang building can also be called the ancient architecture of the art of the representative, and so far can not find the second similar to the Yueyang building of the ancient architecture.

Yueyang Tower has attracted the attention of many literati since its completion. Many poems were left to record the landscape of Yueyang Tower, including the landscape of Dongting Lake. The style of Yueyang Tower varies in different historical periods, but basically retains the most original flavor without much change. Yueyang Tower is located in the ancient city of Yueyang City, Hunan Province, on top of the west gate wall, down overlooking the dongting, looking forward to Junshan, since ancient times, there is a "dongting the world's water, yueyang the world building" of the reputation, and Wuhan, Hubei, the Yellow Crane Tower, Jiangxi Tengwangge in Nanchang, and known as the " Jiangnan three famous buildings ", identified by the State Council as national key cultural relics protection units . Yueyang Tower has now been named national 5A level tourist attractions , every year there are countless tourists to go, it is in order to get a glimpse of boarding Yueyang Tower a glimpse of Dongting Lake 800 miles of infinite scenery.