What was the Song Dynasty's Yellow Crane Tower building really like?

The Yellow Crane Tower, a Song Dynasty pavilion, is mainly a courtyard-style architectural group consisting of a combination of buildings, platforms, xuan, and galleries. It is perched on a high platform on the city wall, and compared with the Tang Dynasty pavilion, it has been completely separated from the corner of the city wall, forming an independent architectural landscape, and people climbed to the main building, can look out over the Yangtze River waves.

At the same time, the Song Dynasty's Yellow Crane Tower also changed the style of the Tang Dynasty's pavilions, making it more fresh and elegant, with the roof tiles changed from green to yellow. The purpose of the Song Dynasty, on the one hand, explains the glazed tile firing technology innovation and improvement, on the other hand, the yellow color is also a symbol of the supremacy of the "imperial power".

According to China's historical records, the last emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty, Emperor Song Qinzong wrote Cui Hao's "Yellow Crane Tower" to show elegance. This is enough to show that the feudal emperors at that time on the Yellow Crane Tower a change in the style of the Tang Dynasty to pay attention to the degree.

In addition to this, this exquisite pavilion also thanks to those skilled craftsmen at the time of the careful carving, in order to make the entire complex of heavy eaves and wings, staggered and integrated, appears to be complex but not chaotic, the layout of the rigorous.

The Yellow Crane Tower of the Song Dynasty is one of the largest and most majestic of all the Yellow Crane Buildings.