Yueyang Tower, Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan, Hubei, and Wangtengting Pavilion in Nanchang, Jiangxi are also called "Three Famous Buildings in the South of the Yangtze River", and 0988+0 65438+65438 has been designated as a national key cultural relics protection unit by the State Council. As the only ancient building in the three famous buildings that keeps its original appearance, Yueyang Tower's unique helmet-top structure embodies the wisdom of ancient working people and the exquisite design and skills of craftsmen. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Fan Zhongyan's well-known "Yueyang Tower" made Yueyang Tower famous all over the world.
The main building of Yueyang Tower is19.42m high,14.54m deep and17.42m wide. It has three floors, four pillars, cornices, helmet tops and pure wood structures. Four nanmu gold pillars in the building go straight to the top of the building, surrounded by corridors, rafters and purlins, which are tenoned to form a whole; The top is covered with glazed yellow tiles, and the configuration is solemn and generous.
Brief introduction of roof architectural features of Yueyang Tower;
The roof of Yueyang Tower is a four-slope helmet roof, and the left and right sides are juxtaposed with the building, with Sanzui Pavilion and Xianmei Pavilion as the foil. Seen from the top of Yueyang Tower, the roof is made up of large glass beads piled up from bottom to top, with steep vertical ridges protruding from the pier at the top to the four corners. There are yellow glazed tiles on the eaves, with yellow-green glazed tiles and upturned corners on the back. Xianmei Pavilion is a two-story hexagonal conical roof with double eaves and glass beads on the top.
There is a flying dragon on the roof of Yueyang Tower, and members of Longmu fight wits and wits with the phoenix on the moon beam. Many faucets are used for decoration. There are four corner ridges on the eaves of the first and second floors respectively. The corner ridge on the first floor is decorated with camellia, looking forward to the phoenix; The second floor is decorated with horny seaweed, and the dragon helmet tops the lotus flower and the cloud. Whether it is the dragon on the roof or the dragon on the moon beam, it looks magnificent, as if fighting the sky and soaring in the universe, thus showing great momentum.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Yueyang Tower