黄鹤楼
Traditional form:
黃鶴樓
Pinyin (reading):
Huánghè Lóu
Definitions:
- Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan City, built in 223, burnt down in 1884, rebuilt in 1985
- favored place of poet sages, who in legend arrived riding golden cranes
- Tang poem by Cui Hao 崔顥／崔颢 ( Cuī Hào), with theme 'the past will never return'
- one of three famous pagodas in China along with Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓／岳阳楼 ( Yuèyáng Lóu) in Yueyang, north Hunan, and Tengwang Tower 滕王閣／滕王阁 ( Téngwáng Gé) in Nanchang, Jiangxi
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