Guanque Tower: One of the four famous towers in China, it is known at home and abroad for Wang Zhihuan's poem "Ascending the Stork Tower".

✨Guanque Tower, one of the four famous towers in ancient China, carries countless histories and legends.🎈 🕵️‍♀️It was built during the Northern Zhou Dynasty, between 557 and 571 AD. At that time, Yuwen Hu, the general of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, built this military tower on the bank of the Yellow River in the western suburbs of Puzhou Ancient City. Later, because storks often perched on it, it got the beautiful name of Guanque Tower.🕊 📜During the Tang and Song Dynasties, it was a gathering place for literati and ink guests. They came to Guanque Tower to enjoy the scenery and left a lot of poems. Especially around 704 AD in the Tang Dynasty, the poet Wang Zhihuan ascended the Guanque Tower and wrote the famous poem "Ascending the Stork Tower": "The white sun is leaning against the mountains, and the Yellow River is flowing into the sea. If you want to exhaust a thousand miles, go up one more floor." This poem made Guanque Tower famous and lasted for more than 700 years through the Tang and Song Dynasties.💫 😔However, the unfortunate Guanque Tower was burned down in the first year of the Jin Yuan Dynasty (1222 AD) when the Mongolian army attacked Puzhou Ancient City. Jin Junshou Hou Xiaoshu ordered the burning of Guanque Tower and Puzhou Floating Bridge, and since then, Guanque Tower has fallen into a long silence.🔥 🎉Fortunately, on December 31, 1997, Yongji City held a groundbreaking ceremony for the reconstruction project of Guanque Tower. On September 26, 2002, the reconstructed Guanque Tower was completed and the completion ceremony was held and opened to the public in October of that year. In 2011, Guanque Tower was rated as a national AAAA tourist attraction.👏 🌈Now, when we stand under the Guanque Tower, we seem to be able to travel through time and space and feel the vicissitudes and glory of history. The reconstructed Guanque Tower is a high-rise building in the style of the Tang Dynasty, sitting north to south. The whole is a reinforced concrete skeleton, but it is still a memorial and inheritance of history. The whole body is decorated with Tang Dynasty oil paintings, which not only has the simple and vigorous style of the northern Tang Dynasty building, but also exudes the bold and magnificent charm of the Yellow River culture.💪 🛕The architectural form of Guanque Tower is very unique. The main body is composed of three parts: the main building, the base and the base. The main building is 57.4 meters high, the overall total height is 73.9 meters, the total construction area is 33,206 square meters, the building area of the building is 8,222.2 square meters, and the total weight is 57,000 tons. The exterior is four eaves and three floors, and the interior is six floors. There are sub-steps around the bottom floor, and there are four sides out of the pavilion. The top floor is a single eaves and mountain top, and the lower part of the waist eaves is a flat seat corridor, surrounded by a hook-shaped hook fence. 🎡The Guanque Tower Scenic Area is centered on the Guanque Tower, using a classical garden layout, and the overall presents a spatial structure of "four districts and twelve points", which is divided into four tour areas, including the famous building tour area, the Yellow River style tour area, and the landscape tour area. And the Kang Le Tourist Area. Here, you can enjoy the beauty of nature and the charm of history and culture.🌳 💕Friends, if you also love history and culture and like to explore ancient buildings, then Guanque Tower is definitely a place not to be missed.